Favourite football ground that no longer exists (excluding HR) (1 Viewer)

Burnden Park, for no other reason that it was a regular sight when entering or leaving Bolton by train.

DannyThomas_1981 said:

I always enjoyed:

Derby County - you could sense the tradition and it was a fine football stadium. Great view behind the goals on the lower terrace.

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the Baseball ground is the only ground where I've stopped celebrating a goal because I genuinely thought the stand was going to collapse.

Upton Park. Scary and exciting at the same time.

Victoria Ground Stoke

A bit tasty in the 80s....all good fun.

Yeah, Victoria Ground for me too.

Worst: The Dell.

torchomatic said:

Yeah, Victoria Ground for me too.

Worst: The Dell.

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I loved the Dell!
The noise when I walked in to Victoria ground when we played them in the FA cup in 87 was the loudest I've heard in a football ground.

clint van damme said:

I loved the Dell!
The noise when I walked in to Victoria ground when we played them in the FA cup in 87 was the loudest I've heard in a football ground.

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Yeah, a lot of people liked the Dell. Everytime I went I was really low down with the pitch at chest height.

I have two strong memories of the Victoria Ground; that FA Cup tie, which like you said was amazing, crowd noise was deafening. And previous to that - 85/86 maybe - we had a Full Members' Cup Tie there and there were literally about 16 of us in the away end. Weird. To top it off on the way back we took the wrong turn onto the motorway and headed North rather than South.

Can anyone name a club where they prefer the new ground over the old one? I genuinely can't think of one.

Highbury and Main Road equally, two proper old type grounds. I will add to that my favourite old stadium of them all Goodson Park soon to be vacated, unfortunately.

theferret said:

Can anyone name a club where they prefer the new ground over the old one? I genuinely can't think of one.

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Can't think of one. I was a big fan of White Hart Lane however but I think the new ground could potentially be better from what I've seen on the TV.

clint van damme said:

Can't think of one. I was a big fan of White Hart Lane however but I think the new ground could potentially be better from what I've seen on the TV.

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Yeah, I'm a fan from the images I've seen.

Some new grounds I don't mind, but this is pretty much exclusively down to the location. Rotherham is in a great location. The Emirates was built a short distance from Highbury, and even Leicester, despite the ground itself being bland and derivative, is close to where Filbert Street was, so at least this doesn't impact on where you drink before the game and the general matchday experience.

It's the edge of town, middle of nowhere travesties like the Ricoh, Oxford, Colchester and Stoke that I can't stand.

clint van damme said:

Can't think of one. I was a big fan of White Hart Lane however but I think the new ground could potentially be better from what I've seen on the TV.

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I really liked the old WHL. I remember going there in the early 90s with my dad as he lives in Tottenham. Think I went to 3 or 4 straight away games there.

theferret said:

Yeah, I'm a fan from the images I've seen.

Some new grounds I don't mind, but this is pretty much exclusively down to the location. Rotherham is in a great location. The Emirates was built a short distance from Highbury, and even Leicester, despite the ground itself being bland and derivative, is close to where Filbert Street was, so at least this doesn't impact on where you drink before the game and the general matchday experience.

It's the edge of town, middle of nowhere travesties like the Ricoh, Oxford, Colchester and Stoke that I can't stand.

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The annoying thing is there was ample room at the old HR site apart from the ground itself the club owned all the land where the Mercer’s was, now full of houses, but that’s another story.

Vetch Field, Swansea - my first ever football game!

WHL, Highbury but Upton Park for a night game was extra special.
Dell i associate with cold winds and a shocking 8-2

May I put in a vote for the old Wembley Stadium? The walk up Wembley Way to see those iconic two towers looming. Quite an experience and particularly on Cup Final day it made it special

Now although obviously in the same location the towers have been replaced by an arch and even Wembley Way has been renamed something non sensical.

Worst though, is that now when teams play at Wembley, a degree of magic has been lost as it’s no longer the location for just the showpiece...having semi finals played there is a joke and all so they can try to recoup the money of the build. Completely lost it’s magic now; it would be like using Concorde to fly party goers to Ibiza

Age does me no favours for this topic. I think I’ve only seen us play at 3: Upton Park, White Hart Lane and Ninian Park. As nice as WHL was I think favourite is Upton Park. More of a better, hostile atmosphere.

Morris Engines ground (just a field really) in Courthouse Green.
Watched a couple of Evening Telegraph cup finals there with my late father.
It's now a housing estate.

theferret said:

Can anyone name a club where they prefer the new ground over the old one? I genuinely can't think of one.

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Walsall!
My old man took me to their old ground to watch Pompey. There was a river of piss meandering down the terrace from the back of the toilets and there was a sheer drop at the back of where we were stood. There’s character and then there’s character.
We also had to watch a young(ish) mick Quinn wheezing his way round the pitch. I think he scored. David Kelly was playing for Walsall.

Shout out to the old Rotherham ground with the scrap yard you to go through behind way end.

I concur with thoughts about Man City, Stoke, Derby, West Ham, Leicester, Rotherham and soon to be Everton.

But I will give a shout out for Kirby Corner home of Coventry Sporting. A place I used to go when very young when Coventry were away. Transistor radio pressed to my ear of course.

I thought Saint Mary's was actually ok location wise, pubs nearby and walkable from the city centre. That said, never went to the Dell to compare.

Kirby Corner was quaint. Faintly remember watching Cov Sporting v CCFC Reserves there with my dad in late 70's/early 80s.

clint van damme said:

Can't think of one. I was a big fan of White Hart Lane however but I think the new ground could potentially be better from what I've seen on the TV.

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I worked on that ground got lost trying trying to get out everyday. it I massive wasn't finished but wow impressive.
Good thing is there are various ccfc flags scalfs and stickers all the way around 247 in total.

Cardiff Ninian Park

Spent many an afternoon at Layer Rd when I was a nipper. My uncles used to take me when I got dumped in Colchester for the holidays

Gigg Lane

Magwitch said:

Gigg Lane

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Gigg Lane still exists at the moment. The club hasnt been liquidated, just kicked out the league.

White Hart Lane.

Ninian Park.Think we won last minute in our last visit.

I'm getting the words penalty and McSheffery come to mind.

clint van damme said:

Can't think of one. I was a big fan of White Hart Lane however but I think the new ground could potentially be better from what I've seen on the TV.

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I went to the Spurs v Newcastle game at the weekend. Very impressive building which feels like a 5* hotel. There is no edge to the place which I think is going to affect the atmosphere there long term. I don't think it will be long before the die hard Spurs fans are mourning the loss of the old White Hart Lane. Atmosphere was crap on Sunday, even before they went a goal down.

All of them! I'm a 'traditionalist' (this excludes dunking/burning witches, slavery and morris dancing) I especially miss the ones I never got to.
When I found out a few seasons back that Shrewsbury Town were moving to a new ground the following season, I got myself along to Gay Meadow for a fixture that Involved Boston Utd.
Imagine my surprise when In the Boston starting line up were two ex City strikers.