Croke Park generate extra revenue by having major concerts and other sporting events in it, surely this is something that Everton could look into when designing it. A smaller scale Millennium stadium in Cardiff with retractable roof would be good.
ps. Any spare ticket for All-Ireland final this Sunday for Croker (Donegal fan in dire need)
I wish I had mate, my ticket is Dublin specific, big fair play on turning us over- better team on the day, still gutted though!
On the new stadium, I think the hotel/hospitality thing isn't viable for us - just my opinion mind, I'm over in Liverpool a fair bit for games and I wouldn't stay in Walton,with all due respect to Walton and I drink in the Valley a fair bit, the action at night in town, transport links to the airport etc, then in the close season months your looking at a dead weight! That said I guess it depends on the development, it would want to be something very special to get punters away from town for pints or shoping etc! For my money anchor tenants would have to have a local market to be viable, so your looking at your Tesco's etc here again I'd say, maybe a sports store, subway and bevy centre, might be close enough to catch some of the traffic from grey skull when Norway are at home!
I'd like to emphasise here though that from everything I've read so far it seems Everton won't own this stadium, we will rent it of the council, make of that what you will : the two main examples I've seen of this are Coventry and City, the detail as always will be the most important aspect of this!
