Two things are very recognizable that the polished video has produced Manchester United to build up the club’s intention to build a brand new Old Trafford.
The first is the opening message, a famous quote from the 19th century Prime Minister, Benjamin Disraeli.
“What Manchester does today will do the world tomorrow.”
It returns to the late Victorian age when Manchester, who was called Cottonopolis, was the industrial center of the world. With industrial success, other innovations and new ways of thinking came, a cosmopolitan atmosphere and a lively culture.
It connects the best-ethos in the class, which Sir Jim Ratcliffe and Ineos since a takeover of the minorities and an agreement to assume that daily control was completed last year.
One of the first ambitions of ratcliffe was to create a “Wembley of the North” that could be the leading stadium throughout the United Kingdom, and that is what the confirmed plans now point out that an event location with 100,000 capacities is announced.
The other is a line that is delivered by the former club captain Gary Neville, who tells the video and is part of the Task Force of the Old Trafford Regeneration.
“A new future on familiar soil,” he said.
This is because Old Trafford, as we know, will no longer be. The stadium is to be built up Bulldozed and a new building on the site that the club has called since 1910.
It was clear that Old Trafford, while he was still the country’s largest club stadium, had been overtaken as the “best in the class”. There was no great renovation in almost two decades, it was a little tired of the edges, the kind of modern open rooms of other competing stages was missing and the leaky roof has been a problem since at least 2012.
The demolition of Old Trafford and the establishment of a brand new house on the same website was one of three options. The others should renovate the existing stadium or leave the area as a whole and start again somewhere else in the city. The latter was reduced pretty soon.
The problem with the renovation of Old Trafford, since it is located, proved to be excessively complicated for years. The club built the north stand, which was known in 1995 as Sir Alex Ferguson stand. The end of the West in Stretford was rebuilt a few years earlier after the Hillsborough disaster in 1989 as part of the movement towards the all-seater stadium in England. A newly developed east stand with the famous glass facade over a new megastore that opened in 2000. The quadrants between these three stands were later filled out until 2006.
But the south, which was renamed Sir Bobby Charlton stand, is significantly smaller due to its unpleasant location and technical headache, which is connected to the construction upwards due to the functioning railway line, which runs over the back in parallel.
Ultimately, United has long since grown out of the small country wedge between the railway on the one hand and the Bridgewater channel on the other. If you only go to the country 100 m west, which is currently occupied by the club’s parking spaces, suddenly a lot more space opens.
The renovation of Old Trafford, which may increase the capacity to a maximum of 87,000, was finally considered less inexpensive and too much compromises in the overall goal of a national stadium as the acceptable result of this process.
It feels like the club had made the right decision to start from scratch.
The obvious argument against Bulldozing Old Trafford and the reconstruction of the history factor. United switched to the site in 1910, won the first division title in her first full season in her new home and then became the most famous and successful club in England. Old Trafford, who is finally known as the “Theater der Dreams”, is a large part of Manchester United’s identity.
But what about his true century-Plus story actually left? Today the stadium is not to be recognized, even for only three decades. A large part of it was destroyed and rebuilt in the 1940s after it was repeatedly hit the nearby industrial locations by bombs of the Second World War. The only surviving part of the original building from 1910 is the Halfway tunnel that has been standing since 1993. Most of the rest of Old Trafford has been rebuilt or renovated in the past 35 years, to the point where his architecture is a relic of the nineties and early 2000s, definitely not from 1910 Edwardian England.
It could be where the Busby -Babes appeared, where George went best and the class of ’92 took its first steps. But it is not in the same breath either.
It is important that the memories are preserved by keeping the heart of Old Trafford alive. The Munich clock and the homage to those who unfortunately died in 1958, the statues of Sir Matt Busby, Sir Alex Ferguson, Jimmy Murphy and the Trinity all have to be lovingly installed in the new stadium, and they will be. And it is what Old Trafford really does at home, regardless of whether the bricks are new.
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