New Fulham stand

[Undercoverinwurzelland]

I know clubs need to make money, but this is selling your soul isn't it?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/cx272pe5154o

[Rock_Flock_of_Five]

Re: New Fulham stand

Architect Phillip Johnson of the firm Populous explains: "Usually when you build a new stand you try to maximise the view of the pitch. The Riverside Stands switches the focus to the river.

And project director Glen Sutton said: "We thought way less about the average football experience. The design of this is much more similar to world-class hotels, cruise ships or restaurants than anything in football."


The 'working-class game' is losing touch with itself.

[the other bob wilson]

Re: New Fulham stand

I know clubs need to make money, but this is selling your soul isn't it?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football...s/cx272pe5154o

Load of bollox, but I bet they sell out their £3,000 season tickets.

Do they all need to sound so pleased with themselves?

Fulham used to be one of my favourite grounds, but not any more.

[bobh]

Re: New Fulham stand

Given that most of the football season is through Autumn and Winter, there's not going to much of a view on the Thames, nor will many want to have a dip in the rooftop pool.

[LA Bluebird]

Re: New Fulham stand

Who wouldn't want that view of a brown River Thames they show in the photos for a few grand a year, lovely. To be fair if they did that down City, the view of the car park might be better than the football on display.

[JamesWales]

Re: New Fulham stand

I went to watch City there, what 3 years ago, and the new stand (then unfinished) was just to put left. It's a nice looking stand, larger than it was, and I think utilising the space underneath stands for more than an hour and a half a fortnight is wholly a good thing. I also don't have a great issue with hospitality per se, but only if it was used to subsidise tickets at the other end of the scale..

..and that's the problem, it isn't. Football continues apace to become ever more sanitised, expensive, corporate, culturally bland and fails to increase social cohesion at all.

We've seen this in a few sectors - some pubs is a classic example - where places that used to unite and bring people together are just corporatised and actually reduce social cohesion, increase alienation and the like. Football in their expensive, controlled, cashless stadia are now less about bringing people together than ever. A ground like that is a place of exclusion not inclusion.

It could be so different - we only have to look to Germany, which is far from perfect, but much closer to it.

It's why I'm enjoying a renaissance in football culture in the non league (and Welsh, Scottish, N.Irish) scene as it feels far more real

[Pedro de la Rosa]

Re: New Fulham stand

I know clubs need to make money, but this is selling your soul isn't it?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football...s/cx272pe5154o

Every PL club are doing it. There's only 20k scousers in Anfield, for example. Man City supporters groups are in open protest about their owners. They've all sold out, they want the foreign fan. Season Tickets will be a thing of the past soon for the biggest clubs.