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Aye but that's an organised ashleyout boycott. Can City fans afford to buy a season ticket then just not bother turning up half the time?

Fair play then. I might have imagined the empty seats at their place for league games.

It'll be interesting to see if they can fill it mind.

Honestly can't see Tow Laws manager giving that much of a fuck, tbh.

We need some defencers aye. Who honestly thinks that we'll start next season with a new, quality CB?

Engineers perhaps? Like me, aye.

http://www.nrwhits.de/thumbs/img/Location/33/05/00/p/p_wide/veltins-arena-gelsenkirchen-533.jpg Good shot from Schalke. You're gonna need rsj's that are about 25 feet deep.

http://a.espncdn.com/photo/2008/0730/phoenix_580.jpg That's what I'm on about. Usually when you have a retractable pitch it means an attempt to reduce the weight of one end of the stadium. Yet spurs are going the other way, hats off!

I'm sure smarter people than me have done the sums. But if you look at the current stadia to do this, schalke's stadium has less than 17,000 seats and no car park behind the goal. The one in Arizona has next to fuck built over that end of the stadium. Spurs are gonna put 17,000 seats and an office block over the hole.

I am quite jealous of Spurs, it looks ace. Does anyone know if they'll play at their current ground until this is done or need to move temporarily?

I hope it does get built, it just seems like a ridiculous amount of money to spend when you don't have too. The grass pitch will spend about 1 week out of 52 in that big hole in the ground, and building it will be more cost effective than laying a temporary surface? We can all have a good laugh when the weight of 17,000 NFL fans causes the supports to buckle, the "kop" to drop three feet in the middle trapping the grass pitch forever.

That picture only shows a cross section of the stand behind the goal. In reality the cavity would need to around 70m wide. So you'd have the entire weight of the stadium, plus 17,000 people jumping up and down, plus the weight of car park area outside... nah.

As much as I love the idea, shit like that fascinates me tbh, I'm gonna predict this will never get built.

Other places that have retractable pitches like Schalke and the one in Arizona have / need a massive open area outside, the size of football pitch. Maybe spurs are gonna roll theirs up like a big green bog roll? Edit: ahh I see, so they're gonna build a huge hole in the ground under what will become a huge office or something? Why don't they just lay astroturf down as and when needed? Or you know, play NFL on grass?

How does the grass pitch retract? There's nowhere for it to retract too. Unless they take it apart in sections like they did at the Silverdome, way back when.

Spoilsport. I was going to use my birthday thread to put myself LB. Fuck it we'll go with that then, Rod Hull & emu in goal.

I meant transfer rumour threads.

Somebody come up with a team made from players who had threads on here but never signed. I bet we could win the champions league with it.

He'll be stuck there watching some clogger centre half punting the ball over his head to some no mark centre forward, wishing he was still riding the pine at PSG and collecting medals. Either way his France career is down the shitter.

Where's this? The Guardian.

I genuinely couldn't give a monkeys about this. Cabaye has said he's holding on til next week, basically inviting other clubs to step in, cause he no more wants to play for Pardew than I do.

The celebration is unmistakable.

If Leicester get Klopp I'm done with football forever.

Wasn't Ryan Taylor playing at left back during the run which ended with Steven Taylors injury against Chelsea. Where we were nigh on the best defensive unit this club can remember?

That's technically not possible I'm an engineer this image has my mind spinning............I could probably build something, defiantly do you a solidworks model It's not the mechanics of the act that melted my head, more the consent issue.