Is this going to happen? Rumoured to be true - https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/43906272 Personally, it is early days but maybe another sign of football continuing to sell its soul. What are your thought?
If it does go into private hands, it'll no longer be a national stadium. There is an argument that the Club Wembley area of seating already means that is the case.
There is a rumour going around that the owner of Fulham has put in a bid of one billion for it. Apparently he is interested in bringing an NFL franchise to London, a proviso of this being that the stadium would be unavailable for football matches because of the grid iron requirements of American football, from September, possibly until February. This is how far we have come Football internationals during this time would presumably be played at club grounds as our national sport plays second fiddle on its own sanctified ground. If not him then maybe a rich arab will step in and we can play host to countries like Germany in something called the Sheikh whatever stadium.....the Germans would piss themselves laughing. I sincerely hope that if something like this actually happens then the British sports fan will finally vote with his feet and boycott the whole thing, but I'm not holding my breath.
I thought everyone wanted England to go on the road rather than play at Wembley. It's bricks and mortar - couldn't care less quite frankly.
Another example that professional 'sport' is just about money in this era... Another way in which money can be made out of the masses... Sent from my G3121 using Tapatalk
I think these have to do with the zonal markings on the pitch which resemble a gridiron. These strange markings on our holy turf !! Wembley was, of course, partly paid for by public money - but, as always, the private sale of national assets will not be known for what it really is - theft.
The FA hasn't been about football for ages; probably before the Premier League started, but that when the Fiscal Acquisition really kickedin. As for the sop that the money would go to grass roots level football, it hasn't really before so why start now? There are gestures and plans, but has the national game really benefited from any of these schemes? I would say not. We are not sellling our souls..."Vauxhall Team England visit the Shahid Khan MacDonald's Enormodome behind Wembley Costco for the Coca Cola International soccer game against (any other nation here) proudly sponsored by Pizza Hut, terms and conditions apply"
I don't know if its a sound financial decision from the FA, but either way it just makes be rather sad. Yet another thing chipping away at the soul of English football.
I agree but think that the stadium itself has chipped away at the soul of English football. Always feel a yearning for the past when I visit.
I only went to two games at the old stadium, but she was a beauty and it gave me shivers down my spine going in. The new one I went once and it didn´t move me at all.
To a certain extent that's true about most of the old stadiums - they all had character, and were all different, but they are all now history. Places like the new Wembley, The Emirates, Etihad etc. etc. are all soulless places by comparison. I have a certain sympathy with older Arsenal fans who arrive at Arsenal tube station, turn their back on where the old Highbury used to be and have to go to the other place. With them playing at their library, Spurs at Wembley and Wet Spam also playing at a stadium which none of their fans identify with London really is in a sorry state.
Drove past the Brighton stadium Thursday which is very corporate, yet does have an atmosphere that the locals love. Maybe the fact that they were without a home for a number of years has helped.
I went to Huddersfield away this season, and the atmosphere was great despite being a stadium built in the 1990s. The crowd really make it there. I do think partly it is an age thing too. Will these new stadiums have more of an atmosphere and send a tingle up the spine once they have been around for a few decades and built some of their own history? Maybe, but a slick new stadium just doesn't feel part of the community in the same way to me, especially something like Highbury that emerges from the terraced streets. Its why I am pleased we never moved out of town, or even the old Wembley which just felt like camelot or something with those big towers.
