wembley........at last

britishspud · Post by **britishspud** » Mon Mar 19, 2007 9:36 pm

saturday saw the first event @ the new wembley.60k locals attended a "community day"...there loads of pictures knocking about on skyscraper forum....

but this is my favourite

look at the fooking size of it

Egan · Post by **Egan** » Mon Mar 19, 2007 10:40 pm

The size hits you from that shot...

Just wish it was more imaginative for what they spent on it, looks just like a bigger version of Emirates.

the crow · Post by **the crow** » Tue Mar 20, 2007 7:52 pm

you reckon people would of been gagging to get in ...maybe they thought it was a hoax!

stadiumking · Post by **stadiumking** » Tue Mar 20, 2007 8:17 pm

could they have chosen a better colour than red?

mattwinter · Post by **mattwinter** » Tue Mar 20, 2007 11:12 pm

the crow wrote:you reckon people would of been gagging to get in ...maybe they thought it was a hoax!

I reckon they would have restricted the number allowed in - if something went wrong they'd want it to be with 50,000 fans - not packed at 90k.

That's the same reason they are only allowing 60,000 in for the first football matched to be played there - England U21 v Italy U21 this week - the game sold out in minutes, but they only had 60,000 tickets for sale.

cam · Post by **cam** » Tue Mar 20, 2007 11:43 pm

Yeah I remember reading that they were only letting in 25,000-odd for that first test event. Red is ok for the seats, but I reckon they should have integrated some sort of pattern using slightly darker seats, similar to Telstra Stadium etc rather than having all seats the same colour. Anyway, the stadium looks great, and it's almost as big as the MCG!

britishspud · Post by **britishspud** » Tue Mar 20, 2007 11:51 pm

yep it was limited to 60k

IanRitchie · Post by **IanRitchie** » Wed Mar 21, 2007 6:54 am

Ken Oath.

60,000 in there rattle around like 6,000 at Telstra.

Simmo79 · Post by **Simmo79** » Wed Mar 21, 2007 9:39 am

Red was the colour of Old Wembley's seats and this one also has WEMBLEY written in white seats with blue seat trim. It's almost the only thing they've replicated. I like it.

Jeffles · Post by **Jeffles** » Wed Mar 21, 2007 12:09 pm

I agree.

Speaking of Wembley, you guys have to watch Sixty-Six. It's a nice feel good movie but more importantly - loads of soccer and Wembley references.

Simmo79 · Post by **Simmo79** » Wed Mar 21, 2007 1:09 pm

God, she’s a big beautiful motherfucker. Also, I hadn’t noticed before but one side (presumably the western side) has a second tier of corp boxes (first pic below). A little like the Docklands look.

britishspud · Post by **britishspud** » Wed Mar 21, 2007 6:21 pm

it's the north stand with the double corporate boxes..

Simmo79 · Post by **Simmo79** » Thu Mar 22, 2007 9:51 am

How come it's oriented East-West?

kilonewton · Post by **kilonewton** » Thu Mar 22, 2007 10:10 am

Because the old one was

hot_dogma · Post by **hot_dogma** » Thu Mar 22, 2007 12:19 pm

Is there any picture floating about of the royal throne?