CleverSir
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I was looking at the pictures on the PTI facebook page about preps for some "peace match" at Arbab Niaz Stadium. That stadium has so much potential to become a beauty but sadly it just looks like the equivalent of a 3rd tier college sports stadium in the US.
If you follow sport, one of the things that you'll notice is that with the EPL, NFL, or NBA, and many other major leagues, there are marked points of success with respect to public support at stadiums and commercial support as well. That point in sports happens when the organizations start looking after their infrastructure and taking care of their fans.
With the EPL in the late 80's and early 90's with football in the UK starting to take a downturn the emphasis was put on making the "fan experience" better and money put towards infrastructure development. With the NFL you saw this happen in the 60's and 70's. This seems to be a recurring theme.
My question is this:
Why is it that when you look at stadiums, even older ones in the developed world, they look (for the part) really beautiful and comfortable enough to go watch a match at but we here in Pakistan, even Bangladesh and Sri Lanka and older Indian stadiums, put up generic concrete bleachers? We spend the money but in my opinion just aren't getting the bang for the buck. I've seen some of Pakistan's stadiums and most of them have so much potential but its just the same old generic stuff.
When are we going to start learning from successful leagues and their ventures and start to implement those things?
Source for above information: I love reading about the "tipping point" for business/ventures/sports. Am an absolute sports nut and this kind of thing fascinates me. I could go around looking for where i've read all this but its too tedious right now and I don't have that much time on my hands. (sorry)
If you follow sport, one of the things that you'll notice is that with the EPL, NFL, or NBA, and many other major leagues, there are marked points of success with respect to public support at stadiums and commercial support as well. That point in sports happens when the organizations start looking after their infrastructure and taking care of their fans.
With the EPL in the late 80's and early 90's with football in the UK starting to take a downturn the emphasis was put on making the "fan experience" better and money put towards infrastructure development. With the NFL you saw this happen in the 60's and 70's. This seems to be a recurring theme.
My question is this:
Why is it that when you look at stadiums, even older ones in the developed world, they look (for the part) really beautiful and comfortable enough to go watch a match at but we here in Pakistan, even Bangladesh and Sri Lanka and older Indian stadiums, put up generic concrete bleachers? We spend the money but in my opinion just aren't getting the bang for the buck. I've seen some of Pakistan's stadiums and most of them have so much potential but its just the same old generic stuff.
When are we going to start learning from successful leagues and their ventures and start to implement those things?
Source for above information: I love reading about the "tipping point" for business/ventures/sports. Am an absolute sports nut and this kind of thing fascinates me. I could go around looking for where i've read all this but its too tedious right now and I don't have that much time on my hands. (sorry)
guy was interested in building stadium in Garhi Khuda Baksh and Islamabad and even wasted some millions on it 
why not develop the already available stadiums
