I have a video of bryan(the great stadium robber)richardson talking this great new stadium with a retrackable pitch and we will own all of it !!!!!!!!!!
What a load of bollocks
Lets me find the dvd it's on,hopefully i'll get it on tonight
Now we have ended up with a retractable team who have pulled completely out of the stadium!
The magazine promo they released for the Arena 2000? I had one but not sure what happened to it...
Interesting link:
http://thefootballattic.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/things-that-dreams-are-made-of-arena.html
How far we have come, even if it was a pipe dream.
There were two editions, I have both of them in the loft... it was like flicking through a top shelf magazine getting all excited at the thought but then in reality had to settle for something a little less sexy!!!
It's pretty telling to me that if you look at all the stuff that stadium was going to have that even when a big club like Arsenal with plenty of money were building the Emirates, they didn't go for any of that crap. It was extravagance for extravagance sake, and would have been an even more gigantic waste of money. It's a really good indicator of just how insane BR was, even Abramovich and Mansour don't spend like that!
Was it originally planned to be built by 2000 or was the name just to sound futuristic? I'd guess the latter, what with the plans to have stewards wear silver and for the pies to be in pill form.
PS: If you think thats crazy, you should've seen some of the plans for the lower precinct.
I think it was meant to be a retractable roof not pitch lol
It was both I think!
I actually think the original proposal was a good one - the versatility of a retractable pitch and roof would have opened up all sorts of commercial opportunities not available at any other venue in the country (and that is still the case).
BR did a lot of damage to this club, and he was paid a nice salary while at the helm. I do believe that he genuinely wanted the best for the club though and that his mistakes were were honest enough - and I don't think he had another agenda. He was a gambler and a dreamer and it might have all paid off had we not been relegated when we were. Still paying the price for all that I suppose.
What a load of bollocks all the "BR's heart was in the right place" nonsense is. He wasn't a "dreamer", he was as careless with CCFC as SISU have been. We are homeless and a lot of the blame can be laid at his door. BR's greed got the better of him. I don't remember many fans who wanted to leave HR.
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