Man Utd boss Ferguson pushes for stadium expansion?

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tribalfootball.com - May 25, 2008

http://www.tribalfootball.com/article.php?id=94594

Manchester United boss Sir Alex Ferguson has warned chief executive David Gill he won't stop his nagging about expanding Old Trafford."I would hate to think that Real Madrid could ride roughshod over us with a player all the time," he said. "There is this movie called You've Got Mail which is about a shop on the corner being engulfed by a supermarket. We don't want to be one of those small shops."The club have done brilliantly commercially. The only thing I can do is to produce a winning team. David Gill and his team have the expertise in other areas and they have got some clever people in now. "The only thing that matters to me is that black type - the winner's name. We want to be playing in European Cup finals."But I'm on to David all the time about expanding the stadium. I know what we could do with the main stand at both ends; we could build a structure up a


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We could do one corner at least and maybe get another 6,500 seats to take the total capacity to 83,000.

"We could fill it. In fact, I think we could get 100,000 in, but it's not feasible architecturally to get the stadium to that size. But we could build that structure and it would at least make the inside of the stadium symmetrical - and it would make us bigger than anyone could get close to, certainly in England."