Quote Originally Posted by Newish Pie View Post
I was lucky enough to see FC Porto play Vitoria at the *checks wikipedia, then cuts and pastes*... Estádio do Dragão while on holiday sometime before the pandemic. The stadium was built for Euro 2004... in my head, that makes it a new stadium, but it's probably not. It's a fantastic ground... we got there much closer to kick off than I'd like, but no problem, no queues, clear signs, super friendly stewards, ticket scanning that worked really easily. Lovely wide concourses, comfortable seats, wider aisles and rows than I'm used to... all with no loss of atmosphere. What was really striking was how quick it was to get away afterwards... those huge concourses and super-efficient light railway, with train after train queued up ready.

Fantastic experience, though the game was a little spoilt by a harsh very early red card for the visitors. Disappointed not to have been able to see Boavista too (less fashionable, play in black and white etc), but that's the way the fixtures fell. And TBF two matches might have been pushing my luck...
Sounds cracking. As I say, the only thing that let the London Stadium down for me was the people flow at the end. Obviously a massive issue for them with everyone walking towards Stratford underground. Took a good hour if not more to do a ten minute journey.