Champions League final 2017.

[Leekbrookgull]

To be held at The Millennium Stadium,Cardiff. Well why not ?

 

[redoubtable seagull]

Very nice stadium but would have its 68k capacity a bit small for the CL final.

 

[halbpro]

Very nice stadium but would have its 68k capacity a bit small for the CL final.

Wikipedia says capacity is 74,500?

 

[VAL1850]

Great stadium - right in city centre next to loads of pubs - perfect

 

[Official Old Man]

I saw this on the BBC web site with today's date and time stamp. And yet somehow I knew about this two weeks ago. I actually spoke to someone in Cardiff and joked about him getting me a ticket and he had not heard about it. Where might I have heard two weeks ago?

 

[robinsonsgrin]

thought it was a lovely stadium.. but maybe the result cast a happy spin on the occasion!!

 

[Simster]

Much better than Wembley IMO and built for around one quarter of the price.

 

[Mowgli37]

Very nice stadium but would have its 68k capacity a bit small for the CL final.

At a capacity of 74,500, it's nearly ten thousand seats bigger than the venue for the 2014 final.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estádio_da_Luz

 

[Vegas Seagull]

Much better than Wembley IMO and built for around one quarter of the price.

No beer, no loos & all raw breeze blocks. Wembley far superior 2,900 loos eg

 

[Simster]

No beer, no loos & all raw breeze blocks. Wembley far superior 2,900 loos eg

Hard to disagree that the build quality and facilities aren't better at Wembley, but Cardiff wins for atmosphere, it's city centre location and numerous pubs dotted all around it. Cardiff is a fabulous sports venue, Wembley is somewhat desolate in comparison. And as I say, they spent four times more on Wembley. I just think it was a waste of money and they should have built it in somewhere equally run down and in need of jobs in the midlands, for an awful lot less.

 

[Hampster Gull]

Great stadium - right in city centre next to loads of pubs - perfect

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