The Football Association has confirmed the new Wembley Stadium will not open until 2007 after builders Multiplex failed to meet the latest deadline for completion.
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/hot/w/wembly.html

This really annoys me - why can't us Brits be on time for a change. It's such a major building/attraction that you would have thought all the stops would have been pulled out. There seems to have been so many bad stories about the new Wembley. Builders on drugs and all sorts.
Sort it out!

Multiplex have also stated that they shouldn`t lose out on any money for not finishing on time as it wasn`t their fault. We have seen pictures of the workers asleep on the machinery and also taking time off for attending court for drug related offences.

I saw a patient a few months ago who is a construction worker down at Wembly (but comes up here at the weekends to see his family in case you are wondering) and he said it's a complete disaster and no-one seems to know what they're doing. He said he wouldn't be surprised if they didn't have it finished by 2008 the way they are going.

Doesn't bode well for the Olympics does it??! This is just one stadium.

I think Slipper put it pretty well:

http://www.survivor-online.co.uk/forums/showpost.php?p=158506&postcount=20

This really annoys me - why can't us Brits be on time for a change.

Isn't Multiplex an Australian company?

Somewhere there's a Welshman laughing at this. Why didn't we just phone up the people that built the Millennium Stadium and say "Build us a stadium like the one you did in Wales, only make it a bit bigger, and if you made any mistakes on that one don't repeat them on ours. Thanks."

SB the company that built the Millennium Stadium went bust. Similar story to Wembley, in some ways...

SB the company that built the Millennium Stadium went bust. Similar story to Wembley, in some ways...
Oh...I didn`t know that :bag:

I think Slipper put it pretty well:

http://www.survivor-online.co.uk/forums/showpost.php?p=158506&postcount=20

I Thank You <bows>

Let's not be so negative and kill it before it's even started. A lot of these buildings are pretty lightwieght constructions and so 6years is adequate.

And for those anti the Olympics being held in blighty. Just back from Barca who had them in '92 I think it was. Legacy still stands and the tourists all want some of it 14 years later. OK so Stratford isn't Barca but Stratford is only minutes away from Central London and several events are scattered throughout the country.

I went to the Olympic stadium in Barcelona...it was very exciting to see where the greats had run but at the same time was kinda deserted! :bored:

2007 for the Wembley stadium...well there ya go...still if they had got the company who built the Portsmouth Spinnaker tower it wouldn't have been completed until 3007!

Slip...the new T5 looks pretty good to doesn't it...what company is behind that?

I went to the Olympic stadium in Barcelona...it was very exciting to see where the greats had run but at the same time was kinda deserted! :bored:



The stadium does look a bit tired but it was originally built back in the 1930's. When it was built it was the second largest stadium in the world. Wembley was biggest.

<History lesson>


In 1931, when Berlin was chosen as the site for the 1936 Olympics, few people suspected that a mere two years would see the rise to power of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party.

Jews in various countries asked for a boycott of the Berlin Olympics, and in the United States a boycott proposal was only narrowly defeated.

An alternative People's Olympics was scheduled to take place in Barcelona, Spain, but it was cancelled at the last minute when the Spanish Civil War broke out the day before competition was set to begin.
The 1936 Olympics are best remembered for Hitler's failed attempt to use them to prove his theories of Aryan superiority, but they are also noteworthy because they saw the introduction of the torch relay, in which a lighted torch is carried from Olympia to the site of the current Games.

</History lesson>

You know every time I read of how incomplete Wembley is and its shifting deadline, I can't help but think the builders should be renamed;-

WOULDHAVE AND CO.

Maureen
Northern angel.