Tottenham Hotspur are interested in partnering with a London-based NFL team to share the new White Hart Lane stadium, which could be ready for opening in 2016.
According to Metro newspaper today, the combined effort could help build a new 65,000-seat stadium. Tottenham recently appointed new architects who could be drawing up plans for a stadium that would work for both soccer and American football. The plans would include a pitch that would slide out to protect the surface when it’s used for NFL games.
There’s plenty of speculation regarding the story, but according to the newspaper, “A Spurs spokesman refused to rule out the club working with an NFL franchise and insisted the ‘New White Hart Lane’ would be a multi-purpose arena.”
Here are today’s world soccer news headlines:
Premier League
- Spurs launch ambitious NFL stadium plans — Metro
- Loic Remy will cost Newcastle at least £10m after QPR increase release clause — The Mirror
- Manchester United apologise for ‘inappropriate’ logo on club email — The Guardian
MLS
- Mark it down: Upsets ahead for Sunday’s MLS final day — Pro Soccer Talk
Football League
- A Burnley fan boasts on Twitter that he hit QPR’s Joey Barton on the head with a coke bottle — 101GG
- Chris Kiwomya leaves Notts County by mutual consent — BBC Sport
Bundesliga
- Borussia Dortmund ultras rip up seats, hurl flares on the pitch in the derby against Schalke — 101GG
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I know Gooddell wants a team in London, but the way stadiums get build in the States will make it completely unpalatable in the austerity conscious UK.Only if the NFL agrees to split the bill, which will make a number of cities here pissed, I don’t see the funding coming in. However, the likely scenario would involve a team moving instead of expanding. On last remark, London is the NFL’s alternative threat since the LA one isn’t that powerful anymore.
Why would NFL need a team in London? NFL is full of mediocre to plain awful teams. The overall league quality is abysmally low as is it. The recent MNP game with Gaints vs Vikings comes to mind.
How about a swap deal? An NFL franchise relocating here and the Manchester United franchise relocating to the US. Everyones a winner.
Most of Manchester will still have a home team.
The UK already has an NFL franchise. It’s Stoke!
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At this moment ManU is not a winner. Hey maybe because it’s owned and run by US folks.
What they should focus on is how to launch an ambitious plan to make the Champions League.
There will have to flatten a few kebab and betting shops to make way for that stadium.
Exactly. They would need to build it in Watford. No affordable land in London.
Wouldn’t a NFL team aligning with Spurs give the non-Spurs fans a reason to hate the NFL team.
Dumb. NFL – bunch of fat overweight guys with stomachs hanging out pushing around and acting as every play was the game winning play. These guys wouldn’t last 5 minutes in Australian rules football.
Are you serious with this? This smashes all expectations as one of the more ignorant comments on here.
Keep up the good work!
Thank you. I will. 🙂
I am not sure if they are giving you the thumbs down for defending the NFL or because R.O is a Master Contributor. Either way, who knew this amount of World Soccer Talk supports disliked the NFL.
The NFL has a huge problem with its plans to locate a franchise in London: the NFL Player’s Association is dead set against it.
London is not much more of a flight to the NE corridor than, say, San Diego, Phoenix, etc.
But in terms of overall travel the players on a London team would be logging WAY more travel time than the usual club I’d think. So I can see why the NFLPA is against it.
Of course, there is the fact that it is a pretty damned weak union in general.
Terrific. Spurs in bed with the NFL. Another reason to hate Spurs. Carry on.
I think the bigger problem would be how would enough players get work permits with so many felons in the league. /s
London is just going to become the new threat that the NFL will use to get cities/states to pay for stadiums.
Yeah this – assuming finally someone decamps for LA (and I am surprised we are almost 20 years on without anyone making that happen.)
Some of us remember when the Monarchs of NFL Europe played at the Lane…