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Originally Posted by shermanator
The UCP made some pretty crazy demands of FIFA so FIFA just went where those demands weren't there. Thanks for ####ing that up too Kenney...
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Meh, the demands were tied to a $40M (I thought)investment in upgrading Commonwealth as part of giving City of Edmonton $110M (that’s for sure)So the return had to be there which meant extra matches etc.
I mean, for $40M in renos to host 5 or so games, I’m guessing you can significantly upgrade McMahon with that money just as much, and ok instead and use temp seating on the ends to get close to 50k people (I assume that’s what Toronto is doing) for those games. Edmonton they’d have to spend the money mostly on bringing at least one sideline in and deal with the other space, especially at the ends, that track and field configuration still takes up and keeps spectators well back of the field.