Yet another new stadium before ours!!

[dylan_bha]

Fixtures, whatever. Pompey are the latest although I am kinda hoping it is going to be a floating one and they can just float it down to shoreham for our games!!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/p/portsmouth/6591049.stm

 

[dylan_bha]

From BBC website:

Pompey to unveil new stadium plan

Portsmouth have been at Fratton Park since 1899
Portsmouth are to hold a media conference in London at 1230 BST to unveil proposals for a new stadium.
The south-coast outfit have been at Fratton Park, which can only cater for 20,000 fans, since 1899.

No details have been publicly released but it is thought that the club may relocate on Ministry of Defence-owned land on the edge of Portsmouth.

Pompey have previously looked at redeveloping their current home but the new ground will have a 36,000 capacity.

Businessman Sacha Gaydamak bought out former Portsmouth chairman Milan Mandaric's remaining shares earlier this year after paying about £16m for a half-stake in the club in January 2006.

Mandaric has since taken over at Leicester.

Gaydamak already has plans for a new training ground at nearby Fareham to replace Pompey's current accommodation at Eastleigh.

Manager Harry Redknapp has guided Pompey to seventh place in the Premiership.

 

[Nemesis]

We have to wait until every other club in the country has a new stadium before we can get ours. It's the law.

 

[Rougvie]

YAWN.

The common factor in all these applications is local support and an abundance of shithole industrial land that residents would support a concentration camp being built if it tidied up their areas.

Not the first time i've said this but if you walk round Pompey at any time of the year you will always see many many people in replica tops and other club attire, the club is seen as a very important part of the city and is extremely well supported.

Now take Brighton where you will do well to spot anyone in anything other than Chelsea shell suit bottoms, a 'city' population that is extremely apathetic about its football club, but would be devestated if some Latte Bar or Waitrose was to shut down.

There is no POINT in getting wound up about it, its circumstances that we as individuals cannot change.

 

[Curious Orange]

I should imagine that Pompey will run into as much trouble as us given their previous history. In any case I thought they had planning permission to redevelop Fratton Park, what happened to that?

 

[Albion Rob]

YAWN.

The common factor in all these applications is local support and an abundance of shithole industrial land that residents would support a concentration camp being built if it tidied up their areas.

Not the first time i've said this but if you walk round Pompey at any time of the year you will always see many many people in replica tops and other club attire, the club is seen as a very important part of the city and is extremely well supported.

Now take Brighton where you will do well to spot anyone in anything other than Chelsea shell suit bottoms, a 'city' population that is extremely apathetic about its football club, but would be devestated if some Latte Bar or Waitrose was to shut down.

There is no POINT in getting wound up about it, its circumstances that we as individuals cannot change.

Sadly, I think ROOGERS is pretty much spot on.

I'd even go as far as to say that a lot of people in Brighton actually dislike the Albiuon. Pompey used to get pathetic attendances in the mid 90s but the people of the city still cared, in a funny way. In Brighton, there are a lot of people who seem to be actively against us getting a ground.

 

[ManOnTheRun]

Looks pretty smart ... if it gets built I'll hate them even more.

Anyone get the feeling that the Chairman isn't really in it for the football ...

Pompey Stadium

 

[cardboard]

That looks totally bizarre.

I cannot see them getting planning permission for that in a million years.

 

[mejonaNO12 aka riskit]

looks THE BALLS.

if your going to build it there you may aswell make it look interesting

 

[pasty]

If the time it took for the Spinnaker tower to be built is anything to go by, I reckon we'll be playing at Falmer before they're playing in their new stadium.

 

[Napper]

f***ing scum

 

[Albion Rob]

Hope they don't put the away end at the sea end. Don't fancy some Pompey chav trying to chuck me in the drink.

 

[Stat Brother]

Serious question.
Does anyone actually know how many stadiums have been, proposed, submitted & built, since our last game @ The Goldstone?.

 

[Dave the OAP]

Serious question.
Does anyone actually know how many stadiums have been, proposed, submitted & built, since our last game @ The Goldstone?.

7, 984.3

 

[Kenhead]

As mentioned, atleast people in Portsmouth support there local team. Today at work i had another jibe about our lack of ground when been asked will i be celebrating Toys"r"us 10th anniversary tomorrow. Id say out of all the brightonian football fans where i work only about 15% care about us getting a ground

 

[withdeanwombat]

Perhaps we can secretly sell the Falmer Stadium and share with Pompey at their new place without asking them first?

 

[queens park pete]

Lets wait until it is actually built shall we. There seems to be a rule about stadium announcements where you have to subtract at least 7 years from the real date of opening.
My second team, Luton have spent almost as long as us moving.
they still haven't managed to agree on whether to build it at M1 J10, 11 0r 12- but the matchday programme is still claiming it will open in 2009!

 

[perseus]

I hope it gets sunk by global warming!

 

[Gully]

Have to say that looks absolutely stunning, if they do build it, would be one of the great stadia in the UK.