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Everywhere has them at the front.

All looking good then mate and still a good buzz inside the place with all the folk working away?

I thought that myself about the fans dipping away for the middle section of Spurs south stand. It seem so obvious but Populous have designed it that way even though they say Daniel Levy was “obsessed” with making sure it had a great atmosphere.

Ok mate, it’s on schedule. I’ve been fitting the flooring to the kitchens in the West stand.

All stadium architects say they've designed for atmosphere but invariably they're referring to whole stadium acoustics rather than "traditional home end" type acoustics. The distance to the roof and its geometry is often key. Spurs ticked the box...

A fella walks round the site every day now, inside and out, with a huge bird of prey.

Reading a few Spurs forums and they all seem to believe the atmosphere at their new stadium is crap and it was much better at White Harte Lane. There stadium has steep stands etc and the big South stand, too. Apparently, their South stand was...

But would the tread depths, sight lines, stand rake allow it in the upper section?

I don’t think the ratio will ever get beyond 1.1:5 in this country so they’ve probably done the right thing. Do you have any idea if the upper section of the South stand could ever be converted to standing?

I know. They will not be able to increase their capacity when the ratio changes though. We will.

The ratio is 1:1.8 in Germany I believe.

No, because the tread depth and fire exits etc all have to be able to cope. For example, if/when the ratio changes, Anfield/Etihad/Emirates etc won’t benefit from a capacity increase.

It works perfectly fine at higher ratio Germany though. I think it’s only a matter of time , I think the club do to or they wouldn’t have spent the extra money making sure the concourses etc are big enough to handle the extra people.

Imo it's only a matter of time. Once you allow safe standing what does it matter to the authorities if you have 30 people in a row or 36? As long there is no trouble and stewards make sure the steps are clear at all times then it is just a...

That’s not right. If the safe standing ratios change, it goes to 16,000 (presuming it’s still 13k capacity at the moment) Maybe they’re thinking, when the ratio changes, it would then be bigger than Spurs South stand if it’s current capacity...