Football Stadia - Past, Present & Future

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Re: Football Stadia - Past, Present & Future

by SPARTA » 10 Sep 2014 11:14

Cobi Many City plans for their expansion. I guess they didn't notice all the blue seats in their last few home games.





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Danny Wilson of #mcfc now presenting images of the planned expansion of the Etihad stadium to 61,000 capacity, first phase now underway.

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Re: Football Stadia - Past, Present & Future

by RG30 » 10 Sep 2014 12:27

Spurs to leave White Hart Lane for 1 season while they redevelop the ground. Would expect them to end up playing games at one of Wembley, MK Bowl or Portman Road.

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Re: Football Stadia - Past, Present & Future

by Mr.Swainey » 10 Sep 2014 12:56

RG30 Spurs to leave White Hart Lane for 1 season while they redevelop the ground. Would expect them to end up playing games at one of Wembley, MK Bowl or Portman Road.


Portman Road?

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Re: Football Stadia - Past, Present & Future

by PistolPete » 10 Sep 2014 18:17

Why can't they play at the Emirates? Just for one season surely it would make sense?!


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Re: Football Stadia - Past, Present & Future

by Royal Ginger » 10 Sep 2014 23:34

Spurs have an awe inspiring long waiting list for season tickets, Wembley seems like the obvious answer.

Failing that, Upton Park is available in 2016.

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Re: Football Stadia - Past, Present & Future

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by No Fixed Abode » 20 Oct 2014 15:18

RG30 Spurs to leave White Hart Lane for 1 season while they redevelop the ground. Would expect them to end up playing games at one of Wembley, MK Bowl or Portman Road.


How come you didn't mention that Chelsea might be playing at Twickenham for 1 season, whilst Stamford Bridge is redeveloped to a 60,000 capacity?

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Re: Football Stadia - Past, Present & Future

by Angry Shed Sex » 20 Oct 2014 17:27

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RG30 Spurs to leave White Hart Lane for 1 season while they redevelop the ground. Would expect them to end up playing games at one of Wembley, MK Bowl or Portman Road.


How come you didn't mention that Chelsea might be playing at Twickenham for 1 season, whilst Stamford Bridge is redeveloped to a 60,000 capacity?

Possibly because it isn't going to happen.


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Re: Football Stadia - Past, Present & Future

by RoyallyFcuked » 30 Oct 2014 22:07

I think clubs need to do as much as they can to try can redevelop and extend their existing stadiums and try to avoid moving to a boring featureless bowl. The character that the old grounds have just isnt there with new ones, I think a change in design needs to be made to make them more interesting, so they dont all look the same and have that lack of atmosphere. (This is coming from someone who's not that old either, so I'm not stuck in the past)

I'm glad to see Liverpool are redeveloping Anfield, its great because we wont lose any of the character and atmosphere, it will only add to and improve it. Of course Chelsea and Spurs need to do the same which is not as easy, but I think it will happen eventually. If it means them playing somewhere else temporary then so be it, better than moving to a new ground.

Will be sad to see Upton Park go though, a classic football ground. The Olympic Stadium will be crap, it's a joke its being turned into a football ground, there is just no need.

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Re: Football Stadia - Past, Present & Future

by No Fixed Abode » 31 Oct 2014 18:23

Shame we didn't get Battersea imo and they sold out to a Malaysian consortium instead of letting a British institution have it. Now that would have been an iconic football stadium.

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by Lacoste » 01 Nov 2014 12:11

No Fixed Abode Shame we didn't get Battersea imo and they sold out to a Malaysian consortium instead of letting a British institution have it. Now that would have been an iconic football stadium.



Chelsea FC, a British institution since 2003.

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Re: Football Stadia - Past, Present & Future

by Sutekh » 01 Nov 2014 12:38

Shouldn't that be a Russian institution?


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Re: Football Stadia - Past, Present & Future

by From Despair To Where? » 03 Nov 2014 07:20

No Fixed Abode Shame we didn't get Battersea imo and they sold out to a Malaysian consortium instead of letting a British institution have it. Now that would have been an iconic football stadium.



Look on the bright side, means there won't be an additional 15,000 tourists diluting the atmosphere even further.

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Re: Football Stadia - Past, Present & Future

by No Fixed Abode » 04 Nov 2014 12:08

From Despair To Where?
No Fixed Abode Shame we didn't get Battersea imo and they sold out to a Malaysian consortium instead of letting a British institution have it. Now that would have been an iconic football stadium.



Look on the bright side, means there won't be an additional 15,000 tourists diluting the atmosphere even further.


You don't get tourists but your atmosphere is non - existent. So what you've said doesn't really make sense.

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Re: Football Stadia - Past, Present & Future

by From Despair To Where? » 04 Nov 2014 13:12

There are as yet undiscovered tribes of Amazonian Indians who knew you were going to reply with something along those lines


Topical with regards to both Batersea and Mourinho's recent comments so makes perfect sense to those with sense.

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Re: Football Stadia - Past, Present & Future

by No Fixed Abode » 04 Nov 2014 13:58

From Despair To Where? There are as yet undiscovered tribes of Amazonian Indians who knew you were going to reply with something along those lines


Topical with regards to both Batersea and Mourinho's recent comments so makes perfect sense to those with sense.


Here's an equation for you

Chelsea have tourists = quiet
Reading don't have tourists = quiet

So I can't see your justification about being racist towards the tourists at The Bridge.

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Re: Football Stadia - Past, Present & Future

by Badger Finger » 31 Jan 2015 13:20

A good look back at Filbert Street here
http://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/pictu ... res.html#2

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Re: Football Stadia - Past, Present & Future

by Winston Smith » 04 Feb 2015 20:07

AC Milan's new ground, opening in 2018.



dont like the look of the inside pictures. Always thought the height with which many Italian grounds back is impressive, this new ground seems to have lost that.

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Re: Football Stadia - Past, Present & Future

by No Fixed Abode » 10 Feb 2015 15:47

The old terrace end at Peterborough


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