An extra 9000 what's the point!
Considering it's taken this long for phase 1 we can safely assume phase 2 wont be complete in the lifetime of most of us.
You sound like Tom Hicks! 'Manchester's is bigger, I want it to be bigger than theirs!' Only kidding.
Anfield is hardly in the most developed parts of Liverpool. I think it's much better to develop Anfield as we go along with the redevelopment of the area by the council. RedPuppy makes a great point about transport infrastructure which would need to be upgraded if 25000+ more fans were heading to Anfield on match day than they are at present. Expanding stadiums can only happen gradually, a 10,000 extra seats now, a 10,000 extra seats later - like other teams have done.
Also correct me if I'm wrong but when the idea of a new stadium was mooted it was only going to be capacity of 60,000 so what would be the point of that as well? I can only think the Chuckle Brother running of the club by Moores and Parry looked at what Arsenal were doing a decade ago and thought 'Let's be them' - completely forgetting the fact that it was impossible to extend Highbury from it's 38,000 (it would have been something if the club had tried buying the inhabited and, I suspect, wealthy middle class owners of the houses surrounding that ground!) and that North London is considerably different from the Anfield area with transport links and millions in population surrounding it.
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