OpinionListen you sad, obsessed Hong Kong Stadium loyalists – let it go! The Sevens must move to Kai Tak Sports Park

And don’t worry about the atmosphere: 50,000 screaming fans in a modern, spectacular venue will make sure it will be better than ever

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The proposed Kai Tak Sports Park. Photo: Handout

Published: 1:11pm, 15 Apr 2018Updated: 1:58pm, 15 Apr 2018

We all know what’s good about Hong Kong Stadium. Those tiny, nostalgic idiosyncrasies and characteristics that you’ve come to love and cherish over the years. The space that’s been yours and your group’s for possibly more than two decades, where friendships were forged, where romances were kindled and where hilarious stories of drunken missteps and maybe a dash of debauchery have diffused into your own personal niche of plastic and concrete; coding anecdotes into the very molecules of a blessed patch of stand as a record of your merry activities over the years.

A microcosm of thousands of similar existences playing out throughout the 40,000-seater So Kon Po edifice, all coalescing into a single, overpowering entity that forms the essence of Hong Kong Stadium’s soul. Oh, if only the seats could talk. And oh, if only we could throw up right now.

Kai Tak Sports Park main plaza. Photo Handout

It’s a one-way relationship, my friends. You’re like the guy infatuated with a woman who rolls her eyes whenever you show up, only you can’t see it. All you see is her beauty, her status and her nobility. You are blinded to the fact that she gives not one iota of a hoot about you. It’s time someone effected a thundering slap across your servile face to wake you up to the realities of life, to see her for what she really is.

As it is with Hong Kong Stadium. Again, we all know what’s good about it but to understand why the Hong Kong Sevens needs a new venue, we need to reveal its faults, and how it relies on your subservience to fuel its arrogance.

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And don’t worry about the atmosphere: 50,000 screaming fans in a modern, spectacular venue will make sure it will be better than ever