The one thing we retain in Scottish football is our history. Every attendance record in Europe is held at Hampden, European games and domestic. You can't buy history like that. You don't destroy something which is not only part of Scottish football heritage but European football's too.
The problem lies with the SFA in that they had no foresight when Hampden was redeveloped in 1999. All the money was blown on one stand for the corporate element. It's not a national stadium, it's the third best ground in Scotland and an embarrassment.
The solution is to rebuild Hampden. Bring the ends closer to the pitch. Dig below ground level to make the capacity bigger. Should be looking at 70,000. It's shocking that Ireland was able to redevelop Landsdowne Road into the Aviva yet we cannot rebuild Hampden to make it worthy of a national stadium.
If money comes from Scottish Government then so be it. Plenty is ploughed into the arts each year without comment. This is a one off and is the national game.
The one thing we retain in Scottish football is our history. Every attendance record in Europe is held at Hampden, European games and domestic. You can't buy history like that. You don't destroy something which is not only part of Scottish football heritage but European football's too.
The problem lies with the SFA in that they had no foresight when Hampden was redeveloped in 1999. All the money was blown on one stand for the corporate element. It's not a national stadium, it's the third best ground in Scotland and an embarrassment.
The solution is to rebuild Hampden. Bring the ends closer to the pitch. Dig below ground level to make the capacity bigger. Should be looking at 70,000. It's shocking that Ireland was able to redevelop Landsdowne Road into the Aviva yet we cannot rebuild Hampden to make it worthy of a national stadium.
If money comes from Scottish Government then so be it. Plenty is ploughed into the arts each year without comment. This is a one off and is the national game.
Always felt a good place for a new national stadium to be built would be on the edge of Stirling near Pirhall.
Road links onto all the major motorways and it would be a great place to add a rail link that comes just off the main line to a new arena.
Its long overdue. Unfortunately there's no-one in power with any vision to not only deliver upon it, but to even conceive the idea