• Pompey Stadium

    Portsmouth is fast becoming an American looking city.


    With skyscrapers and the amazing Spinnaker tower, it makes a pretty impressive vista as you roll down the M271 into the city centre.

    All it was missing was a bloody great stadium - Fratton Park was built during the end of Queen Victoria's days and she looks it.

    But now, at the whopping cost of £600 MILLION, a brand new 13 acre stadium is to be built, comprising of 36,000 seats. Take a look at some of the plans on 107.4 The Quay's website.
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    And that's not all. Pompey Village, as the development will apparently be called, will include 1,500 new flats and a shopping centre with restaurants, cafes and probably a poncy gym.

    But Fratton Park? The pride of Portsmouth?

    She'll be demolished - replaced with 750 new houses.

    It's rather a sad end to the park, if you ask me.
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    In her 108 year history, she's seen some pretty amazing things. They played a first round Olympic football game there in 1948 (one of only two played outside of London.)
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    In 1956, she became the first floodlit stadium in Britain.
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    For the 1949 FA Cup sixth round game between Pompey and Derby County, a massive 51,385 people squeezed into the 20,000 seater stadium.

    History, gone forever. But such is the inexorable march of progress - especially in a city which identifies itself so strongly with Pompey's football heritage.
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