City To Get New 60,000 Seater Stadium
By Gary Spate
August 22 2003
DIVISION ONE club Cardiff City have been granted permission to go ahead with plans to build a new 60,000 seater stadium nextdoor to their current Ninian Park ground.
The ground will initially hold 30,000 but will have room to increase the capacity to a massive 60,000 when needed.
"The most crucial thing about this stadium is its importance to everyone in Wales," said Cardiff chairman Sam Hammam.
"What it will do to the emotional well-being of every Welsh person can not be estimated, in the terms of billions of pounds this scheme will create if we really do the business," he added.
Cardiff's councillors voted 8-1 in favour of the proposed new stadium.
A Cardiff fan who goes by the name of 'Wolf' in our message board said: "We have waited a long time for this, and Sam Hammam is making us realise it."