Mace is facing a race against time to make sure its scheme to build a new stadium for Tottenham Hotspur doesn’t fall further behind schedule after the club last night confirmed the scheme had bust its deadline.

The job, which has an official project cost of £400m, was supposed to be ready at the end of this month in time to host its inaugural Premier League game against Liverpool on 15 September.

But club chairman Daniel Levy said the job is now weeks behind schedule and admitted its game against reigning Premier League champions Manchester City at the end of October is a major doubt - there is an NFL fixture, between the Philadelpia Eagles and Jacksonville Jaguars, to be played at Wembley stadium on the same weekend as well.

Tottenham’s games against Liverpool, Cardiff City, and any scheduled Champions League and League Cup games have been shifted to the national stadium.

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