PREM QPR Aston Villa (Wycombe v Liverpool) Newcastle Sunderland *SOL* Wolves (Wolves v Crewe) CHAMPIONSHIP Barnsley Hull City (Hull v Wycombe *BP*) *KC* Middlesbrough *AP* *RS* LEAGUE ONE Hartlepool Utd Sheff Utd Sheff Wed Wycombe OTHER Millennium Stadium Inter (Inter v Modena) Real Madrid (Real Madrid v Malaga) Several lower league grounds (too many to mention) BEST - QPR WORST - Tow Law
ive been to highbury , spuds ,west ham ,palarse ,foolham ,barnet ,brentford ,pompey ,soton , aldershot ,burnley ,watford ,sheff wed , leeds ,cologne ,liverpool ,manure ,everton ,millinium ,wembley ,blackpool ,peterboro ,charlton ,luton ,blackburn ,,,wrexham ,villa, chelscum ,brighton ,leicester, derby ,ipswich ,millwall ,forest ,bristol city, coventry ,bournemouth ,orient, swindon, southend ,oxford , wimbledon [plough lane] 42 grounds to watch the r;s maybe more but cant remember .
King hell, over 40 years and with my brain, far too many to remember. On the upside I can hide my own Easter Eggs and get to meet new people every day.
Only 4 I'm afraid Loftus Rd Wembley (England vs Croatia - WC qualifier) BMO Field(home ground of atoronto FC and Canada's national team) Roger's Skydome (where 5 night ago a bunch of guys called Toronto FC drew R Keane, L Donovan and Becks 2-2) By far the best was Loftus Rd but second was BMO field
Prem, QPR, ManU, Spurs, Arsenal, Chelsea, Newcastle, Liverpool, Fulham, West Brom, Villa, Blackburn, Bolton (old), Wolves. NPC, Southampton (old), West Ham, Boro (old), Brighton (Goldstone), Leeds, Palace, Leicester (old), Burnley, Watford, Derby (both), Ipswich, Barnsley, Millwall (Both), Forest. Lge One, Charlton, Sheff Wed, Mk Stadium & Plough Lane, Carlisle, Brentford, Oldham, Preston, Orient, Exeter. Lge Two, Shrewsbury, Torquay, Gillingham, Rotherham, AFC Wimbledon. Non Lge, Luton, Cambridge, Grimsby, Hayes. Also , Wembley(old), The Millenium, The Nou Camp, Benfica, Olympic Stadium Rome, Luzhniki Stadium Moscow, Rogers Skydome Toronto.
Stamford Bridge (Obviously) Craven Cottage Upton Park Emirates White Hart Lane Loftus Road Stadium of Light Old Trafford Eastlands (Got the ticket, going Wednesday week, technically been already) Molineux Villa Park St. Andrews Selhurst Park Bescot Stadium (Walsall) Kingsmeadow (AFC Wimbledon) The New Lawn (Forest Green) Camp Nou Wembley (Old) Wembley (New) Would love to get down to more but hard these days as football is so expensive. So far Emirates was by far the nicest but I really like Craven Cottage, possibly my favourite of them all. New Wembley is vastly overrated.
40 years ago for me, so if memory serves me right:- Andover - where I grew up (Walled Meadow) Southampton (The Dell) - closest major club Bournemouth Swindon Portsmouth (Fratton Park) Bristol City Oxford United Charlton (The Valley) - ate roasted chestnuts Arsenal (Highbury) Tottenham (WHL) QPR (Loftus Road) Vancouver (Pacific Colesium) - where I saw Pele & Beckenbauer play in 1977
In England too many to call but nearly all premiership/most if not all Championship and a lot of League 1 and 2 Abroad : Scotland / Glasgow Eire/ Dublin Wales / Cardiff/Wrexham/Swansea France / St Etienne/Paris/Nantes/Marseille Italy / Rome/Turin/Milan Holland / Amsterdam/Rotterdam/Eindhovan Belgium / Charloei Poland / Warsaw/Katowice/Poznan Hungary / Budapest Slovakia / Bratislavia Albania / Tirana Finland / Helsinki Germany / Munich Greece / Athens Malta / Valetta Norway / Oslo Sweden / Stockholm Hong Kong / Hong Kong Wembley / Old and New Stadium Think thats it but might be a few more i missed
Loftus Road - by far the best. Being a shortarse I can't even complain about the legroom (too much!) Upton Park Highbury Pride Park Ricoh Arena Ashton Gate Memorial Stadium City Ground St. James Park (Newcastle) Madejski Elm Park Kenilworth Road Old Trafford Griffin Park Millenium Stadium Wembley (old and new) Bayern Munich (Olympic Stadium) Bernabeau
Man U (vs West Ham in an FA Cup game), Tottenham, Liverpool, Sunderland, Fulham, Swansea (Vetch Field), Norwich, West Brom (vs QPR), QPR, Wolves, Wigan, Southampton, Reading, Brighton (that crappy athletics ground they were at before the AMEX, forgotten its name), Cardiff (Ninian Park), Birmingham, Blackpool, Hull C (BP and KC obviously), Leeds, Palace, Leicester, Burnley, Watford, Derby, Barnsley, Millwall, Coventry, Doncaster (Belle Vue), Sheff Wed, Huddersfield, MK Dons (Hockey Stadium), Colchester, Brentford, Bournemouth, Oldham, Preston, Yeovil, Orient, Scunthorpe, Tranmere, Walsall, Chesterfield, Southend, Torquay, Crewe, Bradford, Plymouth, Kidderminster, Boston, Cambridge U. Wembley old (England vs Poland) and new (our PO Final) Millenium Stadium (Hudds vs Mansfield PO Final) Dunfermline Falkirk Hearts I'm sure there's a few others where teams have dropped out the league and I can't remember.
To add to the rare and exotic grounds. I've been to Aylesbury and Cambridge United following the Rss... Not really in the same league as Staines though
It is only 'cos i work for an airline mate that i was able to follow England away for 15 years or so. It lost a bit of it's shine when i got shot at in Bratislavia but i hear it's better now
I've been to... Arsenal (old) Blackburn, Bolton (reebok), Chelsea, Fulham, Man Utd, Tottenham in the Prem. Southampton, Reading, Hull, Leeds, Crystal Palace, Burnley, Peterborough, Coventry and Portsmouth in the Championship. MK Dons, Bournemouth, Brentford in League 1. Swindon, Gillingham, Aldershot, Wimbledon, Bradford in League 2. Hayes in Conf Prem. Woking, Farnborough, Hampton Richmond, Basingstoke, Staines, Boreham Wood, Salisbury, Maidenhead in Conf South. Far too many more in lower Non League to name. Stuttgart in Germany as well.
I have been to; Prem - Highbury, Tottenham, Man United, Liverpool, Chelsea, Fulham, Aston Villa, Wolves, Newcastle and Norwich. Champ - Southampton, West Ham, Blackpool, Crystal Palace, Watford, Ipswich, Peterborough, Millwall and Coventry. League 1 - Charlton, Sheff Weds, Brentford and Orient. League 2 - Swindon, Oxford and Wimbledon. Scotland - Celtic Wembley (old) USA - Orlando (world cup) and New York Red Bulls. Going to see Toronto FC (Canada) play in May. Spain - Camp Nou (last week) and Lanzarote. Italy - Bari Switzerland - Bern Denmark - Copenhagen Belgium - Heysel Stadium Brussels.
Not too many, but can include Loftus Road (obviously), Old and New Wembley, Highbury, Reading (Elm Park and the Madjeski) York Road (Maidenhead Utd, the oldest continually used single occupancy ground in the world) Slough Town (the old Wexham Park and the even older Dolphin Stadium), Wycombe, and from reading the above lists, I may be the first one to include St Johnstone's ground up in Scotland......
Loftus Road (loads of games!) Emirates (Emirates Cup) White Hart Lane (Spurs 5-1 Fulham) Stamford Bridge (C*elsea 1-0 Stoke) Craven Cottage (Fulham 6-0 QPR ) Selhurst Park (Palace 1-2 QPR) The Valley (Charlton 2-2 QPR) AFC Wimbledon (Quite a few) Vicarage Road (Watford 2-4 QPR )
Well......Old Wembley Loftus Road Highbury Stamford Bridge White Hart Lane Craven Cottage Gay Meadow Villa Park Ramon Sanchez Pizjuan (Sevilla) RÃ¥sunda (Stockholm) Olympic Stadion (Helsinki) Finnair Stadion (Helsinki) And several stadions in finland Tampere ,Turku ,Pietarsaari ,Pori and of course Ãijänsuo footbal stadion in Rauma where our beloved QPR beat local Rauman Pallo 8-1 in 1980. I was there then oh happy days...........
Loftus Rd (Mecca) And some memorable, and not so memorable ones..... Giants Stadium (McGrath's House) Old Colchester Utd ground (6 corrugated sheds riveted together) Wigan FC (s***e pies) Orlando (Aldridge's furnace) Upton Park (Police horse corrale to the Tube station) Foxboro Stadium (Maradona's drug frenzied run to TV camera) Lyon (USA v Iran with US hooligans taunting the Iranians - wierd!) Stamford Bridge (too many bloody times 'entertaining' customers in our company's 4 hospitality seats) Highbury (QPR fan, "why don't you sniff the line Merson") Lokomotiv Moscow (Russian army security line to the stadium and back) Lansdowne Rd (Keane's great tackle on the Little Dutch Boy & the English game :-/) Aviva Stadium (Majestic Messi with his Velcro boots and ball) The Den (the old one) Ricoh Arena (Munster, glory, glory and blagging way into Team dinner afterwards) Hamilton Academicals (am I the only Irish fan?) Stade de France (for the sports of football and rugby, but not Handball!) Wembley (the old one for that 'nice' result against Eng) The Racecourse (we lost and brother-in-law still reminds me of their win) White Hart Lane (only game with my brother RIP (spuds fan he was!)) Old Trafford (Wolves fans, "we want 6, we want 6") Paarken Stadium (dad singing "Oh Copenhagen" in a local pub, doing the Irish name proud, and getting beer at local prices, 3 pounds, when other Irish fans were paying 6 pounds a pint downtown!!) Most Irish league grounds ......upcoming......Loftus rd (Weds), Poznan and Gdansk (can't wait for all 3!)
Not many, but happy memories... Loftus Road Stamford Bridge Highbury White Hart Lane St James's Park (Exeter!) Anfield The Goldstone Old Trafford Wembley (Old) Upton Park
