Christian Eriksen admirable and also incorrect on lack of stadium issues
Christian Eriksen spoke out recently about Wembley Stadium. Describing it as “our home” in an interview and suggesting that it has not played a part in any issues with the team.
He is wrong.
The chances are that it has not had that much of an impact on the players themselves. They still wake up in whatever luxurious accommodations they get to call home and go to the training ground in the same place as always. But what he hasn’t taken into account is exactly what makes up a football club.
That’s because it is about so much more than the players.
A football club is about the supporters. It’s about the neighborhood, the town, the city and the culture of the place where it lives and was born. Sure the players may be comfortable on the pitch but were the supporters comfortable trekking all the way to MK Dons for a home match? No, they weren’t.
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Spurs have had a noticeably impacted atmosphere both home and away this season because it has been too much for supporters. Tottenham have a magnificent group of smart and loyal supporters. Often the club has given them little if anything to support and yet they do. When the club has embarrassed them they still have not wavered.
The club has at this point crossed the line in it’s relationship with the supporters. It has now asked too much of them. To play matches at Wembley and force fans to give up their match-day rituals for a couple years is OK. To change the ground into a modern one in order to raise match-day revenue is OK, within reason of course. What isn’t OK is to continuously delay the stadium because of an ever extending list of unprofessional and ridiculous reasons. Not doing the fire alarms correctly? A joke, that all other clubs in the league laughed at. Sacrificing pitch quality because you’re sharing with American NFL football and then boxing as well? Ridiculous.
These things cannot be accepted. Daniel Levy deserves an immeasurable amount of credit for his financial nous and for dragging Spurs to the place they are in now. For this journalist, it is a truly different category of club to the one it was when I was a boy. But at some point, someone is going to need to answer for this truly terrible run of news. The supporters are too often asked to foot a bill for a meal they did not order.
Eriksen is putting a brave face on a terrible situation and though it’s admirable he is very wrong.