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Baloney wrote: Thu Feb 18, 2021 10:35 am First ever entirely wooden stadium approved, for Forest Green Rovers


https://www.cladglobal.com/CLADnews/arc ... ource=news


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A_B wrote: Thu Feb 18, 2021 10:53 am
Baloney wrote: Thu Feb 18, 2021 10:35 am First ever entirely wooden stadium approved, for Forest Green Rovers


https://www.cladglobal.com/CLADnews/arc ... ource=news


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Baloney wrote: Thu Feb 18, 2021 10:35 am First ever entirely wooden stadium approved, for Forest Green Rovers


https://www.cladglobal.com/CLADnews/arc ... ource=news


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Based on the maintenance I have to do on my wood fence...I am expecting RFK-stadium style issues. A very interesting club.
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That stadium is gorgeous - and it certainly can't be cheap.

Here's what a typical League 2 stadium looks like:

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I think Forrest Green Rovers has visions of being more than a League 2 squad. More likely League 1 with an occasional shot at the Championship type aspirations from what I read.
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Pruitt wrote: Thu Feb 18, 2021 11:59 am That stadium is gorgeous - and it certainly can't be cheap.

Here's what a typical League 2 stadium looks like:

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Luxury, it's got a roof, Shrewsbury used to be open to the elements, froze my butt off standing on this terrace

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What's more impressive is that a league 2 side could hire Zaha Hadid
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I used to live in Shrewsbury (the other one) and that's a great stadium. Would love to be there for corners in a packed game.
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I'm working on two projects at the moment that are using timber frame construction.
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Thanks for this. Interesting.
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That looks like a set from a Doctor Who episode a few years ago.
And his one problem is he didn’t go to Russia that night because he had extracurricular activities, and they froze to death.
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FGR are pretty Eco-minded. Pretty sure their training table is fully vegan and has been for years.
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That logo is better than my idea of a picture of a guy with a clubfoot.
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govmentchedda wrote: Thu Feb 18, 2021 1:04 pm FGR are pretty Eco-minded. Pretty sure their training table is fully vegan and has been for years.
yeah meat free stadium
Following the investment of new chairman and eco-tycoon Dale Vince, and his company Ecotricity, The New Lawn employs a number of eco-friendly features designed to help make the stadium one of the most environmentally sustainable football stadiums in the world. The playing surface features as the world's first organic football pitch,[12] meanwhile solar panels on the roof of the stadium as well as outside will eventually provide enough electricity to power 25 per cent of the stadium.[13]

The pitch also collects rainwater to be recycled around the stadium and all waste cooking oil at the club is recycled into biofuel. The club introduced a solar powered 'MowBot' in April 2012 which cuts the grass on the pitch and uses GPS technology to automatically guide it round the pitch without the need for human intervention.[14] It is the first solar powered robotic lawn mower to be used on a football pitch in British football.

Local farmers use the grass cuttings from the stadium to condition their soil plus the stadium is the first meat-free football stadium in the country after the club changed to an environmentally sustainable menu in February 2011.[15] The area outside the stadium has also been developed into a habitat for wildlife through the planting of wild flowers and native trees.[16]
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A dive that will never ever be topped.

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Fun fact from The Lead podcast today. Erling Haaland listens to the Champions League anthem when he gets into his car.
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The video above sums up an away CONCACAF tilt quite well.
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wlu_lax6 wrote: Tue Mar 09, 2021 7:50 am Fun fact from The Lead podcast today. Erling Haaland listens to the Champions League anthem when he gets into his car.
TIL there's a Champions League anthem. Did John Tesh compose it?
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Giff wrote: Tue Mar 09, 2021 10:57 am
wlu_lax6 wrote: Tue Mar 09, 2021 7:50 am Fun fact from The Lead podcast today. Erling Haaland listens to the Champions League anthem when he gets into his car.
TIL there's a Champions League anthem. Did John Tesh compose it?
Bruh, the CL anthem is iconic! The lyrics, less so.
They are the best teams
They are the best teams
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The master
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The great teams
The champions

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They are the best
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These are the champions

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Should be in the Anthems thread with those lyrics
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IIRC the music is re-purposed from a work of Handel's.
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Johnny Carwash wrote: Tue Mar 09, 2021 11:11 am IIRC the music is re-purposed from a work of Handel's.
So, it's no Roundball Rock is what you're trying to say.


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A_B wrote: Tue Mar 09, 2021 11:32 am
Johnny Carwash wrote: Tue Mar 09, 2021 11:11 am IIRC the music is re-purposed from a work of Handel's.
So, it's no Roundball Rock is what you're trying to say.


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At least someone is using it!
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Now pull Haaland so he doesn't get kneecapped.
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A sense of palpable excitement for El Clasico Nacional here in PDX. The bars (even the gringo ones) are filling up. We got here just in time.
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brian wrote: Sun Mar 14, 2021 8:22 pm A sense of palpable excitement for El Clasico Nacional here in PDX. The bars (even the gringo ones) are filling up. We got here just in time.
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PVR

I had a couple pops before the game.
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I don’t watch nearly as much soccer as most of u guys. But today I watched some of West Ham v. Fucking Manchester United™ . I was sort of confused by the Hammers wearing sky blue kits. I thought they always wore maroon and blue. So... is this a new thing?
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sancarlos wrote: Sun Mar 14, 2021 11:15 pm I don’t watch nearly as much soccer as most of u guys. But today I watched some of West Ham v. Fucking Manchester United™ . I was sort of confused by the Hammers wearing sky blue kits. I thought they always wore maroon and blue. So... is this a new thing?
Teams have started wearing away kits that have no relation to their established colours.

Also 3rd kits that are often absurd.
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Pruitt wrote: Mon Mar 15, 2021 5:52 am
sancarlos wrote: Sun Mar 14, 2021 11:15 pm I don’t watch nearly as much soccer as most of u guys. But today I watched some of West Ham v. Fucking Manchester United™ . I was sort of confused by the Hammers wearing sky blue kits. I thought they always wore maroon and blue. So... is this a new thing?
Teams have started wearing away kits that have no relation to their established colours.

Also 3rd kits that are often absurd.
I don't know when this started, but for at least 20 years, the away kits change almost every year, and the 3rd kits became more prevalent maybe 15 years ago. The colors a team are known for are the home jersey, and the away jersey can completely change year to year. I used to assume it was a ploy to generate shirt sales, but looking at a chart of Arsenal away kits through history, it goes back to the very beginning. Randomly switching from white, to blue, to referee stripes to yellow... It looks like Arsenal wore a 3rd kit in 1966, then again in 1994, but in 2000 new 3rd kits happened every year or two. I always loved looking at historical kit charts.
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Baloney wrote: Fri Nov 06, 2020 7:39 am Derby to win Champions League in 2024

https://www.bbc.com/sport/amp/football/ ... ssion=true
Maybe not

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Wankdorf is my new favorite stadium.
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Crap pitch in Belgium today, near side looks like one of the farmers fields I used to play on
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Georgia Spain is an entertaining game, 1-1 atm
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Big, bad Canada hung 11 on the Caymans.
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brian wrote: Mon Mar 29, 2021 6:52 pm Big, bad Canada hung 11 on the Caymans.
The streets are mobbed with fans celebrating!

This is where Canada shines - against tiny Caribbean nations (and in this case, an overseas money laundering centre for rich Brits). Aruba! You're next!
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If you thought Canada's 11-0 win yesterday was a massacre, Japan beat Mongolia 14-0, pumping in three in added time just for shits and giggles.
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degenerasian wrote: Tue Mar 30, 2021 2:28 pm If you thought Canada's 11-0 win yesterday was a massacre, Japan beat Mongolia 14-0, pumping in three in added time just for shits and giggles.
To be fair ...

... the Mongolians have had it coming for a couple of centuries now.
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