Two things are very obvious from the polished video that Manchester United has produced to reveal the club’s intention to build a new Old Trafford.
The first is the opening message, a famous quote from 19th -century Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli.
“What Manchester does today, the world does tomorrow.”
It goes back to the Victorian afternoon, when Manchester, called Cottonopolis, was the industrial center in the world. Other innovations and new ways of thinking, a cosmopolitan atmosphere and a vibrant culture, with industrial success.
It is linked to the Ethos “best of the class” that Sir Jim Ratcliffe and INEOS have wanted to work from the taking over the minority and the agreement to assume that everyday control was completed last year.
One of Ratcliffe’s first ambitions was to do Create a “North Wembley” This could be the leading stadium throughout the UK, and that’s what Confirmed plans It is now aiming to follow the announcement of a place of 100,000 capabilities.
The other is a line delivered by former club captain, Gary Neville, who tells the video and is part of the old Trafford Regeneration Working Group.
“A new future on family ground,” he said.
This is because Old Trafford as we know it will not be more. The stadium has to be bulldozed and a new structure built on the club that the club has called at home since 1910. The plans are without a doubt, three turns, the highest pointing 200 meters to the sky, representing the Red Devil Trident tongs.
It was clear that Old Trafford, although the largest club in the country’s club had been overcome as the “best in class”. No significant redevelopment had taken place in almost two decades, it has been a bit tired on the edges, the type of modern open spaces of other rival stages is lacking and the ceiling that filters has been a problem since 2012.
Old trafford and building a new house in the same place was one of the three options. The others had to redevelop the existing stadium or leave the place completely and start returning elsewhere in the city. The latter was deducted quite soon.
The problem of the redevelopment of Old Trafford, as it was too complicated for years. The club built the northern stand, now known as the Sir Alex Ferguson Stand, up to three levels in 1995. The end of Stretford in the West had been rebuilt a few years earlier as part of the movement towards All-Stadia in England after the 1989 Hillsborough disaster. An East East Stand, completed with the famous glass facade above a new megastore facade above a new megastore facade. 2000. The quadrants between these three stops were filled later in 2006.
But the south, renamed Sir Bobby Charlton Stand, has remained significantly lower due to its uncomfortable location and the head of engineering head of the creation upward due to the operating railway line that is parallel to the rear.
Ultimately, the United has long been overcoming the small land wedge between the railway on one side and the Bridgewater channel on the other. Passing up to 100 meters to the West, on the land that currently occupies the club’s car parks, suddenly opens much more space.
The redevelopment of Old Trafford, potentially increasing the capacity to a maximum of 87,000, was considered to be less profitable and too much a commitment to the general objective of a national stage that was considered the acceptable result of this process.
It is heard that the club has made the right decision to start from the base.
The obvious argument against the bulldozing Old Trafford and the reconstruction is the factor of history. The United moved to the site in 1910, won the title of the First Division in its first full season in its new home and became the most famous and most successful club in England. Old Trafford, which finally becomes known as the “Theater of Dreams”, is a huge part of the identity of Manchester United.
But what is your true ‘history’ of the most? Today, the stadium has been unrecognizable, even for only three decades. Much was destroyed and rebuilt in the 1940’s after being repeatedly struck by World War II bombs aimed at nearby industrial sites. The only surviving part of the original construction of 1910 is the mid -line tunnel, which has been disused since 1993. Most of the rest of Old Trafford has been strongly rebuilt or redeveloped for the last 35 years, to the point that its architecture is a relic in the 1990’s and early 2000’s, definitely not in 1910 Edwardian England.
It could be where the Busby Babes emerged, where George Best thrived and where the ’92 class took his first steps. But with the same breathing, it is not.
What is important is that the memories are kept keeping the heart of Old Trafford alive. The Munich clock and the tribute to those who died sadly in 1958, the statues of Sir Matt Busby, Sir Alex Ferguson, Jimmy Murphy, and the Trinity must be lovingly incorporated into the New Stadium and will be. And it’s what really makes Old Trafford home, no matter if bricks are new.
