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arthurgrimsdell

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The premier league is run by the chairmen. Scudamore serves at their grace. Due to ffp and the premier leagues short term cost controls in conjunction with the tv money balooning, many clubs are now making healthy profits and are looking to increase capacity in their stadiums. I doubt those chairmen would be happy by making a precedent of deducting points from a team whose build over ran as they could find themselves in a similar position further down the road.


I think we should be fine. The stadium may not be finished but i think it should be able to hold the liverpool game.
I agree with you that the new stadium will be ready for the Liverpool game.
Where I disagree with you, and it seems half a dozen others, who thought my original reply was funny, is two-fold.
Firstly your original comment implied that there would be little the EPL could do if the deadline of the Liverpool was not met: "Are they going to waggle their finger at us and strike us from their xmas card list?" There is a lot they could do including fines and/or points deductions.
Admittedly, your second comment changed this to an assertion that member clubs would not want to penalise the club in these circumstances, because some may wish to enhance their own grounds in the future, and if this were the first delay I would agree with you. But you are ignoring the crucial fact that the EPL and its constituent clubs already bent over backwards in relaxing their regulations in order to allow the Club to play a game at Wembley. This occurred a mere two months before the start of the season, when the development had been planned for over a decade and been under construction for three years. It would not have been too difficult, I'd suggest, to get permission for more than one game at Wembley, if the need for this were any sort of concern.
In these circumstances, for the Club to go back to the PL within a few weeks and say "Sorreeeee. Slight miscalculation there. We're going to need a couple more games at Wembley. Yes, we know that the away clubs will already have booked their hotels, put tickets on sale, and made travel arrangements for the team and fans, but hey, life's a bitch at times." I don't think that would go down too well.
Now, as it happens, I think it's a moot point.
For Daniel Levy and his team to display such a smug, cavalier, hubristic and incompetent attitude towards the Club's responsibilities and its fellow EPL members, would go against the whole ethos of excellence they have been creating and implementing over the last nigh-on two decades, and I would be amazed if it happened. Subject to totally unforeseen massive Acts of God (or Allah), the timescales will in my view be met.
 

spursgirls

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The premier league is run by the chairmen. Scudamore serves at their grace. Due to ffp and the premier leagues short term cost controls in conjunction with the tv money balooning, many clubs are now making healthy profits and are looking to increase capacity in their stadiums. I doubt those chairmen would be happy by making a precedent of deducting points from a team whose build over ran as they could find themselves in a similar position further down the road.


I think we should be fine. The stadium may not be finished but i think it should be able to hold the liverpool game.
Will it be able to hold all the fans though? lol
 

whitesocks

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It is hardly surprising there have been logistical problems.
I dare say both the roofing teams and the NFL pitch layers were told they'd have exclusive access to the stadium.
Instead the roofers have to unpack and prepare the cassettes right in the corner, and I can't imagine the carpet-fitters are even allowed in the bottom 1/2 of the pitch while things are being lifted.

But even given that, laying an artificial pitch really shouldn't be that complicated - it takes just a few days on the vids I've seen, where they roll out the carpet + underlay from side to side rather than up and down, and the same process also cuts in the 5 yd lines.
The patchwork of strips of carpet they have created here, (not including the cuts/strips over the rails, seems over-complicated to me. And that means it will also be difficult to maintain and liable to be damaged.

The only upside is the maintenance team will be so used to hot gluing and re-infilling the seam/strip over the rails every use, a few loose squares of carpet will be no problem at all. (Yep, I've given up on any big reveal of a sophisticated mechanism to quickly repair the rail seams.)
 

coys200

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Really surprises me there’s no talk of a bill nic statue or Greaves. The south podium seems the obvious pace for it. Maybe it’s seen as a bit cliche not sure.
 

Shadydan

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The 'not finishing on time' narrative from the naysayers will change once those roof cassettes are complete and the pitch laid, just watch, perception is everything.
 

Roynie

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The stadium doesn't have to be finished to get the Safety Certificate, it has to be safe! The point being that areas unfinished can be sectioned off so that there are no safety issues. For instance, if a food area hasn't been rented out they can leave it unfinished and closed down. It's not ideal but it would allow the Safety Cert. to be issued!
 

Dougal

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Lovely glass finishing going on but have they put any doors/turnstiles on the outside of the South Stand? Can't help but feel the lack of them will slow down access. Major oversight #todaysmisunderstoodcrisis
 

coys200

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Funny someone on twitter just asked “ what’s that amazing building” they happened to have Arsenal in their bio ? clearly a bit of a fair weather football fan. But felt quite chuffed to say it’s spurs new stadium. The person that asked is a bit of an architectural buff. Don’t underestimate how iconic this stadium is gonna be in an urban London area. From the sweeping glass curves to the glistening mosaic veil to the classy worded lettering. Honestly think it will be visited just as a thing to see from the outside like the gherkin or shard. In some ways it’s a terrible shame the south stand will be blocked out by the hotel and flats.
 

carmeldevil

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Really surprises me there’s no talk of a bill nic statue or Greaves. The south podium seems the obvious pace for it. Maybe it’s seen as a bit cliche not sure.

If there will be a statue, just make sure not to hire Ronaldo's sculptor.
 

neilp

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Around 41 secs in......is that the back end of the trays holding the grass pitch?

In it's half built state it doesn't half remind me of the Death Star under construction :D
Hopefully that’s how Chelsea fans will feel about it’s affect on their dreams of a new stadium too.
 
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