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The bomb shelter thread.


the sniderman said:
yes buddies thanks to legendary work of @Efcjake we will be in a place to sentence @EverTheOptimist in 30 minutes live and exclusive on @grandoldteam.com u dirty slimeball u should have respond to me i will CRUSH u like the red cockroach u r.
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HongKongToffee said:
What makes a better stadium being brand new??, is the Camp Nou one of the best stadiums in the world?, have you even been there on tour, its a crumbling mess ,outside exterior is an eyesore, the seats don't look great with hardly any leg room, and inside leaves a lot to be desired for a so called "temple of football", no wonder they are giving it a £600 million face lift, its shocking how they let that stadium rot for such an iconic club.
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All the new stadiums of the last 15 years in europe all have the same design, Spurs just added a single tier but it's 75% of it still looks exactly like the new coporate bowl stadiums built in Russia Ukraine France Germany England Italy Spain this century.
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EverTheOptimist said:
Anyone who puts Camp Nou needs to visit it, it's a crumbling wreck, looks good on tv packed out but my god is it a dump inside at close view, the facade outside is so dated and inside the concrete is in a state.

My fav stadiums.

Dortmund.
San Siro.
Bernabeu
Sampdoria.
Boca.
Ibrox.
Millennium Stadium.
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EverTheOptimist said:
Done both tours and matches at Camp Nou and Bernabeu and watched a sevco game when McCoist was manager.

The rest of them i like visually, i don't like the modern corporate bowl look hence why they are not in, they all look
samish.

I would say Dortmund's is the best club stadium in the World visually, classic 4 stands stadium with the yellow wall, it's the benchmark for a intimidating stadium and holds over 80k when standing is permitted, Bernabeu a close 2nd, the steepness in that stadium from the stands is amazing, new roof and new facade being done now will make it more amazing.

I think Ibrox is the Best club stadium in the UK, probably Archibald Leitch's best work, brick facade on the main stand is stunning, best overall stadium in the UK has to be the Millennium one, close to the pitch and has the closed roof option, amazing that it cost £121 million.
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HongKongToffee said:
Put Benfica's Stadia De Luz in there and you would have 3 meh samish looking stadiums, only thing that seperates each stadium from each other is the roof.

I don't see anything new or ground breaking with this new stadium Spurs have, it just looks like all the new stadiums this century, boring bowl shape curve at the top stands identikit stadiums.

4 different seperate stands looks so much better as a football ground than the boring corporate bowl that have blighted football this century.

Must be easy money being a stadium architect these days i have to say.
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HongKongToffee said:
I agree, nothing iconic about it so far, it looks like all the ten a penny corporate bowls that have been built in Europe the last 15 years, all the stands joined together in a bowl. multi tier plan.

Case in point was the France 2016 euros and Russian world cup, every stadium practically looked the same watching the games except for that stadium with the scaffold stand behind one of the goals in Russia, how different from the that stadiums is Meis's build, even the German world cup in 2006 was the same, Bayern, Schalke, Hamburg, Leipzig, Stuttgart, Hamburg, Cologne all had stadiums built for that world cup and all have the same boring generic bowl design.

Designers really need to get away from this bland model for stadia, to me it reeks of american architects from America who built all those stadiums in the NFL and MLB the last 20 years and it's influencing how football stadiums should be built in Europe , the bland lower tier, then corporate then another tier corporate then a upper tier.

Emirates is awful and cannot keep the atmosphere in,Etihad is even more bland, bayern's is a dire bowl and depressingly grey , the Spurs one looks like a NFL stadium (i'm sure the NFL had a hand in how the stadium should look and it reminds me of the stadium in Arizona Cardinal NFL ground with the side stands design) even their single tiered stand behind the goal doesn't look iconic or special as they ruined it by blending it in with the other stands.

For me the iconic stadiums that i love the designs are the old Highbury, Sampdoria/Genoa joint stadium from Italia 90 , Ibrox is a majestic classic British stadium with 4 different unique stands and Dortmund's is the best stadium in Europe by far., not sure why designers don't build 50k-60k versions of those stadiums i listed.
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