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  1. hbk4894's Avatar
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    Best and Worst Football Grounds you have been to
    barring , your own of course which ones would you class as the best and worst you been to

    Best - not been too many , Ewood Park was alright , good couple of derby type games against them

    Worst - DW Stadium is quite bad , no chanting from their fans ,
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    Re: Best and Worst Football Grounds you have been to
    Best - Old Trafford. I am no Man United fan but walking down Busby Way towards this mass of a ground with thousands of fans was pretty spectacular.

    Worst - Luton Towns ground, Kenilworth Road. To get to the away end, you had to walk inbetween houses and as you go up some iron stairs towards the turnstiles, you can look over into other peoples gardens. I even had some little Asian kid asking me "so who do you support then?"
    It was slighlty surreal...
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    Re: Best and Worst Football Grounds you have been to
    Best - Old Trafford. The feeling of going down the tunnel. Also loved the atmosphere at the Riverside Stadium when Boro were in the Prem.

    Worst - National stadium in The Gambia. Security took my fruit pastilles and there were no seats. Plus was that it cost 20p to go in.
    Last edited by Welsh Leprecaun; 21-08-2011 at 19:39.
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    (Original post by Welsh Leprecaun)
    Also loved the atmosphere at the Riverside Stadium when Boro were in the Prem.
    I bet you'll be the only person to say that, but I love our stadium too

    Best - Anfield or Old Trafford

    Worst - Evertons
  5. tvdx's Avatar
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    Best - The Emirates was pretty special, padded seats. Plus I saw Brazil-Argentina so the atmosphere was awesome. I think the best has to be the Camp Nou though.

    Worst - I hate hate HATE Selhurst Park. The Withdean is crap too.
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    Re: Best and Worst Football Grounds you have been to
    Best - Nou Camp

    Worst - Cricklefields Stadium the home of Ilford FC

    (LOL those 2 are literally the only stadiums I've been to)
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    Re: Best and Worst Football Grounds you have been to
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    I bet you'll be the only person to say that, but I love our stadium too

    Best - Anfield or Old Trafford

    Worst - Evertons
    Went with my cousins a few years ago, great fun
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    Re: Best and Worst Football Grounds you have been to
    Millenium Stadium was great aswell when I saw Wales against Germany and England
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    Re: Best and Worst Football Grounds you have been to
    Best - Nou Camp
    Worst - Elland Road

    I haven't been to many, so i'm sure Elland Road isn't bad.
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    Re: Best and Worst Football Grounds you have been to
    I've only been to two so this seems irrelevant but whatevs,

    Best: St James' Park. Newcastle fans are some of the best in the country. 50,000 a week even in the Championship

    Worst: JJB Stadium. no cheering, not even when they score.
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    Re: Best and Worst Football Grounds you have been to
    I thought the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff was very smart. I recently had a wonder around the Olympic Stadium in Munich which was pretty cool.

    I really do not like Selhurst Park in the slightest.
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    Re: Best and Worst Football Grounds you have been to
    (Original post by tvdx)
    Worst - I hate hate HATE Selhurst Park. The Withdean is crap too.
    Brighton have got their new stadium now, which is a huge improvement on Withdean.
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    Re: Best and Worst Football Grounds you have been to
    Best - Wembley/Emerates
    Worst - Upton Park. What the **** is with the away end, may as well be in a cave.
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    Re: Best and Worst Football Grounds you have been to
    Best: The old Wembley. Wow.
    Worst: Portman Road, just a drab stadium.
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    Best: St James' Park
    Worst: Villa Park, cue 'aston's a ****hole, I wanna go home'.
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    (Original post by Seasick Steve)
    Brighton have got their new stadium now, which is a huge improvement on Withdean.
    I know, I love in Hove.
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    Re: Best and Worst Football Grounds you have been to
    Best
    Arsenals new ground - fantastic stadium
    Old Trafford
    The Valley (Charlton) - not quite sure why but i always love going there!
    Hillsborough (Sheff Weds)
    Spotland (Rochdale) - cracking little ground
    St Marys (Southampton) - one of the few bowls i enjoyed visiting

    Worst
    DW Stadium - soulless and empty
    Selhurst Park (Palace)
    Ricoh (Coventry) - soulless, empty bowl
    WHCS (Col U) - soulless flat pack in the middle of nowhere
    Priestfield (Gillingham) - Complete dump and an absolutely **** away end
    Kenilworth Road (Luton) - Same as Gillingham only worse
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    Re: Best and Worst Football Grounds you have been to
    I went to Wembley in April , the ground looked quite good but the surrounding area was a bit crap
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    Re: Best and Worst Football Grounds you have been to
    Love - Either Selhurst Park or Ninian Park.
    Worst - Pick a cookie cutter new stadium, any of them. They are all grey, soulless, concrete holes that in years to come will just be grey, soulless, concrete holes.

    Football fans traditionally form quite strong attachments to their home grounds and travelling fans develop strong memories from away games as a result of the stadium the visit. In years to come, when those grounds that had certain quirks and vices have gone, travelling fans will just be travelling from concrete bowl to concrete bowl with identikit seats, food and drink stands etc, with bovril and pie sold by the same retail chain as deals with half the league rather than local stuff, sold by die-hard fans from portacabins or snack counters under the stand.

    Rejoicing over the coming of cut and paste football grounds is support for selling out to corporate ground sponsors and more space for exec boxes and less space for fans.
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    Re: Best and Worst Football Grounds you have been to
    (Original post by oldham_fran)
    Best - Old Trafford. I am no Man United fan but walking down Busby Way towards this mass of a ground with thousands of fans was pretty spectacular.

    Worst - Luton Towns ground, Kenilworth Road. To get to the away end, you had to walk inbetween houses and as you go up some iron stairs towards the turnstiles, you can look over into other peoples gardens. I even had some little Asian kid asking me "so who do you support then?"
    It was slighlty surreal...
    Came into this thread waiting for someone to say Lutons ground. To be fair as much of a hole that it is, it has character and i'd pick crappy grounds like that with atmosphere and character to some of the modern stadiums today.

    For me, best - Emirates
    Worst - Stevenages ground.
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