What a week for the FA and builders Multiplex when it comes to the new Wembley stadium. According to an unnamed insider speaking to The Sun newspaper, the ground beneath the stadium has moved causing sewer pipes under the stadium to buckle. Fixing the problem could take up to eight months and with the Wembley project already way behind schedule it will be another major headache for all concerned at the top level overseeing the construction.

The buckled pipes would have caused water and sewage to flow back up the pipes and overflow if it wasn’t repaired and as the insider says in The Sun, “On match day, when tens of thousands of people use the toilets at the same time, that just doesn’t bear thinking about.” Quite.

I know Derby County fans used to say that their old Baseball Ground was cursed by gypsys but there must have been a whole family of them cursing Wembley this week, either that or it’s just been plain incompetence from start to finish (whenever that will be!) from the FA and Multiplex. The spiralling costs, the deadlines that are constantly disappearing over the horizon and continued structural problems don’t bode well whatsoever and if Wembley stadium is ready for even next year’s FA Cup Final I will be shocked rather than surprised.

What a shambles.

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