Charlie Mayer 🎈

Urbanist socialist. Town planner, @UKLabour stooge and slightly less suffering @WestHamUtd fan. Views my own, but available to you for a good price.

[Charlie Mayer 🎈 @CharlieMayer93]

@GJMarshy There's already natural surveillance along the Piccadilly side near Morrisons so if you're going to do new blocks anywhere surely better where the bus station currently is. Maybe even move the tram line so it's a straight run down Piccadilly as well

[Charlie Mayer 🎈 @CharlieMayer93]

@logi_con What a vague and passive aggressive way of interacting with a stranger

[Charlie Mayer 🎈 @CharlieMayer93]

In no reasonable world would this be the main IOC election topic

[Oliver Brown @oliverbrown_tel]

The clearest sign yet that Sebastian Coe will run to replace Thomas Bach as IOC president. ‘The opportunity has arisen and I will give it serious thought,’ he says.

Given strength of his policy on DSD athletes in the female category, he should surely be the leading candidate.

[Charlie Mayer 🎈 @CharlieMayer93]

@alexqueiros @FootballCliches Triple jumpers are great for this because the second they're guaranteed the gold it's like they instantly forget how to triple jump

[Charlie Mayer 🎈 @CharlieMayer93]

@JAHingston @H_H_Gray The UK has also hosted a great Olympics in recent memory?

The hotel point is fair but Manchester is already building a lot and it's relatively straightforward to build more for the games.

[Charlie Mayer 🎈 @CharlieMayer93]

@JAHingston @H_H_Gray Brisbane is sunny but it's the same size as Manchester and less internationally known. LA is obviously a strong host for lots of reasons but it's not exactly known for being the most enjoyable city to spend time in

[Charlie Mayer 🎈 @CharlieMayer93]

@JAHingston @H_H_Gray Aquatics would need a big temporary stand like the London one did but these are pretty small things compared to how much previous hosts have had to build from scratch

[Charlie Mayer 🎈 @CharlieMayer93]

@mcnorton_dan @H_H_Gray We have the template already from the Commonwealths in 2002 - take the track out after the games, lower the pitch and add more seats in between

[Charlie Mayer 🎈 @CharlieMayer93]

Just dawned on me that lots of people will be flying from London to Manchester in ten years looking at what they could have won

[Charlie Mayer 🎈 @CharlieMayer93]

Almost certainly the last time I get excited about us signing a player older than me

[West Ham United @WestHam]

East London’s newest forward, Niclas Füllkrug ⚒️

[Charlie Mayer 🎈 @CharlieMayer93]

Which of these were approved and built since the NPPF added the word "beauty"?

[𝓢𝓪𝓶 @samofsamshire]

“Beautiful means nothing really”

[Charlie Mayer 🎈 @CharlieMayer93]

@TLG861 @Psythor This is why I'd have the main stadium across town. Loads of room around Old Trafford, more tram lines nearby and you can still use Sportcity for loads of the other events

https://t.co/zENRyx2cU9

[Charlie Mayer 🎈 @CharlieMayer93]

Forget London 2040, give the Olympics to Manchester and make this the stadium.

80k capacity for the Games and then add half a tier where the track was afterwards - basically what happened for the Commonwealths in 2002 across town but double the scale.

[Charlie Mayer 🎈 @CharlieMayer93]

Forget London 2040, give the Olympics to Manchester and make this the stadium.

80k capacity for the Games and then add half a tier where the track was afterwards - basically what happened for the Commonwealths in 2002 across town but double the scale.

[The Athletic | Football @TheAthleticFC]

Manchester United will aim to build a 100,000-seater stadium should the club press ahead with plans to move to a new Old Trafford.

The six-figure capacity is seen as a realistic number designed to future-proof the ground given high demand for tickets.

The joint task force set up to explore options for Old Trafford has assessed redevelopment but is currently focusing attentions on what a new build might look like and how it could be financed, having concluded — initially at this stage — that is the best way to transform the fan experience.

Sir Jim Ratcliffe’s preference is also for a stadium built from scratch, rather than renovation, and United believe doing so on land owned by the club adjacent to the current ground is feasible, meaning the team could continue to play at Old Trafford through the construction work.

The alternative, improving stand by stand, would mean a reduction of capacity at different points and headaches over how to house 51,000 season ticket holders should the number of available seats fall below that figure.

More from @lauriewhitwell: https://t.co/opSHa7dFwo

[Charlie Mayer 🎈 @CharlieMayer93]

@Timbassett @adb0wen Manchester and Birmingham have bigger metropolitan areas than Brisbane.

[Charlie Mayer 🎈 @CharlieMayer93]

My main takeaways from our first day and a half in Krakow:

1. We should demolish the Mancunian Way and turn it into a park

2. You could kill a man with a Polish apple

[Danny Parkinson @DannyParkinson]

I know Biden pulling out of the US presidential race is big news but I can’t stop thinking about how an asparagus fortune teller prediction on Jeremy Vine could be right.
https://t.co/TGzCz7gCXn

[Charlie Mayer 🎈 @CharlieMayer93]

@TSOMasterlegend @rwohan Germany had a better squad than England in 2018, ours wasn't that strong yet. Morocco were good but they were still a "weaker" team just like some of the ones that England are getting no credit for beating in the original tweet.

[Charlie Mayer 🎈 @CharlieMayer93]

@Alexi_Cookov @barneyronay Yes? It's nostalgia bias to imagine that the Colombia shootout, Trippier's free kick, the Germany game, Shaw's goal, Bellingham's overhead kick and Watkins' winner won't be part of that pantheon in the future.

[Charlie Mayer 🎈 @CharlieMayer93]

Think this is broadly right. Clear way forward now with a set of excellent players and an opportunity for Southgate to hand over to someone more tactically astute with his head held high.

[Tim Stillman ⭐️⭐️ @timstillman_]

Losing to Italy at Wembley felt like an opportunity missed. England were pretty lucky to get to this final and lost to the team that have clearly been the best at this tournament. It sucks but it’s not as pronounced as it was three years ago imo.