Source: Daily_Mail
HATCHET MAN: Welcome to Oil Drum Lane, new home of Tottenham Hotspur FC - that'll step on a few toes
Tottenham are apparently in talks with companies in the Middle East about sponsoring or funding their planned new stadium and it seems clubs will never learn.[LNB]They announced they planned to sell naming rights some time ago, but so does everyone embarking on such a project.[LNB]When it starts to look feasible supporters should get worried. Selling the rights may be a lucrative business which helps get new grounds built but it takes clubs another big step away from their fans.[LNB] [LNB]There's no place like home: Here's where Spurs will play...[LNB] ...but will Oil Drum Lane's most famous residents Steptoe and Son like their new neighbours?[LNB] Would Spurs fans really feel as affectionately about the Middle East Oil Stadium as they do about White Hart Lane?[LNB]It is one thing to move to one of these generic, characterless, plastic stadiums that have been popping up all over the Premier League, but it is another altogether to stop calling it home.[LNB] More from Hatchet Man... HATCHET MAN: When Clegg met Keano: I can Truly Seymour Foggy times ahead when the summer whine starts at Portman Road24/04/09 HATCHET MAN: The best league in the world? Not if the likes of Robinho can end up its top scorer24/04/09 HATCHET MAN: Rafa's facts are fiction - 'Better than United' Liverpool will win nothing this season - as usual24/04/09 HATCHET MAN: FIFA chief Sepp Blatter deserves a dressing down23/04/09 HATCHET MAN: Talkative Tevez might just have given United boss Fergie the perfect reason to give him the Old Trafford boot23/04/09 HATCHET MAN: Chelsea striker Anelka on the mark with dig at former club Arsenal23/04/09 HATCHET MAN: Barking mad? Ipswich should learn from Sunderland and get ready for Keane going walkies23/04/09 HATCHET MAN: When the Black Cats boss is away... Sunderland chairman Quinn Keane to slam ex-manager Roy22/04/09 VIEW FULL ARCHIVE Does Emirates Stadium feel like home for Arsenal? It is quieter thanthe Library and with a lot more moaning. Clubs identities have beendiluted enough already, and this measure is one they should try toavoid.[LNB] [LNB]
