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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 14:14 - Dec 9 with 376 views
What Is worst ground in professional football you have been to and why on 06:09 - Dec 9 by iamatractorboy
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.
Some away teams used to come already changed.
One of the joys of Layer Road was that when you came back from the open end along the back of the main stand at the end of the game, you pretty much had to queue to get back on to Layer Road. (Colchester's was I think the only ground in England where all fans entered off one street, i.e. all turnstiles were on the same (short) side of the pitch). You could see the steam coming out of the windows of the changing rooms and hear all the f'ing and blinding from the players, home and away. . So different from the new ground, when even if Colchester win handsomely almost half the crowd leaves early to try to 'beat the traffic'.
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What Is worst ground in professional football you have been to and why on 16:36 - Dec 9 with 308 views
As people have indicated, Priestfield needs only to be done once until they actually have a stand fit for fans to be in.
Molineux has the worst legroom of anywhere I’ve seen us play.
Gresty Road was an annoyance at the end of 21/22. Loads of Town fans turned up to get in an hour before kick off having read that there was a good social club in the away end. We get in to find it’s shut because Crewe were holding their Player of the Year dinner in it later that evening. The game, an end of season 1-1 draw was ruined by a PA man, with the technique of Norman Collier, piping up every 10 minutes throughout the game to tell people not to go onto the pitch and to give details about the dinner. It was incessant and I was wishing physical harm on him by the hour mark. At the end of the game, someone ran on to the pitch.
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What Is worst ground in professional football you have been to and why on 16:57 - Dec 9 with 271 views
Stamford Bridge before the Taylor Report forced them to bring the ground into the 20th century. An open terrace with no roof and a high fence at the front, all standard for us aeay fans in those days, but what marked it out as particularly awful was that it was so far from the pitch that it was probably not even in the same borough. One consolation was that the home end was almost as bad for their fans, a bit of it did have a roof though.
Veni Vidi Participatur. Now we can get back to competing.
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What Is worst ground in professional football you have been to and why on 17:06 - Dec 9 with 263 views
I dislike most of the soulless, modern, out-of -town bowls. Let's start with the Madejski - like most modern grounds, the seating is comfortable, the viewing is good, but getting there is bad & like all of these grounds, leaving is far worse. Unfortunately, it's impossible for 20,000+ people to leave a ground at the same time, especially if most of them are driving. From a larger stadium, even accessing public transport can he a huge pain (see Wembley or the Emirates). That's why I still prefer the old fashioned, town centre grounds with decent rail access & usually plenty of pubs within a reasonable walk. For that, I'm prepared to put up with sub-standard facilities (e.g. Luton) but these grounds are a dying breed because of rising property values. I'm sure I'll get shot down for this, but I found the Milton Keynes current stadium one of the better ones.
What Is worst ground in professional football you have been to and why on 16:36 - Dec 9 by patrickswell
As people have indicated, Priestfield needs only to be done once until they actually have a stand fit for fans to be in.
Molineux has the worst legroom of anywhere I’ve seen us play.
Gresty Road was an annoyance at the end of 21/22. Loads of Town fans turned up to get in an hour before kick off having read that there was a good social club in the away end. We get in to find it’s shut because Crewe were holding their Player of the Year dinner in it later that evening. The game, an end of season 1-1 draw was ruined by a PA man, with the technique of Norman Collier, piping up every 10 minutes throughout the game to tell people not to go onto the pitch and to give details about the dinner. It was incessant and I was wishing physical harm on him by the hour mark. At the end of the game, someone ran on to the pitch.
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I knew and went to quite a few games with an Alex fan (not to Gresty Rd, sadly)
He reckoned that a favourite sport of his yoof was for him and his mates to buy meat pies at half time. They’d wait 15 or 20 mins into the second half until said pies were slightly warm but glutenous. They’d then hurl them at the away fans through the fence.
He reckoned that a that a well aimed pie shot gunned through the mesh would take out a healthy number of the opposition with meat, gristle, gravy and crust.
Ahh, the good ole days
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What Is worst ground in professional football you have been to and why on 18:08 - Dec 9 with 157 views
What Is worst ground in professional football you have been to and why on 18:01 - Dec 9 by mellowblue
MK Dons for being a vanity project that was never going to be successfully filled with fans.
Yes, they have a 30,000 capacity stadium & they averaged only 13,000 when they were in the Championship. Only 7,000 now in League 2 so a bit of a white elephant.
What Is worst ground in professional football you have been to and why on 17:23 - Dec 9 by Radlett_blue
I dislike most of the soulless, modern, out-of -town bowls. Let's start with the Madejski - like most modern grounds, the seating is comfortable, the viewing is good, but getting there is bad & like all of these grounds, leaving is far worse. Unfortunately, it's impossible for 20,000+ people to leave a ground at the same time, especially if most of them are driving. From a larger stadium, even accessing public transport can he a huge pain (see Wembley or the Emirates). That's why I still prefer the old fashioned, town centre grounds with decent rail access & usually plenty of pubs within a reasonable walk. For that, I'm prepared to put up with sub-standard facilities (e.g. Luton) but these grounds are a dying breed because of rising property values. I'm sure I'll get shot down for this, but I found the Milton Keynes current stadium one of the better ones.
A building cannot have a soul because it’s just a building. Bowls are the best design for a stadium - even the romans knew that.
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What Is worst ground in professional football you have been to and why on 18:39 - Dec 9 with 119 views
I remember the toilets at Kenilworth Road were particularly awful. It was a hot day in spring time and the smell was putrid!
Although, not all bad. Climbing the fire escape style staircase to the upper tier, I remember seeing a very tidy-looking young lady sunbathing in a bikini. And we won!
Molineux is a dump!
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What Is worst ground in professional football you have been to and why on 18:46 - Dec 9 with 109 views
Luton was bloody awful back in the day, doubt its improved much.
I kind of give Bristol Rovers a free pass but was one of those grounds you could kick a ball over just a bit of net behind the goal and its round to some neighbours house to ask for the ball back out of their garden. And it hailed.
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What Is worst ground in professional football you have been to and why on 19:56 - Dec 9 with 52 views
What Is worst ground in professional football you have been to and why on 19:32 - Dec 9 by stonojnr
Luton was bloody awful back in the day, doubt its improved much.
I kind of give Bristol Rovers a free pass but was one of those grounds you could kick a ball over just a bit of net behind the goal and its round to some neighbours house to ask for the ball back out of their garden. And it hailed.
Brighton. Withdean Stadium.. Needed binoculars to see anything away stand was so far away from the pitch.
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What Is worst ground in professional football you have been to and why on 20:01 - Dec 9 with 42 views
Possibly, technically rubbish grounds can be endearing and have a soul which suits football and even when we were in Div 3 FGR and Gillingham had a certain something.............so, new West Ham ground is my worst. Nothing to recomend it whatsoever.
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