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New Main Stand

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  Now that academy is finished. Parish and co can go “hell for leather” for the new stand. Let's look into what it will mean for the club.  Increase in seats in the main stand of 7,873, reduction in Family stand of 594 and filling in the corner of Arthur Wait to add 683 seats. That would put the ground at 34,259. It would make Selhurst Park the 14th biggest club ground in England. Looking through the plans, It looks like the club will really increase its corporate facilities with two floors of the five-floor stand just being for corporate. It looks good for all budgets of hospitality. Watching padded seat on TikTok, I have noticed very different levels of hospitality. Before that, I used to think it was all very high-end. Actually, there are more affordable packages but still expensive.  New landmark I remember in the early days of cpfc2010 they replaced the gates to the stadium car park. Before that, if there was a news story about Palace. The go-to picture was of the tatty main s
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Textor's Football Clubs

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  Botafogo Let's start in Brazil. Botafogo is a historical team in Brazil with legends that have played in black and white. Didi played over hundred games and scored sixty goals. Won three world cups and was player of the tournament in 58. Honours for the club don't look as good as they should with two top-flight titles. They have won Campeonato Carioca (Rio State Championship) 21 times. As national top division didn't get started until 1971. I guess every Brazilian team would make the argument that should have won more on the national level if there was a league before the '70s. Before the 70s travel around Brazil was difficult and there was more focus on state championships. Rio is one of the main football regions. Also won the interstate cup against Sao Paulo three times in the sixties. If the national league was around before the 70’s then they would have been in the mix to have won couple more times.   From the videos online the fans look very passionate and what t
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