Ultimate Sporting Venue Tournament

tc20

Montjuic.
Great location, cool city

paulie21

Westfalenstadion - would love to attend a game there

JP Liz V1

Old Trafford

Westfalenstadion

JP Liz V1

Piscina Municipal de Montjuïc

Electric Nitwit

HeidiHeidi wrote: »

Phew, I was too busy watching potters potting and fit people throwing themselves over straw bales and doing sitting competitions

Sure, perfectly normal

Sawduck

Piscina Municipal de Montjuïc

Omackeral

That is a huge result I didn't see coming. Piscina Municipal de Montjuïc advances

Omackeral

Páirc Uí Chaoimh

Home of Cork GAA



VS

Maracanã Stadium

Home of Flamengo, Fluminense, Brazil National Team (selected matches), 2014 FIFA World Cup Final

HeidiHeidi

Páirc Uí Chaoimh, just for that one Siamsa Cois Laoi, way back whenever!

Necro

Ugh, I think this is going to be a slaughter but going for

Páirc Uí Chaoimh - I really like it since it was reopened in 2017

Zaph

Maracanã Stadium. It's crumbling pretty badly now I believe, but it still holds the record for the biggest ever attendance at a football match, just a handful under 200,000. The atmosphere must have been unreal.

Sawduck

Maracanã Stadium impressive and iconic stadium

alchemist33

The Maracana for all the history. Nothing unique about Parc Ui Caoimh that I can see, except its site in the capital

Maracanã Stadium

Prefer the circle shape

Electric Nitwit

Maracanã Stadium

For the history, the crazy old capacity, the fact my mate's a Brazilian Flamengo fan and will hurt me if he find I voted against it

Plus it will hold its own against any football stadium in future rounds, whereas Páirc Uí Chaoimh will get destroyed if it encounters Croker

Collie D

Maracana is pretty iconic but I saw my first gig in Pairc Ui Chaoimh so that gets my vote.

cdeb

Zaph wrote: »

Maracanã Stadium. It's crumbling pretty badly now I believe, but it still holds the record for the biggest ever attendance at a football match, just a handful under 200,000. The atmosphere must have been unreal.

Especially when Brazil lost!

I'd say it was a death trap of a stadium at that time, but feck it - 200k is a serious crowd, even if it only holds half that now. Maracana for me

Zaph

cdeb wrote: »

Especially when Brazil lost!

Yeah, I'd say being a Uruguayan in that crowd would make being an away fan in the home end at an Old Firm match feel like a picnic.

SineadSpears

Maracana the other one looks a bit meh

Lol


Maracana.

PTH2009

Páirc Uí Chaoimh

tc20

Maracana.
Its a nice round one

Citizenpain

Maracanã Stadium No contest

Omackeral

Maracanã Stadium cruises into Round 2

Omackeral

Going to run one last match for the night so stay tuned for it...

JP Liz V1

Páirc Uí Chaoimh

Electric Nitwit

Omackeral wrote: »

Going to run one last match for the night so stay tuned for it...

alchemist33

JP Liz V1 wrote: »

Páirc Uí Chaoimh

Never change Liz

Omackeral

San Siro

Home of AC Milan, Inter Milan, Italy National Football Team (selected matches)



VS

Etihad Stadium

Home of Manchester City FC, 2002 Commonwealth Games, 2008 UEFA Cup Final

Zaph

Has to be the San Siro, imagine being on the pitch looking up at that?

Necro

San Siro. Mainly because the Etihad is a soulless pit that struggles to sell out

JP Liz V1

San Siro

Electric Nitwit

San Siro

Since '90, and Football Italia it's been right at the top of the list of stadia I want to visit. Now it's being demolished, I'm gutted. Such great architecture

I've been to the City of a Manchester stadium, it's as plastic and soulless as most of their fans

It's in a state of great disrepair, and I almost got pick-pocketed outside it but it has to be the San Siro.


There's more atmosphere on the moon than there is at the Etihad.

tc20

San Siro by a country mile.
A cathedral of football, shared by two massive clubs, (I don't think this is replicated by two other famous teams but open to correction)
Happened to see Inter play there a while back, impressive and identifiable stadium.
City's ground, while I'm sure is very modern with all facilities, like City, is just built with oil money

Sawduck

San Siro up there with the best stadiums unlike the other nomination

SineadSpears

San Siro because it does look cool. & the 'etihad' stadium...in Manchester. sounds ridiculous

PTH2009

Etihad Stadium

ImAHappyCamper

San Siro. Beautiful and timeless classic stadium

Citizenpain

San Siro Is more iconic

Zaph

tc20 wrote: »

San Siro by a country mile.
A cathedral of football, shared by two massive clubs, (I don't think this is replicated by two other famous teams but open to correction)
Happened to see Inter play there a while back, impressive and identifiable stadium.
City's ground, while I'm sure is very modern with all facilities, like City, is just built with oil money

Actually The Etihad was built by Manchester council to host the 2002 Commonwealth Games, and was offered to City afterwards, in the same way West Ham now play at the Olympic Stadium.

Necro

The Etihad is a lovely looking stadium imo, it's probably nicer than the San Siro tbh.

But there's no atmosphere there imo, don't they give away half their ticket allocation for some games?

tc20

Zaph wrote: »

Actually The Etihad was built by Manchester council to host the 2002 Commonwealth Games, and was offered to City afterwards, in the same way West Ham now play at the Olympic Stadium.

I stand corrected, (i'm not anti - City BTW)
Every day is a school day!

Omackeral

Needless to say, San Siro advances and I’m shocked Etihad even got one vote!

Omackeral

That’ll do us for the evening folks. Keep yourself updated for the next slew of matches, still some crackers to appear. Goodnight and stay safe

KathleenGrant

Couldn't engage much today, sorry. Not a good day for me. Hope to be more active tomorrow.

alchemist33

Zaph wrote: »

Actually The Etihad was built by Manchester council to host the 2002 Commonwealth Games, and was offered to City afterwards, in the same way West Ham now play at the Olympic Stadium.

Which is why Man Utd fans sing about City living in a council house.

Omackeral

More first round action coming at around 3PM

cdeb

How are into the round are we at this stage?