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Development of current stadium | 83 | 67.48% | |
Shiny new one please, on footprint or directly next to. | 29 | 23.58% | |
Shiny one please not bothered if they move it across town | 2 | 1.63% | |
Fold the club. | 9 | 7.32% | |
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Genuine question, not taking the piss. |
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My main issue is I don’t want a brand new stadium that fits the brief for 2024 and the current thinking around new stadium development when we already have one that ticks most boxes for most supporters but obviously not all.
You’re taking something that’s imperfect but still functioning and decent and risking it all to secure some unknown bullshit driven by insta focus groups. £#%&! off. |
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What exactly is the benefit of throwing all that away for an identikit modern stadium? What can a new stadium do that a renovated OT can't? All this talk of modern fans and the next generation but I'm sure if you asked 'The Youth' at Arsenal and Liverpool about their affinity to their stadiums it would be Liverpool fans who would be the happier of the two. |
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we’re shit and so is football now |
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Used to love going with my dad and later on, my uncle. Wanted to take my eldest in the next few years and then the youngest after that. Wouldn’t be the same taking them to something that holds no sentimental value to me whatsoever. So, for purely selfish reasons, I’m dead against it.
From a more objective POV - I don’t think any new stadium in recent memory has been particularly great. I know West Ham fans despise the London stadium, which to be fair was never built for football. But Arsenal is another one that’s just soulless, and the novelty seems to have worn off for a few Spurs fans at their new ground too. |
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The people really gunning for new stadium development are those seeking greater corporate income and income diversification, property developers, consultants and contractors. |
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Of course it is. The stadium isn't going to like this in 20 years time. So which bits are people going to protest about when they change? The roof supports? Obviously most would kick off if they took down the statues and the Munich memorial bits. But is there anything else? Anything fundamental to a football stadium? The South Stand has long housed the majority of our facilities. If it was knocked down and a North Stand replica was built, would that be ok? Presumably all the facilities would change as a result of it. Most people are nostaligic for the stadium. I get that as we have great memories there. But the idea that we can just keep it as it is today (largely unchanged in 18 years) for another 20 years is a bit silly. Throughout the 80s, 90s and 00's it was regularly redeveloped. Why does that have to stop now? Is this redevelopment or new construction: This was the Stretford end in the 70s: Pretty sure none of that still remains. So why stand still now? Because our generation have fond memories of the current incarnation under Fergie? |
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Old Trafford is a £#%&!ing dump and nothing remains of any historical note anymore. Those who want to keep it are symptomatic of our decline, if you don’t want to see the club progress and keep up then that’s fine but don’t bitch when we remain a mid table club. Football has moved on, accept it.
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The thing is, like the club, Old Trafford has evolved and changed with the times. So even though it has changed, you can still draw a direct line back to it being the same place where all the ghosts of our past played. The same place where, over the years, just another football team in the North became the famous Man United. For all that new stadiums are engineering marvels they don’t strike me as anybody’s home in that same sense. It’s an ethereal debate really, not something you can quantify. I might sound a bit overly romantic, or even a bit “Scouse” but I don’t think the gloss of a state of the art arena is an acceptable trade off against demolishing our home. |
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The babes didn't play in front of these stands or even on the same grass we have today. |
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