WHITE HART LANE, London — There is a famous quote attributed to Tottenham Hotspur's successful early-1980s manager Keith Burkinshaw. Although he would end his tenure winning the 1983-84 UEFA Cup, the coach's disagreement with the club's off-field direction had led to his resignation and saying, "There used to be a football club over there."
Tottenham's 2016 equivalent stride forward into a perceived vital modernity would cause anyone obliviously unfamiliar with the circumstances to remark similarly but more literally. Turn up at White Hart Lane this season and you will see a big chunk of its north-east corner missing (see below), not to mention almost all of the old surrounding infrastructure demolished as the first stages of the stadium's redevelopment project gets firmly underway.