World Cup venues are required to have a capacity of at least 35,000 seats, which meant that one Russian stadium had to go through a drastic renovation to meet the requirement.

And it couldn’t look any scarier.

Ekaterinburg Arena in Yekaterinburg, Russia, had an initial capacity of 27,000. For the summer’s World Cup, it will welcome 45,000 fans to the venue for each match. The Russian Football Union accomplished such a feat by building a massive seating structure OUTSIDE the stadium. This is what it looks like:

Hi all. I live down on the South Coast near Eastbourne and have been a Manchester United supporter since WW2, about 74 years. I saw my first game, a friendly, at Maine Road between United and City, it was played their because of Old Trafford having been bombed. I am married, 55 years and have 3 sons, one a Pool supporter and the youngest, cough, an Arse.... supporter, the other one not interested. I do not go to see United now because I am disabled, but I do record every game off of the United channel and edit them down onto DVD. I am one of those who have a rather large collection of United gear including way over 1000 DVDs, books shirts, I could go on and on.
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Manchester City tell own fans to subscribe to MUTV to watch the derby with United.


Manchester City fans have been left angered after effectively being told by the club to subscribe to Manchester United’s in-house channel MUTV if they want to watch the derby in the United States.

Jose Mourinho and Pep Guardiola lock horns in the early hours of Friday morning in Houston as City play the first game of their US tour while United look to make it three wins from three Stateside.

It will be the first opportunity City fans will get to see new signings Bernardo Silva, Kyle Walker and Ederson as Guardiola looks to mould his squad ahead of the new season.


But to watch these City new boys, fans will have to sit through so very United-heavy coverage with the presenters likely to be fawning over the likes of Romelu Lukaku, Paul Pogba and Victor Lindelof.

City posted a tweet on Wednesday providing options of where fans can watch the game based on which county they are watching from, but omitted to say where British fans could view the game.


They did, however, tell fans based in Ireland that MUTV would be their only option if they wanted to support their team live.


Therefore, fans will either have to pay the additional £7-a-month to watch the game, or be forced to follow along on a live blog. Either way, City fans are not happy