Athletic Bilbao

old stadium / new stadium



sad when I heard Athletic's San Mames was going to be knocked down.

Loved reading about it in Simon Inglis's Football Grounds of Europe book ..a proper tight football ground that oozed character ..but, I have to say I'm heartened by the pics of the new San Mames Barria - seriously impressive shoe-horning, ..and you can't beat a decent bit of shoe-horning !!

cracking ground, top city

Originally Posted by thrills_pills_bellyaches

cracking ground, top city

never been, but I fancy doing a weekend there. Was it EasyJet who pretty decently priced flights there ?

Originally Posted by Fountz

old stadium / new stadium



sad when I heard Athletic's San Mames was going to be knocked down.

Loved reading about it in Simon Inglis's Football Grounds of Europe book ..a proper tight football ground that oozed character ..but, I have to say I'm heartened by the pics of the new San Mames Barria - seriously impressive shoe-horning, ..and you can't beat a decent bit of shoe-horning !!

Fair play they've managed to squeeze that new stadium in pretty well but are they going to have to play games with 1 stand missing till the other is built or knock one of the stands down on the old stadium to build the stand in the new ground? so either way their going to have to play in a stadium with 1 stand missing at some point

Originally Posted by Fountz

never been, but I fancy doing a weekend there. Was it EasyJet who pretty decently priced flights there ?

For some reason we flew from Heathrow with vueling but I'm sure that EasyJet go from ringway!

Great town, we left at half time and the place was Alive. People spilling out of every bar treating it like a cup final, great scenes.

Old grounds already been knocked down.

RIP San Mames.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjvM7fD5FyE

Originally Posted by Ashley's Grime

Nuevo San mame?s en construcción - YouTube

Ah rite, us Swans don't get to Europe very often

Originally Posted by SwanseaJack

Ah rite, us Swans don't get to Europe very often

Don't you have Euro aways every other week?

Originally Posted by Ashley's Grime

Nuevo San mame?s en construcción - YouTube

Looks like your typical Spanish construction site - nobody's working.

Originally Posted by Lok

Looks like your typical Spanish construction site - nobody's working.

Racial....

Originally Posted by HolyMackrelDoodleBonkon

Racial....

It's not racist as it's a statement on the current climate in Spain.

There's a £#%&!load of half finished building sites because the developers ran out of money.

Originally Posted by Lok

It's not racist as it's a statement on the current climate in Spain.

There's a £#%&!load of half finished building sites because the developers ran out of money.

Including loads of football grounds, Valencia among them.

Originally Posted by andyroo

Don't you have Euro aways every other week?

Terrific old ground, great club. Was gutted I couldn’t make our game out there in 2012. A phenomenal atmosphere that night, according to those who went.

Originally Posted by Lok

It's not racist as it's a statement on the current climate in Spain.

There's a £#%&!load of half finished building sites because the developers ran out of money.

Yet one of their corrupt @#%&! clubs is about to splash £100m+ on one player.

An utterly criminal state of affairs. :shakehead:

Originally Posted by Lok

It's not racist as it's a statement on the current climate in Spain.

There's a £#%&!load of half finished building sites because the developers ran out of money.

Of course that's what you meant Dave.

Originally Posted by Neo

Yet one of their corrupt @#%&! clubs is about to splash £100m+ on one player.

An utterly criminal state of affairs. :shakehead:

Saw Sid Lowe retweeted someone this morning "historic clubs are going to the wall for want of 5 million euros, and one player costs 145 million. It's the apocalypse." Hard to argue with that really

Fancy visiting there myself. Shame the club have sold most of their talent. muniain is still there though for now I think.

Originally Posted by HolyMackrelDoodleBonkon

Of course that's what you meant Dave.

Bloody love the Spanish me.

Paella, El Clásico, tapas, silly hats. They're the balls.