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Camden New Journal - CROW by RICHARD OSLEY and PIP WROE
Published: 29 October 2009

Exclusive: Team Stelios is happy to stick with the Hatters

HERE’S a genuine exclusive for you all. Tottenham Hotspur’s planned new stadium – the one which looks just like the Emirates Stadium in the designs sent to planning officials this week but a little bit rubbisher – will not be sponsored by easyJet. That’s an official factoid.
The budget airline’s people contacted me to say that Spurs were almost certain to be disappointed because the company was more interested in sponsorship deals with other clubs.
As the Emirates Stadium is sponsored by an airline, it was surely not such a silly idea that we might one day see easyJet Hart Lane.
But when I suggested the idea this week, the customer care department at Stelios’s team got straight back in touch and told me – and I quote: “Don’t think it will be us, as we sponsor Luton Town. Have a good day.”
So easyJet have gone for Luton. I don’t blame them, better off with the Hatters. Spurs will have to look elsewhere when they decide to sell the naming rights. And when the club does every moron Tottenham supporter who took shots at Arsenal for selling the name of its new stadium to Fly Emirates will suddenly realise that their own club isn’t averse to some money-grabbing. Arsenal should be pleased that they continue to prove such an inspiration to their blue and white neighbours. It is the red side which sets the benchmarks around here.

SO this weekend we play Arsenal, the most immature and psychologically frail side in the league (other than Blackburn, perhaps).
Famed for their perfectly-timed, inexplicable crumbles, demonstrated superbly both at Upton Park on Sunday and the last time the Glorious Spurs took to the Emirates turf.
Tottenham must be on their guard. We could be up against the Arsenal side that gave Blackburn Swine Flu or their chef that gave our players food poisoning. Either way this side of professional lead-losers have a hygiene problem and must be treated with caution.
Expectations are higher this year, particularly as we sit level on points, and, while Arsenal smugly claim fourth year after year, Spurs are clearly improving. After a momentary blip against Stoke on Saturday we reasserted our new-found quality with a comfortable victory over Everton on Tuesday. Heurelho Gomes came over a bit Jens Lehmann-ish (a couple of great saves mixed with some terrifying unpredictability).
A more distant but equally exciting prospect is our new stadium plans, which will see us selling out to the corporate beasts just like our soulless neighbours down the road. I’ll certainly be living the dream when I can pick up my weekly shopping from Tesco during half time at Chas and Dave Park – if they win the Euro Millions, that is.

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