https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/65245224 10 stadiums picked, 2 still to be built, but The Sol cut from the first list of 14.
Pretty ****. So, 10 grounds for this 32 team tournament, yet we used 8 in Euro 96 for a 16 team tournament. So now only using 2 more for a tournament twice the size? I'd have thought that all 14 initial stadiums would stand a chance, maybe extra ones in London and Glasgow dropping out, but balanced out by a couple more from Wales, Scotland and Northern and East Midlands England.
I laughed at ‘state of the art’ and st james park in the same sentence…. It is theFA, so appalling standards true to form
The stadium is pretty good. It already has loads of corporate facilities, and by 2028, it'll probably have a 65,000 capacity. The city IMO is the trump card though. It did a great job for the rugby.
Surely even we can admit St James’ is a better option than the SoL for an international tournament? We joke about airports. But hotels, transport access, capacity etc. and like it or not it’s a more famous city and a premier league ground. It’s not like the SoL is in an amazing state anyway is it? At least it wasn’t last time I got up.
I don’t think Newcastle’s ground is better than ours but as has already been said the city is far superior to Sunderland in every way.
Haway man, would someone from Sunderland admit this? You a Durham lad like? Noticed the original post has received a few skunk likes and mentioned on their thread re the grounds chosen...
I never slagged Sunderland. I stated Newcastle is the better city. It clearly is. I'm from Tyneside, moved to Durham, currently staying in Liverpool.
How exactly are they going to put 15,000 seats on top of what is there now? Perhaps they will bribe The Secretary of State and knock down Leazes Terrace? Or, maybe build them up to the sky on top of what is already too high, on the main stand and the higher one behind the goal, both of which by the way, are displaying early signs of concrete cancer? I couldn't give much of a toss mesell mind. The North East will get backwater games, with maybe one decent one among them. Nor do I think that the SOL is anything out of this world either, though if an expansion was needed for the Euros, which it emphatically is not, then it is far more suited.
I think the deal might be done mind, and is probably why we were " asked" to pull out of the World Cup 2030 bid.
Well the Mags are getting everything else their own way, so why should this be any different? Nice lumper for the city aswell, plenty investment to get the place "Ready". Nothing but good news for Newcastle. Let them get on with it.
Being picked as a ground for the euros would've gave us that investment to tart the place up. I'm sure the trillionaires up the road can put that euro money in the draw for a rainy day.
