Best and Worst Football Grounds you have been to
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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... -
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. -
Re: Best and Worst Football Grounds you have been toI bet you'll be the only person to say that, but I love our stadium too(Original post by Welsh Leprecaun)
Also loved the atmosphere at the Riverside Stadium when Boro were in the Prem.
Best - Anfield or Old Trafford
Worst - Evertons -
Re: Best and Worst Football Grounds you have been toWent with my cousins a few years ago, great fun(Original post by alexxturnerr)
I bet you'll be the only person to say that, but I love our stadium too
Best - Anfield or Old Trafford
Worst - Evertons
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Re: Best and Worst Football Grounds you have been toBrighton have got their new stadium now, which is a huge improvement on Withdean.(Original post by tvdx)
Worst - I hate hate HATE Selhurst Park. The Withdean is crap too. -
Re: Best and Worst Football Grounds you have been toI know, I love in Hove.(Original post by Seasick Steve)
Brighton have got their new stadium now, which is a huge improvement on Withdean. -
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 -
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. -
Re: Best and Worst Football Grounds you have been toCame 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.(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...
For me, best - Emirates
Worst - Stevenages ground.
