FRANCIS KELLY argues that ground development has often meant on-field problems for ambitious clubs

Arsenal and Wolves stadiums

my mum’s knowledge of football is not the most detailed. She readily admits it. Apart from the occasional query into a Sheffield United score – an ingrained habit from a youth spent listening to her dad regaling tales upon return from Bramall Lane – the sport occupies only a fleeting moment of her time.
Yet she has one rule, a simple observation, which holds merit: the expansion or construction of a team’s football stadium will have a ...