It is clear to see from the exterior of the stadium that there is still much work to do. Inset, Tottenham’s advert for Champions League football at the new stadium now looks a little premature

Shimmering brightly in the distance on Tottenham High Road is a towering glass bowl that is a tantalising glimpse into the near future. In several months’ time Tottenham Hotspur’s new home will be one of the most magnificent and advanced stadiums in the world, but for now it is a 24-hour building site that has been causing the chairman Daniel Levy plenty of headaches.

Tottenham have already had to ask for three home games to be moved to Wembley as their £800 million ground will not be ready and, unsurprisingly, the club cannot say when exactly they will move in.

Giant white cranes surround the ground, hauling large materials and skips over the roof, and below hundreds of workers in luminous yellow jackets stream in