Leonard Hatred 10:43 Fri Jan 6
Manchester City's stadium
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How come they ended up with a proper football stadium after it was built for the commonwealth games?
Did they knock it down and rebuild it or what?
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Replies - In Chronological Order ( Show Newest Messages First)
Scraper
10:50 Fri Jan 6
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It is not a very good stadium. Quiet and airy.
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BulphanIron
10:54 Fri Jan 6
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They dug down and added an extra tier to get closer to the pitch.
They've smashed us in the council house derby tonight as well!
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Cheezey Bell-End
10:57 Fri Jan 6
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Their's was built with some forward planning.
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whu the religion
12:12 Sat Jan 7
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I disagree, I think it's the best of the "new" grounds in the country. Haven't been since they've added the extra tier, but the last few times I've been always been very impressed. Great views, good looking ground with a proper atmosphere and really impressive on the approach. Last time I went (think it was the league cup game where we got hammered) I remember thinking we need to try and emulate this place as much as possible at The OS
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Gavros
12:23 Sat Jan 7
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It was built with the intention of making a footall ground. The OS was built with the intention of not making it s football stadium
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gph
12:28 Sat Jan 7
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Sebastian bleeding Chelsea-supporting Coe wasn't involved.
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Anders
12:32 Sat Jan 7
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As Bulphaniron states, it was built for the Commonwealth Games with the second and third tier and the running track, with the intention that the pitch and running track would be dug out and down to create the first tier - hence fans are close to the pitch.
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Northern Sold
12:34 Sat Jan 7
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It was not built on a radio active cesspit
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Crassus
1:02 Sat Jan 7
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Distinctly remember the cunt twins of Coe and Jowell being interviewed on tv after the award but before a spade hit the ground delighting in the fact that the OS would be designed so as to be impossible for football
Not wrong were they?
Lord Nike of narcotic denial and Queen Jowell of Cunt
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Anders
1:07 Sat Jan 7
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I've always said we should have shunned the OS and let it fail as an athletics venue, then move in and rescue it, remove the running track and dig down to make a new lower tier close alongside the pitch for a 100,000 stadium. Now that would be a fearful venue.
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Northern Sold
1:20 Sat Jan 7
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Can't dig down Anders that's the problem.... the ground is built on radioactive sludge.... superb eh ??
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2010/jun/20/radioactive-waste-olympic-site
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Crassus
1:28 Sat Jan 7
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The original plan was to rip the top off - the temporary seating and have a 25k narcotics event stadium
All ideal until some bright spark figured that no one gave a fuck about running about and chucking shit under the influence beyond an Olympics, so it would cost a bomb to sweep needles in the interim
Levy, the cunt, he had the right idea, rip the place down and build a proper stadium
Oh and finally, the £500m prefab stadium is misquoted, vast sums were spent making the ground upon which it was built viable from industrial pollutants including radioactive waste, just as Sold says
There is no comparison to the Ethiad
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Crassus
1:31 Sat Jan 7
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Actually, ReadyBreak could be an ideal stadium sponsor
One for the older posters
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WorldCupWilly
2:27 Sat Jan 7
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It was designed to be dug down, to turn the pitch 90 degrees and build a new 4th stand up against the pitch.
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southbankbornnbred
10:58 Sat Jan 7
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The reason that nobody could dig down beyond the current ground level was not the pollutants, as I understand it. The ground/earth was all treated. It was because we'd have hit the water table below ground - and operating around/through that would cost an absolute fortune (forget what was spent - the cost would have been astronomical).
It's not just earth down there, folks.
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Hasans Fish Bar RIP
11:58 Sat Jan 7
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Cant be pollutants surely. I don't remember railway sidings being particularly radioactive. Are water tables that expensive to deal with? London must have shitloads of buildings that have gone below the water table with foundations etc
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threesixty
12:00 Sat Jan 7
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Are there any athletics competitions scheduled to happen there this year? All this fuss about keeping the track but is it being used?
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Grays
12:00 Sat Jan 7
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"According to a Guardian investigation, any development of the site risks unearthing a hundred tonnes of radioactive waste dumped at the former landfill site decades ago. Documents obtained under Freedom of Information (FOI) rules reveal that, contrary to government guidelines, waste from thorium and radium has been mixed with very low-level waste and buried in a so-called disposal cell close to the Olympic stadium - about 250m to the north."
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southbankbornnbred
12:04 Sat Jan 7
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Grays - that's just scaremongering, though, isn't it?
Who in their right mind would excavate a site 250m north of the actual stadium? Even our bonkers owners, and the legacy company, would not do that - why would they?
The bigger point about digging/excavating inside the actual stadium - rather than a quarter of a mile away! - was that they would have hit the water table.
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The Cult Of Bob
12:08 Sat Jan 7
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I'm down for a narcotics stadium.
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