RUSHIE#9 wrote:ycsatbjywtbiastkamb wrote:hope it`s not a new stadium, no way i`d go to watch them at a new ground.
knocking down anfield would be cultural vandalism imo
We'd all love nothing better than to be able stay at Anfield but the reality is that old girl is coming to the end of her life span and we need some bigger diggs.
It would be great if FSG have found an economical way to rebuild and expand the ground, but we'll be facing 2-3 years of disruption at best and come the end of it we may only have 55k seats to show for it.
Cultural vandalism it may be but we have to move on.
what is 2 or 3 years of disruption in the grand scheme of things though mate? this club wouldnt even exist without anfield, it literally is this clubs raison d`etre, unlike in most scenario`s where the club is formed and they then go and aquire a ground john houlding had a ground but no team so he created one, if anfield didnt exist neither would LFC.
anfield is one of only 2 remaining grounds that hosted a game on the first ever saturday of league football (8th september 1888), the other one is preston`s deepdale, competative football had been played at anfield for nearly half a century before even the original wembley was built in 1923, none of the `cathedrals` of football like the maracana or the nou camp or where ever go back anywhere near as far as anfield.
speaking of cathedrals there`s another reason the ground should be preserved and that is because it is not just a mass of iron and concrete it is a working class church, people have been married there and people have chosen anfield as their final resting place, countless people have had their ashes spread onto the pitch because it meant that much to them, including bill shankly.
it`s like when they knocked the original cavern down, any other city in the world could only dream about landmarks like that within their city boundaries but our council just hasnt got a clue sometimes, look how important music and sport are culturally right across the world, what would most cities give to be the home of the beatles and the home of one of the most iconic stadiums in the world? people who live tens of thousands of miles away dream about visiting a unremarkable looking building situated in working class district of a gritty seaport on the irish sea, they get tears in their eyes when they think about it, when you have something as emotive and powerful as that you dont knock it down, you build on it.
you`d think they would have learned after the cavern debacle, they built a new one and dont advertise the fact that its not in the same place as the original but saying that a few years later they nearly knocked the albert dock down to make way for that blue water shopping arcade or whatever it was called, the biggest collection of grade I listed buildings anywhere in the country was nearly flattened, not even in the area around the houses of parliament in london is so many grade I listed buildings in one area, the UN declared it a world heratige site and yet our council nearly sent the bulldozers in.
thank god the city had people like quentin hughes fighting it`s corner back then.
as i said mate to knock something so historic down that has meant so much to so many people over so many years and replace it with a corporate whopperdome who`s raison d`etre will be to shift as many hot dogs, beers, t-shirts and betting slips onto day trippers as possible will be an act of cultural vandalism in my eyes.