| |
| | the Mail online | Mail - news, sport, showbiz, health and more | Roman considering a switch to East End (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22) |
 | | The club's long term ambition to stay at the top of English football has included talks at Stamford Bridge about leaving their 99-year-old home at the end of the King's Road for the proposed Olympic Stadium in Stratford which would be built if the 2012 bid were successful. |
 | | But the club are aware that they need a stadium with a capacity of at least 60,000 if they are to continue to compete with Arsenal, who are moving to a stadium of that size in 2006, and Manchester United, whose Old Trafford site will soon be able to accommodate 75,000. |
 | | But that would necessitate knocking down the Chelsea Village Hotel, which is fraught with local planning permission difficulties as well as requiring the displacement of former chairman Ken Bates from his penthouse and would only expand capacity from 42,500 to 55,000. |
| www.dailymail.co.uk /pages/live/articles/sport/football.html?in_article_id=322677&in_page_id=1779 (423 words) |
|