Opinion: Allianz Stadium: Sorry Sydney, you’re doing sport all wrong | Andrew Webster
Behold, sports fans, the Emerald City’s modern-day Coliseum with its comfy seats, toilets that smell like an English rose garden, and open concourses so you can roam like wildebeests from bar to food outlet to wellness room instead of feeling like the flattened sardine you became whenever more than 10,000 people packed into that tired old hag otherwise known as the Sydney Football Stadium.
Top: The newly completed Allianz Stadium lights up ahead of its grand unveiling. Bottom: Inside the rebuilt stadium concourse.Sydney, we are doing sport all wrong and if we’re going to justify the $830 million spend on new digs at Moore Park we better start getting it right. None of this pulling-down-the-shutters-midway-through-the-second-half malarkey we get in Sydney. No overbearing security guards glaring at you like you’re on day release from Long Bay because you’ve dared ask for three beers.
You were guided from the stadium all the way to the station platform. We were sipping Singapore Slings in Soho within 40 minutes of full-time. Meanwhile, the state government needs to forget about Souths’ existing deal to play at Accor until 2030 and let them return to Moore Park.
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