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  • buffybegoodbuffybegood
    Must admit I was appalled when I read this; the home of English football prioritising a non-football event over the traditional curtain-raiser of the football season.
  • ASLEFshruggedASLEFshrugged
    Its not really their fault, the dates were announced in April last year although the booking must have been taken many months before that. Initially it was just the Saturday and Sunday but now its a five day residency

    The Premier League didn't announce it would be starting a week late until November although again you'd imagine they'd been discussing it long before that

    I'm not "home with the downies" so not familiar with The Weeknd or his oeuvre but obviously he's rather popular...
  • alderzalderz
    ASLEFshrugged said:

    The Community Shield will be played in Cardiff

    Apparently because the World Cup final isn't until the 19th July they've moved the Premier League start date back to the 3rd weekend in August instead of the 2nd weekend and Wembley is booked for a concert on the 2nd weekend

    You have to smile...

    Such a stupid story. On the plus side, at least they've picked Cardiff instead of globetrotting like you know La Liga or Serie A would.
  • IronHerbIronHerb
    So when we play Arsenal London has to decamp to Cardiff. Great!
  • claretandblueskyclaretandbluesky
    They also haven't factored in that few Arsenal fans will have stopped laughing enough by then to board the train if Spurs happen to go down.
  • IronHerbIronHerb
    Leeds cup tie- temporarily Sold Out subject to tickets being released by stakeholders.

    Good show.
  • ASLEFshruggedASLEFshrugged
    The only time I went to Cardiff for a final was the Preston play off and it was brilliant

    Unlike Wembley you’ve got pubs staggering distance from the stadium and the station back to London

    And if you fall asleep on the train back you get woken up at Paddington not Shoeburyness
  • MrsGreyMrsGrey
    https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/mar/24/west-ham-world-athletics-championships-sebastian-coe-london

    Should we vacate the stadium during the season so it can be used for athletics championships?

    I don't see why we should.
  • buffybegoodbuffybegood
    edited March 24
    Can't view that particular article, but if it's about bidding for the 2029 World Athletics Championships then I'm sure we discussed it here recently. I said we should play hardball; let them use it for that one last time as long as they give up having any future events at the stadium (one fewer long term issue with eventually improving the stadium for football use).

    If we can't get that, then there's nothing in it for us so no, refuse to agree to playing away for the first goodness knows how many games of the season (will be more if we're in the Championship or lower at that point).
  • ASLEFshruggedASLEFshrugged
    I said there's no way UK Athletics are going to agree to leave and its unlikely that the Mayor of London/GLA would agree to it either, they want as many events as possible

    We should agree to play away for the first three games or whatever but ask for compensation; if reports are accurate we need the cash as much as the London Stadium!

    The stadium is never, ever going to be right for football, we moved into an athletics stadium and we're stuck with it
  • MrsGreyMrsGrey
    buffybegood said:

    Can't view that particular article, but if it's about bidding for the 2029 World Athletics Championships then I'm sure we discussed it here recently

    Sorry to have reopened a can of worms. I hadn't registered the earlier discussion.

    Also, not sure why you can't see the article as the Guardian doesn't have a paywall.
  • ASLEFshruggedASLEFshrugged
    MrsGrey said:

    Also, not sure why you can't see the article as the Guardian doesn't have a paywall.

    Maybe Buffy refuses to read the Guardian for stylistic reasons; Barney Ronay can be tediously pretentious...
  • buffybegoodbuffybegood
    MrsGrey said:

    buffybegood said:

    Can't view that particular article, but if it's about bidding for the 2029 World Athletics Championships then I'm sure we discussed it here recently

    Sorry to have reopened a can of worms. I hadn't registered the earlier discussion.

    Also, not sure why you can't see the article as the Guardian doesn't have a paywall.
    It insists on accepting all their cookies I believe, it's not readable unless you do.
  • FortuneseekerFortuneseeker
    buffy, I like cookies, the more the merrier, especially the ones with dark chocolate in. =)
  • ASLEFshruggedASLEFshrugged

  • ASLEFshruggedASLEFshrugged
    Or for those of us slighlty older...


  • SlackerSlacker
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/cm2k3jdylp1o
    S’pose that’s what happens when you’ve got more money than sense.🤷🏻‍♂️
  • chicagohammerchicagohammer
    Complete change of subject….i am watching the preparations for the Artemis moon launch later this evening. They were just going over the technology involved and I just cannot imagine what it must have been like for the Apollo boys.

    Truly amazing stuff.

    One of my most vivid memories as a very excited 8 year old was being woken up in the middle of the night to watch the original landing.

    I recall walking into the garden with my dad and looking up at the moon and I absolutely had an Airfix kit of the Saturn 5 rocket….happy days
  • thornburyironthornburyiron
    Amazing eyesight Chicago if you could watch the landing from your garden. I had to watch it on the tele.
  • MrsGreyMrsGrey
    I've got it on in the background as well.

    I have a vague memory of the first Apollo landing but I was a tiny kid so really not a very clear memory. Just really remembering the sense is extraordinary events and a landmark achievement. But it must have grabbed my imagination somehow because for a long time in my early life I thought I could be an astronaut when I grew up 😬 😂 . (That was before I decided to be an archeologist.)

    Am trying to stay up for tonight's launch but have been under the weather and so may not stick it for the long haul. #toofeeble

    But there is something truly inspiring and amazing about it all 🤩
  • MrsGreyMrsGrey
    Re. Artemis stuff.

    I've got the BBC live coverage and I have to say it's all a bit amateur 😂. Patchy quality. Seems a bit dumbing down, certainly on the part of the BBC folks. Specialists seem quite savvy and able to explain things clearly to a non-specialist audience.
  • KuchinghammerKuchinghammer
    I remember the moon landing. Nixon invaded Cambodia the next day after promising to end the Vietnam war. Trump and Cuba??
  • ASLEFshruggedASLEFshrugged
    Trump is happy to send planes and missiles but he won't risk troops on the ground

    Bondi sacked, Noem sacked, Hegseth next?
  • SlackerSlacker
    I’ve just read that Freddie Sears is 36.
    I think my chance might have gone.😳⚒️
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