About Lords. Residents are organising against 20-20, as they view it as a new game played at the venue. Lords are talking of increasing the size of the ground and put a rapid-transit rail station under a newer larger stand to get through planning permission.
Many residents are pointing to the new Olympic stadium, which can hold 80,000. It is round in shape and can hold a cricket field. The stadium has no tenant after 2012. The solution is there, but will they take it up?
BTW, on one day during the England-Australia test at Lords at the weekend, the bars took ?250,000. Say only 25,000 drank out of the 32,000, that is an average of ?10 per head. No wonder they want to increase the capacity. At a 20-20 match at the Olympic stadium with 60,000 attending and 50,000 drinking that is half a ?million in one day at the bar. They hold two 20-20 matches in one day.
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That is why EFC & LFC need to get fans in earlier and keep them in longer.
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