TALK astir making your location a fortress.
Well, 1 top-flight nine person done precisely that by gathering their stadium successful the shadiness of a immense World War Two bunker.
That bunker whitethorn look menacing from the outside.
But connected the inside it has undergone an £84million makeover - and present features a hotel, restaurants and a rooftop garden.
The daunting gathering inactive makes for an awesome and imposing beingness down St Pauli's home, though.
The German side, based successful Hamburg, play their home matches astatine the Millerntor-Stadion.
The 29,500-capacity crushed is erstwhile again a Bundesliga stadium successful 2024-25 pursuing the club's promotion nether Fabian Hurzeler past season.
And the likes of Harry Kane and new English sensation Jamie Gittens look a daunting task with their travel to the Millerntor-Stadion.
When defending successful beforehand of the South Stand, the visiting players tin spot the erstwhile bunker looming implicit the stadium astatine the northbound end.
However, determination is different 2 shot pitches betwixt St Pauli's first-team venue and the bunker.
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The brace of 11-a-side astroturf pitches beryllium broadside to broadside - providing shot facilities for lower-level and younker teams and making for eery photographs and a stark reminder of Germany's history.
Beside those, determination is simply a wasteland car parkland utilized for exhibitions, circuses and the yearly Hamburger Dom funfair - a contented that started each the mode backmost successful 1893.
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What we cognize astir the 'new' Old Trafford
MANCHESTER UNITED program to physique a caller stadium alternatively than redevelop Old Trafford.
The determination was made aft a fig of fact-finding missions to different stadiums including the Bernabeu and Nou Camp.
The outgo of the task is expected to beryllium a staggering £2billion.
A capableness of 100,000 is expected.
It is felt that a nine of United’s lasting should person a caller state-of-the-art facility.
The caller stadium volition beryllium built connected onshore adjacent to the Red Devils' existent home.
United are looking to not lone physique a stadium but regenerate the country of Trafford wherever the crushed volition stand.
There had been plans to KEEP Old Trafford alternatively than demolish it, and usage it arsenic a scaled down 2nd venue.
However, it's looking expanding apt that it volition successful information beryllium wholly demolished.
The nine consulted with 30,000 fans astir what to bash and judge determination is astir a 50-50 divided connected staying oregon moving.
The nine person appointed the architects Foster + Partners to travel up with a "masterplan". The institution were down Wembley Stadium.
Old Trafford has been United’s location since 1910.
The people is for completion by 2030.
Despite the stadium's regeneration, it is the bunker that has had the biggest renovation.
The Nazis directed 1,000 forced labourers to physique the colossal factual operation successful 1942.
The German aerial unit utilized the Flakbunker IV operation for aerial defence portion arsenic galore arsenic 25,000 radical reportedly sheltered successful its bunkers during raids.
Standing astatine astir 50m tall, the determination was made not to destruct it pursuing the warfare - dissimilar akin buildings crossed Germany.
Instead, it has present been transformed into a thriving portion of the taste beingness successful Hamburg.
A whopping 23,000 trees and shrubs were planted to assistance soften the stark quality of the grey artifact by adding greenish leaves to the exterior - including a extortion plot with stunning views implicit the city.
A "mountain path" up to the apical has been created portion inside, determination are a big of high-end restaurants, unrecorded euphony venues and adjacent a nightclub connected the apical floor.
And present tourists tin enactment successful the erstwhile bunker by booking 1 of the 134 rooms astatine the Reverb by Hard Rock hotel.