{"id":514991,"date":"2025-10-20T18:04:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T18:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/514991\/"},"modified":"2025-10-20T18:04:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T18:04:14","slug":"scotlands-hampden-park-site-faces-threat-of-redevelopment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/514991\/","title":{"rendered":"Scotland\u2019s Hampden Park site faces threat of redevelopment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-facilities \">The site of the world\u2019s first international soccer stadium \u201ccould become flats or a car park unless action is taken,\u201d with the original Hampden Park in Glasgow, Scotland, currently the home of a bowling club, \u201cfacing financial difficulties,\u201d according to Jonathan Geddes of BBC.com. Should it close, the grounds \u201cwould become free for commercial use and possible redevelopment.\u201d The original Hampden was home of Queen\u2019s Park from 1873-83 and hosted Scottish Cup finals and Scotland internationals. A trustee at the bowling club, David Coutts, said, \u201cThere\u2019s no grand building there and you have to use imagination &#8212; but there\u2019s a social history there. \u2026 It\u2019s from this site and this green that the biggest sport in the world developed.\u201d An archaeological excavation took place at the site in 2021 and found remains of the original football stadium (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cp8y7x10rj4o\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cp8y7x10rj4o\">BBC.com, 10\/19<\/a>). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The site of the world\u2019s first international soccer stadium \u201ccould become flats or a car park unless action&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":514992,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5009],"tags":[748,4884,712,10031,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-514991","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-scotland","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-great-britain","10":"tag-scotland","11":"tag-soccer","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115407818814643790","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=514991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514991\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/514992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=514991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=514991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=514991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}