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SPORT Spurs hope for stadium move by 2017
Tottenham Hotspur Football Club (Spurs) is hoping to have its new stadium ready for the start of the 2017-18 season. Te proposed 58,000-capac- s t adium,
i ty whic h
forms part of the ambi- tious Nor thumberland Development Project in North London, has received initial planning permission – but it is understood the club still needs to secure additional funding to cover construction costs. In a statement, Spurs chair
Tottenham’s new football stadium will have a total capacity of 58,000
Daniel Levy said the club had now identified those properties it intends to sell to raise cash and that a tender for the sta- dium will be launched later this year. “We’ve undertaken a review of our property
holdings in order to determine the essential core properties required to deliver the new stadium, with non-core properties – that are excess to requirements – being sold and the proceeds used
to pay down debt secured against those proper- ties,” he said. “Te Northumberland project is a major development that will present ongoing challenges and subject to these challenges being manageable we anticipate going out to tender for construction late this year which will make a stadium opening date of summer 2017 feasible.” Details:
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Olympic athletes’ commission joins forces with PFF
Te British Athletes Commission (BAC), which represents more than 1,500 of Britain’s Olympic and Paralympic athletes, has joined forces with the Professional Players Federation (PPF). Set up in 2004, BAC‘s mission is to ensure that UK athletes in world class performance
systems train and compete within a “fair, supportive and transparent system”. Te organ- isation is a funded partner of UK Sport. Te new partnership aims to strengthen the
position of BAC athletes within professional sport in the UK. Details:
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FA to allow artificial pitches in the FA Cup
Te Football Association (FA) is to allow the use of 3G arti- ficial pitches in every round of the FA Cup, starting from next season (2014-15). Until now, artificial play-
ing surfaces have not been allowed beyond the compe- tition’s first round proper. Te announcement is the
latest endorsement given to artificial pitches by the FA, which is increasingly calling for clubs of all levels to install non-grass pitches in order to allow more community foot- ball to take place and to help in poor weather. FA general secretary Alex Horne said:
Artificial turf could be the solution to lower league clubs’ weather problems He added that the community aspect played
“Clubs are seeing the benefits of using 3G sur- faces across the football pyramid and clubs who play on those surfaces can now retain home advantage in the competition.
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a part in the decision, too. “3G pitches are a very useful asset and capable of delivering 50 plus hours per week as compared to a natural turf pitch which can deliver perhaps five hours per week,” he said. Details:
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