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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 22:10 - Dec 9 with 415 views
What Is worst ground in professional football you have been to and why on 22:10 - Dec 9 by bluebudgie
Gay Meadow Shrewsbury
Understandably, a Town fan might have bad memories of that ground, with 2 notable FA Cup defeats in the early 1980s, notably the 1982 5th round, plus the draw in 1981 which saw George Burley sustain a serious knee injury that kept him out of the rest of the season & again arguably cost Town a couple of trophies.
What Is worst ground in professional football you have been to and why on 08:07 - Dec 9 by lurcher
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.
Yes that was bad. And the old wooden seating was so cramped for anyone with legs. Great day out though.
Similarly Fulham's old stand in the 90s was cramped and painful. I remember being near the back of the stand and still getting wet because the roof let the rain in!
Hated Watford back in the day, not so much the crappy stand but the walk around the allotments to get in! Usually in the rain, after having to park miles away...
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What Is worst ground in professional football you have been to and why on 10:03 - Dec 10 by BluJu
Yes that was bad. And the old wooden seating was so cramped for anyone with legs. Great day out though.
Similarly Fulham's old stand in the 90s was cramped and painful. I remember being near the back of the stand and still getting wet because the roof let the rain in!
Hated Watford back in the day, not so much the crappy stand but the walk around the allotments to get in! Usually in the rain, after having to park miles away...
I always wonder who thought it was a good idea to have the football ground next to a large hospital. I don't know which was there first.
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What Is worst ground in professional football you have been to and why on 10:24 - Dec 10 with 245 views
What Is worst ground in professional football you have been to and why on 10:03 - Dec 10 by BluJu
Yes that was bad. And the old wooden seating was so cramped for anyone with legs. Great day out though.
Similarly Fulham's old stand in the 90s was cramped and painful. I remember being near the back of the stand and still getting wet because the roof let the rain in!
Hated Watford back in the day, not so much the crappy stand but the walk around the allotments to get in! Usually in the rain, after having to park miles away...
There was originally a workhouse on the Watford Hospital site in 1838 & this became the town's first hospital in 1886. Watford FC moved into Vicarage Road in 1922 & the hospital became the Peace Memorial Hospital in 1925. It was merged into a larger hospital in 1965. When Michael Ashcroft became the largest shareholder in Watford FC in 1986, it was rumoured that he had an eye on the development potential of the ground, involving either a hotel or expansion of the hospital.
Northampton League Cup late 80s deserves a mention. At the cricket ground. Main stand had burnt down, tiny little open terrace, big fence at the front and rained all night. We did win in extra time.
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What Is worst ground in professional football you have been to and why on 10:56 - Dec 10 with 211 views
Carrow Road in the 70's - a few days after Man Utd fans had trashed the away fans section and a fan had fallen through the roof. Most areas had been trashed including the toilets and their corrugated fencing behind the terracing.
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What Is worst ground in professional football you have been to and why on 11:13 - Dec 10 with 202 views
Gay Meadow - Shrewsbury. Head height hazards when you went in and an awful view as an away fan. They cashed it in for a soul-less bowl on a retail park.
Gresty Road - Crewe. Apparently it's got character but the Pop Stand is just so cramped. No room to move at all.
Molineux - was brilliant when it was extended but now a shadow of its former self.
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What Is worst ground in professional football you have been to and why on 11:13 - Dec 10 by Tractor_Buck
Gay Meadow - Shrewsbury. Head height hazards when you went in and an awful view as an away fan. They cashed it in for a soul-less bowl on a retail park.
Gresty Road - Crewe. Apparently it's got character but the Pop Stand is just so cramped. No room to move at all.
Molineux - was brilliant when it was extended but now a shadow of its former self.
…I remember going there when it was hammering down and the corrugated iron “roof” in the away end was basically a colander.
I also remember the toilets essentially being a wall behind a wall.
Of the new grounds West Ham is obviously rubbish, but controversially I also thought the away “facilities” at Tottenham were pretty crap. Cramped and poorly designed for such a decent ground.
What Is worst ground in professional football you have been to and why on 09:56 - Dec 10 by CobboldCrusty
West Ham for all the reasons mentioned before - the irony of its size is the concourse is too small to hold all the fans.
I find Selhurst Park very overrated in the charming old ground stakes - it's actually quite grim.
Cheltenham in League One had no pies left at half time, I just remember finding that particularly depressing when L1 promotion was really on the line.
Bristol Rovers is an absolute dump.
Surprised to see mentions of Loftus Road which I really like as a ground.
The Olympic Stadium is a great athletics stadium but awful for sports like football & rugby. Selhurst Park has never had any charm whatsoever. Emaciated when they sold the back of the Whitehorse Lane end to Sainsburys. Away fans are usually in the dilapidated Arthur Wait stand (est 1969). Like most of south London, it's a pain to get to & it's usually been a bl00dy evening game. Loftus Road has always had poor away fan viewing since the School End terrace was converted into 2 tiers of seats. Wherever you are, you can't see the nearby goal properly. It at least usually has a good atmosphere given the cramped nature of the ground & a healthy Town away following. Also reasonably easy to get to, despite no decent pubs near the ground.
Rochdale has to be right up there, bleak, pretty run down, poor amenities etc etc.
Wasn't just the ground either, went by coach on that occasion and we must have pulled into Rochdale around 5.30ish at a guess and it was like a ghost town, nobody around, no street lighting most of the way to the ground, houses mostly in darkness, it was like everyone had deserted the place, then when you pull up by the ground there is this eerie , Black graveyard close by. dreadful away day.
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