Every piece I've ever read about a redevelopment of it is centred around 'how difficult it would be". I find this extraordinary, especially given what we've done with our new place.Those numbers sound off at first look.
Just read it and it’s basically a press briefing to gauge fan opinion. This paragraph made me chuckle:
“Redevelopment and expansion of the current stadium – which has been cited internally as an eight-year project – remains one of the options on the table and it is said that around 25 per cent of the space inside Old Trafford currently lies empty or wasted.”
As redevelopment goes that has to be one of the easiest to do, surely?
Yes, there is a railway line that runs along one side and a canal the other but it's literally surrounded by a giant concrete car park, be that on what they already own and what I guess a haulage company to the west they could buy. Additionally, there is a new business district that just recently opened housing some large companies, including BBC Sport which recently relocated there.
The only thing that doesn't work is the traffic around the stadium on match days, it has to be the worst in the country (although a few years ago I choose to park in a multi-storey next to Norwich which took me 4 fucking hours to get out of!), from the moment you approach the slip road to get off the Motorway you are fucked and end up parking on some godforsaken industrial east ate miles away. Even getting there a couple of hours before KO it's a nightmare.