Yeah welcome to over a week ago... And you host an event vs ManU at a large stadium because you'll sell out the large stadium. Why limit yourself to 18,000 when you can have 65,000 in attendance?
By the way, it could be worse. I mean the Quakes get America and ManU, one at home, one in front of a massive crowd near home likely with great weather. Houston just had their Man City friendly pulled out from under them by their recent rain storms and the team's terrible idea to re-sod the field 3 days before the match. Their FO canceled the match mere hours before it was slated to start (with people having already left for the stadium and everything). Say what you will about our FO, but they've not done anything quite that boneheaded that I can think of.
Actually, indirectly , a FIFA scandal like this one could very well put a damper on a lot of FIFA sanctioned tournaments and exhibitions. Guess that is why Dom came back home. I'll bet he is glad to outta there!
I thought RJ was just a compilation of some of the head scratchers we see around. The title certainly fits.
Yeah, but looking at the groupon, it doesn't offer a lower price. Just another way to market the game.
It used to be... It pretty much morphed into the "local, not soccer, bay area sports discussion" and I only go onto it by accident*... If we had an "Ignore this thread" option, I'd pick that one for sure... * - Maybe it has changed back?
That is not what I meant. I'm not watching it so there is no unwatch to execute. On the Club forum there is a list of all threads, either stickied or in order of latest posting. I don't think a user can chose a thread in that list and click on an "Ignore" option...
http://www.mercurynews.com/earthquakes/ci_28404918/manchester-united-game-moved-from-cal-san-jose Our universe is set right.
Bezerkley? Of course they were opposed to it. They're opposed to everything on reflex in that town unless it's the legalization of weed.
well, but I assume they went along with the renovation of the stadium. what did they think, that only a few football games would get played there in the fall? it's not fair to keep UCB from recouping their investment, since they are a taxpayer-owned entity (as opposed to the 49ers - screw them).
The town of Berkeley, California has a total population of 115k. The majority of the people living there are homeless, college faculty ,students and/or graduates. then you have the professors who mainly live up in the ritzy hills. How many resident can possibly complain about one soccer game being played over a 2-5 hour period? Did Nancy Thomas move up there too?
wealthy Cal athletics donors who probably scoffed at paying for grass to be put in for a game that was only going to be half full. a soccer game at that.
I can't imagine the Real Madrid vs. Inter Milan played at Cal's Memorial Stadium last year didn't make a ton of money for both the athletic program as well as the university as a rule. Why would they want to forgo that for a few hours of noise? Sounds like a lame excuse to me.
You don't follow Cal football much do you? The politics surrounding that stadium have been a cluster******** for years. The neighbors are the ultimate NIMBYs, the city is more than willing to entertain foolishness of it's citizens (I mean this was the stadium whose renovation was delayed by a bunch of whackjobs in trees), and the University has no clue what it's doing having bit of way more than they could chew with the renovation in the first place.
Just follow Cal Bears soccer program with longtime coach Kevin Grimes at the helm. The team plays in the decrepit 85 year old Edwards Stadium which has a track between the stands and the field and the one set of bleachers that supposedly hasn't been touched since the 1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake and is unusable. It seems to me that the city owes the university more than the university owes the city. If it weren't for the college, the city probably wouldn't exist as we know it.
Funny, the jocks won the battle vs. the tree-sitters, all for a shiny new thing that's rarely going to be used. I would rather have the trees.
My understanding is that the promoter was balking at putting down a natural grass field (like last year) probably because slow ticket sales couldn't sufficiently cover its cost so ManU refused to play at Berkeley. The cancelled community meeting was irrelevant to Relevent's decision. Only $'s mattered.
Remember, last years match was on a Saturday. Have they done a weeknight event at the stadium since renovation? The Oregon game (on a Friday) was moved to Levi's last year. Read the comments for what some fans thought about traffic flow last year--on a Saturday, when most fans could arrive hours early. http://www.dailycal.org/2014/07/29/berkeley-scores-real-madrid-vs-inter-milan-game/