According to a well-known expression, Rome's emperor at the time, the decadent and unpopular Nero, “fiddled while Rome burned.” The expression has a double meaning: Not only did Nero play music while his people suffered, but he was an ineffectual leader in a time of crisis.
BP (?) or was it the KC was once described in a (national / regional) newspaper article as the Theatre of Hate (does anyone still have a copy?) eschewing all the feelings of an old fashioned football stadium away from the sterile atmosphere of many clubs and stadia...
