I'd be disappointed if we did not expand the ARE.
This would have to be for the long term investment, there is no quick buck here, naming rights, and corporate revenue will help, but this must be a vision for the future.
With the China economy slowing, I'm not sure if the price of steel would fall or rise, plus with OPEC agreeing to slow oil production yesterday, things may get more costly.
We have planning permission for the expansion of Phase II, but we also had planning permission for a new ground in Stanley Park, and we know how that went.
The new stand has improved the atmosphere, and it would be very odd not to capitalise on this with a bigger ARE, very odd indeed.
As for the money coming from tickets, have not the EPL/Sky/BT paid out a sh*t load of cash? Where is this going/gone?
It's not just the cost of the tickets, what about the extras that the fans buy, merchandise, beer, food etc, this seems very short sighted, or maybe just a veiled threat.
IF we do not expand the ARE WTF were the architects thinking of with the girders holding the ARE roof, if there was any concern, why was this designed this way?
This seems a very odd time to say this, we're on a high, why play a dampener?
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