If you want to build a great stadium, hire a real architect.
Two days after he accepted General Fonseka's retirement, his Sri Lanka Freedom Party held its annual convention in a sports stadium hired for the occasion.
As a result, the club has been losing earnings from ticket sales and merchandise while facing stadium hire fees of at least $8,000 £5,0000), local media said.
All the double-headers are taking place in neutral venues - Exeter Chiefs' Sandy Park, Saracens' Allianz Park and Doncaster Knights' Castle Park - to avoid handing home advantage to any of the sides involved, with the Rugby Football Union, which supports the proposals, underwriting the cost of the stadium hire.
Some five decades after entering college football's highest level, the Spartans are doing everything they can to fill their 31,000-seat stadium -- hiring a marketing company, holding parties, giving out free tickets and luring alumni through a letter-writing campaign.
Open Mon-Thurs 6pm-10pm, Fri, Sat 6pm-11pm, Sun 1pm-5pm The best view of the Olympic Stadium without hiring a helicopter is from the HQ of London salmon smokers Forman & Son, now a bar, the Maddox Club.
Kim Kardashian and Kanye West are engaged after an elaborate proposal by the rapper that involved renting out a baseball stadium and hiring a 50-piece orchestra.
Many of Tampa's 43 licensed strip clubs, some only metres from the stadium, have hired extra staff and lap dancers for Super Bowl week.
Dharamsala, where the iced crags of the Himalayas loom behind the stadium like hired muscle.
Bill Stetka, an Orioles spokesman, noted that the Virginia stadium authority "hired an independent firm and paid them a lot of money".
Now the team has been bought by a Donald Trump-like woman who has proceeded to tear down their lousy stadium and hire a new manager to help take the team into the 21st century.
