Gutter Boy
Tim Sherwood
Separating the team from the stadium tends to end in disaster too. Look at the issues it caused for Palace and Portsmouth for example. West Ham and Lincoln have bad experiences moving from landlords to tenants too.
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FA Considering Selling Wembley
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Separating the team from the stadium tends to end in disaster too. Look at the issues it caused for Palace and Portsmouth for example. West Ham and Lincoln have bad experiences moving from landlords to tenants too.
Seedy Ron
Frederic Kanoute
Seedy Ron
Frederic Kanoute
milo
Jack L. Jones
I think that it is a bit different with a national team and cannot be compared to clubs. There are plenty of countries where their FA does not own a national stadium and it works perfectly fine.
Gutter Boy
Tim Sherwood
It's strange it's the right wing press most critical of it, when they otherwise advocate PFIs, privatisation and neo-liberalism. This is exactly the thing they want to happen to the NHS.
Late capitalism
Late capitalism
Grays_1890
Colin Calderwood
I think its a bigger subject though, another large piece of British Owned real estate sold off to foreign ownership.
milo
Jack L. Jones
I think that ship has sailed
Baleforce
Ron Henry
Brilliant, not only is that apt but you've also picked my absolute favourite band of all time.
Baleforce
Ron Henry
It could be fun to set semi finals at the nearest league ground to the equidistant point between the stadium of the two clubs competing in the semi.
The Linton Travel Tavern rule.
JerusalemMan
Johnny Morrison
It's strange it's the right wing press most critical of it, when they otherwise advocate PFIs, privatisation and neo-liberalism. This is exactly the thing they want to happen to the NHS.
Late capitalism
Yeah, but the NHS is an old dinosaur of an institution struggling to cope with the demands of a modern world that has changed since its inception whereas the FA and Wembley...
Ah.
Finney Is Back
Luka Modric
Sorry mate, I don't get the last sentence there?
Bedfordspurs
Martin Peters
They paid £50m out (after the ground was built) for a special living seating option where it the seats one end move into why they called skews so that tier is flat for concerts
ricky2tricky4city
Tom Huddlestone
Spotted this on twitter......gotta laugh.
Bedfordspurs
Martin Peters
Should have been moving seats
Or retractable to give it a basic annology but these are motorised and fold back
Finney Is Back
Luka Modric
OK.... I (sort of) get you. But I would imagine that trying to retrofit a way of sliding a whole pitch out of an existing stadium would be virtually impossible. Especially a stadium that doesn't have an ultra light, single tier, steel constructed end.
Lemonade Money
Steffen Freund
Or avoid employing ginger tacos.
Where do you get your numbers from? I used to work there and it cost nothing like £50m. The accounts for the year are online so you can see they have never spent anything like that in capital since the stadium opened.
The business case was simply to create a recess so that the concert stage didn't have to sit on the pitch, and kill the grass. The plan was to hold more concerts in the autumn when the stadium needs to be turned around quicker, and didn't give time for the grass to grow back. Still didn't pay for itself as they've only held one autumn convert since it was installed.