{"id":472552,"date":"2023-12-11T15:09:54","date_gmt":"2023-12-11T19:09:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=472552"},"modified":"2023-12-11T15:10:18","modified_gmt":"2023-12-11T19:10:18","slug":"anfield-road-stand-finally-open-up-for-crunch-man-united-clash","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/anfield-road-stand-finally-open-up-for-crunch-man-united-clash\/","title":{"rendered":"Anfield Road Stand finally opens up for crunch Man United clash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Liverpool will finally open their Anfield Road Stand &#8211; 4 months later than predicted &#8211; for the upcoming crunch clash with bitter rivals Manchester United.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">It was a pleasure being invited down to the opening of the new extension, Anfield Road Stand! \ud83d\udc4f\ud83c\udffb <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/yc9Bv3KQKL\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/yc9Bv3KQKL<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Hotel Anfield | 23 Anfield Rd (@hotelanfield) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hotelanfield\/status\/1734288690338312327?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">December 11, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Liverpool were originally hoping to open the new stand for the first home game of the season against Bournemouth &#8211; having asked to play an away match in the opening weekend &#8211; but that date was pushed back several times due to complications.<\/p>\n<p>Their main contractors &#8211; Buckingham Group &#8211; went into financial administration, which slowed down the process severely.<\/p>\n<p>The Stand will be opened phase by phase with 57,000 attendance expected to be available for the United game as that number will climb up to 60,000.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s really been challenging,&#8221; said Paul Cuttill, head of stadium operations at Anfield. &#8220;When Buckingham went into administration, it really changed the course of the programme. I&#8217;m really proud of every member of staff and Rayner Rowen to get us where we are now&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liverpool will finally open their Anfield Road Stand &#8211; 4 months later than predicted &#8211; for the upcoming crunch clash with bitter rivals [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":472553,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16722],"news_category":[136,14235],"gn_keywords":[17887],"acf":{"announce":"Anfield will welcome fans with renewed capacity of 57,000","video":["video"]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/472552"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=472552"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/472552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":472555,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/472552\/revisions\/472555"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/472553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=472552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=472552"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=472552"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=472552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}