People who know me will know I'm not the biggest Ajax supporter in the world but yesterday I was really shocked ! I have never ever been in a stadium like that ! What an awful piece of crap ! It's like a combination between a shopping mall and a spaceship ! It is that there was grass on the floor otherwise I would never have guessed this was a stadium. It has got no atmosphere at all. There is in the middle a small opening allowing air to get in and you can see a bit of sky, the rest is roofed. I knew the Ajax support isn't so happy with the place either but now I understand why. And what a great invention this sort of credit card is you need to buy food n drinks, this scheme allows you to not only once have to cue no, twice ! Once for the card and once for yr drinks ! Hooray !
Also it seems that all these new stadiums have to be multi functional. Not only are they build for hosting football matches but also to let artists who aren't good enough to play smaller venues (where people might actually be able to make out if someone is missing a note or two) anymore play there. (Jesus, what a sentence !) Also the bigshots who decide on what the stadium is gonna look like think we like to be treated as customers, that we want a McNasty's, lots of gift shops, a special shop where you can only buy popcorn and other sweet stuff, a coffee corner (very tasteful indeed), something that looks like a pub but doesn't sell alcohol on match days and other American crap like that. That's worse enough, I think. But then the people who work there,
1. Security : Big basterds with earpieces in who are dressed very nice indeed but the big, often bold head and the expression on there face usually shows that these people really don't like anything better than you giving them some lip so they can kick the shite out of you, or worse, deny you access to the ground.
2. Shopkeepers/Barpeople : Dressed in a nice uniform, usually striped, sometimes complimented with a nice sort of paper hat. (another great thing McNasty's has given the world) Usually they are very nice indeed, a bit like your average Tesco personnel.
3. People who walk around in uniforms doing God knows what with mobile phones and other stuff you can talk into. If you ask them for instance where your seat is or something like that they will ask someone else who seems to be doing the same job as them and sometimes they will even tell you to ask the guy down there, at the end, just round the corner.
Sometimes I'm glad I can watch matches on telly in the pub with a cool beer and my friends around. Saves you the trouble getting pissed off.
But there are some good stadiums left, still.
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