Tooting Gull
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- Jul 5, 2003
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I never really understood what having a new stadium represents except its new and modern. It looks terrific and modern but personally and this is my honest opinion I will be gutted if we have to vacate Selhurst, it is our home and where I grew up watching Palace since a boy and where I have started to take my 5 year old. I have been to a few of these new shiny stadia and they are all so similar and have zero character or atmosphere. Darlington have a new 25k capacity stadium and now sit in the 9th tier of English football so it does not bring any guarentees, its just a place to play football.
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With respect, that last quote alone shows you aren't very well qualified to speak on this issue, being very ignorant. The Amex isn't 'just a place to play football' for longstanding Brighton fans who went to Gillingham, and suffered Withdean. It is much more than that, probably resulting in the new dawn and the crowds flocking back.
If you were just moving from one much-loved old ground straight into another new one, you might be right. But this (as preumably you maye have heard) isn't what happened to us.