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same here Saddle! my sensory feelers have just been tickled by your description;)

It's like a third world shit hole now.

The walk up from Pool Meadow for night games was always exciting, loads of sky blues fans making their way through the dimly lit...

The one thing I will never forget isn't HR itself but the walk up to it on a night game. The floodlights would be on and they worked...

at the time of the ground originally was being built, to improve spirits in the local community, all the local streets created teams and...

The discussion isn’t football related in reality is it, but memories of the area and what it is now

Full of HMOs which are full of foreigners spending the bare minimum in the area so they can send a good chunk of their money home…...

Yeah, fair point. I get what you're saying now.

It was never a litter infested, fly tipping hotspot with 75 barber shops and a crime rate as high as it is now I know you're dying for...

Used to go to the stoke ex working men's club before the match. Is it a GP's now? I've not been through Ball Hill in years.

I used to sit with my dad in the main stand for pretty much all of the 90s (he sadly passed in 2006) but whenever I smell a cigar now it...

Feel I'm well enough entitled to say it considering I lived there from 1995 - 2010

Eh?! The walk down to Pool Meadow after the game was stunning! Especially midweek.

I don't remember it being Muswell Hill before we left, fella. Not a great thing to say. Implies some grim stuff.

I often talk to my kids about it - what it was like. The smells, how pokey it was inside the stands with some of the little kiosks...