BBC Article on what's happened to old grounds once clubs have moved to new stadia. I never made it to Burnden Park or Eastville but I've been to the others.
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 reused
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!
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!
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.
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Doncaster Rovers Belle Vue
Morecambe Christie Park
Scarborough Athletic Ground
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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!
Same as the older st Andrews not the shit place they've turned it into
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
Robinson (2), Flanagan (2), Tydeman. Attendance: 8,120.
Can imagine all the youngsters singing "going down" from the safety of our end, not realising what it was like 20 years ago.