Your Favourite Ground?

[Maldon Blues]

Ok, so Roots Hall (the home of football) apart, what is the best/favourite ground you have visited?

I'll start the ball rolling with Roker Park....but then we did win everytime I went there!

Least favourite goes, hands down, to Oxford's Kassam Stadium.

 

[chadded]

One in Cardiff. I've been there twice, didn't go last time we went there. Name evades me. Mil something?

 

[* ORM *]

Phillips Stadium, Eindhoven.
Leeds Road, Huddersfield
Peterborough - just for the accoustics
Hillsborough
Villa Park (in the good old days)
Spurs - on the shelf

How about least favourite ? (non-leaguers don't count !)

The Shay
Recreation Ground, Aldershot
Lincoln

 

[Interpol Shrimper]

Very impressed with the Stadium of Light the 2 times I've been. Best new stadium I've been to for acoustics/amotsphere (though probably not this season obviously!!!), although if Blackpool finished off their ground to mirror the 2 current sides then that could be quite good for noise.

Worst obv has to be Col******r although it's been fun everytime I've been in the away-end!!!

 

[Uncle Leo]

Best - Millennium Stadium, Bernabeu, Camp Nou, Jose Avalade (Lisbon), Ibrox. Expecting Celtic Park to be pretty impressive, going there in a few weeks!

Worst - Kenilworth Road

 

[canveyshrimper]

Best - Anfield, Millennium Stadium, Olympic Stadium, Rome, Portman Road.

Worst - Layer Road, Underhill, Kassam Stadium.

 

[Interpol Shrimper]

Quote[/b] (Uxbridge Shrimper @ Jan. 06 2006,09:51)]Expecting Celtic Park to be pretty impressive, going there in a few weeks!

Which game you going to see & do you know whereabouts you will be sitting?

It is very impressive, although all the more so for Old-Firm games & European nights. A freezing cold wet Tuesday night game v a Motherwell team playing a 10-0-0 formation doesn't really get the crowd going!!! There was a bit in the paper yesterday saying that a lot of the various supporters clubs have agreed to come together to try & enhance the Celtic Park atmosphere, permanent banners will be put up (a la Old Trafford, Highbury) & other things will be organised e.g. flag displays etc.

Have to agree about Luton too, leg-room in that away end is non-existent if you're over 4'7" tall!!!

 

[Interpol Shrimper]

Quote[/b] (canveyshrimper @ Jan. 06 2006,10:01)]Best - Anfield, Portman Road.

I was very disappointed with Anfield when I went last season & I thought Portman Road seems to have lost a lot of it's charm after the 2 new stands have gone up.

 

[EastStandBlue]

Best - Old Trafford, Ricoh Arena looks impressive but is apparently crap for making noise

Worst - Underhill, Layer Road... This time round, I'm scared we'll break it...

 

[Uncle Leo]

Quote[/b] (glasgowsufc @ Jan. 06 2006,10:13)]

Quote[/b] (Uxbridge Shrimper @ Jan. 06 2006,09:51)]Expecting Celtic Park to be pretty impressive, going there in a few weeks!

Which game you going to see & do you know whereabouts you will be sitting?

Dundee Utd on 28th Jan. Not sure where I'll be sitting, a mate who is a seaso is sorting it out.

Also not sure where we'll be doing our drinking, but I'll give you a buzz nearer the time mate.

 

[Interpol Shrimper]

Quote[/b] (Uxbridge Shrimper @ Jan. 06 2006,10:42)]Also not sure where we'll be doing our drinking, but I'll give you a buzz nearer the time mate.

Yeah cool, that would be good to meet up again.

 

[canveyshrimper]

Quote[/b] (glasgowsufc @ Jan. 06 2006,10:15)]

Quote[/b] (canveyshrimper @ Jan. 06 2006,10:01)]Best - Anfield, Portman Road.

I was very disappointed with Anfield when I went last season & I thought Portman Road seems to have lost a lot of it's charm after the 2 new stands have gone up.

I was really referring to Anfield 79/80 and Ipswich mid 90's not been to either since mind.

 

[C C Csiders]

Best - like Canveyshrimper, Anfield 79/80; Millenium Stadium, the Baseball Ground had something about it, always liked Craven Cottage, the (old) Den

Worst - Layer Road, Abbey Stadium, Sealand Road, County Ground (Northampton)

 

[Matt the Shrimp]

Best - Maine Rd (sadly missed), Portman Rd, Upton Park (hate to say it, but was v. impressed, great atmos), Stade Gerland (Lyon), Nene Park (as new stadiums go, it's excellent), Gigg Lane, and the Millennium Stadium.

Worst - Moss Rose, Manor Ground (not sadly missed), The Falkirk Stand (what a joke!), Layer Rd (is falling down), Priestfield (soulless), The Deva / Saunders Honda Stadium (never has a stadium felt more like it was at the end of the earth), Blundell Park (sh*thole), Kenilworth Rd (no leg-room).

Best Pies - Bristol Rovers
Worst Food - Roots Hall

 

[Mr Wooly]

Best - White Hart Lane, City Ground, Nou Camp, Stamford Bridge (although I went to the Chelsea vs West Ham Carling Cup game last season and the atmosphere was electric; apparently its a bit crap most of time though!). Got a soft spot for Gay Meadow, Shrewsbury. Lovely town, setting and great character.

Worst - Chester's ground (Deva/Williamson Motors thingymijig stadium) absolutely souless, Darlingtons new ground (same reason), Kenilworth Road for being anywhere near Luton.

 

[canveyshrimper]

Quote[/b] (C C Csiders @ Jan. 06 2006,11:15)]Best - like Canveyshrimper, Anfield 79/80; Millenium Stadium, the Baseball Ground had something about it, always liked Craven Cottage, the (old) Den

Worst - Layer Road, Abbey Stadium, Sealand Road, County Ground (Northampton)

Will speak in favour of the Abbey - great pies, crap otherwise.

Had forgotten about County Ground Northampton, went there one year and the bloody floodlights failed.

 

[Vange Shrimper]

Best - Portman Road, The Valley, Mill Stad

Worst - Kenilworth Road, Layer Road, Underhill and Yeovil's ground.

 

[The Artful Shrimper]

The old den.  more than a ground, an experience that turned your hair white, or in my case made it fall out.

..and it gets my vote as best and worst...a paradox.

 

[C C Csiders]

Quote[/b] (The Artful Shrimper @ Jan. 06 2006,15:35)]The old den.  more than a ground, an experience that turned your hair white, or in my case made it fall out.

..and it gets my vote as best and worst...a paradox.

Absolutely! Went there for a Millwall v. West Ham game in what was then, Divison 1 (now Premier$hite) - supporting Millwall, of course.

This was the best and worst, as you say Artful Shrimper, atmosphere I have ever experienced at a game. Frightening yet somehow enticing.

One incident that sttod out for me at the game was the sight of Liam Brady on the right-hand touchline with the ball at his feet, and rather than the tackle him, get it off him, or occasionally break his leg shouts you would normally get from opposition fans, the Millwall fans were screaming, with ill-concealed venom, "stab the IRA Ba$tard, Terry" to terry Hurlock their long shaggy haired folk hero.

 

[canveyshrimper]

Quote[/b] (The Artful Shrimper @ Jan. 06 2006,15:35)]The old den.  more than a ground, an experience that turned your hair white, or in my case made it fall out.

..and it gets my vote as best and worst...a paradox.

I remember going to the old Den around 1980, with a work colleague who was a Millwall fanatic. All was going well at 1-1 with a few minutes left. Enter Micky Stead to score the winner for Blues, I leapt up to cheer, but in the process of leaping remembered where i was. I escaped with my life - just about.

Fortunately i was wearing brown trousers.