I found it interesting anyway...

[CumbrianWanderer]

never got to springfield only DW, great old ground just like Burnden was.... I miss them old grounds, the great lever stand, so much better than owt today

[bobo the clown]

never got to springfield only DW, great old ground just like Burnden was.... I miss them old grounds, the great lever stand, so much better than owt today

... but it isn't, is it. Not really.

[Andy Waller]

never got to springfield only DW, great old ground just like Burnden was.... I miss them old grounds, the great lever stand, so much better than owt today

... but it isn't, is it. Not really.

Of course it was! Much more fun watching it back in those days!

[thebish]

never got to springfield only DW, great old ground just like Burnden was.... I miss them old grounds, the great lever stand, so much better than owt today

... but it isn't, is it. Not really.

Of course it was! Much more fun watching it back in those days!

as with all these stuff-was-much-more-fun-in-the-old-way arguments - at least part of it (possibly most of it) is down to the fact that you were much younger - the essential change is probably in you rather than the stand...

[CAPSLOCK]

Anybody with misty eyes over the Great Lever STAND wants sectioning

[ohjimmyjimmy]

Section me...i used to love it there, standing at the bottom getting autographs from the players warming up, then sitting in my grubby bleached aqua green seat surrounded by grimy cold concrete ahhh happy days
Then i got older and decided the paddock was the way forward

[Wandering Willy]

Sitting in the Lever end?

[bobo the clown]

Sitting in the Lever end?

Yep, I resisted remarking.

[CAPSLOCK]

Sitting in the Lever end?

Exactement

[Andy Waller]

Each to their own but I thought, although the surroundings were crap, the atmosphere was much better.

Football's way too sterile nowerdays but it's hard to stop going!

[TANGODANCER]

never got to springfield only DW, great old ground just like Burnden was.... I miss them old grounds, the great lever stand, so much better than owt today

Hard for me to admit CW, but it's the memories that are better than the reality. Our views get clouded by them. Draughty old shithole that it was I loved Burnden Park, but that's how I see it now. It was a wonderful experience, atmosphere and location I'll never forget, but as a ground it's light years behind the Reebok. Mind, if I were twenty I'd happily do it all again, but I'm not, and snow, hail, pxssing rain, pea-souper fogs, sloshing through pxss pudles and getting pnuemonia on the Embankment end no longer appeal like they used to.

Now the Reebok on Manny Road.....yes!

[Andy Waller]

never got to springfield only DW, great old ground just like Burnden was.... I miss them old grounds, the great lever stand, so much better than owt today

Hard for me to admit CW, but it's the memories that are better than the reality. Our views get clouded by them. Draughty old shithole that it was I loved Burnden Park, but that's how I see it now. It was a wonderful experience, atmosphere and location I'll never forget, but as a ground it's light years behind the Reebok. Mind, if I were twenty I'd happily do it all again, but I'm not, and snow, hail, pxssing rain, pea-souper fogs, sloshing through pxss pudles and getting pnuemonia on the Embankment end no longer appeal like they used to.

Now the Reebok on Manny Road.....yes!

I'm not putting down your opinion mate, but if we were at home against Utd on Saturday, would you sooner be at the Reebok or Burnden? Atmosphere wise btw.

I know it's hypothetical, just thought I'd ask.

[ohjimmyjimmy]

Sitting in the Lever end?

er yes, sitting...?

[TANGODANCER]

never got to springfield only DW, great old ground just like Burnden was.... I miss them old grounds, the great lever stand, so much better than owt today

Hard for me to admit CW, but it's the memories that are better than the reality. Our views get clouded by them. Draughty old shithole that it was I loved Burnden Park, but that's how I see it now. It was a wonderful experience, atmosphere and location I'll never forget, but as a ground it's light years behind the Reebok. Mind, if I were twenty I'd happily do it all again, but I'm not, and snow, hail, pxssing rain, pea-souper fogs, sloshing through pxss pudles and getting pnuemonia on the Embankment end no longer appeal like they used to.

Now the Reebok on Manny Road.....yes!

I'm not putting down your opinion mate, but if we were at home against Utd on Saturday, would you sooner be at the Reebok or Burnden? Atmosphere wise btw.

I know it's hypothetical, just thought I'd ask.

Atmosphere wise, I'd just have to say Burnden every time, no contest. ( distance-wise too. Five minutes on the bus and five down Weston Street ) But it's just daydreaming isn't it?

[ohjimmyjimmy]

I used to like the fact you could suddenly decide at half 2 that you were going to go to the match...park up, walk through the underpass and see the steam off the piss rising up couple hundred yeards away.
But, life moves on, so does football and facilities.

[Andy Waller]

There's talk of bringing standing back in Scotland?

[P.O.S.]

Sitting in the Lever end?

er yes, sitting...?

50p Junior Whites!

[TANGODANCER]

I used to like the fact you could suddenly decide at half 2 that you were going to go to the match...park up, walk through the underpass and see the steam off the piss rising up couple hundred yeards away.
But, life moves on, so does football and facilities.

Underpass?

[Dave Sutton's barnet]

I used to like the fact you could suddenly decide at half 2 that you were going to go to the match...park up, walk through the underpass and see the steam off the piss rising up couple hundred yeards away.
But, life moves on, so does football and facilities.

Underpass?

Presumably under St Peter's Way. Like the man almost said, couple hundred years away... a 19th-century stadium. I was sad to see it go, but really...

[ohjimmyjimmy]

Yep, that underpass.
And well done DSB you spotted my deliberate union of the words years & yards, to make a clever play-on words describing the progress of our modern stadia.
I definitely didnt just spell yards wrong cos of my fat fingers