Thankyou for showing a little more respect as I'm certainly not an idiot... As you still havn't answered my question, I will ask it once again. Why would anybody call your stadium anything other than its true name? Here are some examples of clubs that have changed their name too... Why would anybody call Bolton's home Burnden Park when the name of the stadium is the Reebok Stadium? Why would anybody call Stoke's home Victoria Ground when the name of the stadium is the Britannia Stadium? Why would anybody call Coventry's home Victoria Ground when the name of the stadium is the Ricoh Arena? Why would anybody call Leicester City's home Filbert Street when the name of the stadium is the King Power Stadium?
I'll call it the "sports direct arena" because that's now what it's called, as i will call our stadium the "umbro stadium" if that's what safc decide to call it. In my opinion it's no big deal if it's going to generate revenue, therefor helping the club to compete at the highest possible level
The children that are being born today will associate the club with the Sports Direct Arena... no matter how much their parents try and brainwash them into calling it st james park. It's a done deal.
So perhaps you might provide a DIRECT answer to this question.... Why do you think that your club is any more special than Stoke, Leicester, Bolton or Coventry? Bolton fans call their stadium the Reebok stadium because that is the true name of the stadium. 5 Live call Boltons stadium the Reebok stadium whenever they make reference to the game of football that is being played at their ground. The same applies to the other clubs I've mentioned so why should your club be any different? What rules of identification are different when applied to newcastle as opposed to any other club?
Would you like to know about Stanley Mortensen's hat-trick for Blackpool in the '53 final, Charlie Wayman's 'offside' goal for Preston in the '54 final, Bert Trautmann's broken neck in the '56 final, or the first club ever to lose two successive finals in '57 and '58, or the time when an ex-Sunderland left back marked an ex-Sunderland right winger in the '59 final?
Britannia Stadium - Opened in 1997 with the name Reebok Stadium - Opened in 1997 with the name King Power Stadium - Opened in 2002 as the Walkers Stadium Ricoh Stadium - Opened in 2005 with the name St James' Park - Opened in 1892 with the name St James' Park, which has been held for 119 years throughout the ENTIRE history of Newcastle United Football Club. I'd say the heritage, history and meaning of the name is a little different, wouldn't you?
Are you saying that you would prefer to move stadium? Why spend money when you can maximise potential with minimal investment? In terms of the bigger picture... this is what football has become in this modern climate of who can splash the most cash and as fans we have one of two options. Move with the times and embrace the modern game or reject it and start to watch cricket.
This is a fair and sensible answer to the original question by "Pie Dodger". I certainly would have been aggrivated if Sunderland had changed the name of Roker Park just as Chappaz is about St James Park. In answer to your question Chappaz it will always be St James Park to me, it was where I saw my second First Division game, the first one of course was at Roker Park.
Chaparse, Ill probably call it "Mike Ashley Doing A Great Job of ****ting On Geordie History for A Quick Buck Arena"
whatever you will cringe when you hear it on sky sports LETS GO STRIGHT OVER TO THE SPORTSDIRECT ARENA look you have set me off laughing again
My name is 'clockstand pie dodger'. I spent my childhood dodging meat pies that were thrown around in the air everytime there was a dodgy decision by a ref at Roker Park, in the clockstand paddocks, something which occured quite frequently if you stood in the paddocks. All part of the fun of an old skool matchday atmosphere. Mind you, I would have thrown some myself if I had a few spare pennies to buy them!
