Liverpool's 'New Anfield' finally unveiled

blurred · Post by **blurred** » Mon Jul 30, 2007 2:37 pm

Nozza wrote:I think it looks crap.

If they removed the arseholes from above the away fans (the ones who pour piss on you) then Anfield is me fave ground.

Away end in the new ground is a single tier, so you'll only have the 'Ea-seh, ea-seh' seal-clapping morons in the main stand to put up with there...

blurred · Post by **blurred** » Mon Aug 13, 2007 8:52 pm

A few more pictures and general gumph

Turbine and skywalk plan for new Anfield stadium

View from the skywalk

LIVERPOOL FC’s new Anfield stadium will have a “skywalk” at the top of the Kop offering views across the city to Wales, the Daily Post can reveal. It also emerged last night that it is likely to be one of the greenest in the Premiership when built as the club aims to make it “carbon neutral” and hopes to instal a wind turbine in future.

The new details were revealed after the 23 documents for the new 60,000-seater stadium were made available to the public for viewing at Liverpool city council. The plans also show that the new £300m stadium would be capable of being classed as 5* by UEFA, making it capable of staging international games and club finals.

Although the application does not discuss where the additional 16,000 seats the club may include in future will be situated, it seems clear from the plans they would go in the north stand as it would currently only have 4,200 seats in 28 rows. The west stand will have 12,000 seats over three tiers with a total of 97 rows. The east stand will have 25,000 seats in two tiers with a total of 108 rows.

The Kop will have a 17,800 capacity over 95 rows, and there will be 1,000 seats in suites. According to the plans: “The Skywalk/terrace comprises a dedicated route by stair and lift to the top of the Kop stand where the public may enjoy a restaurant, cafe and bar that is unique in its setting; extending onto a large open terrace with views north and south into the bowl and pitch, across the city north to the counties beyond and south over the Mersey to Wales.”

It would be open every day apart from match days, and the south-east and south-west corners of the stadium will remain open during park opening hours, except on match days. “This provides the opportunity for the public to wander into these parts of the building, to visit the shop and museum or simply glimpse views down onto the pitch,” states the documents.

“Within the southern (Kop) end of the stadium, will be a museum facility charting this club in the context of developments within English and European football.”

The ground will also have a rainwater retention system with subterranean tanks “which collect all roof water and rain water from the concourse for re-use”. The system will serve watering of the pitch, vegetation on the building’s perimeter, flushing toilets and urinals, and general cleaning functions.

It is the club’s “intention to explore opportunities to supplement the development proposals with a future related application for a wind turbine to serve the development. “That turbine will make both the stadium and park self-sufficient in energy.

“The intention is to install a number of ‘living walls’ along the base of the northern facade of the stadium. These walls, a direct substitute for any cladding material, will be irrigated by recycled water from the stadium roof and consist of a number of hardy pre-dominantly native shrubs and perennial plants.”

Batman · Post by **Batman** » Mon Aug 13, 2007 8:56 pm

Just when you thought it couldn't get any worse.

Maybe get that tosser Roger McGough to pen an official poem to be inscribed on the side wall

Athers · Post by **Athers** » Mon Aug 13, 2007 11:26 pm

Don't see the point of a 60,000 seater stadium where one end has a smaller section than at Wigan.

Batman · Post by **Batman** » Mon Aug 13, 2007 11:27 pm

Crap innit

communistworkethic · Post by **communistworkethic** » Tue Aug 14, 2007 8:36 am

is it me but aren't all those seats towards the back on the sides at the kop end going to have a shit view?

blurred · Post by **blurred** » Tue Aug 14, 2007 9:55 am

Athers wrote:Don't see the point of a 60,000 seater stadium where one end has a smaller section than at Wigan.

That's the end where the expansion is going to be - the stadium is (according to most sources) unlikely to open as a 60,000 seater stadium, and is much more likely to be around the 70k mark. This was the problem with the planning application - we had to remain within the original footprint of the design that was approved, and with the same number of supporters because if we'd changed that then we'd've had to undergo a whole new planning application. As it is, if we get the train station and some other transport stuff sorted, then we can apply while it's being constructed to have the capacity increased, and just build it as we go. It's designed to be extended at that end.

blurred · Post by **blurred** » Tue Aug 14, 2007 9:56 am

communistworkethic wrote:is it me but aren't all those seats towards the back on the sides at the kop end going to have a shit view?

Can't really say until there's more artists impressions/more info, but the views from the very back blocks of the Kop at the moment aren't that bad. I've regularly sat in the corners up there and the view's fine. Certainly likely to be better than being up in the Gods at Newcastle or Old Trafford.

communistworkethic · Post by **communistworkethic** » Tue Aug 21, 2007 3:55 pm

oh for fux sake, a memorial plaque would suffice for anyone else but not Liverpool, oooh nooo

....

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/footbal ... 956692.stm

boltonboris · Post by **boltonboris** » Tue Aug 21, 2007 4:25 pm

Nothing really wrong with remembering the dead

fatshaft · Post by **fatshaft** » Tue Aug 21, 2007 4:32 pm

boltonboris wrote:Nothing really wrong with remembering the dead

agreed, but the La's always have to go one stage further than anybody else.

blurred · Post by **blurred** » Tue Aug 21, 2007 4:46 pm

General widespread disapproval of this idea, to be honest, from what I'm reading on the fora. I personally don't want it, and most people are the same. It's something that Olympiakos have done after their 'Gate 7' disaster, and fair play to them for it. I think that it's the recent links between the clubs that has put this idea in peoples' heads.

It's good that Parry et al are showing more concern for the fans than they typically have in the past, though, particularly on an issue that is so sensitive to thousands of fans. An alternative suggestion on RAWK is that they have a block of 96 seats that they give away to local schools/kids organisations on a rotational basis to allow more youngsters in to experience a footie game that they otherwise wouldn't. A more fitting tribute, I'd say.

Batman · Post by **Batman** » Tue Aug 21, 2007 5:59 pm

Typical overreaction from the Poolers.

I'm surprised someone hasn't stepped forward to suggest a ritual sacrifice before every game to appease the Olympian Gods following their outrageous behaviour in Athens.

TANGODANCER · Post by **TANGODANCER** » Tue Aug 21, 2007 7:48 pm

Batman wrote:Typical overreaction from the Poolers.

I'm surprised someone hasn't stepped forward to suggest a ritual sacrifice before every game to appease the Olympian Gods following their outrageous behaviour in Athens.

Well, it won't be a chicken, that's for sure.

mummywhycantieatcrayons · Post by **mummywhycantieatcrayons** » Mon Dec 17, 2007 11:04 pm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/footbal ... 148782.stm

Oops.

In all seriousness, leaving my personal feelings about Liverpool to one side... it's not great practice to unveil spectacular plans to the fans and then announce that they're being reigned in a few months later, is it?

We'd have people demanding that Gartside be put in the stocks for something like that.

officer_dibble · Post by **officer_dibble** » Mon Dec 17, 2007 11:09 pm

'kin ell

another flat pack stadium it is then

FaninOz · Post by **FaninOz** » Tue Dec 18, 2007 12:27 am

And 400mil is a hell of a debt for any football club to finance. If Pool fall from grace in any way during the next 10+ years and don't get regular Champions League income the Club could become another Leeds. Its a hell of a risky business that expenditure of this magnitude creates.

blurred · Post by **blurred** » Tue Dec 18, 2007 12:32 am

Someone managed to dig up a quote from 2003 today from Parry saying if we weren't careful the stadium wouldn't be ready in time for the Capital of Culture.

Got to laugh, haven't you, really...

Montreal Wanderer · Post by **Montreal Wanderer** » Tue Dec 18, 2007 12:56 am

FaninOz wrote:And 400mil is a hell of a debt for any football club to finance. If Pool fall from grace in any way during the next 10+ years and don't get regular Champions League income the Club could become another Leeds. Its a hell of a risky business that expenditure of this magnitude creates.

Our Olympic Stadium cost $1 billion (sorry that's 1,000 million) in 1976. We finally got rid of the special tax two years ago. Less money thirty years later sounds like a steal to we poor sods.

mummywhycantieatcrayons · Post by **mummywhycantieatcrayons** » Tue Dec 18, 2007 1:04 am

Montreal Wanderer wrote:
FaninOz wrote:And 400mil is a hell of a debt for any football club to finance. If Pool fall from grace in any way during the next 10+ years and don't get regular Champions League income the Club could become another Leeds. Its a hell of a risky business that expenditure of this magnitude creates.
Our Olympic Stadium cost $1 billion (sorry that's 1,000 million) in 1976. We finally got rid of the special tax two years ago. Less money thirty years later sounds like a steal to we poor sods.

Remind me, is yours the one with the huge unecessary erection attached to it?

EDIT:

Yes, it is.

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