Is it slap bang in the town centre ? Seems a bit daft to me. An extra 25000 people trying to get into a town centre on a Saturday. I hope they've planned for plenty of parking. Free parking that is. For say, 10000 cars. Expect not.
And what happens when things turn nasty ? Millwall say ?? Luton introduced a ban on away fans due to the disturbance in 1985 iirc. Imagine thousands of hooligans having a good old punch up amongst all the shoppers.
All these out of town stadiums must be wrong then.
Yes they are. They might have been the solution in the 1990s, but not now. Sometimes clubs have no choice, if that's the only land, but in this case there's a large site in the centre available.
Most football fans hate out of town stadiums, stuck on some dreary retail park with nothing there, and it encourages car use. The new stadium will be a short walk from Luton station.
Colchester. Nothing near the ground, train into Colchester and then a bus service to the ground with a mix of home and away fans. Surely that’s more difficult to police than town centre fans.
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YouTube Stacey Dooley to get an opinion on somebody that was brought up there.
Bolton is horrible, hate St Mary's for its out of town blandness.
Still like a ground that's tied to the town/city its in, think Portman Road is great for a number of reasons, but it's link to the Town is important.
Yeah I'm over in Worthing so it's always dealing with the queueing system at Brighton to get out to the Amex that's an absolute pain.
Will agree with Southampton being pretty bad too.
No mate, but was there around '94, finished 0-0, that was on New Years Day if I'm not mistaken. That was chilly to say the least.