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And where does the ££££ come from for this?
Put it on the O.T. Credit card?
Put it on the O.T. Credit card?
That one is China looks like a meringue that's been kept in the oven for too long. The Roma one is amazing though.Why does it have to be bland? That's such a lame argument. We obviously have more funds than a Bolton or Middlesbrough and there's no reason we can't build something cool.
Look at these projects below.
Stadium in China.
New proposed Roma stadium.
New Mestalla.
Went to the legends game at the weekend in a different part of the stadium that I usually sit and, I kid you not, there was literally zero leg room. It was ridiculous. I’m only 6ft and it was actually painful.Agreed about building a brand new stadium although I'm not sure where we would play for a one off season.
If you've been to OT you'll realise how bad the facilities are and how cramped the legroom is.
£100m vs £1,6billion for a new stadiumWas thinking about if it would be better to simply renovate OT.
After seeing that’ll cost over £100m just to rebuild a stand, the best course would be to start from scratch and build a new stadium similar to the way Spurs have operated. Plus we could build our new training ground on the site where OT currently sits. Win Win.
It's because as you are peeing away, the urine is filling up the glass behind the wall.The one thing I couldn’t get my head around at the Nou Camp is how easy it was to get a drink and go for a piss. The section I was in had 3 urinals and 3 cubicals and there was no queue.
Maybe because people hadn’t been drinking the whole day before the game I guess. Just found it a bizarre experience compared to OT and basically any other ground I’ve been to ever.
Nowhere near enough room for that.Was thinking about if it would be better to simply renovate OT.
After seeing that’ll cost over £100m just to rebuild a stand, the best course would be to start from scratch and build a new stadium similar to the way Spurs have operated. Plus we could build our new training ground on the site where OT currently sits. Win Win.
That’s why the Estrella tastes so much better over there.It's because as you are peeing away, the urine is filling up the glass behind the wall.
Knock down the houses and the two retail park's next to it. Problem solved.Nowhere near enough room for that.
It's built to a very old standard of inches per supporter. That legroom is built into the concrete structure, and I don't know how you could possibly remedy that without demolishing and starting again.Surely with OT, one could simultaneously gut the entire structure and improve leg-room and corporate facilities, and also build up the south stand to offset the reduction in capacity elsewhere, and still end up with a stadium with better legroom, more modern facilities and an increased capacity. Slap a new roof on it, with some screens built in, and a new expanded facade to the stadium for a hospitality "village", and you'd have a stadium to rival anywhere in the world. More likely to cost 500M vs 1bn for a brand new stadium.
There is plenty. Here's a map I made of the land the club owned in 2011. I believe they've added to it since.Nowhere near enough room for that.
I am probably wrong, but I swear I read somewhere that the existing concrete base could be levelled off and the supporting steps for the seats could be repoured to a larger specification, essentially just maintaining the supporting super structure. But I am probably talking bollocks. And guess tbh, if the club renovate, they won't increase legroom. They'll just expand the south stand, maybe put a new roof and screens, and a new facade. If they were to do the rest, they'd likely build a new one, which seems highly unlikely to me.It's built to a very old standard of inches per supporter. That legroom is built into the concrete structure, and I don't know how you could possibly remedy that without demolishing and starting again.
There is.Nowhere near enough room for that.
The experience at stadiums on the continent is, well, just generally more continental. You can drink and smoke in a lot of them (with or without permission of course, but enforcement tends to be minimal in my experience). We just can't be trusted in this country and frankly I can see why. The UK must have some of the most atrocious fans in Europe and our culture around drinking in general just means it would be utter chaos if permitted on the terraces here, even when it is only a minority responsible. Can you imagine the state of the recent pitch invasions multiplied by several orders of magnitude?The one thing I couldn’t get my head around at the Nou Camp is how easy it was to get a drink and go for a piss. The section I was in had 3 urinals and 3 cubicals and there was no queue.
Maybe because people hadn’t been drinking the whole day before the game I guess. Just found it a bizarre experience compared to OT and basically any other ground I’ve been to ever.
Carrington is currently over 100 acres large and contains 12 football pitches of various sizes, a large sports centre containing multiple swimming pools, an office block and a helipad. That would not fit in that space.There is plenty. Here's a map I made of the land the club owned in 2011. I believe they've added to it since.
Apologies, I thought they meant a second mini-stadium for training/reserves. I've been to Carrington and yeah, it's pretty vast, and something of that size wouldn't fit into that plot.Carrington is currently over 100 acres large and contains 12 football pitches of various sizes, a large sports centre containing multiple swimming pools, an office block and a helipad. That would not fit in that space.
75,000 commodes? Radical.Just improve acoustics of OT and seating with toilets while adding another stand.
75,000 commodes? Radical.
When you see this and wonder why the hell OT was built on the narrowest part ... however, 100+ years ago, it was probably the only available land.There is plenty. Here's a map I made of the land the club owned in 2011. I believe they've added to it since.
75,000 commodes? Radical.
That requires the entire roof to be removed and opened up to the other stands. I’m not sure it’s possible because the cantilevers are important to the overall structure.Just improve acoustics of OT and seating with toilets while adding another stand.
There’s a modern stadium across the city that’s been left vacant for a decade or so. Another team play behind closed doors there, or at least that’s how it looks.Agreed about building a brand new stadium although I'm not sure where we would play for a one off season.
If you've been to OT you'll realise how bad the facilities are and how cramped the legroom is.
75,000 commodes? Radical.
Shit's groundbreaking. Literally.75,000 commodes? Radical.
Looks like the land around it was pretty much undeveloped when they started building OT, according to this map. The northern part of Warwick Road (now Sir Matt Busby Way) hadn't even been built by 1908. Maybe they just bought a plot they presumed was big enough for what they needed. At the time it was built, it was one of the biggest football grounds in the country, it not the biggest.When you see this and wonder why the hell OT was built on the narrowest part ... however, 100+ years ago, it was probably the only available land.
At the Spurs' stadium the furthest distance to the pitch is nearly 8m and almost 5m at the closest.I would say renevote because modern health and safety policy would mean fans would be further away from the pitch if we rebuilt as is the case for Emirates, Etihad and Spurs stadium.
Fans being so close to the pitch is core to what makes Old Trafford's atmosphere so great.
Looks like the land around it was pretty much undeveloped when they started building OT, according to this map. The northern part of Warwick Road (now Sir Matt Busby Way) hadn't even been built by 1908. Maybe they just bought a plot they presumed was big enough for what they needed. At the time it was built, it was one of the biggest football grounds in the country, it not the biggest.
Edit: This map from 1922 may suggest that the club owned a bit more land around the ground, within a boundary marked 343. If they'd have just centered the ground a little to the north within that boundary, it'd have caused fewer problems.
Wembley of course.Agreed about building a brand new stadium although I'm not sure where we would play for a one off season.
If you've been to OT you'll realise how bad the facilities are and how cramped the legroom is.
Didn’t Bluemoon fans used to call our ground ‘Old Toilet’? I guess we might top the largest public lavatory table so it’s not all bad75,000 commodes? Radical.