OUT WITH THE OLD

New stadium needs team fit to grace it

- by CHRIS MCKENNA

RIVAL fans may mock Manchester United's new stadium and say it looks like a circus tent.

Now it's up to Sir Jim Ratcliffe and Co to make sure the club is no longer a clown show before they move into it.

Because no matter how phenomenal the new project may look in the pictures released yesterday, and how good it will be for the area, if the football team is still failing on the pitch, then they will struggle to fill a 100,000-seater stadium after a few years.

It is a seismic day for English football when a club with the history of United decide they will knock down their ground and build a new one.

Every time a great English club moves from their home, then, fans of every club should be a little sad, even if away supporters have enjoyed singing about Old Trafford 'falling down' in recent years.