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GrimRob
March 19, 2013, 1:45pm

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How many grounds have you been to that no longer exist? I have been to 10 of the list below.

Arsenal Highbury
Bolton Wanderers Burnden Park
Brighton Goldstone Ground
Bristol Rovers Eastville
Cardiff City Ninian Park
Chester City Sealand Road
Chesterfield Recreation Ground
Colchester United Layer Road
Coventry City Highfield Road
Darlington Feethams
Derby County Baseball Ground
Doncaster Rovers Belle Vue
East Fife Bayview
Huddersfield Town Leeds Road
Hull City Boothferry Park
Leicester City Filbert Street
Manchester City Maine Road
Middlesbrough Ayresome Park
Millwall The Den
Morecambe Christie Park
Newport County Somerton Park
Northampton Town County Ground
Oxford United Manor Ground
Reading Elm Park
Rotherham United Millmoor
Scunthorpe United Old Show Ground
Shrewsbury Town Gay Meadow
Southampton The Dell
Stoke City Victoria Ground
Sunderland Roker Park
Swansea City Vetch Field
Walsall Fellows Park
Wigan Athletic Springfield Park
Wimbledon Plough Lane


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March 19, 2013, 1:50pm
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Think I've been to 18.
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March 19, 2013, 1:51pm

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Leeds road, Huddersfield, Grimsby played in a 3rd kit of red.......we (all) sang 'red army' pretty much the whole game!


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March 19, 2013, 1:51pm

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Quoted from GrimRob
How many grounds have you been to that no longer exist? I have been to 10 of the list below.

Arsenal Highbury
Bolton Wanderers Burnden Park
Brighton Goldstone Ground
Bristol Rovers Eastville
Cardiff City Ninian Park
Chester City Sealand Road
Chesterfield Recreation Ground
Colchester United Layer Road
Coventry City Highfield Road
Darlington Feethams
Derby County Baseball Ground
Doncaster Rovers Belle Vue
East Fife Bayview
Huddersfield Town Leeds Road
Hull City Boothferry Park
Leicester City Filbert Street
Manchester City Maine Road
Middlesbrough Ayresome Park
Millwall The Den
Morecambe Christie Park
Newport County Somerton Park
Northampton Town County Ground
Oxford United Manor Ground
Reading Elm Park
Rotherham United Millmoor
Scunthorpe United Old Show Ground
Shrewsbury Town Gay Meadow
Southampton The Dell
Stoke City Victoria Ground
Sunderland Roker Park
Swansea City Vetch Field
Walsall Fellows Park
Wigan Athletic Springfield Park
Wimbledon Plough Lane


I've been to the 28 highlighted. My favourite was Roker Park. I remember we went there 84/85ish. Sunderland had just been relegated from Division One the season before. It was about 6 or 7 games into the Division 2 season and they had lost every game so far and not even scored.

When Eric Gates put them in front early on the "Roker Roar" was amazing. I've not heard a sound like that before or since. It makes you wonder what it must have been like back in the 50's and 60's.

The game ended 3-3 and Sunderland just stayed up at the end of that season but the following season we were both relegated to the Third Division.


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March 19, 2013, 1:53pm

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I have been to 12 of them , several times in some cases.


                             Over 37 years living in Suffolk but always a mariner.
                             69 Years following the Town

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March 19, 2013, 2:08pm
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Ive been to 12
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March 19, 2013, 2:12pm

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Blooming ek!

17 of them.mquite surprised really.

Favourites being ayresome park, roker park and the vetch.

Am sure you could add plenty more places that have had each stand redeveloped to become a "new" ground


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Quoted from Les Brechin


I've been to the 28 highlighted. My favourite was Roker Park. I remember we went there 84/85ish. Sunderland had just been relegated from Division One the season before. It was about 6 or 7 games into the Division 2 season and they had lost every game so far and not even scored.

When Eric Gates put them in front early on the "Roker Roar" was amazing. I've not heard a sound like that before or since. It makes you wonder what it must have been like back in the 50's and 60's.

The game ended 3-3 and Sunderland just stayed up at the end of that season but the following season we were both relegated to the Third Division.



Danny Blanchflower described it as being like nothing he'd heard before, after a 1961 FA Cup tie.
Sadly it's not quite the same at The SOL, particularly the way things are going now.
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One of my oldest friends lived down Hamden road at the back of roker park (pie shop on the corner too). There's was always a special feeling (probably the curry or rum!) when going to a game there. And always a good laugh.

Went out to a club in Sunderland after dobbins belter to beat the Geordies. It was a cheap night!


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And your scotch eggs are fu(king vile
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