Etihad Campus, Stadium and Collar Site Development Thread

west didsblue said:
Exactly. It was planned for its end use of football with compromises made for its temporary use as an athletics stadium for a couple of weeks in 2002, whereas in London they unfathomably decided not to learn the lesson from Manchester’s success and went for a fantastic athletics stadium that covers an area far too big for a decent football stadium that cost three times as much to convert than the overall cost of the original City of Manchester Stadium. And that was on top of the original building cost of around £800m if I remember correctly.
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Absolute madness..
 
jrb said:
As you say.

London won its bid to host the 2012 Olympic Games in 2005 by a narrow margin, beating its closest rival Paris by 54 votes to 50. [1] The London 2012 Olympic Games took place across six boroughs: Barking and Dagenham, Greenwich, Hackney, Newham, Tower Hamlets and Waltham Forest, and cost a total of £8.77 billion - three times the original budget of £2.4 billion.
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Compared to an overall cost in Manchester of £300m which included numerous venues and the running costs of the games.

It’s been quoted that the games brought inward investment to the city of double that by 2008 and it’s gone up exponentially since the MCFC takeover by the sheikh.
 
west didsblue said:
Compared to an overall cost in Manchester of £300m which included numerous venues and the running costs of the games.

It’s been quoted that the games brought inward investment to the city of double that by 2008 and it’s gone up exponentially since the MCFC takeover by the sheikh.
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On top of that there was the Olympic stadium refit for West Ham that cost the tax payer……

Sadiq Khan has ordered an investigation into how the costs of converting Populous’s 2012 Olympic Stadium into the new home for West Ham FC have ballooned

The mayor launched the inquiry after it emerged that the cost of completing the works had risen by an extra £50 million.

Work to turn the centrepiece of the 2012 Games into a football ground – including the overhaul of the roof and the addition of 21,000 retractable seats – was originally estimated at £154 million. That figure later rose to £272 million, partly due to the complexity of adapting the huge cantilevered roof. Now it has emerged that the revised total cost is nearer to £323 million, with reports that the cost of the new seating had risen from an estimated £300,000 to £8 million.

It is understood West Ham FC contributed just £15 million towards the conversion costs and that the rest of the £752 million cost of building the arena and subsequently making it fit for football has been met by the taxpayer.
 
jrb said:
On top of that there was the Olympic stadium refit for West Ham that cost the tax payer……

Sadiq Khan has ordered an investigation into how the costs of converting Populous’s 2012 Olympic Stadium into the new home for West Ham FC have ballooned

The mayor launched the inquiry after it emerged that the cost of completing the works had risen by an extra £50 million.

Work to turn the centrepiece of the 2012 Games into a football ground – including the overhaul of the roof and the addition of 21,000 retractable seats – was originally estimated at £154 million. That figure later rose to £272 million, partly due to the complexity of adapting the huge cantilevered roof. Now it has emerged that the revised total cost is nearer to £323 million, with reports that the cost of the new seating had risen from an estimated £300,000 to £8 million.

It is understood West Ham FC contributed just £15 million towards the conversion costs and that the rest of the £752 million cost of building the arena and subsequently making it fit for football has been met by the taxpayer.
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West Ham also kept the proceeds of Upton Park whereas we handed Maine Road to MCC. There’s absolutely no comparison.

When people talk about state funding of football clubs they need to look no further than West Ham who have probably benefited by about a billion from the taxpayer. I don’t blame West Ham in the slightest because the government got itself into a position that they would have been left with a white elephant and were desperate for a deal so West Ham held all the cards. It was absolute madness and totally foreseeable.
 
west didsblue said:
West Ham also kept the proceeds of Upton Park whereas we handed Maine Road to MCC. There’s absolutely no comparison.

When people talk about state funding of football clubs they need to look no further than West Ham who have probably benefited by about a billion from the taxpayer. I don’t blame West Ham in the slightest because the government got itself into a position that they would have been left with a white elephant and were desperate for a deal so West Ham held all the cards. It was absolute madness and totally foreseeable.
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West Ham played an absolute blinder. Fair play to them.
 
SouthStandStander said:
No way that dwarf will make that jump to the next post
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I thought lex was making a joke (first time ever on here?) and I kept looking at the very small jogger on top of the post and just didn't get it. It was the best part of a minute before I noticed the top of the picture :(
 
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