Villa Park Redevelopment

[London Villan]

For the city, a world-class city centre stadium, that hosted football every week as well as the other big global music tours and events would be brilliant.

Lots of reasons it will never happen:
Disparity of fan bases - we'd fill it one week and then 20,000 would rattle around in it the next week
Obvious rivalries
Backwards-looking inept Council
Lack of available land in the city

[Somniloquism]

Agreed. And the people. The people! I used to see them on the tube when they played at Wembley. Let's just say there will have been tens of thousands of empty single bedrooms, tens of thousands of mothers putting on their own slippers and tens of thousands of episodes of Doctor Who left unwatched on those evenings.

I was walking down Piccadilly a couple of years ago on the day of whatever NFL game was being played in London. I got stopped by an American TV station to do an interview. "Hey buddy, this is KFXFM TV, who's your favourite Jets player?" "Haven't got a fucking clue, sorry." I doubt they used it.

One of those where you could have confused them more by stating you preferred the sharks.

[pauliewalnuts]

Agreed. And the people. The people! I used to see them on the tube when they played at Wembley. Let's just say there will have been tens of thousands of empty single bedrooms, tens of thousands of mothers putting on their own slippers and tens of thousands of episodes of Doctor Who left unwatched on those evenings.

I was walking down Piccadilly a couple of years ago on the day of whatever NFL game was being played in London. I got stopped by an American TV station to do an interview. "Hey buddy, this is KFXFM TV, who's your favourite Jets player?" "Haven't got a fucking clue, sorry." I doubt they used it.

One of those where you could have confused them more by stating you preferred the sharks.

Or said "Bennie"

[Brazilian Villain]

I was walking down Piccadilly a couple of years ago on the day of whatever NFL game was being played in London. I got stopped by an American TV station to do an interview. "Hey buddy, this is KFXFM TV, who's your favourite Jets player?" "Haven't got a fucking clue, sorry." I doubt they used it.

Strange that a Californian radio station would be asking about the Jets.

For future reference you should have said 'Broadway Joe', followed by "J-E-T-S, Jets, Jets Jets!!!"

[The Edge]

Jim Radcliffe is pushing hard for funding to build a national stadium of the North that would be home to Man U. Sebastian Coe is now on board so the Tory boys seem to be pulling together on this one. If that happens it will mean both Manchester clubs will have stadiums built at the taxpayers expense. Andy Street needs to be shouting from the rooftops about how unfair that would be on the rest. What about a national stadium for the Midlands? We need to be vocal about this because it's something that gaining more and more traction. 

[pablo_picasso]

Jim Radcliffe is pushing hard for funding to build a national stadium of the North that would be home to Man U. Sebastian Coe is now on board so the Tory boys seem to be pulling together on this one. If that happens it will mean both Manchester clubs will have stadiums built at the taxpayers expense. Andy Street needs to be shouting from the rooftops about how unfair that would be on the rest. What about a national stadium for the Midlands? We need to be vocal about this because it's something that gaining more and more traction.

Neville is on the cheerleader squad for this too. Which means that SkumSports will be the main media cheerleader for it too.

If those scumbags get a tax payer funded stadium then that will be me completely done with football.

When their new part owner is one of the richest men in the country, it's a bit of a piss take to be begging for help from taxpayers who fucking despise ManU. Ratcliffe should pay for any stadium himself if he is so fucking desperate for a new one.

Especially as they only need a new one because their current owners haven't looked after or invested properly in the massive one they currently have.

The game is already skewed towards the media & marketing favourite clubs as it is & makes the game hard to love.

I am only clinging on due to Villa...

[Richard E]

The Government should announce that they accept Jim Ratcliffe’s case that there should be a nation stadium for the north, and that it will be in Leeds/Liverpool/Newcastle/Sheffield/Sunderland/Bradford. (Delete as appropriate.)

[brontebilly]

Jim Radcliffe is pushing hard for funding to build a national stadium of the North that would be home to Man U. Sebastian Coe is now on board so the Tory boys seem to be pulling together on this one. If that happens it will mean both Manchester clubs will have stadiums built at the taxpayers expense. Andy Street needs to be shouting from the rooftops about how unfair that would be on the rest. What about a national stadium for the Midlands? We need to be vocal about this because it's something that gaining more and more traction.

Neville is on the cheerleader squad for this too. Which means that SkumSports will be the main media cheerleader for it too.

If those scumbags get a tax payer funded stadium then that will be me completely done with football.

When their new part owner is one of the richest men in the country, he should pay for any new fucking stadium himself.

The game is already skewed towards the media & marketing favourite clubs as it is & makes the game hard to love.

I am only clinging on due to Villa...

National stadium of the north! Would be typical Tory scumbaggery for this to be the centre of their "levelling up" nonsense too, bailing out a chronically mismanaged club with a state funded stadium.

[algy]

The Government should announce that they accept Jim Ratcliffe’s case that there should be a nation stadium for the north, and that it will be in Leeds/Liverpool/Newcastle/Sheffield/Sunderland/Bradford. (Delete as appropriate.)

Not going to happen, but it would be properly funny if they agreed on the Wembley of the North thing, then did up Hillsborough so that it could host the next series of Gladiators and be used instead of The Crucible for snooker

[frankmosswasmyuncle]

The Government should announce that they accept Jim Ratcliffe’s case that there should be a nation stadium for the north, and that it will be in Leeds/Liverpool/Newcastle/Sheffield/Sunderland/Bradford. (Delete as appropriate.)

Not going to happen, but it would be properly funny if they agreed on the Wembley of the North thing, then did up Hillsborough so that it could host the next series of Gladiators and be used instead of The Crucible for snooker

Thought I read on here a few days ago something along the lines of ManU have been trying to do this kind of thing for years but through Manchester (City) Council or whatever....and the response from MCC was "yep, great, we'll help as much as we can with planning/infrastructure etc but we ain't paying a penny just so you wealthy lot can have a better stadium for making even more profit; we ain't mugs".....or similar!

[tomd2103]

For the city, a world-class city centre stadium, that hosted football every week as well as the other big global music tours and events would be brilliant.

Lots of reasons it will never happen:
Disparity of fan bases - we'd fill it one week and then 20,000 would rattle around in it the next week
Obvious rivalries
Backwards-looking inept Council
Lack of available land in the city

We don't need that lot on board to do something like that though.  I'm not advocating a move at all, but having read a bit more about the financial landscape over the past few weeks than I have before, a  rather sobering reality is slowly dawning. 

[The Edge]

Bottom line is if this or any government decides to spend a couple of billion to build a stadium for the benefit of one football club we should riot outside Parliament. They are mega rich owners of a multi billion pound organisation that is Man Utd. Not one penny of taxpayers money should be given to them under the guise of a "national stadium for the North" Radcliffe is a cheeky bastard for even having the gall to go to the government with a begging bowl when he's worth billions.

[IFWaters]

Are our owners worth more than Radcliffe? I do hope so.

[Stu82]

Bottom line is if this or any government decides to spend a couple of billion to build a stadium for the benefit of one football club we should riot outside Parliament. They are mega rich owners of a multi billion pound organisation that is Man Utd. Not one penny of taxpayers money should be given to them under the guise of a "national stadium for the North" Radcliffe is a cheeky bastard for even having the gall to go to the government with a begging bowl when he's worth billions.

You have Nailed it, the cheeky b*******.

[Percy McCarthy]

Are our owners worth more than Radcliffe? I do hope so.

Depends if you include Comcast, who through Atairos own 20%, and are worth around $200 billion. They also own Sky and it’s about time they put some editorial pressure on their football coverage IMO.