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I remember Levy saying it cannot be expanded a few years back. Think it's weird they don't incorporate future expansion into the design.
Hedging bets, I'd say that football is actually due a slump at some point - being a football fan has only been the single most popular past time for two or three generations, before that they were busy playing war and before that it was... i dunno, pushing a hoop down the High Road with a stick, or chariot racing or something, who cares.
In the US, Baseball was the sport of the people - crowds were big, stadiums were built to house them all, then all of a sudden the popularity started to wane, the money left and they were stuck with behemoth stadiums and only a handful of fans showing up. Now it's considered relatively dull to a lot of Americans, and I fully expect the same to happen to football eventually.
Eventually one of the future generations will find something else to entertain them in big numbers and when the crowds start to slump the money goes away. Levy and Lewis will have half an eye on when the right time to sell up will be, they are a business afterall, and this stadium will see way beyond that, so as long as this is in place and it's not half empty then they've done their job.