does anyone remember the tremors we had in the City Centre when they were building the stadium?
I was working on King Street in one of the bank offices on the 6th floor and we felt about 20 in a week and you could easily feel them and see the inner walls of the building sway slightly.
someone reckoned it was cos they were detonating at the stadium site and cos of the mine shafts, the shock waves travelled for miles. others thought they were filling in the mine shafts to stabilise the site for the stadium and the ground surrounding was reacting to it (which, I never personally understood).
but yeah, the current pitch is lower than the where the athletic track was, I don't think the pitch was under the athletic track, thinking dug all that out and put in the lower tier, pitch and the end stand after the Commonwealth Games finished.
And yeah there's warm-up areas inside the stadium, was a 100m track on one side for the games, that probably been adapted now.
Even the Main Stand at Maine Road had indoor pitches, like 5-a-side with goal posts painted on the brick. Remember that from visiting as a kid with school in the 80's. And that stand was donkeys old.
