What are your favourite football grounds and why? Here's mine 1) The Dell, obvious choice but also at the same it really was a special individual football ground that came from years of hard work and promotions, the atmosphere the East Stand and Archers Road used to generate was amazing as well, opposing teams really did not like coming to play us. 2) Craven Cottage, an olde Worlde ground by the Thames in a lovely area what's there not to like, good pubs nearby and good fans if a little quiet. 3) St James Park, city centre location, great atmosphere and superb night out afterwards with a guaranteed friendly welcome. 4) City Ground, another traditional stadium in a great location, good fans and always remember the 3-1 away in the relegation struggle of 97. 5) Stamford Bridge, the old terracing bowl stadium, the shed was amazing and I stood on there quite a few times when Saints were not playing, again great area for a night out afterwards.
Haven't been to many, but I liked Highbury. It was my first match away from the Dell and I was shocked to find that you could have more than one ladies toilets. Soap and paper and everything
Ah that's easily done Jimmy! I think all mine are associated with great success, Brisbane Road the year Saints got promoted. Loftus Road remember one brilliant 4-1 win when MLT andf the Wallaces ran amok. Plough Lane in the 80's because I could walk to it!
1) Carrow Road - Lovely little ground and a great set of fans. I will never forget being in the wrong end one year when Beattie scored first and I forget myself up I went roaring in delight to silence all around me and my mate a Norwich fan killing himself with laughter. The next 80 minutes or so were a lot of fun, yes i got a lot of stick but it was all done in the right manner....thankfully Norwich won but what a great set of fans!! 2) Fratton Park - the red hot atmoshphere of a local derby you just cant beat it. 3) Villa Park - The FA Cup Semi will live long in my heart just for the joy of the result and of getting to see my beloved Saints in a FA Cup Final 4) The New Wembley - Third time lucky I see Saints win a final. 5) KC Stadium - Last season on a Tuesday night driving up to Hull breaking my losing streak for away games meeting up with a couple of the guys we sit with in the Kingsland, what football is all about.
FA Cup semi-final at Villa...my favourite match. Saints fans everywhere, surrounding the team coaches...Watford looking unsuccessfully for their fans. Don't remember the ground too much though, so must have been okay.
I used to like the Spurs ground but haven't been in a while so it may be a bit dilapidated now. Most definitely Villa Park for all the previously mentioned reasons!!
1. The Dell - Went there at the start of the 74-5 season when we drew 1-1.Nice compact ground with atmosphere, a bit like Carrow Rd. 2.Fratton Park - end of the 74-5 season when we won promotion.Agood day out. 3.Anfield - Preferred it when they had The Kop but nice supporters.I dropped my credit card when waiting in the ticket queue and a Scouser saw it fall and handed it back - So much for stereotypes. 4.St James park. Again great fans. 5.Kenilworth Road - Was a regular at Luton in my college days.Number one wag comment from behind at half time in one game Fan 1 - "I think we will see a radical change of tactics in the second half" Fan2- "What's that?" Fan 1 "They will kick in the other direction"
1) Fratton Park (obviously) 2) Cherrywood Road (best Conference South ground I've ever been to, yes better than Woking's ground) 3) Portman Road (like Fratton Park, but bigger) 4) Villa Park (like Portman road, but bigger) 5) Craven Cottage
I went to Woking's years ago against Nuneaton Borough, they must of done the ground up as it was pretty average then, Dorchester was a great non League ground.
I last went to Woking's ground back in 2010. It is basically three sides of old, dodgy looking terracing and one humongous stand that looks ridiculous and terribly out of place. All the sides at Cherrywood Road looks fairly decent and have some degree of cohesion, plus the new stand they're building, while pretty big, is not quite so big and doesn't look so ridiculous or out of place as the rest of the stadium is pretty decent, clean and shiny and new (well, it's not new but it's been done up well). Dorchester's looked alright from the bit I saw of it on TV against Plymouth, very big (for a non-league stadium).
I thought that was the Camrose at first, Joe! What a stadium that is, both times I've been there they've played epic music from Journey to the Lightning Seeds, Scouting for Girls to Eliza Doolittle! And for those interested in Woking's ground, you can get what I mean from this video. [video=youtube;bHIpsrWftcI]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHIpsrWftcI[/video]
I always liked Highbury, a proper old fashioned football ground with a great Art Deco front on Avenall Road. Although the Clock End was a bit like standing in a coal bunker if you got a seat near the back. You can keep The Emirates - spacious, modern, comfortable, and hard to believe you're in the UK. White Hart Lane is in the crappiest part of London bar none, just about the only corner of the capital to remain completely uncolonised by yuppies. For this reason alone I will always have a soft spot for both Spurs and their ground, though I haven't been there since the day we beat them 3-1 and cost Glenda his job. The upper tier of the visitors end was a great vantage point from which to watch a game of football. I'm glad they're staying in Tottenham, and won't have to change their name to "Stratford Hotspur". Whatever the club does to shake off the old hooligan image, and they've done a lot, the New Den will always be by far the most intimidating arena for visitors to attend a football match. The police keep the rival supporters segregated between the train stations and the ground, but the journey down from London Bridge is still an experience. The ground is open to the wind as they never got round to putting corners in, so on cold windy days it's freezing. And they still play that ****ing awful song when they score. I can understand why the club's owners want to move, but god knows why the fans are so keen to leave the funky old atmosphere of the Boleyn, with it's crappy cardboard castles and it's World Cup statue, for the Olympic Stadium where they'll be a mile away from the pitch. Have to love Leyton Orient's ground purely for the way "King of the Spivs" Barry Hearn stuck a block of flats in each corner, which probably raised more money than therclub had seen in the previous hundred years combined.
I played at Woking, The Camrose and Dorchester... I'm that old that I even played on Dorchester's old sloped pitch just up from the new ground, before they sold to Tesco.
