Had a brainwave. Everyone is saying one option we don't have is to do nothing - but what if we did precisely that. Or near as damn it.
How about keeping the stadium as is, and instead of doing it up, we retro fit it back to its original wooden seating.
we could have the first antique style classic stadium.
People would come to marvel and wonder at the orginal furnishings.
take out all that modern capitalist crap that detracts from the game - the computerised advertising hoardings, the plastic moulded seats, the tv showing an advert for soccerbus instead of the replay of the wonder goal you missed whilst in a queue for a microwaved meat pastie that only contains 28% "meat".
Hit the nostalgia market.
You may laugh but I remember pubs with all the brass fittings and books and carpets being ripped out as not being modern. Then they were modern and that was [Poor language removed]. Then they refitched them to look like they did when they had the brass fittings.
But they never could match what they ripped out, there an air of falsehood about one of those fake pubs. But an original old pub always feels dead comfy and lived in.
bring back an old school goodison park. It wouldn't be fake because part of the ground has never been really done up anyway.
As Qunetin Crisp once wrote,
In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast. Those who once inhabited the suburbs of human contempt find that without changing their address they eventually live in the metropolis.
*runs and hides*
