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Wembley Stadium or The Millennium Stadium?

Salad
Salad Posts: 10,189
edited August 2007 in Other Football and Sports
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/rugby/rugby_league/article2340341.ece
The new Wembley is stunning, sweeping and gigantic. Great seats, 12,000 more of them than in Cardiff. Wembley is a base about which England football can be proud. It dominates the skyline for miles whereas the Millennium is stuck behind a forest of unattractive Cardiff skyscrapers.
But yes! The Millennium wins – it is in the City Centre, not a distant suburb. But its other advantage outweighs all those of Wembley. Intimacy. It is gigantic, majestic, and yet the design brings you close to the action, and makes you feel more involved. You can touch the players.

Anyone been to both?

Comments

  • Rothko
    Rothko Posts: 18,809
    Wembley, easily
  • Shag
    Shag Posts: 4,555
    Yeah I've been to both , Wembley all day long

    The other one is in Wales
  • Rothko
    Rothko Posts: 18,809
    Stephen Jones is also a Rugby Union hack
  • Salad
    Salad Posts: 10,189
    PS Interesting to note that Wembley cost £750M, the Millennium Stadium cost £190M.
  • Rothko
    Rothko Posts: 18,809
    edited August 2007
    Yeah, and interesting to note that Wembley has 3 times the floor space of the Millennium, 12,000 more seats, and better facilities through out. The Actual Build cost of Wembley was £352m
  • cfgs
    cfgs Posts: 11,477
    [cite]Posted By: Rothko[/cite]Yeah, and interesting to note that Wembley has 3 times the floor space of the Millennium, 12,000 more seats, and better facilities through out. The Actual Build cost of Wembley was £390m

    plus it is not a city populated by sheep shaggers
  • Rothko
    Rothko Posts: 18,809
    Also the Millennium stadium came in over budget, and ended up John Laing having to cut a couple of thousand jobs due to the cost overruns
  • pete_tong1
    pete_tong1 Posts: 2,653
    Wembley inside is stunning outside it looks crap personally compared to the Stade de France, Millenium.
  • Ledge
    Ledge Posts: 7,179
    Never been millenium but i would still say wembley
  • Salad
    Salad Posts: 10,189
    didn't mean to get into a slanging match but Laing lost £45M and cut 850 jobs, Multiplex lost £145M on Wembley and it was 2yrs late. Wembley actually cost more than the Millennium, Stade de France and Stadium Australia combined!

    Wembley is obviously a wonderful stadium, built at a huge cost.
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  • Rothko
    Rothko Posts: 18,809
    If you throw all the project costs in Wembley did cost more, but Stadium Australia and Stade de France were built on available brown field land which didn't need any demolition on it, the Millennium was built on land owned already by the client.

    Cheaper projects, not half as good a stadiums.

    Wembley is the nuts
  • eeladdick
    eeladdick Posts: 271
    so wot ,its the best stadium in the world
    thats why every one had to wait
    it was built to last
  • Mortain
    Mortain Posts: 391
    edited August 2007
    A day out at the mellenium with your club is fantastic.
    Not comparing stadiums, but i don't think the buzz on the streets & the many pubs of cardiff pre/post game could be beaten.
  • Steve Dowman
    Steve Dowman Posts: 2,406
    good point, nothing around wembley to match being in the centre of cardiff.
  • KBslittlesis
    KBslittlesis Posts: 8,607
    Been to both & Millenium all day long & then again on Fridays.

    Probably because it is right in the centre and we usually make a weekend of it.

    After winning with the mighty Saints on Saturday at Wembley, we got a train straight home..............not the same at all.

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