Stadium announcment

[livvy145]

Larger version of above picture.

[Shaggy]

[thesilverfoxlfc]

With the glass in the corners, will that mean that you can watch the match from outside and wont need a ticket????

[Harv]

at least we now know that the pictures that were leaked were the real deal.....and that whomever leaked them did have is ass on the line

[Gray]

So the right hand stand as seen from the southeast shot curves inward and the left stand as seen from the southwest shot curves outward, would love to see a nortwest shot to get a better grasp on that stand as i think its going to be stunning.

[Imy]

With the glass in the corners, will that mean that you can watch the match from outside and wont need a ticket????

I don't think so, the pitch is below ground level so if your'e watching from the outside i think all you'd see is the crowd in the stands and not the game.

[thesilverfoxlfc]

Liverpool are considering ditching the name Anfield and selling the naming rights for their new stadium for £100m. (Daily Star )

Yeah and this also

Reds boss Rafael Benitez has been told it is time to deliver some trophies. (Daily Mirror)

What has the man been doing since he arrived....champs league first season not bad

[rushscored4]

I showed the original three artist's impressions to my mate last night. He's the guy that I know who worked for AFL on the original design. He's back working there now and is currently working on Hearts' new stadium which will be a smaller version of our old 'New Anfield', i.e. the identikit design.

Anyway, he was very impressed with the new plans and thought they were a million times better than the one he'd worked on. However, he said that AFL didn't care they'd been sacked because they still got their fees but no longer have to project-manage the construction of the stadium and therefore don't have to recruit more architects.

[Dalglish]

The San Giro

[Shanks65]

From The Times
July 26, 2007
Genuine hope in our hearts that tradition walks on too
Tony Evans: Fan’s view

Last Christmas, the family gathered and we talked, like families do, of the past. I mentioned that I was allowed to go the match without adult supervision, from the age of 8. The disclosure brought accusing looks and embarrassment for my mother — in the age of overcoddling of children, it seems tantamount to neglect to allow so young a child to go unattended into such an environment.

“Ah,” she said in mitigation, “but I never let you go on the Kop.”

And that was true. The condition of being allowed out was that I went in the Anfield Road end. The Spion Kop was not for children.

From my vantage point on the railings pitchside, the Kop was barely 115 yards distant. You would arrive in the ground at 1pm and watch it develop from a surprisingly small empty terrace into a gigantic, swelling living being. It could be generous, funny and even gentle at times — opposition goalkeepers received a tumultuous ovation and rivals were lauded after the final whistle — but it had a wild aspect to its personality that erupted with frequency. Then, it swallowed up the weak and spat them out, passed down the terrace hand-over-hand to the St John Ambulance men. It swayed and bounced. It steamed and snorted like an angry bull and when it roared . . .

When it roared, either in joy or rage, Wellington came to mind: I don’t know what effect it had on the enemy, but, by God, it frightened me. Even now, with the days when 26,000 are a mere memory, it retains the capacity to terrify. Ask Chelsea.

So now the plan is to bulldoze our fortress Anfield and turn the site into a recreation park for the community as part of the regeneration of north Liverpool. When the move to Stanley Park was mooted, the only demand that Liverpool fans made was: Keep our Kop.

The original stadium plans depicted a bowl, without a dedicated end. Tom Hicks and George Gillett Jr, the American owners, had the sense to rip them up and commission a new blueprint, one that incorporated an end of 18,000, devoid of corporate boxes, with a steep gradient and acoustics that will amplify the fanaticism.

But will it be the Kop? That depends. Over recent years there has been a dilution of the fanaticism at Anfield. Sure, on the big European nights it looked as if nothing had changed, but at an average league match the likes of Fulham and Charlton Athletic must wonder what Chelsea found so intimidating.

The fans and the club recognise the problem and the Reclaim The Kop (RTK) movement began this year to try to instil Kopite values in the fans drawn to the club in the post-Istanbul era. For all the

hysteria generated during the pre-season tour to Hong Kong this week — the American owners must be delighted with this visible proof of the club’s global appeal — the voice of the Kop is Scouse and retaining it will be a crucial task in the next few years. Keeping the prices low would be a big step to retaining that local voice.

To help RTK, the club have created a new 1892 area at the heart of the Kop for next season. It is not a “singing section” but a place where 1,892 — the number is taken from the year the club was founded — like-minded, predominantly local supporters can sit together and provide an engine-room for atmosphere. It is fans such as this who will carry the personality of the Kop from the old ground to the new. They will relish the design of the new stadium, but without people like this it will be just another stand.

Liverpool fans like to believe that they are at the forefront of football culture and this could be the first ground to have a better atmosphere than its predecessor. From these plans, we have the vehicle. This Kop could be even more fearsome than the one we have now.

— Tony Evans is Deputy Football Editor of The Times and author of Far Foreign Land: Pride and Passion the Liverpool Way.

[Rich]

When it roared, either in joy or rage, Wellington came to mind: I don’t know what effect it had on the enemy, but, by God, it frightened me. Even now, with the days when 26,000 are a mere memory, it retains the capacity to terrify. Ask Chelsea.

[rushscored4]

The San Giro

The Mancs have called Anfield that for years as well as Binfield (we're known as the 'Bin Dippers') and the new stadium is being enviously described as 'The Theatre of Scaffolding'...

:whatever:

[Shaggy]

and the new stadium is being enviously described as 'The Theatre of Scaffolding'...

:whatever:

I don't get that. Why? And have they not looked on top of their stadium recently? :whatever:

[kopite100]

There's another new pic on this article too:

http://www.skyscrapernews.com/news.php?ref=1026

[Shaggy]

There's another new pic on this article too:

http://www.skyscrapernews.com/news.php?ref=1026

Bloody hell.

As has been asked, why didn't they release all the pics at once? Why this drip-feeding?