Stadiums coming soon: Arabian forts, a comb and a crocodile

How they must have laughed at the meeting when the architect outlined his vision for Bursaspor's new home. "Your nickname is the Green Crocodiles, I notice. What about a stadium that looks like one?"

Fast-forward to 2015, and it turns out that the architect was deadly serious. They've only actually gone and done it. They've built a stadium that looks like a crocodile, walks like a crocodile and talks like a crocodile.

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Chris Flanagan
Senior Staff Writer

Chris joined FourFourTwo in 2015 and has reported from 20 countries, in places as varied as Jerusalem and the Arctic Circle. He's interviewed Pele, Zlatan and Santa Claus (it's a long story), as well as covering the World Cup, Euro 2020 and the Clasico. He previously spent 10 years as a newspaper journalist, and completed the 92 in 2017.