2010–11 in English football friendly against France. 19 November 2010: Blackburn Rovers are taken over by the Rao family in a £43million deal, making them the first Indian owned English football club. 25 November 2010: Mayor of London Boris Johnson gives the go-ahead from Tottenham Hotspur to rebuild White Hart Lane as a 56,000-seat stadium which is set to cost around £450million. 27 November 2010: In the FA Cup second round, FC United of Manchester (the club created five years ago by Manchester United fans protesting against Malcolm Glazer's takeover) hold League One leaders Brighton & Hove Albion to a 1–1 draw to force
Development of stadiums in English football Tottenham have been planning a larger stadium since the late 1990s, however, it was undecided whether this strategy would involve expanding White Hart Lane (which has held some 36,000 all-seated fans since the early 1990s) or moving to a new site. Spurs announced in the Northumberland Development Project (NDP) on 30 October 2008 that the club planned to build a new stadium on the existing White Hart Lane site combined with land purchased or optioned to the north, creating a 56,250-seater stadium. The new development would include leisure facilities, shops, housing, a club museum, public space and also a new