I hope I live to see new Wycombe stadium (From Bucks Free Press)
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I hope I live to see new Wycombe stadium
6:51pm Friday 3rd September 2010 in
ONCE again, ‘Grandad’ Rex Pawley has used up precious space (Letters, August 27) to hammer away at his own personal vendetta against the council and its plans for a new stadium, the football and rugby teams, and particularly Steve Hayes – the owner of the teams – who really gets up his nose, possibly because he is well off and has the influence to get things done.
Mr Pawley is 83 and has lived through a previous recession. He has also lived through times when children and young people played in the streets, in the fields, went off fishing, climbing trees, building bonfires to cook potatoes until they were black, scrumping for apples, all in safety. Out all day, only coming home when they got hungry.
I was there too you see, and I know by just looking around at the kids of today, something good has to be put in place of all those pleasures. They have to have somewhere safe to go and use up all that energy instead of ‘hanging out’, drinking in the local parks, and being what the oldies call a damned nuisance.
If the proposed sports village materialises, I suspect the range of ages of users of the facilities would be from toddlers to OAPs, because these days, if you want a long life, you have to stay fit. It is a very selfish attitude to deny pleasure to our young people by saying “if you have fun when you are young, you will pay for it when you are old”.
I spend a lot of time in Wycombe, though unfortunately I no longer live there. However, I still get my Bucks Free Press just to keep up, and I hope I live long enough to see the new stadium open.
Mrs Margaret Webb, Harthall Lane, Kings Langley, Herts
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hondo
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10:11pm Mon 20 Sep 10
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billsheppard says...
10:07pm Mon 6 Sep 10
As a lifelong fan of WWFC I find it disgusting that Hayes is using my town's club as a pawn in defrauding the taxpayer out of millions of pounds for a stadium WWFC demostrably does not need, and could indeed drive it to bankruptcy. WWFC will no longer have the revenue streams of rent from Wasps or the conferencing facilities at the ground, whilst it will have to pay Steve Hayes rent on the new ground. Wycombe struggle to half fill a 10,000 capacity ground, so why on earth is a bigger ground necessary for the club?
I completely agree that good sports facilities should be made available to the young people, but how many disaffected youngsters are going to get a kick about at the new ground, let alone afford to pay the already steep prices charged at Adams Park?
The millions of public money being used to benefit a private individual could be better spent on providing spaces and better facilities within communities for youngsters to play in a safe environment.
You might think that's selfish, but the next generation will hardly thank us if they are lumbered with a white elephant as a testament to one man's insatiable greed and town's acquiesence to it...