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PostPosted: Thu Apr 29, 2010 8:56 am 
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Bell end Road without a doubt.
Home fans are self obsessed Jeremy Kyle show scum
Stewards are just like the home fans
Way overpriced

Chip - After the Millwall game this season I got the tube away from the ground & a few Millwall fans mingled in amongst us & joined us for a pint in London Bridge & gave us no grief at all so I wouldnt regard them as orrible.

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PostPosted: Thu Apr 29, 2010 8:58 am 
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Hillsborough, what a scruffy ground.

Scunnys is a tip too. So much so that our kidda turned down a trial there after Scotty released him.

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PostPosted: Thu Apr 29, 2010 9:10 am 
Peterborough, Nelson's goal, dragged out, got home at about 2am sadx


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chorley hated getting stones threw at us after we walked away from the ground
cheltenham standing in a bus shelter for 90 mins + e/t to lose on penalties and a fooking long drive home afterwards
hulls new kc stadium what an intimidating place when on your way to/from the ground
the racecourse wrexham what a shithole
edgar street a awful place to get to to stand in a non league ground

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PostPosted: Thu Apr 29, 2010 9:52 am 
Scunthorpe is soulless, and is almost a motorway service station
Accrington had novelty value the first time I went but I imagine it would be a grim place to go season after season.
Brighton looks awful on the TV but never been.

However, Elland road still gets my vote. View, cost and people. All horrific.


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In no particular order.

Deva Stadium - Chester
Glanford Park - Scunthorpe
Hulls old and new grounds
Shrewsbury
Hereford
Bellend road (c) Groovy
Hillsborough
Northampton
Withdean - had some great weekends in Brighton but the ground is the pits
Doncaster when it had the cage in the middle of the away end

Remember Wigans old ground with the grass/mud bank behind the goal.

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Elland Road, crap view, scummy home fans.

Glanford Park, Shithole and the last time I went there got a puncture on the A19 going and took a wrong turning on the way home adding 40 minutes to the trip.

Brunton Park, not a really bad ground but its always freezing when we play them.

MK Dons Hockey Stadium was god awful and souless as a football ground.

Old Wembley, Overhyped, stunk of piss everywhere, bloody expensive to get to, queues for everything (even to join the queues).

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Maine Road holds bad memories for me. FA cup tie mid 70s, we lost 6-0, had the excitement of George Potter sent off whilst unconscious after a headbutt from Dennis Tueart (also dismissed), then I got my head kicked in on the way back to the supporter's coaches!

Them were't days.

The McCain Oven Ready Stadium at Scarborough took some beating for sh1teness. We couldn't actually see the goal-line from anywhere in the away end.

Scunny is scarily soulless......


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PostPosted: Thu Apr 29, 2010 10:19 am 
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Hated my trip to Elland Road (read Groovy for the reasons)
Scruffy grounds I don't like include........
Accrington, Hereford, Wednesday, Chesterfield, Brighton and Rotherham ( the last two are not footy grounds)
I don't like the temporary seating at Gillingham.
New grounds I don't like include........
Doncaster, Hull, Scunny

I would never criticise the lower league grounds because of all the unpaid, dedicated work that goes into them from people who, like me, just love the game and their club. They are the heart and soul of football.

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I would like to add Norwich to my list........for their handling of the away tickets and Southampton, their stewards were trained in the same school as Leeds stewards.

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Bedford Terrace in Billingham! I went to watch a Northern League game the other week with me Pools top on and got dogs abuse. It was like being at Feethams or Elland Road. Don't know whats got into them!!!

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As soon as I read the first post here there was no doubt in my mind...Glanford Park...what a tip!

Got to agree that the old Wembley comes a good second though.


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Forgot to mention Cheltenham as well. What a sh*t-hole. First time we went there in January 2000 they had stewards lined up accross the road outside and stopped half of us going in cos we'd been drinking. :shock:
Well whoopy-do. :roll:

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The Hawthorns is on a par with Elland Road for me.

Really long walk from the station up a great big hill and then a long walk back afterwards, although I think they've built a station nearer the ground now near the top of the hill.

Engaged in an exchange of bricks across the platform with some West Brom fans at Smethwick Rolf Street after a Pools game there one night. Had a laugh the next time I was there as the dents from the bricks I'd lobbed were still evident on the station sign.

Another time after going to a Sunderland v West Brom match probably the thick end of 20 years ago now half a dozen baggies jumped two of us on the way back to the station- after avoiding a punch and a nut and noticing that my mate was about thirty yards down the road you can only imagine my relief when about ten Wolves fans appeared from seemingly nowhere and started paggering the West Brom fans. Talking to them afterwards they'd gone there with the intention of finding some baggies to knack cos Wolves didn't have a game that day. I've always liked Wolves since.

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I once played in a cup game at Stanley and it was the coldest ive ever been whilst playing football, the changing rooms were some sort of old derilict house. It was a mixture of snow and hail for the full game combined with a freezing gale force wind, it was that cold that one of our players pi**ed himself at half time just to warm up!!

I don't like going to Tranmere, the reason why is that everyone of their fans missed out on the "world famous scouse wit and good humour".


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Layer Road - the smallest away stand ever, as well as the smallest toilets.

Gillingham - the worst away stand as you have to walk through scaffolding.

Brighton (Withdean) - the worst football ground - I thought only the good point about the ground was the compact pub, but it only serves Roast Dinners on Saturday afternoon. Shocking!

Cheltenham - when they first came into the League, there was no roof on top of the away stand, people cramped in and smelly Port-a-Cabins for toilets. Awful. Should never have been allowed in the League.(Amazing when you contrast it to Stadium: MK).


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Poolie of Kent wrote:
Cheltenham - when they first came into the League, there was no roof on top of the away stand, people cramped in and smelly Port-a-Cabins for toilets. Awful. (Amazing when you contrast it to Stadium: MK).


Aye, not much cop when you compare it to The Millenium Stadium either. :roll: stpid

Personally I was pleasantly surprised by the size of Cheltenham's away end when we went down there, and I certainly prefer a terrace to a stand even if it isn't covered.

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Glad it's not just me who hates Glanford Park. The seats were rusty, tore my jeans on them last time I was there.


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Warwick Hunt wrote:
Glad it's not just me who hates Glanford Park. The seats were rusty, tore my jeans on them last time I was there.


I like Glanford Park. confised

Had some good days out there banging on the corrugated metal at the back of the stand to make a racket!

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Ellend Rd for reasons everyone has posted above.

Don't know why but I hated Halifax & Scarborough grounds

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I thought Burton Albion was poor. Does anyone remember you had to cross grass to get to the turnstiles?

I remember a lad from Man U, Bryne? playing for us and a stone wall penalty against Effion not given.

Shrewsbury, Hereford are also up there.


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Leeds, Mansfield, Scunny, old Hull, Halifax

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Brighton, shite freezing, pitch too far away if it rains your fucked.
Odsals a right shit hole aswell.


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Gresty Road Crewe was always a depressingly miserable place, as is the Shay. The sort of places they send people with suicidal tendancies to make them realise things aint that bad.

Burslam, Port Vale now that was a dump.

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My worst grounds are associated with dreadful performance

Port Vale in the 1980's Chamberlain on the wing skinned Tom Kelly and Dixon and Dobber up front were useless in a 4 - 0 thraping!

Gigg Lane in around 1983 0r 4 with the dreadful Phil Linacre up front. The ground is in a relatively middle class area, cathederal quiet atmosphere and Roy Hogan geered by opposition fans in the main stand for, you will be surprised to know, trying to kick an opponent but too slow to administer the blow!

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Yep chip it's impossible to find. Ive played there a couple of times and everytime a few people would always turn up late after going to the wrong Stanley!


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