24 months to finish it. Heck will be selling seats in it way before then, even if they're plastic fold up ones sitting on barely dry concrete.
To be fair Doug opened the North Stand way before it was finished too.
Remember being up there wet paint, the side panels not on, was like a wind tunnel
He wasn't chairman then.
oh yes course , he came back after 1982. Must have been Bendall then. Point stands though, the stand wasn't quite finished yet they opened it.
Try Harry Kartz.
Might have been William Dugdale . Looks like the North Stand opened in Oct 77
By which time Sir William (Bill to his friends) had resigned.
I wonder which media outlets Sir William subscribed to in order to maintain his Villa fix.
