Etihad Campus, Stadium and Collar Site Development Thread

[levets]

Yes but occasionally it had odds n sods in. rosettes and badges

Yes I remember. There was also similar on Maine road, in the terraced houses opposite the Main entrance to the ground. Early 70s.

 

[xgorton]

Thats the one I meant

They always stamped over the vouchers.

 

[Stockton Heath Blue]

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City of Manchester Stadium - sounds like a very old reference?

 

[Spanishbob]

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Like the way it’s trafford in old Trafford. :-)

 

[blueparrot]

City of Manchester Stadium - sounds like a very old reference?

Its used when its a competition that is sponsored by sponsors that don’t allow us to use the stadiums sponsors name. Think UEFA use COMs for C/L games

 

[tolmie's hairdoo]

Yes I remember. There was also similar on Maine road, in the terraced houses opposite the Main entrance to the ground. Early 70s.

Wansford Street.

 

[HelloCity]

Imagine if they turned down the Etihad as a venue when the north stand is expanded, we have an amazing new fan plaza/square, a 7* hotel, and an arena with food/drink outlets all on site. That’s before we even bring up the hospitality offerings with thing like tunnel club. Our stadium would potentially be the best overall destination.

Outcome - Old Trafford selected, Etihad rejected.

 

[remember arthur mann]

Imagine if they turned down the Etihad as a venue when the north stand is expanded, we have an amazing new fan plaza/square, a 7* hotel, and an arena with food/drink outlets all on site. That’s before we even bring up the hospitality offerings with thing like tunnel club. Our stadium would potentially be the best overall destination.
Outcome - Old Trafford selected, Etihad rejected.

 

[supercity88]

You do like to live up to your name, don't you! ;)

That said, I agree. I happen to know from good contacts in place at the time but no longer that MCFC wanted to expand the ground to 75K had England won the World Cup bid for 2018. We were named as one of the grounds in the English bid on the understanding that we'd have a capacity of at least 60K for the tournament and would have hosted a QF, but our owner wanted to host a semi-final ahead of Old Trafford. At the time, he was prepared to do the work to try and make it happen.

Of course, we could have produced a far better venue than Old Trafford and would still no doubt have been shafted by our own country's footballing authorities. After all, we should in the same way have got the nod for the World Cup in 1966 but the FA ensured Old Trafford hosted the matches in question instead and was bunged cash to upgrade for this purpose. I forget the details but @Gary James is the man to explain it authoritatively.

I personally think a bid between all four home nations plus the Republic is a ridiculous idea given that we all compete separately at international level. It may work for rugby, but in football - where you have much greater strength in depth in terms of the standard across the international game - I really don't think it does.

I can quite imagine that, by 2028, our stadium - as then redeveloped and with the surrounds it'll then have - will be far more suitable for an international tournament than the Meccano shithole. Unfortunately, I doubt that'll count for much.

It's a weird bid because out of the 24 teams you'd have to give 5 places to the "hosts" when realistically only 1 team is likely to qualify and 2 more have 50/50 chances. That's the direction of football now. We're not going to host a game for obvious reasons though!

Whilst looking into it a bit further I saw that the next WC has been expanded to 48 teams from 32. They'll play in 16 groups of 3 with the top 2 progressing to the last 32 knockouts. My god that's going to be a thrill!

 

[jrb]

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