Euro 2028 Stadiums

[Zimba]

There is some bollocks rule about the number of stadiums being used in one City mate

In fairness, it's probably a good thing they're there in a way otherwise it would be Arsenal, West Ham, Wembley, Tottenham, then 2 in Dublin, then at least 2 in Glasgow. Not much left now for the rest of the country.

Sunderland are cursed. Just think if england got the world cup in 18 like we should have, the sol would have been extended and we would likely be a venue for this.

Also sunderland council should never have put money into developing newcastle airport, it should have been built next to nissan which is a much more central and accessible location for the north east as a whole and is between 2 major roads, a19 and a1. It's absolutely ridiculous being in ponteland, nightmare to get to takes over 1 hour to drive in the afternoons and longer on the metro.

Look at Newcastle using our training facilities on their application anarl, should have said aye ok give us 50 million, money bag Saudis or p*ss off.

Absolute nonsense, this is sort of the crap that holds the region back. Build Sunderland Airport then, but don't cry when a large chunk of a city don't have a job and it's akin to Teesside because Nissan never turned up but aye... Nissan for the city is much more of an asset than an airport would ever be which has a direct link to Newcastle Airport anyway. Parochial crap at it's finest.

Also we don't fill the stadium as it is, why the hell would you want to expand it for. It would just wreck the atmosphere.

 

[Alan BStard]

Never in my life have I ever been so disgusted, shocked, offended and repulsed by a comment on here. The best favour I can do is to do what I should have done the moment I signed up - shut you up and banish you forever to Ignore where I don’t have to read your vile, repulsive, caustic, bile (I expect nothing less on here nowadays) and frankly there is not a single thing I’ve ever been more proud of in my life than to throw you on Ignore.

You are a sick person and you need to go somewhere where you can learn to treat people with more respect.

Bless.

 

[JaFlan86]

It’s not really a surprise is it

st James is a better ground ( in the eyes of other fans ). It’s in a more accessible and if we are being honest a better city that has a lot more to offer.

Agree, it's accessible from their city centre you mean?

Apart from that, it's a lop sided piece of shite man. Imo

 

[SAFC 2012]

Agree, it's accessible from their city centre you mean?

Apart from that, it's a lop sided piece of shite man. Imo

I’m not saying it isn’t but you’ve heard the way the media etc go on about it being a cathedral etc

You don’t hear them say that about the SOL

There’s a lot more to do in Newcastle aswell unfortunately.

 

[JaFlan86]

I’m not saying it isn’t but you’ve heard the way the media etc go on about it being a cathedral etc

You don’t hear them say that about the SOL

There’s a lot more to do in Newcastle aswell unfortunately.

The media are all aboard the sportswashing express, granted marra

 

[Boring Old Man]

For me, Sunderland would have made more sense than Newcastle if we'd have put in place plans to upgrade the city, infrastructure, add more hotels etc...as well as giving the stadium a face lift. It would have had a much better legacy vs Newcastle which is already a far better city centre.

 

[only one rade prica]

It’s not really a surprise is it

st James is a better ground ( in the eyes of other fans ). It’s in a more accessible and if we are being honest a better city that has a lot more to offer.

Lovely beach in Newcastle plus the prospect of a greggs on every street corner

 

[Zimba]

For me, Sunderland would have made more sense than Newcastle if we'd have put in place plans to upgrade the city, infrastructure, add more hotels etc...as well as giving the stadium a face lift. It would have had a much better legacy vs Newcastle which is already a far better city centre.

Always a dangerous move that like. Not saying it's wrong but building loads of hotels, in particular, for a few football games is risky. There's no demand at any other time of the year so who's going to be using them and you'll be left with abandoned hotels.

You could end up with a scenario very quickly like Birmingham Council who went bust and the Commonwealth Games played a chunk of it, ignoring the main problems of the staff wage issues.

The World Cup aye, it's a massive event. The Euro's nah, it's not that big on the world stage.

 

[ron]

For me, Sunderland would have made more sense than Newcastle if we'd have put in place plans to upgrade the city, infrastructure, add more hotels etc...as well as giving the stadium a face lift. It would have had a much better legacy vs Newcastle which is already a far better city centre.

Have you seen how much money is being pumped into centre ,only London getting more investment at the moment

 

[hardtackle]

For me, Sunderland would have made more sense than Newcastle if we'd have put in place plans to upgrade the city, infrastructure, add more hotels etc...as well as giving the stadium a face lift. It would have had a much better legacy vs Newcastle which is already a far better city centre.

There is no reason infrastructure would be upgraded just due to hosting a few Euros games.samd goes for building hotels.

As for sorting your stadium out the club could have done that anytime but haven't done anything much unless they could get fans to do it for the cost of a few burgers.

 

[bagpiperay]

Absolutely brilliant stadium, not tarnished by the blood of innocents.


Why has the SoL hosted countless England Internationals then?

As well as hosting Sunderland games, the stadium has hosted three matches for the England national football team, as well as an England under-20, an England under-21 and two England women's team matches.

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Countless?

 

[Roker Mackem]

As well as hosting Sunderland games, the stadium has hosted three matches for the England national football team, as well as an England under-20, an England under-21 and two England women's team matches.

Countless?

Maybe the wrong word then. A lot of international games.. the FA dont have an issue evidently.

 

[hardtackle]

Maybe the wrong word then. A lot of international games.. the FA dont have an issue evidently.

Agree the FA dont have an issue with the SOL or any other ground in the country.

 

[Shrew]

Newcastle will have a 65,000 capacity by then and a fans zone, along with an airport, luxury hotel accommodation and city centre location. Apart from that I can’t understand why they chose that option over Sunderland.

Not sure they'll expand their ground before 2028. It is currently only at the feasibility study stage.

 

[Roker Mackem]

Newcastle will have a 65,000 capacity by then and a fans zone, along with an airport, luxury hotel accommodation and city centre location. Apart from that I can’t understand why they chose that option over Sunderland.

This wouldnt be another Saudi murderer apologist who's preciously pretended to be a Sunderland fan would it!?

 

[hardtackle]

Not sure they'll expand their ground before 2028. It is currently only at the feasibility study stage.

Correct, it is not confirmed that we will expand the stadium before the Euros nor is any new capacity decided. Also if we expand the stadium that would mean that we would have to demolish or move the fanzone (which itself is not built yet)

At the end of the day SJP was selected because of what it can offer right now not some possible future state.

 

[Brett]

It could be a question to ask at the RAWA meeting in a couple of weeks about any stadium development

 

[Safc98]

Newcastle will always get chosen for something like this. Bigger ground, better City Centre and only ever going to pick one in the North East. If Sunderland want events like this then as a city it needs to get off its arse and reverse 40 years of decline and doing fuck all to reverse it

 

[Qwerty]

I'm guessing, maybe even could be proved factually incorrect, but...
1. There are many connections between the Lionesses and Sunderland, none that I know of with NUFC.
2. They are principled and told the FA "no way" to Saudi James Park (or some other more robust Jill Scott-type rebuttal).

Jill Scott was a pundit in Qatar iirc.

 

[HoffTTM]

Its alright having home internationals at the SOL but as soon as you have 10000 Czechs and 10000 French or whatever turn up to stay in 5 hotels and deal with the horrendous train station, you can see why they choose Newcastle. Infrastructure just isn't there