Yeah, the Olympic Stadium example must be horrible for West Ham fans. Not only a totally new and different stadium, but far from their ex-area. That might take a whole generation before there are simply new traditions, memories, habits, etc.
I think that was the intention but it never materialised. Possibly the timing didn’t help because it would have become available as soon as the pandemic pulled the rug on numerous building projects. I don’t know the full details of it.
It’ll look a lot less steeper in front of a packed out stadium trust me.
I remember sitting in quite high up maybe few seats from the last row in U4 few months after the Main stand was done, it really wasn’t that bad and you still see everything clearly. All depends what view you wanna have, sitting in the lower KD stand so close to the pitch wasn’t for me, prefer a little more zoomed out than in when attending games.
Well, it’s all different ways of getting more people into the ground, without massively changing how the stadium looks (square shape). Not easy. It will mean that two stands will be like on steroids. The new tiers are obviously going further back, the new superstructure lies where the old road was. Funny thing is that the new ARE was planned to be a bit more steeper and with the same truss like on the Main Stand. But due to something with Stanley Park behind, they had to slightly change it and go more “conservative”. The truss is still there to carry the roof of course, but it’s smaller and hidden.
Overall, I like the way it’s going and how it will look (the recent graphics and images showed more angles than before). I was really interested how they would link the corner between the new ARE and King Kenny Stand (because of the difference in height and roof). I couldn’t find anywhere how that was planned, how it would look. But it will be nicely closed. They’re working on it right now. No gaps, no need to cut the roof King Kenny’s stand (like they did with the Kop and old ARE, both of which was/is a bit ugly).
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