Cullen: 2011 Tottenham riots were the catalyst for Spurs’ new stadium

Spurs’ Executive Director said that the riots helped pave the way to cooperation between the club and local officials. You generally don’t think about riots in positive terms. Riots are awful, horrible things. They endanger lives and destroy property. They bring simmering discontent to a boil and and put into sharp relief the sometimes tense relations between people and government agencies.

That’s what happened in 2011 when the police shooting of Mark Duggan in north London sparked riots across London, and especially in Tottenham, where they started and caused significant damage.

But according to Tottenham Hotspur Executive Director Donna-Marie Cullen, the Tottenham Riots of 2011 had an important contribution to the present regenerat...