Tottenham Hotspur fans can now get a player's eye view of the club's White Hart Lane stadium with the help of some Sussex internet expertise.

Panoramic pictures created by Brighton company Synchromedia have been placed on the club's website.

Visitors to the site can look at the stadium from the centre spot and directors' box.

There is even a chance to study the trophy cabinet.

Synchromedia director Marcus Bointon said a series of pictures were taken using a special tripod which held the camera in a stable position.

They were then merged together to create a 360-degree display.

Mr Bointon and his colleagues took nine panoramic pictures of the stadium, three of which appear on the Spurs website.

He said automatic tools used to create panoramas produced a lower quality of image.

Synchromedia used Quicktime VR Authoring Studio and Panoma Tools to correct the perspective in the pictures and create a seamless display.

This was not the first football-related project taken on by Synchromedia.

In 1996 the firm produced a CD-Rom for the Euro 96 championships.

Despite these high-profile sporting assignments, Mr Bointon and his colleagues have not become fans of the beautiful game.

He said: "None of us are interested in football."

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