Spurs ’spaceship’ ready for blast-off

Tottenham host Crystal Palace in the first competitive game at their new stadium, which was a long time coming. It’s complete with some of the ‘largest evers’, writes Ronald Blum

Years before Tottenham Hotspur Stadium started rising like a spaceship in north London, planning on how to finance the structure was underway nearly 3,500 miles away.

In a glass tower near the World Trade Center in lower Manhattan, Greg Carey and his team at Goldman Sachs worked with Tottenham to finance £637m (€742m) of the project, which is expected to cost up to €1bn.