lost football grounds
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Nice link, worth a good browse, but two out of the three threads* on the BBC article are going to get torpedoed.Alex Wright said:
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No wonder I never seem to get closer to completing the 92. Out of those lost grounds, the only ones I never visited were;
Darlington Feethams
Doncaster Rovers Belle Vue
Morecambe Christie Park
Scarborough Athletic Ground
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There's that excellent website with all the old London grounds. I don't know the address but I'm sure someone on here does.0
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Second installment of the BBC's feature on lost football grounds. I've been to all these. Always liked the six floodlights at Hull
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Do like these articles... Especially interesting to see what the area has become... i.e. Highbury the layout is still there but just flats and a private garden, although sad that Stoke's old ground has never been reused0
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Great link that. Shows the old away end at Southend0
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For my sins spent my formative years at Maine Road, got my first season ticket for my tenth birthday.
Great memories watching some great teams and some absolutely dire ones! Unfortunately more of the dire ones than great ones.
The kippax on a big game day was a fantastic place to be, the Etihad is a great stadium and I understand the financials surrounding clubs in the modern era, but some how it doesn't feel like Maine Road in its hey day - could of course just be me getting old and having rose tinted memories!2 -
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Loved maine road and the journey in and out proper football ground and away day
Same as the older st Andrews not the shit place they've turned it into0 -
St Andrews has always been shit mate.1
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This^ was sh*te in the 60's when we lost 4-0 and still is now.DaveMehmet said:St Andrews has always been shit mate.
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Maine Road was superb....a real theatre.garfield said:For my sins spent my formative years at Maine Road, got my first season ticket for my tenth birthday.
Great memories watching some great teams and some absolutely dire ones! Unfortunately more of the dire ones than great ones.
The kippax on a big game day was a fantastic place to be, the Etihad is a great stadium and I understand the financials surrounding clubs in the modern era, but some how it doesn't feel like Maine Road in its hey day - could of course just be me getting old and having rose tinted memories!0 -
Always been shit but it had that edge a bit of character made you feel like you were lucky to get out of there
Last season it was so sterile and like walking out of Fulham
The walk to the station was nothing it has lost everything
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That's my experience of it, but I can't help but think it would have been fun there yesterday.DaveMehmet said:St Andrews has always been shit mate.
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Eastville (Bristol Rovers) was deeply hairy: a vast oval bounded by the dog-track, lit by way of pylons sprouting from corrugated roofs, with the elevated M32 slicing obliquely across one end. I was there in 1978 for our 5-5 draw, even more remarkable that no-one scored in the first 25 minutes or in the last 25 minutes. The cars on the motorway were slowing down to cop the action. And behind the goals, remnants of flower-beds, an attempt to soften this gloriously stark and bleak scene.
Robinson (2), Flanagan (2), Tydeman. Attendance: 8,120.0 -
Don't think there will be anything sterile about the walk/jog/sprint back to the station when we go there in April.nth london addick said:Always been shit but it had that edge a bit of character made you feel like you were lucky to get out of there
Last season it was so sterile and like walking out of Fulham
The walk to the station was nothing it has lost everything
And talking to blues fans they feel it too
Can imagine all the youngsters singing "going down" from the safety of our end, not realising what it was like 20 years ago.1
