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FA Considering Selling Wembley

Grays_1890 said:
The Fa are missing one big thing here, once you sell your largest asset its a slippery slope, yeh they might get 500m off the bat, but once its sold its sold, that sit, no going back.
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Separating the team from the stadium tends to end in disaster too. Look at the issues it caused for Palace and Portsmouth for example. West Ham and Lincoln have bad experiences moving from landlords to tenants too.
 
Gutter Boy said:
Separating the team from the stadium tends to end in disaster too. Look at the issues it caused for Palace and Portsmouth for example. West Ham and Lincoln have bad experiences moving from landlords to tenants too.
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I think that it is a bit different with a national team and cannot be compared to clubs. There are plenty of countries where their FA does not own a national stadium and it works perfectly fine.
 
It's strange it's the right wing press most critical of it, when they otherwise advocate PFIs, privatisation and neo-liberalism. This is exactly the thing they want to happen to the NHS.

Late capitalism :rolleyes:
 
milo said:
At the least, it would be good to get the semi-finals away from Wembley to make the finals more special. England friendlies should be played around the country again too.
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It could be fun to set semi finals at the nearest league ground to the equidistant point between the stadium of the two clubs competing in the semi.

The Linton Travel Tavern rule.
 
Gutter Boy said:
It's strange it's the right wing press most critical of it, when they otherwise advocate PFIs, privatisation and neo-liberalism. This is exactly the thing they want to happen to the NHS.

Late capitalism :rolleyes:
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Yeah, but the NHS is an old dinosaur of an institution struggling to cope with the demands of a modern world that has changed since its inception whereas the FA and Wembley...

Ah.
 
Bedfordspurs said:
They paid £50m out (after the ground was built) for a special living seating option where it the seats one end move into why they called skews so that tier is flat for concerts
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OK.... I (sort of) get you. But I would imagine that trying to retrofit a way of sliding a whole pitch out of an existing stadium would be virtually impossible. Especially a stadium that doesn't have an ultra light, single tier, steel constructed end.
 
They wouldn't need a retractable pitch but they could dig down to give the NFL sightlines in the front rows. This would also increase the capacity for UEFA finals. For football they could even add a few rows of temporary seating, which could add a few thousand.
 
Bedfordspurs said:
They paid £50m out (after the ground was built) for a special living seating option where it the seats one end move into why they called skews so that tier is flat for concerts
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Where do you get your numbers from? I used to work there and it cost nothing like £50m. The accounts for the year are online so you can see they have never spent anything like that in capital since the stadium opened.

The business case was simply to create a recess so that the concert stage didn't have to sit on the pitch, and kill the grass. The plan was to hold more concerts in the autumn when the stadium needs to be turned around quicker, and didn't give time for the grass to grow back. Still didn't pay for itself as they've only held one autumn convert since it was installed.
 
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