Wembley Stadium, Would you sell ?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/43906272
So an offer of 800m to the FA has been made to sell Wembley Stadium to Shadiq Khan owner of Fulham and Jacksonville Jaguars. Would you sell ?
I would actually sell it just so the England team can go back to playing all over the country than just one location, but then again the 800 million will just go back into the pockets of the rich FA Mob who will do nothing with it to help Grass Roots so a part of me thinks why bother selling it.
It could also help further the use of the London Stadium which I imagine would become a "De-Facto" stadium to host concerts and so fourth, which is what it is definitely better for than football !
So an offer of 800m to the FA has been made to sell Wembley Stadium to Shadiq Khan owner of Fulham and Jacksonville Jaguars. Would you sell ?
I would actually sell it just so the England team can go back to playing all over the country than just one location, but then again the 800 million will just go back into the pockets of the rich FA Mob who will do nothing with it to help Grass Roots so a part of me thinks why bother selling it.
It could also help further the use of the London Stadium which I imagine would become a "De-Facto" stadium to host concerts and so fourth, which is what it is definitely better for than football !
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I like the idea of moving round England the country and the FA could book it for FA cup final day.
It would also be funny as Spurs have spent a lot of money to have a retractable pitch built so they can host NFL games...
If the FA did sell Wembley then why would "concerts and so forth" be more likely to play at the London Stadium?
Germany, Italy, Morocco, Holland, Spain and the USA are the only countries that don't have national stadiums for football although Portugal and South Africa do move around a bit.
Between 1923 and 1951 England used Wembley primarily for games against Scotland but in the following 50 years only ten games were played at other venues.
;lol
Also "iconic"? The twin towers were iconic, the name Wembley is iconic, the new stadium is not. There should be a law that nothing less than 50 years old should be labelled "iconic" on pain of death
Home of the England football team
Cup finals
The odd champion league final
POS World Cup final
Nope
The new stadium is okay, but it doesn’t have a patch on the old one, so many memories, I couldn’t care less what they did with it, FA have ruined so many traditions for the lure of the pound note
And being homeless
West Ham
I've been told that the plan is for the team to stay in Florida for most of the season, they'll keep their training camp out there, fly to London for the eight weekends they play "home" games and fly back. That way the players won't be subject to UK taxes as they'll be "resident" in the UK for less than 91 days per year.
Of course if the London "franchise" isn't the big success they are hoping for then the owner could move the team somewhere else after a few years. San Diego and St Louis are currently without teams as both the Chargers and the Rams have moved to Los Angeles. From 1995 until 2016 LA didn't have an NFL team, now its got two.
Makes the move to the Olympic Stadium look quite tame
The NFL teams only play 16 games in a season, 8 home and 8 away, before they go into the "playoffs" so the 8 London games will be the entire season unless they get through to the playoffs in which case they won't play more than one or two extra games. To win the Super Bowl the most any team will play is 20 games.
But then with stoppages and breaks between quarters a game can take 3-4 hours. Thankfully you can still get a beer at American football, not sure how you'd last without one....
You had me at 'I just don't trust the FA'...
Theres enough problems with club v country.
I know let’s in Wales, m’ stadium