It wasn't planned, they grew organically. The population of Britain has grown, but the proportion attending football matches hasn't, for various reasons, a lot of it associated with Sky and its different affects on the game.
On a related subject, in Manchester, where the Combined Authority was established a couple of years back, guess what is happening this year? Manchester City Council has announced its highest council tax rises since 1990.
Horses for courses, we got behind Burton once or twice in the first half, once with a nice through ball from Maddison and once with one from Lameiras.
Lameiras was doing ok I thought.
Then again the pitch cut up a bit and the ball was bobbling around at times. The pitch is going to be a complete state for the run in, it's in a worst state than last season nearly.
The usual absolute drivel being spoken here. Burton hardly won at a canter. They won as the result of defensive errors. Thought Mowbray got the changes wrong.
He got sucked towards the ball as he often does. Like others have mentioned Bigi would have helped if holding a lead, another body to crowd out the midfield.
The Ricoh staged big concerts a few years ago and Olympic events. The company running it still struggled to turn a profit, if you took the club's rent away they didn't make any.
Now, are the events for the coming year on the same level as Take That or Oasis? Maybe, it isn't really showing...
MMM, remember him? The head of the 6th form debating society. He reckoned they'd modelled the budget on pretty low crowds. However, I am not sure if they initially intended on issuing bonds to pay back the council loan or not. If they didn't then it's a hell of a debt to pay.