Chelsea, Tottenham Hostpur ‘warned off Wembley move’ by Premier League

“The next step will be more, I don’t think they can be bigger, there is a practical difficulty with the big, you couldn’t have more teams really, involved, because it will be here too long, you can’t really be here for two weeks”. “You can’t have 19 homes games with 10 at Milton Keynes and nine at Wembley”, said Richard Scudamore, the Premier League’s executive chairman. The stadium is home to English Championship side MK Dons and seats 30,500 but is due to have a capacity of 32,000 in 2017.

Tottenham and Chelsea have been fired a warning as they pursue plans for a temporary move to Wembley Stadium.

“They would have to play in a single stadium for an entire year for the integrity of the competition”, he said.

Adding in everything, plus 19 Premier League games, domestic cups and the Europa League would be a lot to ask for. That is completely, completely unfair.

Premier League supremo Richard Scudamore has stressed that the rules of the competition will not allow the fixture list to be twisted out of shape by the limited availability of one venue. The North Londoners have to play their games away from White Hart Lane during the campaign while it is demolished and replaced by a new 61,000-capacity arena.

“The positive is that Premier League clubs are paired (in the fixture list) – Liverpool and Everton, Tottenham and Arsenal, Manchester United and Manchester City etc – so it’s perfectly possible to have two teams playing in one stadium”. That won’t be allowed in our competition.

While this option will be hit with opposition by both supporter groups – this will likely mark the first time the rival supporters will be in agreement – it provides geographic and financial sense for Tottenham. Emirates Stadium will go from hosting 19 Premier League matches to 38.

“I do envy the other sports that can, whether it be the NBA [National Basketball Association], whether it be the NFL [National Football League], who can come to England, and get praised by the same media that criticised the Premier League for even thinking about it”.

The National Football League have been staging regular season matches at Wembley since 2007 while the NBA have brought their games to London for the last five years. Failure to do so could put Spurs in a very unsafe situation.