Tom Hark Preston Park
Will Post For Cash
- Jul 6, 2003
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To the fans it will just be Falmer
How about The Falmer?
To the fans it will just be Falmer
The Townsend Thorensen Stadium
How about The Falmer?
So you think we should turn away companies that offer big money for their name on the stadium signs?
I think Tony Bloom has the right to recoup some of the VAST outlay he has personally stumped up to get this thing built. Yes the campaigning by the fans was essential, but at the end of it all, without TB's cash, it'd just be a hole in the ground. He's got every right to sell the rights.
It could be like Leyton for example, with out sponsorship it is Brisbane Road (i know its cos its on Brisbane road) with the sponsorship matchroom stadium or something like that. So basically we can give it a name, and if some rich company comes and ploughs money in as a sponsor it will be known as that officially but will always be known affectionally as the name we gave it (or voted for)
Brisbane Road has got a history, and up until recently was ALWAYS known as Brisbane Road, and probably still is amongst their fans. Our new stadium will have no history whatsoever. I get the feeling whatever the first corporate name the new stadium gets give, is what the fans will know it as from there on, even if they change it in a few years.
Arsenals will probably always be known as The Emirates amongst their fans, even if the sponsorship changes in 15 years time when the deal expires.
'The Community Stadium' is very happy-clappy isn't it. That really does sound a bit shit. Sounds like a local youth club.
In that case, we could call it 'The People's Stadium'. Same context, different word.
I still like the Spanish/Uruguyan equivalent of its location - 'Estadio Universidad'.