This is so very true.
We all know about the running track, the distance of the stands from the pitch etc, we've seen it on TV.
But actually being there, the distance is HUGE. From the tunnel and dug-outs to the pitch the gap is enormous. Even more so than it looks on TV.
And everything does look temporary. Of course that's because all the Spam stuff has to be taken down for other events, but it just looks like it has been done on the cheap. Which I guess is the case.
I stopped off at my local on the way home on Wednesday night and was speaking with some Spam fans I know in there. Or rather I listened as they bemoaned how terrible the team was, how there's no effort being shown, how spurs U-11s would have put up a better fight than their first team etc. and inevitably the conversation moved onto the stadium, and how they long for a new rich owner to buy the club and negotiate to knock down the stadium and build from scratch. (Quite who this would be is another matter).
My long-winded point being that another couple of bad results and there will be more trouble from the fans, more protests, more pitch invasions (which will surely have to be dealt with by the authorities this time around).
Popcorn time!