Biggest sh*t hole of a ground you've been to.

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Biggest sh*t hole of a ground you've been to.

Post by Verbal » Sun Jul 15, 2007 11:08 am

Which professional football grounds have you been to around the UK which you can honestly say are, er, a bit of a sh*thole?

Burnley is definitely one, felt like a chicken coop when you were in the stand. Also loved how Cowdenbeath football ground doubled up as a stock car racing track some nights!
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Post by James B » Sun Jul 15, 2007 11:27 am

burden park (if i was looking at it objectively)
the manor ground
abbey stadium
victoria ground

probably the worst i've been to, visited many other sh*tholes not quite as bad

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Post by CrazyHorse » Sun Jul 15, 2007 11:31 am

Old Trafford. :wink:
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Post by dodgykipper » Sun Jul 15, 2007 11:44 am

Springfield Park
Old Wembley

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Post by Bruce Rioja » Sun Jul 15, 2007 11:46 am

At Fellowes Park, Walsall. A sheet of asbestos slipped form the roof and shattered on the terracing just in front of us, thus occasioning a hearty blast of "Walsall's ground is falling down, falling down, falling down......."

The pre-fire Valley Parade was an absolute relic. Doncaster's Belle View made you feel somewhat unsafe, and before they did it up, at Vale Park you were stood on a gravel banking.

However, the award just has to go to this fecking dump.

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Post by dodgykipper » Sun Jul 15, 2007 11:50 am

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Post by communistworkethic » Sun Jul 15, 2007 3:32 pm

burnden park, much as I loved it, twas a shithole
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Post by officer_dibble » Sun Jul 15, 2007 3:37 pm

Woodison

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Post by Batman » Sun Jul 15, 2007 5:48 pm

Filbert Street Leicester
Upton Park
Anfield
Gigg Lane
Hillsbrough
Riverside
Stadium of Shite, Sunnerlan
Pride Park
Highbury
Maine Road
Valley Parade, Bradford
Blundell Park, Grimsby.


All shite.

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Post by Pete » Sun Jul 15, 2007 6:01 pm

I seem to remember Kenilworth Road as one of the oddest I ever visited.

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aha! found it, I knew this was the one where you enter through some houses!

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Post by Verbal » Sun Jul 15, 2007 6:11 pm

:lol:
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Post by Batman » Sun Jul 15, 2007 6:23 pm

Filbert Street was the same - you had to virtually go through some old dears front room to get to the seat
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Post by hisroyalgingerness » Sun Jul 15, 2007 8:03 pm

Huddersfield's old ground
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Post by warthog » Sun Jul 15, 2007 8:17 pm

Portsmouth. The murals painted on the outside make it look like Belfast and the terraces are literally crumbling away. God knows how it got a safety certificate.

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Post by trotter » Sun Jul 15, 2007 8:28 pm

How about Vicarage Road? walking through alloments to get to see us 3-0 up and lose 4-3 (nightmare)

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Post by Batman » Sun Jul 15, 2007 8:29 pm

Leeds is another, Bramall Lane one more, and fecking Boleyn Ground is shite too.

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Post by Dave Sutton's barnet » Sun Jul 15, 2007 8:31 pm

Springfield's grass bank and half-size main stand were laughable - unless it were raining.

Got wetter than I ever have on the embankment at Leeds Road (for our younger viewers, that's Huddersfield's ex) - when we won 3-0 in (as I recall) the gingham shirts. Beautiful summer's day in God's country, threw it down unremittingly as soon as we crossed the border.

Bloomfield Road, anyone? Vast crumbling embankment with twisted rusting metal thrusting out of it?

Worst view? That scratching-shed chicken-run on the corner at the Baseball Ground (never a nice place) when home fans took both ends in the 90s.

Southend wasn't great, but it was built by the fans, so I'll let 'em off.

Halifax?

Hartlepool, about which Wilfred Owen could have been thinking when he wrote "Our brains ache, in the merciless iced east winds that knife us"

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Post by Batman » Sun Jul 15, 2007 8:36 pm

Went past Bloomfield today on my way to the freezing seaside.

It's looking pretty swish now they've rebuilt it - all three sides

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Post by Bruce Rioja » Sun Jul 15, 2007 8:42 pm

Batman wrote:Leeds is another, Bramall Lane one more, and fecking Boleyn Ground is shite too.
They're the worst grounds that you've been to, Batty? :conf: Good God! When I first went to Bramhall Lane, it was, without doubt, the most magnificent stadium in which I'd ever stood. Irrespective of us getting dicked 5-0. You don't know you're fecking born, Sunshine! :shock: Don't it go to show?! :shock:
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Post by hisroyalgingerness » Sun Jul 15, 2007 8:44 pm

aye, Bruce used watch it from a lake - and he was lucky to watch from that

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