North Londoners took to the streets at the weekend to spurn Tottenham Hotspur’s plans to bulldoze thousands of local homes to pave the way for a new walkway.

Residents of Love Lane estate joined a Defend Council Housing picket of the Lilywhites’ Premier League clash with Crystal Palace on Saturday after the club decided on plans to concrete over 3,000 homes on the way to White Hart Lane.

Protest organiser Paul Burnham told the Star that locals were “outraged.”

He said: “It is breaking the contract between the community of Tottenham and the football club, which is so important in the area.”

Mr Burnham explained that club bosses had agreed to continue investing in Tottenham but only if Haringey Council “improved the area.”

“For them improvement means demolition and this has become part of a clearance programe of Haringey’s Labour council,” he added.

The council has earmarked 3,408 homes for demolition, with social housing accounting for more than 2,500 of them.

And 60 businesses are currently threatened with closure due to the council plans.

Local campaign supporter Reverend Paul Nicholson blamed the club for helping gentrify the area, building “a nice new posh walkway.”

He said: “The management of Tottenham Hotspur don’t want their corporate costumers to walk through a council house estate.

“Councillors and MPs are the people who actually are proposing to knock down the estate.

“The council is putting insecurity on top of austerity.”