Wembley redevelopers Quintain have kicked off their campaign to turn Arena Square in London's equivalent of LA's Grauman's Chinese Theatre, by unveiling Madonna's handprints at their Square Of Fame. They hope Madonna's handprints will represent "a major attraction for visitors to London".

As hundreds of Wembley construction workers are laid off...

First Wembley match "next year" [Daily Mail]
Wembley will not open before 2007 [BBC]
Music stars desert unfinished Wembley [ITV]
Wembley stays shut for 2006 [Telegraph]
Wembley delay... Jovi won't play [AntiMusic]
Wembley chaos as delays mount [Times]
Wembley delays likely to cost FA £23m [Guardian]
Wembley own-goal [Scotsman]
FA in the dark over Wembley [Sporting Life]

Wembley development, now literally in the shit [March 24]

And just when it was all going so well (only kidding, of course)... the sewers have collapsed.

Weld failure at Wembley [March 20]
Multiplex/Wembley - worse to worser [February 23]
More Wembley woes [February 10]

That loud bang - and the roof dropping down 3 feet - and the three and half thousand workmen evacuated... don't worry just a weld failure. You can look forward to crowding into the stands and relaxing with thousands of others, confident in the safety provided by the cream of Anglo-Australian engineering very shortly. Well, I say "very shortly", but...

[via Londonist]

Multiplex/Wembley - worse to worser [February 23]
What's cheaper than Wembley stadium? [February 16]

First overstretch, then directorial incompetence, then armed snipers, then a junkie workforce, recent reports of losses reaching £106 million and emergency meetings with bankers as the FA announce an alternative venue for this year's cup... and now this... more than 60 Wembley workers, including foremen, placing bets with Paddy Power bookmakers that the stadium won't be ready in time for May 13.

What's cheaper than Wembley Stadium? [February 16]

Well, almost everything, obviously. But we like podcaster Neil Dixon's choice. For a full £145 million less than a big field, you can have "the most advanced sea-going vessel on the planet... the latest naval destroyer, HMS Daring". Daring is bigger than any warship the Navy has previously commissioned, it's powered by electricity and it boasts more firepower than the entire Type-42 fleet. Wembley Stadium will have lots of toilets, two tunnels and chalk lines. Dixon himself would be happy with the £145 million difference. Catch his podcast, A Minor Technicality, here.

More Wembley woes [February 10]
Wembley kills off Multiplex boss [May 27]
Wembley shoot-em-up [March 1]
Share dive after Wembley news [February 24, 2005]