Inside Sir Jim Ratcliffe's plans to replace Old Trafford with a 'Wembley of the North'
RESIDENTS living in the shadow of Old Trafford fear the club’s plan to build a brand new £2billion stadium just yards away will "rip the soul" out of Manchester United.Stephanie Ross, 41, with her son, 15, said she feared moving from Old Trafford would 'rip the soul' from the clubIf approved, the stadium would become the second largest in Europe behind Barcelona’s revamped 105,000-seater Nou Camp.
United fan Stephanie Ross, 41, said: “I don’t feel it would be same atmosphere if we moved to a new stadium.“I would rather they stayed and fixed Old Trafford.” She said: “It’s just the mess that’s caused on match days. There’s a lot of littering and problems with people parking illegally.Another resident said she objected to paying £51.50 a year for a parking permit outside to park outside her own home when fans regularly turned up and parked on the road anyway.“And if I want someone to come and see me I have to pay for a visitor’s parking permit which is another £51.50.
Susah Tighe, 64, has lived on one of the roads near Old Trafford for 40 years, said she has got used to thousands of fans on match days, although it’s sometimes a case of “batten down the hatches”.“So I’m not really bothered by the though of another 25,000 plus fans.MANCHESTER UNITED plan to build a new stadium rather than redevelop Old Trafford.
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