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  • Stadium MK has a 30500 capacity. I didn't know that and find it completely mind boggling.

    What's their average gate, 7000??? 
  • Gribbo said:
    Stadium MK has a 30500 capacity. I didn't know that and find it completely mind boggling.

    What's their average gate, 7000??? 
    Was part of our failed 2018 World Cup bid. Completely wasted on MK Dons though, particularly as part of their justification for stealing Wimbledon's place in the league was that Wimbledon's gates weren't sustainable. 
  • Gribbo said:
    Stadium MK has a 30500 capacity. I didn't know that and find it completely mind boggling.

    What's their average gate, 7000??? 
    Says it all that the record crowd there is for a rugby match. It's rarely ever even a third full for their games.

    The funny thing though is that "there is the option to increase the capacity of the stadium to 45,000 with the addition of a third tier, hence the high roof". Somehow i think that might never happen.
  • edited July 14
    I think the ground is a bit of an enigma. It's a great ground in terms of architecture, ease of access and good amenities. As far as I know it's unique in English football, being a bowl that you walk down into rather than a structure you have to climb up. And yet there's a huge 'but': it's completely soulless. Maybe that's just because it's always empty, but I don't think that's the whole story. There are plenty of non-league grounds that are also empty, but have far more soul than the MK Bowl. Maybe it just mirrors its hometown and the new town thing more generally; no sense of history, little sense of community. 
  • The father of Steve Gerrard’s grandchild is called Leaburn. Sorry, Lee Byrne. And he’s an Irish gangster.

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-14907349/Steven-Gerrard-grandfather-daughter-Lilly-welcomes-baby-girl-lrish-gangsters-son.html
  • Been reading a book on the history of Blackburn Rovers which has a lot about the 1987 Full Members Cup final in it.  The club was founded in 1875, and the fact that caught my eye was this - the club once raffled a house, in 1886 when cash was short they sold thousands of tickets at 6d each (2 and a half pence) for a first prize of the "Rovers cottage" valued at £140
  • Palace will come back saying they raffled a stone age man's cave in 100bc.
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  • iaitch said:
    Palace will come back saying they raffled a stone age man's cave in 100bc.
    And still use it as the away in in their shitty stadium
  • Kyle Hudlin the world's tallest outfield player at 6 foot 9 has just joined the Vietnamese champions. The average height in Vietnam for men is 5 foot 4.7 inches, one of the smallest nations in the world.

    Hudlin was released by Huddersfield in the summer after being on loan at Newport last season.
  • edited July 22
    Darren Anderton's last five England caps were given to him by five different managers.

    According to Wikipedia these were:

    vs Czech Republic (18 November 1998) by Glenn Hoddle
    vs France (10 February 1999) by Howard Wilkinson
    vs France (2 September 2000) by Kevin Keegan
    vs Italy (15 November 2000) by Peter Taylor
    vs Sweden (10 November 2001) by Sven-Göran Eriksson.
  • Scoham said:
    I'd imagine shirts with his name on will be fairly popular there.
  • Stig said:
    I think the ground is a bit of an enigma. It's a great ground in terms of architecture, ease of access and good amenities. As far as I know it's unique in English football, being a bowl that you walk down into rather than a structure you have to climb up. And yet there's a huge 'but': it's completely soulless. Maybe that's just because it's always empty, but I don't think that's the whole story. There are plenty of non-league grounds that are also empty, but have far more soul than the MK Bowl. Maybe it just mirrors its hometown and the new town thing more generally; no sense of history, little sense of community. 
    Is this on the site where there were concerts in the '80s.  I know I went to MK Bowl around 1981 to see The Police and Squeeze but it was a field, not a structure.
  • Stig said:
    I think the ground is a bit of an enigma. It's a great ground in terms of architecture, ease of access and good amenities. As far as I know it's unique in English football, being a bowl that you walk down into rather than a structure you have to climb up. And yet there's a huge 'but': it's completely soulless. Maybe that's just because it's always empty, but I don't think that's the whole story. There are plenty of non-league grounds that are also empty, but have far more soul than the MK Bowl. Maybe it just mirrors its hometown and the new town thing more generally; no sense of history, little sense of community. 
    Is this on the site where there were concerts in the '80s.  I know I went to MK Bowl around 1981 to see The Police and Squeeze but it was a field, not a structure.
    No, the Bowl that hosts the concerts is a mile or so west of the football ground.
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