First game at Atlético de Madrid's new stadium, the Metropolitano, on Saturday. My son's been a season ticket holder at Atleti for a few years, and I've finally got one myself. yeah, I know, but what can you do? I can't make it to Selhurst Park every week.
It's set on the outskirts of the city, out toward the airport - the old stadium was just a walk for us, though when it went up, in the 60s, it was pretty much city limits, itself. Still, we got there in half an hour, door to door, on the metro, and we live right in the centre. And when I say it's on the outskirts when you walk out of the tube station, on your left side it's a forest of those sand-brown Madrid tower blocks, and to your right are kilometres of nothing, all the way to the mountains. The road accesses are unfinished and all the conveniences of the old stadium are, conspicuously, missing. All those hundreds of family run bars are going to have it rough without Atleti being there. There's a big cement space, in its place, with those mobile food and drink stands you see at rock festivals - the club wants people to go there and hang out and spend hours there before and after games. I think it's a stretch. It'll be interesting, too, to see what happens this week with the Chelsea game - most people end work here around eight o'clock and it is hard to see how they will get there by quarter to nine.
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It's set on the outskirts of the city, out toward the airport - the old stadium was just a walk for us, though when it went up, in the 60s, it was pretty much city limits, itself. Still, we got there in half an hour, door to door, on the metro, and we live right in the centre. And when I say it's on the outskirts when you walk out of the tube station, on your left side it's a forest of those sand-brown Madrid tower blocks, and to your right are kilometres of nothing, all the way to the mountains. The road accesses are unfinished and all the conveniences of the old stadium are, conspicuously, missing. All those hundreds of family run bars are going to have it rough without Atleti being there. There's a big cement space, in its place, with those mobile food and drink stands you see at rock festivals - the club wants people to go there and hang out and spend hours there before and after games. I think it's a stretch. It'll be interesting, too, to see what happens this week with the Chelsea game - most people end work here around eight o'clock and it is hard to see how they will get there by quarter to nine.
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