Quote: Slugger McBatt "One significant problem for the ground if a mosque is built is that Friday prayers are a focal point of the Muslim week, and there are prayer meetings until late in the evening due to the obligation to pray five times a day. There would be difficulties perhaps in the mosque if the Friday prayers were disrupted by a noisy beer-swilling crowd literally yards away, alongside the parking and congestion issues. It would end Friday games, and commercially they can be quite good. I don't think they could co-exist for those reasons alone. It would also increase the risk of tensions around the ground as people enter and leave, particularly if they are tanked up.
There is no real political advantage for local politicians in throwing weight behind a mosque, other than a councillor in that specific ward (and there would be nothing wrong with that, as that person is elected to represent their interests, which would involve a mosque more than it would a rugby ground catering for people mainly outside that ward), as Wakefield does not have a significant enough muslim population to gain votes from, certainly compared to other West Yorkshire towns and to the potential alienation of quite a few thousand Trinity fans (I work on the assumption that there are many with Trinity sympathies, even though they don't attend games).'"
I'm not sure how friday night games could be ended due to Sky TV. They are the paymasters, would the club look to play any Friday night games/Good Friday games elsewhere? I find that unlikely.
