Wouldnt that be amazing , having the cockerel perched up there above everybody .
On some of those drone shots ,you can see a reservoir in the background . The house I was born in is just the other side of that . There is/ was ( not sure if it's still there ) a pub called the Ferry Boat Inn and I can only assume that before my time , when dinosaurs ruled the earth, there would have been some sort of ferry across the way . No luck like that when I used to walk there from Walthamstow .
When we had a cup replay or European games ,on a Wednesday evening , we would walk there straight from school, get to the ground really early and just hang around outside . We were always some of the first to get in ,run to our spot at the pitch side and watch the game peering through those metal hoops that were on top of the perimeter wall.
In those days ,on a Saturday when the first team were away ,the reserves played at home . For sixpence (old money) you could watch the game from anywhere in the stadium and just walk around anywhere . There were still a few thousand spectators there but it was quiet enough to hear the players shouting to each other ,encouraging , ranting , telling who to do what , ...I learnt a lot from that .
On the perimeter wall there was an alphabet which related to other games being played that day , the games being printed in the programme . Some chap in a white knee length coat would put the half time scores up on match days . On the days when the first team were away ,they had a system whereby the bloke in the white coat could display the Spurs score every fifteen minutes . He had to walk half the length of the pitch along the sidelines with the numbered boards and took great delight in keeping it all secret until he could display it for all to see .
How things have changed