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Post by Shireblogger on Sept 16, 2018 16:06:16 GMT 1
Cant believe Sunderland lost to Burton They must have been packed in their away end? Prenton Park and Tranmere for me next saturday. Sunderland were atrocious in the first half. Better in the second, but still didn't create many chances against Burton's well dodgy 3rd choice goalkeeper. Attendance 4,500, of whom I guess about 1,500 were packed into the away end. Have fun on the Wirral.
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Post by o on Sept 29, 2018 22:17:52 GMT 1
#58 Tranmere Rovers, lost 0-1 to a time wasting fall over Newport County in front of 5745 spectators. #59 Grimsby Town, lost 1-2 to Morecambe, took the lead and then didn't take their chances and poor defending led to Morecambe and their 63! fans taking home the 3 points, crowd just under 4000. So three grounds done and all the home teams have not won, I've turned into a bit of a jonah Carlisle for #60 hopefully, then I will see what the FA Cup brings.
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Post by Panda on Feb 10, 2020 22:24:48 GMT 1
Going to try and update my list this week. I'm a fair bit over 100 now.
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Post by Earl Purple on Feb 11, 2020 16:28:31 GMT 1
I haven't even been to The Hive or Boreham Wood's home ground.
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Post by Panda on Feb 11, 2020 17:03:03 GMT 1
Grounds I've visited: Riverside Stadium (Middlesbrough) Ayresome Park (old Middlesbrough) Old Trafford (Manchester United) Wembley (old and new versions - for American football) Mount Pleasant (Marske United) Station Road (Norton & Stockton Ancients) Central Avenue (Billingham Synthonia) Broughton Road (Stokesley) King George V Ground (Guisborough Town) Ainderby Road (Northallerton Town) Ralph Gardner Park (North Shields) Gurney Street (New Marske) Green Lane (Redcar Athletic) Ironworks Road (Tow Law Town) Hillheads Park (Whitley Bay) Teesdale Park (Thornaby) Frenchfields Park (Penrith) Bedford Terrace (Billingham Town) Belle Vue Park (Consett) Turnbull Ground (Whitby Town) New Ferens Park (Durham City, now home to Washington) Boldon Community Association Sports Ground (Jarrow Roofing) Brewery Field (Spennymoor Town) Brinkburn Road (Darlington Railway Athletic) Moore Lane Park (Newton Aycliffe) Seaham Town Park (Seaham Red Star) Heritage Park (Bishop Auckland) Darlington Road (West Auckland Town) Eastbourne Sports Complex (Darlington Cleveland Bridge, now home to Darlington Town) Eppleton Colliery Welfare Ground Dean Street (Shildon) R&R Ice Cream Stadium (Bedale Town) Welfare Park (Horden Colliery Welfare) Earls Orchard (Richmond Town) Bishopton Road West (old version) (Stockton Town) Grangetown Youth & Community Centre (Grangetown Boys Club) Metcalfe Park (Wolviston) Eden Lane (Peterlee Town) Meadow Park (Sunderland Ryhope CA) Ryhope Recreation Park (Ryhope Colliery Welfare) Hebburn Sports & Social Ground (Hebburn Town) Welfare Ground (Brandon United) Mariners Park (South Shields) Manse Lane (Knaresborough Town) Hornby Park (Seaton Carew) West Terrace (Esh Winning) Millfield (Crook Town) Station View (Harrogate Railway Athletic) Ings Lane (Tadcaster Albion) Gillford Park (Celtic Nation, now home to Carlisle City) Leeds Road (Glasshoughton Welfare) Beechnut Lane (Pontefract Collieries) Fitzwilliam Stadium (Hemsworth Miners Welfare) Sheerien Park (Athersley Recreation) Mill Lane (Pickering Town) Wheatley Park (Garforth Town) Welfare Park (Easington Colliery) Beechfield Park (Coxhoe Athletic) Hall Lane (Willington) Parkside Road (Kendal Town) Flaxley Road Ground (Selby Town) Welfare Ground (Armthorpe Welfare) Victory Park (Barnoldswick Town) Queensgate (Bridlington Town) Coach Lane (Team Northumbria) Westfield Lane (Frickley Athletic) Doctor Pit Welfare Park (Bedlington Terriers) Sam Smith's Park (Newcastle Benfield) Haig Avenue (Southport) Croft Park (Blyth Spartans) Belle Vue (Wakefield) Wellington Road (Dunston UTS) Victoria Pleasure Grounds (Goole) Belle View (Consett) Bracken Edge (Yorkshire Amateur) Woodhorn Lane (Ashington) Moor Park (Chester-le-Street Town) Craik Park (Morpeth Town) St. James' Park (Newcastle United) Mallorie Park (Ripon City) Perth Green (Jarrow) Victoria Park (Hartlepool United) Glebe Sports Ground (Whickham) Whitley Park (West Allotment Celtic) Throstle Nest (Farsley Celtic) Kingsley Park (Ryton & Crawcrook Albion) Giant Axe (Lancaster City) Ingfield (Ossett Town, now Ossett United) Nissan Sports Complex (Washington, now home to Sunderland West End) Booth Street (Congleton Town) Bishopton Road West (new version) (Stockton Town) London Stadium (West Ham United - for World Athletics Championships) Flamingo Land Stadium (Scarborough Athletic) Anchor Ground (Darwen) Linnets Stadium (Runcorn Linnets) Larges Lane (Bracknell Town) City Ground (Winchester City) Sir Halley Stewart Playing Fields (Spalding United) Coach & Horses Ground (Sheffield) Christchurch Meadows (Belper Town) The Linden Club (Cleethorpes Town) Forest Town Stadium (AFC Mansfield) St. Giles Road (Brighouse Town) Grounsell Park (Heaton Stannington) Moat Ground (Gresley) Shawe View (Trafford) Holt House (Colne) Rossett Park (Marine) Harry Williams Riverside Stadium (Ramsbottom United) Butcher's Arms Ground (Droylsden) Borough Park (Workington)
Grounds I've seen: Elland Road (Leeds United) Darlington Arena (old Darlington) Stadium Of Light (Sunderland) Roker Park (old Sunderland) Bloomfield Road (Blackpool) Glanford Park (Scunthorpe United) Bootham Crescent (York City) Wetherby Road (Harrogate Town) Stadio San Paolo (Napoli) Stadio Arechi (Salernitana) Easter Road (Hibernian) Murrayfield (saw from top of Edinburgh Castle) Meadowbank Stadium (Edinburgh City) Boldon Colliery Welfare (Boldon CA) Dennyfield (Thackley) Valley Parade (Bradford City) International Stadium (Gateshead) Avenue Park (London Tigers) Stadium MK (Milton Keynes Dons) Hillsborough (Sheffield Wednesday) Anfield (Liverpool) Goodison Park (Everton) The Oval (Glentoran) Aircraft Park (Short Brothers) Windsor Park (Linfield) Wilgar Park (Dundela) Tillysburn Park (Harland & Wolff Welders) Mo Mowlam Park (Redcar Town) Andrew Street (Chadderton) Ibrox (Rangers) Stamford Bridge (Chelsea) Craven Cottage (Fulham) Vicarage Road (Watford) Church Road (Laverstock & Ford) Aviva Stadium (Republic of Ireland)
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Post by Shireblogger on Feb 15, 2020 19:23:04 GMT 1
Watched a game at my 71st ground today - Moss Rose. Macclesfield Town 2-3 Exeter City Given the on-field and off-field problems, I thought I'd take the opportunity to go to Macclesfield while they were still a football league club. Probably the lowest attendance I've ever been part of at a league match (~1,300). Definitely the worst league ground I've been to. Horrible weather, but an entertaining game. Macclesfield's goalkeeper was so bad, I thought I should offer my services at half-time. I'm not as fit, but I'd probably be better with the ball.
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Post by o on Feb 15, 2020 22:08:05 GMT 1
Cracking game though Shireb! We saw a 0-0 with Bristol Rovers there back in 2011! One of only two 0-0 league games we've seen I think. Is that your 71st league ground? If so, wow, which 11 are you missing? Misterh, didn't know you'd done afc mansfield, that's just down the road from where my mum lives now And if you ever come over this way for Harrogate Town or anyone else let me know, be good to meet up again I lost Notts County and Bury off my list of league grounds so I'm back to #58 Carlisle who lost at home 0-2 to Mansfield, and #59 Crewe who drew with Mansfield 1-1 in a brilliantly entertaining game, the last for John Dempster, before Coughlan took over and won 3 games in about 12 to keep us nice and low in the table! If Barrow come up, that will be a trek to a bleak ground, possible worse than Macclesfield Shireb? And could do with Halifax or Harrogate coming up with them as done both of theirs, and lose Stevenage would be a bonus for my list. Hoping to do Salford later this season, plus maybe Villa Park for the England game, and maybe Peterboro, Ipswich or Wycombe towards the end of the season
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Post by Shireblogger on Feb 15, 2020 23:20:19 GMT 1
Cracking game though Shireb! Is that your 71st league ground? If so, wow, which 11 are you missing? Great game for the neutral fan. (Assuming they were wearing warm, waterproof clothes !) My 71 is very complicated, and includes:- 14 that no longer exist - The Dell (Southampton), Highbury (Arsenal), Burnden Park (Bolton), Saltergate (Chesterfield), Highfield Road (Coventry), Baseball Ground (Derby), Filbert Street (Leicester), Watling Street (Maidstone Utd), Maine Road (Man C), Manor Ground (Oxford), Millmoor (Rotherham), Roker Park (Sunderland), Upton Park (West Ham) & old Wembley 3 whose residents are currently outside the football league - Chesterfield, Notts Co, Stockport 3 that have never belonged to a football league team - Alfreton, Belper, Matlock 2 that are currently not home to a football league team - Ricoh Arena (Coventry) & new Wembley 2 that are home to Scottish teams - Dundee Utd & Raith which leaves 47 current football league grounds that I have watched matches at additionally, I've seen athletics at West Ham's ground (& Hampden Park) but I really should cross off White Hart Lane (Tottenham), as the stadium I've been to has been demolished and replaced by a new one I've also been to league matches at 5 stadia abroad - 1 each in France, Germany, Hungary, Finland & Ghana the next 2 on my list, based on proximity to home, are the new Rotherham ground and St Andrews (Birmingham) just 2 Premier League grounds missing from my list - Norwich and Brighton - but that could be 0 next year, if they go down and 3 of WBA, Leeds, Forest, Blackburn, Wednesday or Derby get promoted
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Post by Robbie on May 14, 2020 21:08:00 GMT 1
Grounds I've visited: New Ferens Park (Durham City, now home to Washington) Nissan Sports Complex (Washington, now home to Sunderland West End)
I wonder if you ever got to visit Washington's (my local team) old ground at Albany Park in Washington itself? It had been the home ground since 1980 until 2009 when the team had to ground share with North Shields following the double whammy of first the dressing rooms being destroyed by an arson attack and then, just as portakabins were installed as temporary replacements, a snowy winter, deep frost and then a waterlogged pitch made the ground unplayable. Finally the team moved to Nissan after yet more vandalism. A real shame. Now the team play in Durham, too far away to attract casual supports from my local town. The old Albany Park ground is at the end of the estate where I live. I used to love seeing the floodlights on in winter and the club house was a two minute walk away for a quick pint. Sadly the ground has now been earmarked for housing and the club house is soon to be demolished though multiple fires have almost managed to demolish it anyway. This is now how the clubhouse and ground look
From that last picture it's hard to imagine that football was ever played there - the photographer would have been stood roughly where a corner flag would have been. And very sad to see the state of the club house - I had many a happy night there* going all the way back to the 1980s when there would be a disco every Friday and Saturday night! The place used to be packed out every weekend up until 7 years ago when the brewery closed it as they sold the building to a developer.
* the clubhouse above was a new build to replace the old one - it had to be rebuilt in 1992 after the old one burned down! Vandalism has long been a problem at the ground and ultimately led to the closure of the ground and almost pulled the team down with it - the club was an hour away from folding just 5 years ago until a local businessman stepped in to clear all the debts. Also despite the team having existed under various names since 1947, since the 1970s the team has largely failed to attract much support in a town which has a 50/50 Newcastle United v Sunderland divide. I went to a number of games but I doubt there was ever more than 100 people there. Sometimes I doubt there was half that number there.
Anyway, as the clubhouse is due to be demolished in the next couple of months for the building work to start here's the clubhouse in happier times
Sums it all up though - part of the boundary wall at the entrance had been vandalised and is missing! The picture is from the last full season the club played there, in the season 2008/9.
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Post by o on May 15, 2020 9:44:44 GMT 1
All those plans I had come to nothing as football is frozen, will it ever restart? Will Stevenage be booted or will just Barrow be allowed up to replace Bury? Stevenage have been shocking all season, and it's only because Macc aren't paying their players that they are so low! Very cruel on Harrogate in 2nd place if they dont come up, but then would they have won the playoffs anyway? It needs sorting though as Harrogate have a 4g pitch and need to rip it up and lay grass if they are a football league team next season. I'm assuming a lot of teams could really struggle whenever the new season starts up, because they simply dont have the cash flows to pay good wages to attract good players to do well, unless a lot of players take wage cuts, as the alternative may be no job?
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Post by vastar iner on May 15, 2020 12:06:51 GMT 1
I try to find a football ground on my travels, although I rarely see matches, I don't plan around games and most of the places I go are not particularly high on the old football agenda.
But it does occasionally happen that I see one by accident. After all, if I'm at the ground, there's nothing else to do, and there's a game going on, seems silly not to pop in.
And the most spectacular backdrop was at the highest ground I've been to; 3,400m above sea level. The Estadio Inca Garcilaso de la Vega, Cusco, Peru. Cienciano were playing at home to Union Huaral. It was a 5-0 massacre.
Cienciano have never won the Peruvian League or Cup. Yet they've won two South American trophies. Beating River Plate in the 2003 Sudamericana and Boca Juniors in the 2004 Recopa (the Super Cup). Altitude gives them a heck of a home advantage...
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Post by Panda on May 15, 2020 21:41:51 GMT 1
Grounds I've visited: New Ferens Park (Durham City, now home to Washington) Nissan Sports Complex (Washington, now home to Sunderland West End) I wonder if you ever got to visit Washington's (my local team) old ground at Albany Park in Washington itself?
No I never got to visit Albany Park though I think I've driven past it since it closed. I started following Marske in 2010 so Washington had already moved. My visit to Nissan will eventually be featured here: fatherandy2.proboards.com/thread/97842/mrhs-football-travels
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Post by vastar iner on May 16, 2020 15:02:22 GMT 1
A derelict ground to go with Washington's...
...Price Avenue, quondam home of Mile Oak Rovers, near Tamworth. Punched above their weight for years, getting as far as the Southern League briefly, and provided League players in the form of Big Tony Coton, Big John Gayle, and Big Kevin Francis.
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Post by vastar iner on May 18, 2020 9:52:16 GMT 1
Two years ago, I went to the biennial Monaco Historic Grand Prix for the first time. Good job I did, not only did they double the prices for this year, it has of course been cancelled.
After the practising on the Saturday had finished, they opened up the circuit for a walk around, and I took advantage to head to the west of the Principality to have a shufti at the Stade Louis II. It was preparing for a match and there were plenty mooching around (got a Monaco training shirt). I would have watched the match, but kick-off was not till 9pm, and I was staying in Nice, so needed the train back. And it being France they were mostly en grève so most of the trains were cancelled. I could not both watch the match and get back...
It's not the easiest to photograph because the ground is on a high level of a multi-storey complex, the bottom bits of which look like a bog-standard conference centre. It was only at looking at my pics later that I noticed the arches looked like a series of Ms. Can't be coincidental.
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Post by vastar iner on May 26, 2020 15:46:09 GMT 1
How about this one?
It's more a school sports patch than a football ground. But it does have the distinction of being the northernmost football field in the world. This is in Longyearbyen, in Spitsbergen. There used to be one even further north, in Ny Ålesund, but it had gone by the time I got there.
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Post by vastar iner on Jun 14, 2020 16:19:44 GMT 1
From the top of the world to the bottom. The Estadio Ramon Cañas Montalva, home of the amusingly named Club Prat, of Punta Arenas, Chile. The southernmost ground on the South American continent. There are grounds on Tierra del Fuego, but I've not seen any of them.
I used to pore over atlases when I was a kid and was always taken with Punta Arenas (Sandy Point), because it was so out on its own, basically to fill the empty spaces in southern south America. So it was quite fun to get to see it. Very much a frontier spirit there.
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Post by vastar iner on Jun 23, 2020 11:53:36 GMT 1
Article on the BBC website about Hamburg hispter favourites St Pauli, so here is Der Millerntor in all its glory.
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Post by vastar iner on Jun 26, 2020 16:31:43 GMT 1
Not sure how many national stadia allow you to rent them out for practice matches and amateur leagues. They do in Bhutan. This is the Changlimithang Stadium in Thimphu, home to a very low-grade league as well as the national side.
Amongst the many teams for whom this is home is Drukpol. Bhutan's most successful side. At least until 2017, when the players undertook a sit-down protest here against a refereeing decision. The Bhutanese FA therefore suspended Drukpol for two years.
The kicker? Drukpol is the representative team of the Bhutan Police Force...
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Post by vastar iner on Jul 9, 2020 15:40:55 GMT 1
The second-most northerly football ground in the world? This is at Barentsburg, Spitsbergen, just a bit further south than Longyearbyen. (Incidentally, people had such difficulty pronouncing Longyearbyen. It's simpler than they thought. It was named after an American mining magnate, John Longyear, and it was called Longyear City until the World War 1 shake-out had Spitsbergen go to Norway, so they translated "city" into "byen".)
As part of that shake-out, though, any nation that wanted was entitled to exploit natural resources, albeit under Norwegian sovereignty. The Soviet Union took advantage and set up two small "mining" outposts, the now-abandoned Pyramiden, and Barentsburg. They do operate a mine there, but it seems that the only use of the coal mined is to power the town.
Anyhoo, they have a rather spongy football pitch, it felt like it was coated in coal dust. Wooden Orthodox shrine behind. I understand the green building has now been demolished.
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Post by o on Aug 4, 2020 10:59:42 GMT 1
Harrogate's promotion takes me back up to 60 Football league grounds, if you count Coventry as the Ricoh or St Andrew's, both of which I have done. Barrow and Salford next when we are allowed inside grounds again, then I may look further afield and weekends away. Biggest teams I've not done are Chelsea and Tottenham along with West Ham, biggest non London team, Aston Villa, a ground with a lot of character I expect. If Fulham beat Brentford, I'll have already done the 3 promoted Championship teams grounds as well. Possibly be the most Prem teams grounds I'd have ever done, be lovely to get the above 3 ticked off, but guessing Spurs and Chelsea tickets are not easy to come by, unless it's a cup/midweek game! And Sam is on 47, not bad for a soon to be 21yo. He will be obsessed with seeing Leeds in the Prem next season and who can blame him, that and Harrogate v Stags He doesn't often get saturdays off, so it's hard to get to games with him now
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