The Globe Arena
We featured the new stadium under construction for Morecambe F.C. in England a while ago, and here’s a great shot of construction progress as of early 2010.
Photo credit: campdavemorecambe on Flickr, via the Pitch Invasion Photo Pool.
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Great! Another bland corporate-fest stadium. Another piece of English football history lost as an atmospheric town centre ground is replaced by a soulless concrete shell in the middle of no-where. Can anyone give me one example where the die-hard supporters have actually preferred the new grounds to the old? Speak to Leicester fans, Derby fans, Coventry fans, Colchester fans, Arsenal’s Clock End, Doncaster, Shrewsbury – they’d all have their old grounds back in a heartbeat. Look at the follies these grounds become when the clubs can’t support them, Darlington with a 20,000 capacity ground in non-league football where crowds average 4,000 if you’re lucky. My only positive with the ‘Globe Arena’ (sorry, that’s a poor name for a footall ground) is that they’ve decided to keep a more traditional four stands arrangement rather than the identikit ‘bowls’ that have sprung up across the UK.
Great!
Thanks for sharing!