Etihad Stadium
Manchester has a huge passion for football stoked by an intense rivalry between Manchester City and Manchester United. I paid my first visit to the Etihad Stadium, home to City. CONTINUES BELOW
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Confession time: I’m not a football fan and never have been. It took me a while to appreciate why a failed plan to create a European Super League made headline news this week.
But the Etihad, built in 2002 to host the Commonwealth Games, is a landmark which arouses a lot of positive and negative passions.
The stadium, bereft of fans during the coronavirus lockdown, was very quiet. With my architectural hat on, I enjoyed its lofty struts and ‘tent pegs’ seemingly holding up the entire structure.
It’s on course to welcome fans back from mid-May and is a place meant to bristle with life and noise.
Finally, I learnt my lesson from a lively Facebook post on the topic. Never ask if the Etihad is better than Manchester United’s Old Trafford base!
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There is always beauty in architecture, even if we don’t understand the concept or passion that a building’s use engenders. Lovely images, Mike! :)
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Very eloquently put, Richard. I don’t think I could deal with it on a crowded match day. The Cup Final gave me the shivers, it looks so wrong now!
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Haha! I know what you mean… Even reruns of quiz shows on Dave freak me out a bit.. The contestants are WAY too close to each other!!!!!
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😂😂😂
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Despite following your adventures in Manchester for some time I still find it revelatory to see how Manchester looks compared to the view from my pushchair an aeon ago…
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Andy, if you’d been in your pushchair less than five years ago you would have barely recognised the place. The Etihad is a relative old timer from just after the turn of this century!
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Definitely need to visit sometime sooner rather than later!
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Yes, it really is hard to keep up with even when you live here.
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