Villa Park Redevelopment

[tomd2103]

The more premier league clubs that build shiny mega bowls, the more our stadium becomes our USP.

That will become even more pronounced in 20, 30, 40 years when these new stadiums really start to look dated and of their time.

Villa Park is timeless.

Won’t the holte end be the oldest stand by the time the NS is done?  I remember it being built and I’m not *that* ancient.

I think it depends on what work’s done, but if it is just a case of extending the north stand across & back, I say that’s the same stand. If they knock a significant amount of it down to build it, fair enough that’s a new stand, but I (personally) don’t think that’s what’s happening with the north stand.


You can add me to the list of people who never want Villa to leave Villa Park, no matter what*. As others have said it’s becoming increasingly unique in a field where it was already *pretty* unique anyway.

As others have said, 52k is absolutely fine for us for now, and I think we’ll eventually get it up 55k-59k with further redevelopment of e.g the Witton lane stand.

I don’t think we would ever need more than that, as we don’t have a tram stop or the name of the city, so pretty pointless aiming for higher.

I've been weighing up the question of moving from Villa Park for a a few years, but over the last couple of seasons have come to the conclusion that I don't want us to move.  As more teams move to new analogous stadiums, Villa Park becomes increasingly unique and I don't want that to change.  Liverpool have managed it with Anfield and I hope our we can do the same.