Chester the most beautiful city in the world.

Hope & Glory are an independent kit manufacturer.

Would be a very twee thing to put on a football stadium I think.

I’m pretty sure you don’t work in marketing with these ideas.

Good post, attracting the usual Devachat snark.

With the decline of print media etc. I'd imagine it's harder than ever to attract new fans at our level.

So any advantage, attention grabbing angles to help us are worth exploring.

And also yes even the contrast between the beautiful city and the deva being "turn right after the dump" is amusing.

To be fair there will probably be another survey next month and somewhere else will be voted as the most beautiful.

Think they were judging it on what it was like in AD80 still, not the fact Wilkos has shut down.

Still knocks spots off pretty much most other places in the country. Most people here don't realise how good they've got it.

The thing with piling on like this is that you put people off posting. You might not like this idea (personally I ld love to see big murals like the MCFC one he mentions) but you also stifle other ideas in the future.

Like how much?

Worth a shout asking for donations?

I agree.  Grew up 5 minutes from town and never gave it a second thought until I moved away for college and lived in Newport in my first year.

Good point but given one end is missing nowadays, is it really any better than the old Burnden Park, with it's Normid end. 

I can relate to both of the posts quoted here. As a kid, I rarely ventured very far outside the city, so it was all I really knew - if anything, hearing my parents and grandparents talk about how the Chester of today isn’t a patch on what it was like in the 60s made me think I’d drawn the short straw. It’s only in more recent times that I’ve been able to see a lot more of the country - and how much of it, with all due respect, compared unfavourably to what’s on the doorstep - and have consequently come to appreciate just how special a place our hometown is. There are livelier cities, and there are small towns and villages with perhaps more unspoilt beauty, but Chester surely has to rank towards the very top when it comes to combining the aesthetic, the historical, and the practical. What’s more, we even manage to do it without being totally overrun by tourists, unlike certain other places (*cough* York *cough*)… from my experiences, Cambridge is probably the only English city I can think of from the top of my head that potentially beats us on the criteria I’ve listed.

It certainly gives a sense of pride when people from all over the world are sharing pictures of our city in awe on social media, or when people you meet react enviously when you tell them where you’re from. I think we all need to take stock of just how fortunate we are that we could’ve been born anywhere in the world, but have ended up in (or close to) such a wonderful place!

£1000?

Maybe Banksy fancies a change from Bristol and London?!