Mr AV's been at it again [the date's just a mistake]. Sensational footage, as always. It's a shame that he didn't capture more of the lower parts of the East Stand, as that's the 'dark side' of this particular 'moon' and his shots of it are usually, truly excellent.
A rather strangely timed piece from The Washington Post, dated today... The NFL’s experiment with regular season games played in England will continue in 2018, with three October contests to be played at Wembley Stadium and Tottenham Hotspur’s new arena in North London. Sadiq Khan, London’s mayor, doesn’t seem satisfied with that. “My ambition is to have more American football games in London and ultimately for there to be a franchise and, dare I say it, even the Super Bowl,” Khan said in an interview with Talksport. Tottenham Hotspur’s 62,000-seat stadium, scheduled to open in August, is being built with facilities that are directly designed to support American football, with locker rooms constructed to fit U.S. teams and an artificial-turf field underneath the stadium’s retractable natural-grass pitch. The NFL contributed $13.3 million toward its nearly $600 million construction cost, according to Sports Illustrated. If any team were to relocate to England, it would seemingly play its home games there. “Obviously once Spurs open up their stadium that will give us the potential to have more games there but I’m ambitious — the idea is to have eight games in London eventually, which is the number a franchise team plays and then who knows, maybe one day the Super Bowl,” Khan said. The obstacles to both would be numerous. For one, there doesn’t seem to be an NFL team that’s in danger of relocating at the moment, especially to an area of the globe that would present such logistical challenges. For another, television networks would be loath to move the Super Bowl kickoff any earlier than its 6:30 Eastern start time, which would mean the game would get going at 11:30 p.m. local time in England. But the NFL seems committed to making American football work in London, with a deal in place to play regular season games Odd because this relates back too comments from months ago by the Mayor, with nothing new contained within it and appears to be merely the opinion of the author. Also, it flies directly in the face of the NFL's stated intent regarding foreign franchises, particularly one in London. Maybe this American or the Post's owner owed the Standard's Russian owner a favour? There's a lot of it about, you know.
If Khan wants American gridiron so much he should leave the country and take out American citizenship (if Trump let's him in!) Question:- If gridiron is called football,football is called soccer,socking someone is called boxing....what do they call box making?
The Japanese love rugby. They spent years looking for Japanese players who were 6' 5" or so, only for the rest of the world to be fielding locks who are 6' 10" plus. Nowadays, everyone recruits players from countries that they've been in for 5 minutes. I can't imagine what the point of international sport is when most players come from a country other than the one that they represent?...............Oh yeah, I remember, it's money.
I forgot about the Japanese.I was thinking of Indians and Pakistanis.I though they lived for cricket only...and maybe polo?
A couple of days ago, a long time and reliable, sensible poster on SSC, said that there had been a meeting of senior partners in the stadium build because there was considerable concern regarding meeting a completion date to enable fixtures to be played after the international break in September. It was suggested that a senior employee of MACE, known to the poster, had indicated that Daniel Levy was prepared to include forfeiting a fixture or more as a possible option amongst a number of other potential options. This speculation set the site ablaze, as one would expect. Since then, even greater scrutiny has been applied to the pace of progress. If there's a potential to affect the performance of the football team, one might expect the pace to increase significantly, in order that any delay to comletion would be minimised. Today's activity suggests otherwise. There are a few cherry pickers working on the West Stand entrance glazing, 3 blokes putting in seats on the East Stand and a couple walking around the pitch area. There's no sign of any activity to the external parts of the East Stand, at all. No doubt, there's works going on internally but today looks like a Bank Holiday on site. So, either everything's fine and the news was fake or we've got a very cunning plan...
A bit concerning Brian, but you would of thought that since the unforseen snowstorm event that more things would have been put into overdrive. Perhaps we're hoping for more than we can see, and as you say plenty is going on internally. Now the roof cabling is in place perhaps we will see an acceleration of work inside the stadium. area. Certainly the prep for the artificial turf for the NFL seems to be going on quite fast.
In this time lapse footage [March - 2:24] of the construction of the Wanda Metropolitano, things look no further forward than NWHL and possibly a little behind us? I'm going with it still being on course but I'd like things to be moving just a tad faster...please?
Even with 24x7 you cannot make up for lost time. I am going for an official opening on the first PL fixture round in September (they need a good 4+ weeks to get the operational teething problems done and dusted before that NFL game the following month) .
As long as it's only the hot water not ready in the away teams dressing room, that can wait for two or three seasons.
