Hampden Park embarrassing stadium for Scotland
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It really is a terrible stadium. I notice they couldn't even replace the faded red seats despite the fancy running track it's still an eye store of a stadium.
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Glasgow is over populated with fine indoor concert and sport venues but Hampden and Celtic Park are prime early 20th Century dumps tarted up to look modern.
The bottom line is whether the sport facilities are good enough, not how pretty the stadiums are.
Admittedly, during the redevelopment years ago, the reduction in capacity was a mistake.
Probably hard to justify the cost when Glasgow already has 4 large stadia.
And as has been pointed out, the relatively small cost (£20m) of converting a football only ground into a track and field venue fit for a world or regional championships means that many more cities / countries may in the future bid for major events.
http://www.itv.com/news/2014-03-12/time-lapse-video-shows-hampden-parks-transformation-ahead-of-2014-glasgow-commonwealth-games/
http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/commonwealth-games/video-hampden-park-transformation-complete-3644413
I wouldn't call £500m or so to build a stadium plus millions in running costs each year an opportunity myself.
It's Hampden, it's neutral and it's Scotland's heritage. And, do you ken, it's NOT Wembley. As it always should be.
It pains me to say this, but Ibrox is a better ground.
At some point in the future it would be nice to get a new national stadium, and you could argue that the Commonwealth Games was the time to do it, but a new stadium should be properly planned, and a rush job for the Commonwealth Games would cut too many corners.
Hampden, Ibrox, Celtic Park; where's the other one?
Firhill
Cheers! But what's the capacity of that?
Just over 10,000, not much bigger than Scotstoun.
That'll be the Celtic Park where 3/4 of the stadium has been built from scratch in the last 20 years?
http://www.thecelticwiki.com/page/Celtic+Park+-+Construction+pics
even season pro's like michael johnson and colin jackson were singing its praises
Never knew of Scotstoun,
Although I love that GB has the London Athletics Grand Prix, and the British Grand Prix (Birmingham), with a potential expansion of up to 15,00 capacity, would it be a legacy to have a regular athletics event in Glasgow?
British Grand Prix or British Trials.
Of course I appreciate it is something that cannot really be answered until late September.
I think a world class stadium would have cost a lot more than £85m though.
Also I don't think the Millenium Stadium has a running track.
It cost £121m 15 years ago as well. Steel prices have gone up over 50% since.