1000 Tiny Birds: 2025 edition

Spurs Stadium Tour

Spurs Stadium, 2025-05-22

The collision of two different parts of the job: one, being the Bristol intern lead, the other, working for the company that is responsible for basically all of the infrastructure at the new Spurs stadium. We’re taking the interns for a “development day”, and this - genuinely coincidentally - is the day after the Europa league final which sees a Spurs victory and thus a lot of happy if hungover faces the next day. We do the normal stadium tour, and even as a non-football fan, I do find it interesting seeing a lot of the behind the scenes stuff like the changing rooms, and the level of detail being put into the psychology (the respective temperatures of the home and away team changing rooms, stuff like that) of things through the technology is ripe for nerd sniping. Beyond that, we get a custom tour of the data centre courtesy of the Spurs CTO, a lovely man who answers my product marketing questions with good humour. Then it’s the sky walk, and I honestly don’t see why people are scared of it, but you do you. Weird to get to the top and they’re just blaring 30 seconds of anonymous songs at a time to avoid paying PRS fees.