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The New Stadium Cannot Come Soon Enough

By Barrett Rouen

DORTMUND, GERMANY - MARCH 05: A general view as Mario Gotze of Borussia Dortmund takes on Harry Winks of Tottenham Hotspur during the UEFA Champions League Round of 16 Second Leg match between Borussia Dortmund and Tottenham Hotspur at Westfalen Stadium on March 05, 2019 in Dortmund, North Rhine-Westphalia. (Photo by Dean Mouhtaropoulos/Getty Images)
DORTMUND, GERMANY - MARCH 05: A general view as Mario Gotze of Borussia Dortmund takes on Harry Winks of Tottenham Hotspur during the UEFA Champions League Round of 16 Second Leg match between Borussia Dortmund and Tottenham Hotspur at Westfalen Stadium on March 05, 2019 in Dortmund, North Rhine-Westphalia. (Photo by Dean Mouhtaropoulos/Getty Images) /
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What is going on at Tottenham Hotspur at the moment? A few weeks ago they were banging on the door to the title and now it appears they’re trying to hold onto Champions League qualification.

There’s no explaining what has gone wrong at Tottenham Football Club in the past couple of weeks. There’s not one reason why the club could possibly have managed to find a way to take what was turning into a title tilt into a backwards battle not to win 3rd but to stay in the top 4.

The only good news that has come in the past few weeks is that the new stadium will open soon.  Tottenham need the pick me up and the club needs something new to change the air. A slump like this is exactly the sort of thing that other clubs’ supporters and football professionals make fun of Tottenham for.

Hopefully Spurs will be able to arrest their current slump once they get into the new stadium.  It’s hard to calculate exactly how positive an effect that sort of thing can have on a club but this is one of the ones that would make the biggest difference for Tottenham.  To have for so long been beaten down by the expectations and derision of others and then to finally be in the best stadium in England besides maybe Wembley is a wonderful thing.

The team should be feeling positively and if that can lend a hand to the current situation it would be wonderful.

Tottenham simply must get fourth place again.  Even if they win the Champions League it would still be in their best interest to make a statement.  For the longest time in many of the new generation of supporters lives Tottenham have been the best team in London.  They represent the capital in the Champions League and have done so with increasing success in recent years.

That said, finishing outside of the top-4 is something that they cannot afford neither fiscally or in terms of their status. Tottenham are fighting a battle of hearts and minds at the moment for the young supporters in London.  For a long time they belonged to Arsenal and then Chelsea and now Tottenham have a chance to claim a generation who can sustain them economically for a long time moving forward and an important part of that is consistent qualification for the Champions League.

It says something about a clubs status in it’s own league that it should be able to without a doubt, at the very minimum, qualify for the Champions League again and again repeatedly.  They should be able to do so regardless of whether or not they’re competing on multiple fronts or in a particularly vulnerable place. The minimum expectation should be Champions League football.

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