>"Nick Parsons" <nick.parsons@nospametl.ericsson.se> wrote in message
>news:3B978A09.924001E4@nospametl.ericsson.se...
>> > Fortress Elland RD is going to be redeveloped into a Business
>> > park....er......Hang on....
>>
>> Did you vote on it?
>
>Yes, I voted for the move. I know it's an emotive subject for most Leeds
>fans, but it seems the way forward in this corporate world.

You'll hate the idea for the first year. Then people will start going
to visit the new ground under construction (there's a constant market
for holes in fences around building sites, apparently).

There'll be a tearful farewell to the old ground, marred only by some
twat on the PA. Most people won't want to go, and there will be a move
to keep the same name for the new ground.

The name for the new ground will be announced to universal derision,
and it will be calculated that it would have been only slightly more
expensive to have redeveloped the old ground.

Then you'll actually move, after a scare about a late safety
certificate and with a lingering smell of paint. There will be a
tearful welcome to the new ground, marred only by the discovery that
the twat on the PA is still there and is louder than ever. Oh, and
there still aren't enough toilets.

After four matches you'll be able to get to your seat without having
to check the seat number.

After six months you'll conclude that preserving the old pre-match
drinking routine for the sake of tradition wasn't such a good idea, as
there was no-one else in the pub.

After a couple of seasons everyone will have agreed that there was no
alternative to getting a new ground, as the old one was a complete
tip, and the chairman deserves to be buggered with a pineapple for
having delayed the move for so long.

But you'll *never* get out of the habit of saying the old ground name.

HTH

--
Dave Hillam
"Then old Nobodaddy aloft, Farted & belchd & coughd
And said: I love hanging & drawing & quartering
Every bit as well as war & slaughtering"