35M spend on kelvingrove, how much on Hampden?

[calscot 0]

Kelvingrove art gallery has just been opened after a 35M refit. This made me wonder how much was actually spent on resurrecting Hampden as I think it was around double the amount. But how many of you will go to Hampden to a cup final or to watch our national team, and how many will go to the art gallery?

 

It just shows the ludicrous spending in Scotland where we spend more than 4 times on art that we spend on sport - and yet we're supposed to have the highest heart disease in the world.

 

You have to ask how proud you are of Scottish art compared to how proud you would be if our Scotland team was four times better due to spending 4 times as much on grassroots football and facilities?

 

Would you rather have a load of public football pitches to play on and a decent local sports centre or a local museum and art gallery?

 

And which would be better for the health of our nation?

 

I think we should have spend far more on a decent national stadium that holds about 70,000 rather than 50,000, on the scale of the Millennium stadium. That we we wouldn't have to scramble so much for tickets against France - or a cup semi final of Rangers v Hearts.

 

But we spent the money on the carbuncle in Edinburgh instead.

[fraser54 0]

100% behind you here

[pete 2,499]

The thing is that most of the money comes from goverment and industrie. Both of these instituitions hate the injuries and loss of work days through injury from sport. Football\Sport does not stop people having heart attacks but is probably the biggest reason for people reporting sick. Therfore more money going to Art.