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yorkshirehornet said:
The ancient Romans played a game called 'Herpastum', a kind of scrummaging game where two sides fought for possession of a ball,in order to throw it into the opposition's goal.

But cant find a stadium linked as it wasnt an olympic sport
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Australian Aboriginals were playing a football game known as marngrook well before the Olympics were invented - played in an outdoor stadium known as The Bush. No connection with QPR though...

J T Bodbo said:
Yes it is the racecourse stadium (1807). To my surprise. I thought it was Bramall Lane too.
Anyway, over to you.
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The stadium may have been built in 1807 - but not for football, which didn't start there for another 60 years or so.
 
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Bolton's Boots said:
Australian Aboriginals were playing a football game known as marngrook well before the Olympics were invented - played in an outdoor stadium known as The Bush. No connection with QPR though...


The stadium may have been built in 1807 - but not for football, which didn't start there for another 60 years or so.
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Yes. I tried to word it not to mislead , but not to make it obvious either. Funnily enough, Bramall Lane isn't the oldest one used for football either !
 
J T Bodbo said:
Funnily enough, Bramall Lane isn't the oldest one used for football either !
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I think that honour may belong to the other Sheffield club, Hallam - certainly for the most 'continuously used' stadium.

Dalry Park in Edinburgh could have a claim to be the oldest - the home of The Foot-Ball club when it was founded in 1824. Although to be honest, it may just have been a pitch in a park rather than a stadium.
 
yorkshirehornet said:
Man City?
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Like Sunderland the Man City stadium is built on old colliery land (Bradford Colliery) but not certain if it's actually directly above a shaft. The stadium I am thinking of is above two from different collieries where they intersect. The pitch had to be rotated from a north south allignment to a North East- South West allignment to rule out all risk of subsidence.
 
I think this is closer to home for cologne. I will guess it is the one in Gelsenkirchen where there was a lot of mining.
 
oldfrenchhorn said:
I think this is closer to home for cologne. I will guess it is the one in Gelsenkirchen where there was a lot of mining.
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You would be right Frenchie. The city of Gelsenkirchen is known as the ''City of a thousand fires'' and was the most important coal mining town in Europe. The Veltins Arena - home of Schalke 04 is built over the intersection between the shafts of two collieries. At one time it was possible for miners to travel from Gelsenkirchen to Essen without coming up to do it.
 
Keeping to the football stadium theme, which French side became famous when the one stand could hold a third of the town's population?
 
Probably safer to say platform 1 only. And it's nothing to do with fiction, (Harry Potter or anyone else). Also , nothing to do with crime.
 
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