Surprise, Surprise - Wembley Not Ready!
This year’s FA Cup final has been moved to Cardiff’s Mellenium Stadium, admits the company building the new Wembly stadium.
In a statement to the Australian stock exchange, Multiplex said the Football Association wanted “100% certainty” the stadium would be ready by 13th May.
“Multiplex understands that the English FA is to transfer the 2006 FA Cup final to its reserve venue”, company secretary Mark Wilson said in the company’s statement.
“We understand the FA made this decision on the basis that it requires 100% certainty that the venue will be fully functional by 13 May 2006, the scheduled date for the 2006 FA Cup final.”
The original completion date for the stadium had been autumn 2005, with the deadline first extended to the end of January and then the end of March.
Multiplex will be penalised £1m a week for over-running the deadline.
