I saw pictures and everything but, dear lord, that is a NICE looking stadium!
Left a full 20 mins before final whistle at first game in the new ground?Timings to/from town:
Left seat (above away fans) on the pen award to get off for an early train, started a stopwatch that second.
Brisk stroll had me back inside Lime Street station in 37 min 30s, including probably 4min to get from seat to street. That’s a 33 min walk, vs Apple telling me 42.
Noted a pile of those scooters 300m down regent road which might be worth checking out. Specially after a skinful
Other thoughts, prolly repeating others
- bevvy and khazi situation is not good inside
- nor on the concourse
- ‘kin awesome stadium otherwise, & you could see lids of both other stadia we built clearly from the East upper concourse
Sounded much better on tv than Goodison as they always had the speakers near away fans!On the TV (SkyX with Beglin as commentator) it looked great. Could hardly see the away fans from the TV angle, which some were worried about, and the sound carried well, although I wouldn't have said it came over as much better than Goodison when it was good. Covered the pre-match well with the fireworks and were very complimentary about the facilities and location.
(Jordan Pickford in the pre-match Sky interview was being spoken to from just about where I think my Villa ticket is, so psyched to see it for a real match.)
Stated it yes. Showed it no.They stated on numerous occasions how incredible the stadium is.
Wouldn't be without itIt's nice having Davek on ignore.
Good to know. I thought there was no parking nearby?First one out the way, road our look a little but all that matters is 2-0!
As for the stadium I am well impressed but catering leaves something to be desired.
I am fortunate (I think?) to have a seat in the club view which gives me a free programme of which they ran out, meet some ex-players which I think ran out and £10 to spend on food which also ran out!
Will be emailing tomorrow but will not hold my breathe waiting for an answer.
Teething problems from what I believe does bode well for a great future down on the docks, lots of places to have a drink if that’s your thing, I drove there and had no problems parking nd only took me 10 minutes more to get home than from GP and that was the walk to the car, traffic flowed.