The new Spurs stadium first comes into sight as you walk northwards along Tottenham High Road, past the outreach district HQ of the Christ Apostolic Church. From a mile away it is a silver cliff face above the distant rooftops. Then it disappears as the road bends a little and then comes back into view.
Several hundred steps later and it sits in a great glass and metal curve above you, dwarfing the old parade opposite. It is as though a spaceship from a benign civilization has put down beside the Abrepo Junction (African-Caribbean groceries), the Koyum Turkish restaurant and the White Hart Lane Jerk Centre. You can imagine the large, glazed curve of the West Stand door folding down and a 15ft tall other-worldly
