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Strangest Football Grounds in UK

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The Big Shrimp said:
The Shay, Halifax when they had the speedway track around it. It was the worst ground in the league then too!!
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Newports old ground at Somerton was in a terrible state, years of Speedway track thrown up into the stands making them just muddy hills...but not really unusual...
 
Suffolk Shrimper said:
The away end at the old Chesterfield ground - you could stand in the bogs having a **** and unless you were vertically challenged watch the game at the same time

Oh and as for current 'quirky bits' nothing is madder than the sad old tw at that mascarades as the Bradford City mascot. How he is still alive is a miracle, there must be thousands who just wanna punch his lights out
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Being so vertically-advantaged, you could stand in the toilets at Chesterfield's old ground and see over the Pennines to Manchester :)
 
Firestorm said:
Newports old ground at Somerton was in a terrible state, years of Speedway track thrown up into the stands making them just muddy hills...but not really unusual...
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The one and last time i went to Newport they had deckchairs at the front of the main stand. awfull ground, awfull fans.
 
Thank you so much for the pointers, chaps. I'll link to the article when it comes out. Got quite a few of your recommendations in. Wanted to include Roots Hall for, "the excellent fish and chips outside," but it felt like a conflict of interests...
 
What was the ground where the roof came from another club?

The seats in the East Stand were another club's originally IIRC.
 
Sherif H said:
Whilst it may look like your average Premier League venue, there are some very interesting features and facts surrounding Villa Park.

For starters, whilst it may not look to be set in the most salubrious of surroundings, it is actually sitting on the site of a former Jacobean stately home, Aston Hall.

The frankly stunning Holte Hotel sits behind the gargantuan Holte End, which, in itself is an oddity, being one of the largest end stands in Europe not to house any corporate hospitality whatsoever.
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Some of the stands are clad in a beautiful mosaic facade with dutch gables as well - it was seen as famed stadium architect, Archibald Leitch's prize creation.
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Used to live in Witton Lane(just opposite the ground)when I was a first year student in Brum in the early 70's.Went back a few years ago for the Fulham v Chelsea SF and I was astonished to see that the back to back-2 up 2 down houses there had been done up as posh terraced houses.Aston's pubs were still ********s though.:smile:
 
Yorkshire Blue said:
What was the ground where the roof came from another club?

The seats in the East Stand were another club's originally IIRC.
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Seats have been regularly moved around and quite often from League to non-league grounds.

I recall stand roofs being blown off, but not being re-used elsewhere.
 
Mick said:
Seats have been regularly moved around and quite often from League to non-league grounds.

I recall stand roofs being blown off, but not being re-used elsewhere.
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Might have been non-league. Chester is ringing a bell.

Brentford's have adverts painted onto the top of them for passing planes.
 
Not quite in line with this thread but when Blues played Tranmere Rovers in January 1995 the game was played on a carpet of snow.At that time,Blues had only one brown ball so Vic Jobson arranged for a number of ballboys to patrol outside the ground so that if the ball was booted out of the ground it could hopefully be retrieved quickly in order for the game to continue.From memory i think the ball obliged to staying in the Stadium.
 
Slipperduke said:
Thank you so much for the pointers, chaps. I'll link to the article when it comes out. Got quite a few of your recommendations in. Wanted to include Roots Hall for, "the excellent fish and chips outside," but it felt like a conflict of interests...
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Which has previously stopped you when.....????


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Now the article has been finished we can come out with the interesting stuff and not worry about him nicking our work.
 
Does anyone know how much the upper flats at the south end can see the of game?
I'd love to know the pitch (ho, ho) used by estate agents flogging them.
"Oh yes, really quiet, especially on match days, chortle, chortle."
Has anyone seen a window smashed, and are there any fans actually living there?
 
Chris Powell's mate said:
Does anyone know how much the upper flats at the south end can see the of game?
I'd love to know the pitch (ho, ho) used by estate agents flogging them.
"Oh yes, really quiet, especially on match days, chortle, chortle."
Has anyone seen a window smashed, and are there any fans actually living there?
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my dad moved there about two weeks ago and apparently according to him you can see the whole pitch, minus just inside the 18 yard box in front of the south
 
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