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Quality name.

Of course those who are uneducated just say 'Ya stole ya name from Benfeeecas stadium man', despite their ground being Called the Estadio da Luz due to it being located in the Luz area of Lisbon.

I've always liked it.

I think it was a Sunderland fan on Premier Passions who first said it was someone else name......
 
Why do people say Benfica's stadium is "Stadium of Light". It isn't, it's Estadio Da Luz. Just lazy to translate it to "Stadium of Light"

I was there when Fickling came out and the uneducated maggots who had no clue how they came to naming the place started slating them. Brand new f***ing 42,000 seater stadium that had it been built 5 years before, would have been fit for Man United and he had to stand there and get pelters.

I always liked it, it'll be Sunderland's true home in my eyes but that's just because I'd seen us for that long at Roker which is why if it came to selling the naming rights, I wouldn't shed a tear.
 
Why do people say Benfica's stadium is "Stadium of Light". It isn't, it's Estadio Da Luz. Just lazy to translate it to "Stadium of Light"

I was there when Fickling came out and the uneducated maggots who had no clue how they came to naming the place started slating them. Brand new f***ing 42,000 seater stadium that had it been built 5 years before, would have been fit for Man United and he had to stand there and get pelters.

I always liked it, it'll be Sunderland's true home in my eyes but that's just because I'd seen us for that long at Roker which is why if it came to selling the naming rights, I wouldn't shed a tear.
Not taking the piss but what is the translation of 'Estadio de Luz'? then?
 
It was to do with the miners davy lamp lighting the way in the mine and the club moving from dark days into the light iirc there marra imho, that's why the big davy lamp sculpture is at the ticket office. I think its common knowledge that Boro knicked the first choice name but don't know happened to Wearmouth.
Didn't know that about Boro.
 
Quality name.

Of course those who are uneducated just say 'Ya stole ya name from Benfeeecas stadium man', despite their ground being Called the Estadio da Luz due to it being located in the Luz area of Lisbon.

I've always liked it.

And the fact is was built in 2003.....

I think Luz is an area in Benfica

According to google translate, Estadio Da Luz does translate to Stadium of Light. But as I've said, our SoL opened in 97, their's opened in 03.
 
I like the stadium much more than I did RP. I like that it's got a link to the pit in its name (im a Seaham yacker). I would have loved it tied more obviously to the pit or the area mind.
 
So,..... it's still called The Stadium of Light, but just for a different reason.. :lol:

But its a completely different meaning though isn't it.
And the fact is was built in 2003.....



According to google translate, Estadio Da Luz does translate to Stadium of Light. But as I've said, our SoL opened in 97, their's opened in 03.

The stadium they moved out of had the same name.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estádio_da_Luz_(1954)
 
It was to do with the miners davy lamp lighting the way in the mine and the club moving from dark days into the light iirc there marra imho, that's why the big davy lamp sculpture is at the ticket office. I think its common knowledge that Boro knicked the first choice name but don't know happened to Wearmouth.

That story didnt come out for a few days after the announcement. SAFC attempting to justify the unjustifiable.
 
Iv said it all along it should have been called The Colliery

I do like that name, but then you'd just get the mags calling it 'the pits' instead of the current 'stadium of shite' & 'Joker park' before that.
I'd have tried to have gone for something mock proof
 
I do like that name, but then you'd just get the mags calling it 'the pits' instead of the current 'stadium of shite' & 'Joker park' before that.
I'd have tried to have gone for something mock proof
At least we own it. Council high rise that they play at, Sid James's or what ever they call it this week.
 
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