Times Fantasy Football - Singapores Floating Football Pitch

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Singapore's Floating Football Pitch

Assuming the human race continues to purchase land at the current rate in an effort to cover all available plots with buildings, some time in the not too distant future we could witness an entirely new potential problem for football coaches when it comes to squad selection: Aquaphobia. Take Singapore’s ‘Marina Bay Floating Stadium’ as an example, an intriguing feature in an area which is set to become a waterfront city following its current redevelopment. The floating stadium is currently carrying the title of ‘the world’s largest’ and, although the 30′000 capacity seating area is housed on land, the ‘pitch’ itself does in fact sit on the water whilst being sturdy enough to bear the weight of 9′000 people and 3 much-needed military tanks before starting to sink, a fact which itself is surely an excellent deterrent to any would-be pitch invaders.

The stage, which took 13 months to build, consists of 15 smaller pontoons so as to enable the platform’s shape to be reconfigured depending on the event to be held. Whether the floating stadium proves a success or not is largely irrelevant however as sadly the stadium will no longer be bouyant post-2012 as it has been given just 5 years to wow audiences at Marina Bay in time for the new National Stadium’s opening. But it’s the project’s wider impact that could be more interesting. How long before a floating stadium the size of London appears in Dubai, the construction capital of the world? Also, presuming the idea of space-saving floating football pitches did take off: Will it become the norm for ballboys to wear inflatable armbands?

For more information about Marina Bay, head on over to the official website here.