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dode,
Yes - but neither ground has ever been known as anything else, so there would be no need for the fans to refer to them as Maine Road or Highbury. Likewise, Sunderland, Leicester, Southampton, Swansea, Hull & Stoke have all changed grounds, so fans referring to old names would be referring to different grounds entirely.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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I think the Etihad stadium was formerly known as Eastlands and prior to that as the city of Manchester Stadium
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Bergmeister, M535man, gotcha, never realised they all moved the stadia all well as the names.
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You need to Login to know who's really who.
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Maybe they should move it too, if altis is correct, up another 17m 
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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dode,
I'm puzzled. Sorry if I'm being thick but..... When the clubs changed grounds they could never have referred to the new ground under the name of the old one, as it was an entirely different ground in an entirely different place. So, Sunderland fans were never going to refer to the new stadium as Roker Park as it quite clearly isn't Roker Park.......
Am I missing something?
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And, sorry to labour the point, but Manchester City FC moved in to the City of Manchester Stadium in 2003, then agreed a sponsorship deal with Etihad Airways in 2010, so for 7 years after leaving Maine Road, they referred to their home stadium as the City of Manchester Stadium officially, and Eastlands unofficially.
So, there is one team at least in the premiership currently, who has renamed their existing stadium to suit a sponsor.
IMO 'the Etihad' is a daft name and I still use Eastlands when referring to MCFC's home, but then again I still annoy my wife by referring to 'The O2' as the Millenium Dome 
Inconsistently, 'The Emirates' doesn't sound daft, as it's never been anything else, but the thought of referring to Ibrox as the Sports Direct Arena fills me with dread and murderous rage in equal measures 
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Inconsistently, 'The Emirates' doesn't sound daft, as it's never been anything else, but the thought of referring to Ibrox as the Sports Direct Arena fills me with dread and murderous rage in equal measures [/quote]
What about Sevco 2012 Arena?
COYR
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^ lesser of two evils 
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M535man, I thought they just rebranded the old stadia, never realised they all moved too.
+100 on Ibrox, makes me shiver... And all for one smackeroonie...
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| It's not even 1097 according to the OS 1:50k map - more like 1080. |
Fantastic - at least Salomon would be happy with that ?sponsorship??
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