Wembley Stadium or The Millennium Stadium?

Salad

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/rugby/rugby_league/article2340341.ece

The new Wembley is stunning, sweeping and gigantic. Great seats, 12,000 more of them than in Cardiff. Wembley is a base about which England football can be proud. It dominates the skyline for miles whereas the Millennium is stuck behind a forest of unattractive Cardiff skyscrapers.
But yes! The Millennium wins – it is in the City Centre, not a distant suburb. But its other advantage outweighs all those of Wembley. Intimacy. It is gigantic, majestic, and yet the design brings you close to the action, and makes you feel more involved. You can touch the players.

Anyone been to both?

Rothko

Wembley, easily

Shag

Yeah I've been to both , Wembley all day long

The other one is in Wales

Rothko

Stephen Jones is also a Rugby Union hack

Salad

PS Interesting to note that Wembley cost £750M, the Millennium Stadium cost £190M.

Rothko

Yeah, and interesting to note that Wembley has 3 times the floor space of the Millennium, 12,000 more seats, and better facilities through out. The Actual Build cost of Wembley was £352m

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[cite]Posted By: Rothko[/cite]Yeah, and interesting to note that Wembley has 3 times the floor space of the Millennium, 12,000 more seats, and better facilities through out. The Actual Build cost of Wembley was £390m

plus it is not a city populated by sheep shaggers

Rothko

Also the Millennium stadium came in over budget, and ended up John Laing having to cut a couple of thousand jobs due to the cost overruns

pete_tong1

Wembley inside is stunning outside it looks crap personally compared to the Stade de France, Millenium.

Ledge

Never been millenium but i would still say wembley

Salad

didn't mean to get into a slanging match but Laing lost £45M and cut 850 jobs, Multiplex lost £145M on Wembley and it was 2yrs late. Wembley actually cost more than the Millennium, Stade de France and Stadium Australia combined!

Wembley is obviously a wonderful stadium, built at a huge cost.

Rothko

If you throw all the project costs in Wembley did cost more, but Stadium Australia and Stade de France were built on available brown field land which didn't need any demolition on it, the Millennium was built on land owned already by the client.

Cheaper projects, not half as good a stadiums.

Wembley is the nuts

eeladdick

so wot ,its the best stadium in the world
thats why every one had to wait
it was built to last

Mortain

A day out at the mellenium with your club is fantastic.
Not comparing stadiums, but i don't think the buzz on the streets & the many pubs of cardiff pre/post game could be beaten.

Steve Dowman

good point, nothing around wembley to match being in the centre of cardiff.

KBslittlesis

Been to both & Millenium all day long & then again on Fridays.

Probably because it is right in the centre and we usually make a weekend of it.

After winning with the mighty Saints on Saturday at Wembley, we got a train straight home..............not the same at all.