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Post by rednwhite43 on Aug 29, 2015 8:27:38 GMT
We should of demolished the vic and built the brit on that site . Had that happened it would have been a bodge job. How long would it have taken? Sharing with Vale for three years? Would that be a feasible option? I reckon it would of been built in two seasons, going to watch stoke play at fail park would have been the heavy price we would have had to pay, but its done now.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 29, 2015 8:32:48 GMT
I did say I was the only one!! Imagine what it would be like now, if that had happened ..
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Post by muglump on Aug 29, 2015 9:52:29 GMT
What happened to the land was a scandal typical of Stoke Council and influenced by back handers from St Modwen. I worked for the council at the time and it was as corrupt as fuck. That site should have been built on years ago instead of buggering up green areas.
As for the ground, because it was in town a lot more people walked or got the bus into stoke to go. The ground was a ramshackle, smelly place but the atmosphere makes the new stadium seem like a morgue. Seriously I thought the place was going to explode at times and when I was a kid I am just about old enough to remember being passed to the front when it got really rammed, over everyone's heads.
It was bloody cold at times but not as bad as the brit. It really wasn't economical to do it up but if something useful had been done with the land I would be able to cope with it's loss more. Going past that wasteland on the way to the new ground makes me really sad every time
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Post by Deleted on Sept 1, 2015 20:40:46 GMT
can remember my first game clearly from 69 against Leeds......Burrows was brilliant
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