However I can also see that an athletics track between the seating and the pitch is not ideal.
I thought City of Manchester had a track...
Athletics first then football. Haven't we got plenty of football stadiums already? Much as I enjoy watching a good game now and then.
They can't afford it because, like it or not, athletics offers one event (a World Championships) which would fill a 60,000-seat stadium once every 20 years for a given country. Premier League football does that at least once a fortnight.
Less high profile news recently has been a "revised" plan for the closed road racing circuit that is supposed to replace Eastway and form part of the "heritage". The revised plan is to allow for, I understand, some "high value" housing developement. The revised circuit is seen by those in the know as being highly inferior to the original planned (which itself was a poor replacement for Eastway)So much for an Olympic heritage! Hello commercial profit opportunities!
It's what Qatar plans to do, several times over. Don't know what they are planning to do with all the extra hotels...
Have I mentioned that Manchester should have been chosen to host the 'Lympics?
(And why Spurs or West Ham - (Leyton) Orient's ground is within about half a mile of the new stadium )
You think East London is any better? I have to disabuse you.