The opening of the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium last year was meant to usher in a new era for Spurs, yet it appears that the opening of the new 62,000-seater arena hasn’t been all it is cracked up to be.
The Tottenham Hotspur Stadium has finished second at the Stadium of the Year awards. Controversial. https://t.co/QweZ2SiKIT
— Alasdair Gold (@AlasdairGold) March 24, 2020
As reported by Football London, Tottenham finished second in the Stadium of the Year award which were held earlier this week, losing out to the also newly-opened Puskas Arena in Budapest.
The new, £525m state-of-the-art stadium is the home for the Hungarian national team with an impressive 67,215 seated capacity, and was opened in October 2019.
Despite being a fairly unimportant competition, plenty of Spurs fans on social media couldn’t believe that their £1.2b stadium missed out on the top prize despite being a ground-breaking new arena with multiple purposes, aside from just football.
Here’s what lots of Tottenham fans had to say about finishing in second-place on Twitter…
Just can’t get over the line in any competition 😭😂
— Rich Websell (@richwebsell) March 25, 2020
Couldn’t even win that could we 🤦♂️
— Kevin Lloyd (@kevinlloyd80) March 25, 2020
Even bottling stadium awards now
— Maria_gorilla (@69coys) March 25, 2020
— 🇵🇪🇺🇸 (@the_baleful) March 24, 2020
Bottled it
— PerkyG (@perkyg) March 24, 2020
How Spursy
— Darren (@I_amDarren) March 24, 2020
Tottenham might have impressed fans in the Premier League, yet it appears Spurs did little to impress on the continent with their new stadium.