No old trafford or emirates in the bid.
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Tottenham Hotspur Stadium - Licence To Stand
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No old trafford or emirates in the bid.
Gutter Boy
Tim Sherwood
Have you been to either recently? One leaks and the other is about as charming as a Milton Keynes car park
Anfield being passed over for the unbuilt Everton one is more significant I think
I know the history why, but it's interesting the Irish still wont use Croke Park for 'English sports', seeing as it's the 3rd biggest stadium in Europe.
Lemonade Money
Les Medley
£££ to us that doesn't go elsewhere. Pretty obvious they are the two, but that's down to how good Levy made the stadium, as it was always going to be Wembley+1.
Croker has been used for rugby and football before. Aviva is the football stadium so naturally it's going to be used first.
Chrissivad
Chris Armstrong
Old Trafford is on the stand by last.
I thought one of the issues with us getting this was with any stadium deal.
Will the Etihad and AVIVA stadiums change to Emirates Marketing Project and Dublin stadium doring the euros (if we get it)?
DeanoAustin
Rafael Van Der Vaart
Yeah, I assumed originally that the GAA blocked it but seems like the FAI went for the Aviva as there's only one stadium in Dublin being used. Makes sense they would use the Aviva to be fair.
Gutter Boy
Tim Sherwood
Only with a lot of complaints, temporarily when Landsdown Road was being redeveloped.
Croke Park is 83k, Landsdown is only 50k.
Gutter Boy
Tim Sherwood
Yes - already happened:
"Tottenham Hotspur Stadium is the third largest stadium to be named in the bid, alongside Wembley Stadium (London), the National Stadium of Wales (Cardiff), City of Manchester Stadium (Manchester), the new Everton Stadium (Liverpool), St James’ Park (Saudi Sportswashing Machine), Villa Park (Birmingham), Hampden Park (Glasgow), Dublin Arena (Dublin), and Casement Park (Belfast)"
Gutter Boy
Tim Sherwood
The Belfast stadium is going to need a lick of paint: https://i2-prod.belfastlive.co.uk/s...ce/ALTERNATES/s810/0_Casement-Park-005_JK.jpg
It wasn't a lot of complaints, it was a vocal few and a few old hardliners. The vast majority wanted it to be opened and used by the FAI and Rugby while the redeveloping went on. Plus the government contributed to the redevelopment of Croker so they had pressure from there too.
The capacity doesn't make a difference, it would be like the FA opting to use Twickenham instead of Wembley. Aviva is the home of football (and rugby) in Ireland so they are going to use that, plus they'd have to pay the GAA to use Croker.
It's being redeveloped and it's a GAA stadium (home ground of Antrim) which the GAA has agreed could be used, so again it shows that the GAA isn't opposed to their stadiums being used, just show the cash.
Gutter Boy
Tim Sherwood
I thought the Croke Park prohibition was specifically Bloody Sunday related, rather than a general gaelic sport protection thing?
No, it's nothing to do with Bloody Sunday. There was/is a rule that bans all non-GAA sports from being played on GAA-owned grounds.
The rule was changed for Croke Park only so that the GAA central council could vote to allow non-GAA sports to be played while Lansdowne Rd/Aviva was redeveloped.
It was supposed to revert back after that but it never did. I don't know the current status of the rule but clubs with smaller grounds have been ignoring it for years to earn money.
Casemont wouldn't be allowed to be used under the old rule so there must be some change. Funny enough it was the Ulster teams that opposed the rule change but Casement is now being used.
Permission was given for Croker to be used as well: GAA approves Croke Park and Casement Park inclusion in Euro 2028 bid - Independent.ie
Glenda's Legs
Paul Walsh
[Cue outrage]
markysimmo
Johnny nice-tits
££££££££££££££, COYS, Daniel
Chrissivad
Chris Armstrong
yeah, fudge Daniel
We dont want the extra cash, but we want the cash for new players...
We dont want the extra cash, but we want the cash for new players...
ShipOfTheseus
Clint Dempsey
Which pitch do the egg chasers get, the NFL one or the lovingly tended turf? Looks like the latter from the photo but it may vary.
Finney Is Back
Andy Thompson
As it is post season with time to recover then I guess it might be the turf.
Bedfordspurs
Chris Waddle
They get the plastic when they played before