If Luton Town wish to be a Premier League club, it is their responsibility to ensure that their ground improvement works will be completed on time. Why should Burnley be inconvenienced in the matter you suggest? Any chance of a points deduction being applied if matters are not completed on time?
Why not just still have the fixture fulfilled, as originally scheduled, but played on a "closed doors" basis?
You can't force a mountain into a handbag. The facilities take a finite amount of time to be built!
Thanks for clarifying. So the media tail wagging the dog, then?
I'm not sure I'd go quite that far, but everything has to be in place before you can play. Admitting spectators is pretty much a bonus these days!
Come on that would involve common sense.
They wouldn't be allowed to play there by MK Dons, for a start, and that is without considering the fact that Luton hate MK anyway.
And Stadium MK amost certainly doesn’t meet Premier League requirements.
It’s a UEFA 4* stadium, it almost certainly does.
I had no idea...
Or there!
It may be of help to give a bit of explanation as to what is being done in the available 12 weeks and at a cost of approximately £12 million. One side of the ground has been demolished and is being rebuilt to provide the required facilities for TV camera positions, VAR and the press. New floodlights are being installed, including new gantries to support them. Various hospitality areas are being converted to provide the back of house facilities for the media - not just press rooms but canteens and the like. Now, you may suggest that this should have been started earlier but doing all this has a significant cost in that it has caused the los of all of the executive boxes and most of the other hospitality areas in the ground and it is only by being in the Premier League that this, and the cost of the work, can be justified or afforded. Work was started within a day or two of the play-off final, so no time has been wasted but the postponement of the Burnley match clearly reflects a view that a planned completion of only days before the scheduled match day is unacceptably risky and that an early decision is better for all concerned.
Probably 3 seasons left at Kenilworth Road, but your point is correct. They tell us that they are trying to ensure that as much as possible can be reused at the new stadium when the time comes but I would expect that it will be a drop in the ocean of the total costs.
That's not necessarily always the case. At many levels of football's so-called pyramid, clubs can still be promoted to the next (higher) level, provided that any required improvement works are completed by the following 31st March.
But does this apply when being promoted to the Premier League from the Championship, which is the two highest levels of the so-called pyramid.
Because they won the play-off final?
21 points behind the top team, and 11 behind the second, deserve to be there?
Can't argue with that, it's a lot worse when the team that didn't finish 3trd goes up.
