The less-than state of the art dressing rooms at Olympic Stadium
Looking at the sorry state of the dressing rooms at the Olympic Stadium, I was reminded of an article I read about the Arsenal dressing room, which was designed with the help of their manager Arsene Wenger. It said...The room is light and airy, the players sit next to each in a long line so that he can address them as a team, without ever having to turn his back on any of his players. The players shirts are hung up on pegs in an individual compartment, which has been finished in a light, brown pine wood and a businesslike, yet relaxed, air abounds. The players get prepared in a neutral environment, with the walls painted in white, a harmless colour, and the seats are heated to help keep their muscles warm during the 15 minute interval. Underneath their seat, there is space for their boots, there is a separate room for the physio to work on injured players and there is a table packed with fruit, water and high energy drinks.
Fat chance of any of that at the Olympic Stadium. You're lucky if the lights and ceiling fans work, as often they don't. For the first league game of the season, the Crown players had to change in semi-darkness and were sweating buckets, yet their opponents had no such problem. Blue plastic chairs make do rather than the heated seating at Arsenal, there are no hot water showers and the toilets often don't flush. There's a tatty table in the corner for the physio to work his magic on player's muscles before the game starts. Faces often appear at the windows at the back of the room and holes in the wall mean anyone can listen to the team talk and tactics. All in all it's a sorry state of affairs that the best, and only stadium in the country, has such stone-age changing facilities.
The less-than state of the art dressing rooms at Olympic Stadium
5 comments:
i thought the olympic stadium is better (like x 10times) than the Army stadium which sometimes also host some league games.
Well, AFC did allow your club to stage the qualifying rounds here, so maybe the facilities must have been deem acceptable by AFC standard....or maybe the other clubs have worse facilities....
The Army Stadium is not up to any fit standard at all, so I don't even count it as a proper stadium. The Olympic Stadium is the only one worth talking about. How the FFC allow games at the Army ground is beyond me.
I am amazed that the AFC actually allow their cup matches and international matches to be played at the Olympic Stadium when you consider the shocking players dressing rooms, total lack of media facilities, the poor floodlights which are simply not good enough and just about everything else.
Other than ensuring that the League & cup competitions running year after year, the Federation has done zero to nothing in any way to improve the quality of football in the kingdom. I'm sure they want to see good results at the end of the day but they're not treating the players right to get the results. The FFC need a complete overhauling.
You have to understand that the Olympic stadium is under The Ministry of Education and Sport control, not FFC and the FFC does not get any fund from the Ministry. So complaint should go straight to Ministry.
Cheers,
whoever is in control of the Olympic Stadium (the FFC have their headquarters there) are doing an appalling job of bringing it into the 21st century.
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