yep ...pretty much bang on. Trafford Park also had munitions factories which used to leach a whole bunch of undesirables into the ground...Cadmium, Arsenic etc..which is a bitch to get rid of. Our stadium developers failed unfortunately to TIC the mineshafts and tunells under and adj Bradford pit..some of which the council had (quite illegaly) filled with waste...Once the stadium weight went on a few of these collapsed...remember the Mcr eartthquake c. 2000...ish?....in answer, developer usually foots the bill, passes costs to client. Becomes tricky when the council get round to CPO ing a few businesses/houses which they will have to do,Just a thought.
I grew up in Ordsall and remember that area as full of heavy industry and all sorts of traffic going constantly in and out of the place. 60s/70s.
I have just finished watching Toxic Town and surely the land around there must be contaminated too.
Before the CFA could be built I remember City having to decontaminate the whole area.
So who foots the bill for that if it was discovered to be the same?
They’re bending over for Saudi money it’s so obviousThey simply cannot afford a £2bn stadium development.
The only way this gets built is if someone gives them the money, no strings attached.
This is a nonsense proposal from a nonsense club.
From The Theatre of Dreams to The Circus of Memes.Theatre of Memes
It's almost like the NFL franchises, where they'll quite happy move City to get a brand new stadiumHilariously desperate pitch. Couldn't be more obvious they're hoping for the government to pay for this. it's the equivalent of your dog grabbing its empty bowl in its mouth standing next to you whimpering.
Not a single penny of tax payers money should go on this. If they want it, they can pay for it entirely themselves.
The people that don't spend their own money on the club, that sack minimum wage locals without a seconds thought, who have decided local kids and oap's shouldn't get a discount on tickets, who think local people should be at least paying the same price as people from the most affluent area of the country, we are supposed to believe these people are wanting a new stadium to benefit local people and not to line their own pockets further without having to shell out a penny themselves?
Good luck finding that 2 billion it will cost when the day before announcing this they've said they would have run out of money last Christmas if they didn't sack some minimum wage staff and stop giving them food.
Scruffy Jim didn't get the sympathy he craved from his puff piece interview about how hes saved the club from bankruptcy, so the next day another puff piece about a brand new stadium is released. I can't work out whether this is an upgrade on the toilet bog stadium when Sheikh Jizz was supposedly interestedwhat a total shambles they are...first they cull the staff at the swamp to release funds, and stop the canteen food. Then they announce that they would have ran out of money as the £300m loan was nearly empty...
And then they announce today that they want a £2 billion 100k seater stadium building
RAGAnother moron with limited mental capacity
Is that a rag pudding
Absolute fucking wankstains! Is miss piggy fudding herself off under her desk?Breaking news on sky sports for the last five hours
Yet no further details than the first five minutes
Irrespective of cost, and how they are going to pay for it (They have said they are paying for it as part of a huge government regeneration program), if it does get built, and with Lord Foster involved, it will obviously be the best stadium in the country. It might not be to everyone's taste, but as the most modern stadium built to such a size, it will become a landmark that tourists will flock to.
If I go to Madrid or Barcelona or Munich, I always fancy a trip to the stadiums because I love football and they are iconic. The same can be said about Manchester United and Old Trafford unfortunately, even in its current state.
I think I said in an earlier post, it's only a matter of time before they get a new stadium, and they aren't going to build some half hearted stadium with a similar capacity to what they have now. Biggest stadium in the country and likely to have facilities that make most of the others in the league look second rate.
If they finance it for themselves, then fair enough, and the extra income it will generate will obviously help with servicing the borrowed cost. Whether you like it or not, their brand is still huge.
Hopefully the team on the field stays shit for a long time to come.
Please don't associate one of the worlds greatest ever bands with that sickening filth up the road. One brings me complete joy the other I despise !!!!Interesting news about the Rags' new ground - Swamp Nou - today. It was oddly reminiscent of one of my old Yes bootlegs!
Hopefully bankrupt them. Also, are they still intent on the British tax payer coughing up to built it ?If I was a match going United fan I’d been a little cautious about this.
Most of us blues know how crap it is to get away from Wembley. Even the Etihad, since the South Stand was expanded, has become a nightmare (God knows what it will be like when the North Stand opens).
An extra 25k people trying to get to Old Trafford will be absolute bedlam (without a major overhaul of the public transport infrastructure).
The other side is that the club will use Arsenal’s “we need to pay off the stadium” excuse for years. Ticket prices will sky rocket. The Glaziers will benefit hugely from this while their club will be saddled with even more debt.