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Any reason. With the FA Cup Third Rd beckoning, I’m just curious.
My choice is Eastville 1985. FA Cup game, snow everywhere, cold as hell. The ground had partially burnt down, bits of it were miles from the pitch and the large portaloo tank behind the stand we were in had a lake of p£ss in it which people outside were making waves with by rocking it up and down.
Eastville aspired to be a dump. Dreadful and the cold just finished it off. Fortunately we won 2-1 with a late goal on the icy field imitating a pitch and we were never more glad to clamber back into my Vauxhall Nova, which had a working heater! Hurrah.
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What Is worst ground in professional football you have been to and why on 00:27 - Dec 9 with 1865 views
Luton isn’t great the toilets are awful.Posh wasn’t great when they painted the toilet walls half hour before they let us in.I still prefer the older stadiums though.
It does make me smile though walking up the steps to the stand at Luton and you can see right into peoples kitchens etc.
I saw someone mention Colchester,I liked Layer Road much better than this newer out of town stadium,I’m not a fan of out of town stadiums.
Oldham away circa 1987. We lost , was a plastic pitch and you had to walk over a muddy field to stand on the open terracing which was just concrete steps. It really was a dump. The only thing I do remember vividly was being shocked by how cheap the beer was in the social club near the ground.
What Is worst ground in professional football you have been to and why on 05:31 - Dec 9 by SitfcB
Layer Road always springs to mind when I went in 2006.
I guess Layer Road would be considered to have 'character' (whatever that is when applied to an inanimate object), but my god it was basic. I played a match there after it officially closed and the changing rooms were genuinely worse than some (most) Sunday League facilities.
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What Is worst ground in professional football you have been to and why on 06:35 - Dec 9 with 1442 views
What Is worst ground in professional football you have been to and why on 04:46 - Dec 9 by Benters
Luton isn’t great the toilets are awful.Posh wasn’t great when they painted the toilet walls half hour before they let us in.I still prefer the older stadiums though.
It does make me smile though walking up the steps to the stand at Luton and you can see right into peoples kitchens etc.
I saw someone mention Colchester,I liked Layer Road much better than this newer out of town stadium,I’m not a fan of out of town stadiums.
After a few jars and a dodgy burger who cares 😂👍
I have to say Luton was in consideration. The first time I went was about 1974. My dad had got seats in the main stand and we counted 13 pillars between us and the pitch. I went to Kenilworth Road a good few times after that and yes, it was a dump.
Not been to West Ham’s stadium for football. Went to the Olympic Games there and to an athletics meeting some years later and I can’t imagine it as a football ground at all.
Edit: another shocker was Chelsea’s Stamford Bridge in the 70s/early 80s. Miles from the pitch, rotten view, decay, broken bricks and barbed wire. 15k there for the 3-2 Ipswich win in 1979. Mouldy old barn of a ground back then.
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What Is worst ground in professional football you have been to and why on 07:55 - Dec 9 with 1183 views
Selhurst park was awful, i was right at the back and half the view was obscured by that thing they have hanging down, even the concourse you couldn't move,
Loftus road isnt much better as again you can't really move but at least you can see the pitch
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What Is worst ground in professional football you have been to and why on 07:58 - Dec 9 with 1168 views
There is a TV gantry that runs the length of the stand, and if you are sitting on the back row (like I was), you can only just see the far touchline but not a player taking a throw.
This completely distorts the normal view of a game, and the only way to overcome it is to go further down the aisle and try to squeeze into a lower row as many did, whilst trying to keep on board with the stewards who don't like the aisle being blocked.
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What Is worst ground in professional football you have been to and why on 08:07 - Dec 9 with 1112 views
Coventry - Highfield road, the season before they moved out. They were letting everything go to rack and ruin. The away section toilets under the stand were about 2 inches deep.
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What Is worst ground in professional football you have been to and why on 08:09 - Dec 9 with 1098 views
Ninian Park was very run down and tatty, but a grand old ground in other ways. The new Cardiff stadium is bad in the other direction - identikit concrete bowl with little atmosphere and terrible traffic.
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