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[mancboy]

Yeah but my point is, it got built with council money for the commonwealth games, and it got converted to a football stadium using council money.

And what exactly would the rags new stadium be being built for and iirc city paid for the conversion?

 

[deano ou812]

It’s all in the pipeline the winter payments that labour scrapped for pensioners will go towards the infrastructure around the ground..

 

[Tarnats left peg]

Yeah but my point is, it got built with council money for the commonwealth games, and it got converted to a football stadium using council money.

The majority of the cost was paid for by Sport England and then a little over £30million was paid for by Manchester Council which I'm sure a good chunk was paid back during the commonwealth games due to it being a successful event, bringing in hundreds of thousands of visitors to the city. But if I remember rightly the £25 million it took to convert to a football stadium was all paid for by city.
It's amazing that if you tell a lie for long enough and to enough people it becomes truth. Again from what I remember the original plan was to build a temporary stadium and after the event it would be taken apart and shipped over seas as they didn't want a white elephant like the millennium stadium. But after talking with the scum and I believe Franny we took up the option to move in so it became a permanent stadium.

 

[dadnlad]

Public. Money = multi use running track is priority
Us FOC can run round it to keep warm

 

[chedinho]

Public. Money = multi use running track is priority
Us FOC can run round it to keep warm

Not sure if joking or not. ;-)

 

[Vienna_70]

Yeah but my point is, it got built with council money for the commonwealth games, and it got converted to a football stadium using council money.

Manchester City paid a considerable amount of money to Manchester city council to take over CoMS, as it was, and we still pay a considerable amount in rent to the same body.

 

[Vienna_70]

The majority of the cost was paid for by Sport England and then a little over £30million was paid for by Manchester Council which I'm sure a good chunk was paid back during the commonwealth games due to it being a successful event, bringing in hundreds of thousands of visitors to the city. But if I remember rightly the £25 million it took to convert to a football stadium was all paid for by city.
It's amazing that if you tell a lie for long enough and to enough people it becomes truth. Again from what I remember the original plan was to build a temporary stadium and after the event it would be taken apart and shipped over seas as they didn't want a white elephant like the millennium stadium. But after talking with the scum and I believe Franny we took up the option to move in so it became a permanent stadium.

Yes. Spot on.

If City hadn’t agreed to use the stadium, after the games, MCC would have built a temporary arena for them.

 

[Bigg Bigg Blue]

Ye. Spot on.

If City hadn’t agreed to use the stadium, after the games, MCC would have built a temporary arena for them.

And don't forget that we also gave them Maine Road as well.

 

[Vienna_70]

And don't forget that we also gave them Maine Road as well.

In other words, we more than paid for it.

 

[Bigg Bigg Blue]

In other words, we more than paid for it.

That we did but never let the truth get in the way of a good story