Should we stay or should we go?

Is this real or fake from the net? will Fratton Park be like this in the future.




Will Pompey move from Fratton to a new site? This is lifted from Pompey-fans.co.uk


pompey-fans.com staff
Pompey seem to be in the process of narrowing down their options for a new stadium, with a 40,000 capacity ‘ to turn Pompey into a top six club’ the minimum requirement. The current favourite is still reportedly the King George V playing fields at Cosham...

According to The News Chief Executive Peter Storrie hinted that the King George V plan – despite its inherent problems of a restrictive covenant on the use of the site and rampant NIMBY-ism – is the preferred option at a meeting of the Portsmouth Environmental Forum this week.

'We have new owners who have invested a lot of money in the club and have aspirations about putting it in the top six of the Premier League, which means the club needs a stadium which can host European football,' he said.

'To do this we need a 40,000-seat stadium, not the 35,000 we are limited to on the current site. We have even spoken to the council about the opportunity of bringing internationals here and World Cup football should England get it in 2018, which is all very exciting.'

However, Storrie maintained his preferred option was to stay at Fratton Park and he only said on the record that the King George site ‘had been considered in detail’ proposing to replace lost playing fields by buying some of the current IBM site at North Harbour.

Fratton Park remains an option, as does Tipner, although Farlington has been ruled out, to the relief of many fans given the fact it wasted 18 months back in 1993-94 when a planning inquiry finally turned the site down on the basis that it disrupted the habitats of migrating Brent geese nearby, among other things.


Tantalisingly another option has also been suggested, although its location hasn’t been revealed, other than it is close to one of the three existing road routes into the city. A cursory glance at the Portsmouth map suggests there are few open spaces currently large enough to accommodate such a development.

One obvious candidate would be the playing fields and allotments around Great Salterns playing fields – given its proximity to the Eastern Road – or, alternatively, the Fratton Goods Yard site, with some judicious re-location of some existing businesses could potentially provide the space the club craves.

The club plans to have a short-list of two by Christmas, but seeing as this project is now entering its 34th year – former Chairman John Deacon wanted to relocate the club to the old airport site in 1973 – fans won’t be holding their breath for an early conclusion...