Etihad Campus, Stadium and Collar Site Development Thread

[Citizen Green]

When are the scoreboards going in?

 

[Centurions]

I think Spurs will have the best, but it's a very generic design at the minute. Arsenal have the best currently but that doesn't mean its the one I enjoy going to most.

Chelsea's will be unique and instantly recognisable. It's almost Soviet-esque which is perhaps unsurprising. The most striking feature to me about it is the fact there are no executive boxes.

Not a chance in hell that Chelsea will build it without a raft of executive boxes.

I presume the asymmetrical design is due to space limitations but the outside is god awful ugly to me. It looks like a multi story car park.

 

[worsleyweb]

Not a chance in hell that Chelsea will build it without a raft of executive boxes.

I presume the asymmetrical design is due to space limitations but the outside is god awful ugly to me. It looks like a multi story car park.

The strange contours which Chelseas stadium is due to Rights of Light Issues - some big posh old houses around there and if Chelsea build a monster which changes the light received in those aforementioned windows they would face huge compensation payments - hence the mad looking design.

 

[squirtyflower]

The strange contours which Chelseas stadium is due to Rights of Light Issues - some big posh old houses around there and if Chelsea build a monster which changes the light received in those aforementioned windows they would face huge compensation payments - hence the mad looking design.

Could be right
My son lived in a house round the back of the stadium and you could see one of the stands from his front door

 

[worsleyweb]

• Could be right

My son lived in a house round the back of the stadium and you could see one of the stands from his front door

Could be!!!??? Get reading Coventry vs Lawrence case law.

 

[squirtyflower]

Could be!!!??? Get reading Coventry vs Lawrence case law.

Sorry mate, I'm far too busy taking it easy

 

[goatersnipple]

Personally I think Spurs have nailed it, and will have the best ground in the country when it's completed.

60k seater, close to the pitch, steep stands, low roof, and an enormous single tier goal end.

Have a word with yourself mate.
The beat in the country.
Are you forgetting one place.
The theatre of dreams......


Haha what a shut hole

 

[domalino]

So in the next few years, Spurs, Chelsea and ourselves will all have 60,000+ seater stadia.

Liverpool are going to be f*cked. They're doing their big expansion to increase match day revenue and get into the top 4, and they aren't even keeping up with the rest. Arsenal too, spent 9 years with no trophies to fund the Emirates and the advantage they thought they'd get from it will last <5 years.

On the other hand - an England World Cup would surely be on the cards then. Wembley, Etihad, swamp, new WHL, new Stanford Bridge, the Emirates all over 60,000. St. James park and Anfield 50,000+.

No other country in the world can compete in terms of infrastructure.

 

[Gordyola]

When are the scoreboards going in?

If you mean the screens then, if as rumoured, the North Stand is going to get the go-ahead then I would guess they will move the current ones to the South Stand and then install new ones once the North Stand is complete making 4 in all

 

[dannybcity]

So in the next few years, Spurs, Chelsea and ourselves will all have 60,000+ seater stadia.

Liverpool are going to be f*cked. They're doing their big expansion to increase match day revenue and get into the top 4, and they aren't even keeping up with the rest. Arsenal too, spent 9 years with no trophies to fund the Emirates and the advantage they thought they'd get from it will last <5 years.

On the other hand - an England World Cup would surely be on the cards then. Wembley, Etihad, swamp, new WHL, new Stanford Bridge, the Emirates all over 60,000. St. James park and Anfield 50,000+.

No other country in the world can compete in terms of infrastructure.

Sadly, I think infrastructure has very little to do with it.