>club moves to new stadium rather than renovating iconic stadium
>hey could we keep Highburry? maybe let the youth squad use it, hang some banners of Henry and Bearcum and Keown Overmars Tony Adams Petit around, maybe the Arsenal Women dyke team could even use it. it's a piece of history>nah, evil white men built it, make it a parking lot
probably because the "iconic stadium" was a shithole. Although its admittedly pretty grim how all the Victorian clubs in the AFL just play at same two grounds in Melbourne. >>154414054The Highbury Library got turned into expensive apartments, the facades of the main stands are still there and the pitch is now a private courtyard. Why the fuck would they keep a 36k seater stadium just for the reserves, youth teams and the splitarses with their attendances of fuck all, they would still have to maintain it whilst making a huge loss?
>>154414054You couldn't expand Highbury because of the residential properties right beside it. Thankfully they had to keep the 2 art deco facades, as well as the marble halls inside.
>>154414169>residential properties next to English football stadiums famously cannot be bought or sold
>>154414206Good luck trying to get them all to sell and all the legal wranglings that entails.
>>154414074>geelong is in melbourne
>>154413990It is a shame. But sometimes, it is pretty unavoidable. Building get old, sometimes they are beyond saving. Stadiums usually become financial burdens much sooner than that. You cannot eternally renovate a stadium (while keeping its identity), especially not in a lucrative manner. Unfortunately, finances must inevitably play a role here. Especially the really really old grounds are often impossible to maintain in the long run in the modern game. Their size, location, facilitiesIt is a shame. But at some point, it’s hard to avoidMy local club had one of the most legendary stadiums in Germany, it was celebrated by other fans as well. It was a tiny shitbox, ancient, extremely narrow. Absolutely zero amenities for anyone. Somehow had ridiculous acoustics. It was bound to fall apart at some point, but admittedly, the club officials got really high on the idea of themselves leading the club into a new era, so they were quick about it and built a standard modern stadium 400m next to it. Turned out to be a costly mistake. But I can’t blame it happening in generalAnd keeping the old stadium around as a museum is understandably hardly an option in most cities, the area is too profitable
>>154414206Its famously difficult. I can't remember if it was Liverpool or pre-move Everton who spent decades buying up houses one by one in hopes of a future expansion.Some stadiums should be listed buildings though tbqh.
>we can't play in our own stadium because it doesn't meet modern requirements>we can't make any significant reforms to our stadium because it is triple locked behind municipal, state and federal architectural heritage decrees>it's also right next to the state government's HQ so they wouldn't want that>it's also in a very dense neighbourhood>so dense in fact that the government bulldozed one of our stands to make way for an avenueJUST
>>154414661The pitch could do with sorting out too.
>>154414777It's pointless to take care of the pitch because the stadium no longer receives any form of football. Not the main team, not the women's team, not the youth teams, nobody trains or plays there anymore. The only action the stadium sees is a mat rolled over and a big screen on the pitch for important away games.
They will all be mosques in due time.
>>154414661Nice photo looks like a nice town
>>154414813I see.
>>154415010Thank you, anon. That's Fluminense's Estádio das Laranjeiras in the homonymous neighbourhood in Rio. I will never let go.https://youtu.be/HJUVivc7z-A?si=LNJroFzSEGNh-AhB
>>154414169I wonder why the roofs of many UK soccer stadiums slope downward and inward instead of up and out. Looks like it adds some complication to getting rainwater drained away.
>>154415132AmbienceDrainage is easy
>>154414054Highbury is an acceptable solution actually, as this image shows>>154414169It's pitch was famously smallI guess arsenal were lucky that there was a stadium sized space next door for them to move to
>>154415181>It's pitch was famously smallIt was small but it was the best quality pitch in the league for years.
>>154415181>arsenal were luckyits cursed ground, where pagans and pigeons alike were ritually sacrificed. One day, a favorite goat of the Gods was accidently speared by games there and The God Londonius By Thamesus swore, no future sporting endeavours would ever be successful upon that bloodied earth. And so it came to pass. This is also why it was (unironically) used as industrial waste dump previously.
>>154414661>municipal, state and federal architectural heritage decrees >government bulldozed one of our stands to make way for an avenue kek brazil
>Stadium moves from outdoor ballpark with sovl and character to soulless dome with AC
