It'll never be where the busby babes played or where I saw Cantona make his debut, or Rooney score against city. It will be a new stadium with no connection to the players and teams that have come before. On the other hand it might have some great facilities!!
Football is losing enough of its history and tradition, if we do anything I would rather it was a rebuild on the same site than some new stadium somewhere else.
It won't, but then technically the current ground isn't where the Busby Babes played much beyond the pitch and some of the lower extremities of the first tier is it?
It'll be a new stadium with no connection until we win games there in true United fashion and win titles and have iconic players and new generations get the same feelings we do now.
It's just bricks, mortar, steel and glass at the end of the day, humans attach all sorts of emotions to inanimate objects but it doesn't mean we can't just do it again does it? It's incredible that a stadium has last 114 years in the same spot, really it is but eventually life moves on and we have to be at the forefront if we wanna get back to sitting on our perch as the biggest and best club in the world.
I think as long as we stay on the same plot of land then it's still Old Trafford, your matchday routine is still the same, you still go in the same pubs and you still eat at the same takeaways and so on. Eventually you'll get past the change in much the same way fans did when the old Stretford End was torn down and replaced with a new stand, when the other parts of the ground changed. I really don't see us moving anywhere else in all honesty. Been scouring all around Manchester and cannot spot a suitable location for a new ground so we're tearing the old ground down regardless and building something in it's place. I keep repeating that it'll be a new ground no matter what because you can't add what stadiums need now to the current structure without losing a considerable amount of seats, the entire lower tier would have to be rebuilt for a start and thus any remaining lingering structure from 1910 or the 1960s would be completely gone anyway.
Like getting a new pet that you grow to love just as much as the old pet. It's tough to let go and it's hard not to think of the past when you get to the future but you love it all the same.