What are your favourite sports stadiums?

[Brixton Hatter]

yeah madejski is a good ground - holds about 23000, really good view from anywhere in the ground, but you are pretty high up in a lot of places and not that close to the pitch. facilities are good, but it's a bit of a bitch to get to/from cos it's so far out of town. it's built semi-underground in a kind of bowl so that when you walk in at ground level, you're actually halfway up the seating (- apparently that helps people in wheelchairs get a better view )

 

[oooomegrapes]

yeah madejski is a good ground - holds about 23000, really good view from anywhere in the ground, but you are pretty high up in a lot of places and not that close to the pitch. facilities are good, but it's a bit of a bitch to get to/from cos it's so far out of town. it's built semi-underground in a kind of bowl so that when you walk in at ground level, you're actually halfway up the seating (- apparently that helps people in wheelchairs get a better view )

niceness, thanks

 

[Cerberus]

Quite right about the SCG

As for Sydney Football Ground - Roosters or Rabbitohs?

Roosters........but that was because Souths had been kicked out of the league at that point.

 

[Brixton Hatter]

niceness, thanks

haha, ask a question on u75, get the answer in 4 minutes

 

[oooomegrapes]

haha, ask a question on u75, get the answer in 4 minutes

i know, check us!!!!
fuck jeeves!!!

 

[JTG]

any opinions on majeski stadium in Reading???

not been myself, but i know a fucking fortune was spent on it and it now draws some big crowds.....

answers on a postcard please

soulless shithole full of people who could never find their way to Elm Park

 

[JTG]

Roosters........but that was because Souths had been kicked out of the league at that point.

You've gotta love a team who were kicked out for being useless, reinstated after a long campaign and are now happily bimbling along being useless once more.

 

[oooomegrapes]

soulless shithole full of people who could never find their way to Elm Park

which doesnt actually exist anymore.......full of houses and flats, because it attracted fuck all people

 

[JTG]

which doesnt actually exist anymore.......full of houses and flats, because it attracted fuck all people

Showing that Reading's support these days consists largely of band wagon riders who will disappear pretty quickly just as soon as the money and success does.

 

[Kenny Vermouth]

soulless shithole full of people who could never find their way to Elm Park

I went to Elm Park a few times in the late 80s with a mate who lived in Reading.
One game we went to, there were a couple of people behind us who insisted on shouting "kick it, kick it" during the match. I think they were a bit simple or something.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

Nat Bailey Stadium. It's within walking distance from my house, and it's a great place to take in an afternoon game in the summer.

http://ballparkdigest.com/visits/nat_bailey.htm

 

[Kenny Vermouth]

Nat Bailey Stadium. It's within walking distance from my house, and it's a great place to take in an afternoon game in the summer.

http://ballparkdigest.com/visits/nat_bailey.htm

What town is that in?

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

What town is that in?

Vancouver, of course.

 

[Streathamite]

san siro and nou camp - wonderful atmosphere.
only 6,500 JC2?? blimey!

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

san siro and nou camp - wonderful atmosphere.
only 6,500 JC2?? blimey!

It's not a major stadium, it's not the major leagues. It's our own well kept secret. I taught my daughter to drive in the parking lot.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

The bigger events are at BC Place stadium; it holds 60,000.

http://www.bcplacestadium.com/

 

[Streathamite]

now THAT is a stadium....

 

[Kenny Vermouth]

Vancouver, of course.

Oh yeah, I should've known that by that pylon in the photo.

 

[Andy the Don]

Fenway Park - Home of the Boston Red Sox & one of the last old school ball parks..

Azteca Stadium Mexico City

The much missed Plough Lane - SW19

 

[Brixton Hatter]

The much missed Plough Lane - SW19

What's there now? Have they built on it yet? Last time I went past (on my way to the dogs....must have been at least 4 years ago...) the turnstiles etc were still there...

 

[Brixton Hatter]

Showing that Reading's support these days consists largely of band wagon riders who will disappear pretty quickly just as soon as the money and success does.

could some of them have perhaps been attracted by watching footy in a new stadium?

 

[Relahni]

Anfield, Millenium Stadium, Loftus Road,

 

[chriswill]

I like the reebok.


Shame its never full

 

[Kenny Vermouth]

That Plough Lane pic reminds of what football grounds were like when I first started going in the early 80s.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

now THAT is a stadium....

This is the hockey/basketball arena:

 

[Biffo]

Of the football grounds I've been to I would have to list them in preference as:

1. Millennium Stadium
2. Nou Camp
3. Bernebeau
4. Anfield
5. San Siro
6. Old Trafford
7. Westfalenstadion
8. Stamford Bridge
9. Lokomotiv Stadium (Moscow)
10. Vicente Calderon

Obviously Ninian Park has the best atmosphere though.

Ones I want to go to are:

Newcastle
Celtic
Juventus
Maracana

 

[Andy the Don]

What's there now? Have they built on it yet? Last time I went past (on my way to the dogs....must have been at least 4 years ago...) the turnstiles etc were still there...

Living the other side of South London, I have not seen PL for years. But it has been sold for housing & has been cleared. Not sure of they have a planning issue due to the electricty pylons overhead.
The funny thing is that Sam Hamman brought the club out of the covenant on the ground which stated that the site could only be a sports ground in 1983.

 

[JTG]

could some of them have perhaps been attracted by watching footy in a new stadium?

Yes.

Part time, johnny come latelies with a sudden interest in a team they couldn't be arsed with before.

 

[Team Bergerac]

What's there now? Have they built on it yet? Last time I went past (on my way to the dogs....must have been at least 4 years ago...) the turnstiles etc were still there...

I think it's a supermarket now.

 

[Diamond]

La Bombonera - Boca's home. It's a bit of an odd looking stadium, but it's one of the best places I've ever been to for a footy match.

http://www.stadiumguide.com/bombonera.htm