The 48,000 City of Manchester Stadium (also known as Eastlands) was opened in 2002 as home to the CommonWealth games. Now the home of Manchester City, Eastlands can be seen as the first of the new generation of stadia in England.
Situated a 15 minute walk from Manchester city centre, Eastlands offers football fans an unparalleled facilities and an incredible view where ever you are sat. There literally isn’t a bad seat in the house. Sit near the front and you feel completely involved in the game. Sit in the upper tier and you get a fantastic overall view.
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One criticism aimed at the new generation of football stadia in England is the lack of atmosphere that is generated compared with the traditional football grounds. Eastlands breaks this mould. Initially City fans were against the move from Maine Road. However, now the team has been there for a few seasons – and is finally playing some half decent football, the locals are much more settled and the atmosphere generated can be just as fierce as it used to be at Maine Road.
The success of Eastlands has been already been rewarded as the stadium is set to host the 2008 UEFA Cup Final. There are also rumours of the next Ricky Hatton fight taking place there this summer. This gives the new stadium some much needed history, even though it is still in its infancy.
Eastlands may not be the biggest stadium in Manchester, but in terms of the overall package to the football fan I would argue that it offers more as a potential world cup venue than City’s friends down the road.
Only London will have more than one stadium in it’s boundary. So this should not be used
Its very unlikely this would be used as it would be manchesters 2nd stadium. The Only way it could be is if Old Trafford was classed in the area of Trafford and not Manchester, with CoMS being Manchesters candidate stadium. I don’t think this could happen, but it would be a strong reserve stadium.
Each city can have 2 Stadia mx. So the city stadium will be chosen
No Tommy, only one city can have 2 stadiums, and that would surely fall to London, so City of Manchester would be almost certainly ruled out
No your wrong Charlie! Each city can have max 2 stadiums!!!
E.g
Manchester x2
London x 2
Birmingham x 2
Liverpool x2
etc . . .
Dave doesn;t know what hes talking about..
read FIFA guidelines on holding a Wolrd Cup
FIFA guidelines are negotiable.
I’d suggest CMS needs the tram system built if it wants to be part of it. There’s no simple public transport there, although by car its great.
City’s ground will offer more in terms of faciliites, but for those from abroad, most will want to go to old trafford, as they support them.
The tram will be running up to coms by then, plus with the number of suitable grounds that can be used for training bases for teams, it makes sense to have two stadiums in Manchester.
Example training bases:
Macclesfield Town,
Rochdale
Bury
Accrington
Oldham
Stockport
etc. etc
Theres not as many grounds around other cities such as Birmingham, Notts, Derby etc that are small enough, yet have the facilities to cater for the national teams training needs.
Manchester and London should get 2 stadiums and Birmingham hopefully as well simply because they are the main cities where most people live. Both are spread out well and nearly half of England are within close range of each one. It would make sense. Plus the chance to put 2 of the most impressive grounds in England (OT and COMS, been to both, both great) seemed stupid to miss
Could everyone accept that the plural of stadium is stadia, i.e. one stadium, two stadia. Well done Tommy at item 3.
ok guys yes london have two world class stadia but the city of manchester has tha capasity to expand to at least 60 thousand seats rather than the 45 at the moment its got the best disabled access in the uk it has plans for training facilities nearby as well as johns training base idea its a 10 min walk to the city center and old trafford is planning a extention to 96 thousand so therefor bigger than wembley oh nd
come on city