Living in a large empty hollow bowl?

The London Stadium has had plenty of problems and it's going to take a long time for it to feel like home. But you do wish some journalists would write more about the match and less about the stadium. The Guardian's Barney Ronay is normally a fine and funny writer, but goes over-the-top in his fixation with the London Stadium. In his review of the Leicester match he calls the stadium a, "vast, chilly, cantilevered bowl", a "huge, awkwardly geared stadium", an "oddly troubling stadium" and "this vast open space" with "distant green acres". 

Ronay even managed to channel Talking Heads with, "And you may find yourself living in a large, empty, hollow bowl." He went on: "There is simply an emptiness, a sense of disjunct in a place that really should be a source of strength" and that "Moyes looks minuscule out there, alone in all that empty space." 

Ironically it was a cracking atmosphere in the second half and Ronay does note in his opening paragraph that after 55 minutes, "the home crowd could be seen up on its feet, waving its arms and sending a sustained chorus of 'David Moyes’ claret and blue army' [it was actually 'West Ham's claret and blue army'] rolling around this vast, chilly, cantilevered bowl." 

It probably doesn't help that the hacks are up near the top of the Betway Stand. The press are still obsessed with the stadium and with so much negative coverage it's become a self-fulfilling prophecy that it's a corporate bowl. So please give it a rest for a while. As fans we're stuck with the stadium and on Friday night made a very decent attempt to make it sound like Upton Park.