There has been huge debate on whether the National Football Museum should stay in its home town of Preston of make its way down to Manchester.
The museum on Sir Tom Finney Way, next to Preston North End’s home ground, Deepdale, is said to be moving to Manchester due to funding problems. Back in 2008 there was talks of moving the museum to the capital but there were protests to this suggestion.
The museum was one of the first things I went to visit when I started University in Preston last year and I’m sure it would not go down well with the people of Preston if the city was to lose one of the most famous museum’s in the world.
The arguments for moving the museum is that in Preston not enough people visit it. If it were moved to a bigger city it would have more visitors. Preston currently brings in 100,000 visitors to the museum but bosses in Manchester think they can bring in four times that amount.
With items such as the 1966 World Cup ball and Diego Maradona’s ‘hand of God shirt’ shirt on show there will be a big fight to keep the‘cradle of world football‘ in Preston.
Links:
http://www.visitnorthwest.com/preston/national-football.htm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/lancashire/8367849.stm
http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2009/sep/08/national-football-museum-preston-manchester
