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Toilet survey #20: Coventry City, Ricoh Arena
Coventry City 2 Sheffield Wednesday 1
15 February 2006
Another match, another defeat. Hardly surprising, is it? But it was also a new ground – literally. The Ricoh Arena (mmm, catchy) opened early this season. Not at the beginning – it wasn't finished and they had to play their first couple of home matches away instead. It's now done, though, and as modern stadia go it's not bad. The concourse between turnstiles and seats is pretty huge (with 'condiment points', no less, for the essential brown sauce for pies), and served beer.
No beer for me, though, as (in the absence of nearby pubs) I'd already had my pre-driving quota in Pizza Hut with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
reverend2001 (attending his first Wednesday match for a few years – and he claims he's going to come to more this season – nya-ha-haaa, there is no escape from bad football). Our seats were on the front row, but at least the view wasn't quite as terrible as the one I'd had at Leeds.
reverend2001 had no sooner said that they won't score from a free kick as it was almost the end of the first half, not almost full time, when we were 1-0 down. A second stupid goal when we were too busy arguing with the ref about why he hadn't given us a free kick to bother defending, and that was that. We did manage to pull one back thanks to another fine Chris Brunt free kick, but the expected loss did indeed happen.
And the toilets? Well, quantity is an understatement. There's no excuse for a paucity of bogs in a brand new stadium, and sure enough, there were loads. Seventeen cubicles, in fact.
The cubicle walls were a rather tasteful pale pseudo-wood laminate, with grey highlights to set it off. Lots of loo-rolls, sanibins in all the cubicles (one even had two in – one has to wonder why), and pretty clean.
The walls of the room were partly breeze-block chic, and partly painted in two-tone blue. Yet despite being less than six months old, the laminate cubicles are already showing signs of failure. You know how in really old loos the walls shift slightly out of alignment and you can't operate the lock properly? Well, that's what had happened to the cubicle I was in. That's pretty poor build quality!
Score: 8/10. Good score because of the impressive stretch of loos (there was also a second set with a further eight cubicles), but if they're showing signs of age already, what will they be like in a year or two?
15 February 2006
Another match, another defeat. Hardly surprising, is it? But it was also a new ground – literally. The Ricoh Arena (mmm, catchy) opened early this season. Not at the beginning – it wasn't finished and they had to play their first couple of home matches away instead. It's now done, though, and as modern stadia go it's not bad. The concourse between turnstiles and seats is pretty huge (with 'condiment points', no less, for the essential brown sauce for pies), and served beer.
No beer for me, though, as (in the absence of nearby pubs) I'd already had my pre-driving quota in Pizza Hut with
reverend2001 (attending his first Wednesday match for a few years – and he claims he's going to come to more this season – nya-ha-haaa, there is no escape from bad football). Our seats were on the front row, but at least the view wasn't quite as terrible as the one I'd had at Leeds.reverend2001 had no sooner said that they won't score from a free kick as it was almost the end of the first half, not almost full time, when we were 1-0 down. A second stupid goal when we were too busy arguing with the ref about why he hadn't given us a free kick to bother defending, and that was that. We did manage to pull one back thanks to another fine Chris Brunt free kick, but the expected loss did indeed happen.And the toilets? Well, quantity is an understatement. There's no excuse for a paucity of bogs in a brand new stadium, and sure enough, there were loads. Seventeen cubicles, in fact.
The cubicle walls were a rather tasteful pale pseudo-wood laminate, with grey highlights to set it off. Lots of loo-rolls, sanibins in all the cubicles (one even had two in – one has to wonder why), and pretty clean.
The walls of the room were partly breeze-block chic, and partly painted in two-tone blue. Yet despite being less than six months old, the laminate cubicles are already showing signs of failure. You know how in really old loos the walls shift slightly out of alignment and you can't operate the lock properly? Well, that's what had happened to the cubicle I was in. That's pretty poor build quality!
Score: 8/10. Good score because of the impressive stretch of loos (there was also a second set with a further eight cubicles), but if they're showing signs of age already, what will they be like in a year or two?