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The thing I dont understand is why knock down an old stadium to build another with the same capacity?? Why not increase capacity to 150,000 and make it the biggest and best in the world!! Its not like they havent got the space and Im sure they will find some kind of finance to cover it!!
Whatever the new stadium will be like it just wouldnt match
> the old Wembley for atmosphere, nothing can!!
Have you ever suffered the Wembley experience? Apart from the nightmare of travelling to and from the ground, the facilities are dilapedated, legroom laughable with restricted views all over the place. I'd be happy never to return there!
I'm off to Cardiff on the 12th for the Cup Final and I'm hoping the new stadium lives up to my expectations.
I just cant help but think the new stadium will lack the sort of match day atmosphere the old stadium produced!!
Wheras in England we only got 3 that hold more than 50,000 aint it. Old trafford, St james park, and does the staduim of light hold 50 thou? not many big staduims hey? So the new wembley is really needed.
Whether or not it should be at Wembley I wouldn't like to say, because it can be a real pig to get to.
It is, however, a disgrace that the FA should expect the government (i.e. the taxpayer!) to fund the new stadium. There is more than enough money in the game for them to pay for it themselves; maybe each of the Premiership clubs should put up a few million each - or a certain percentage of their annual profit for the next few years.
On the subject of capacity, we will hopefully soon have one more stadium to hold more than 50,000 - Arsenal's new stadium, at 60,000. At least Arsenal are looking at improving the transport system around the Highbury/Islington area, which is something the FA failed to do with Wembley.
Why should football clubs foot the bill ?. Clubs are run as independant companies and they have enough expense in building their own stadia. Arsenal's new ground will cost in excess of £150m, why should they stump up more for a national stadium ?. By comparison - does the Government tell Ford Motors to foot the bill for road and motorway maintenance just because their in the business of selling cars ?.
If the new stadium was built to the original new Wembley plans it would be the envy of the sporting world. (Paying) fans from all over the world would want to visit. Whatsmore it would improve our chances of staging World Cups and Olympic games - which would generate untold millions for the country. Euro 96 saw thousands of foriegners visit this country - a world cup or olympics would be much much bigger.
Football is our national sport. The government has done nothing to assist for decades. The game is where it is today due to SkyTV and the money they injected. Next I suppose the government will be calling on SkyTV to foot the bill !!!.