Day 24 – Ground no. 1: Goodison Park, Everton. It is almost like an open-air museum. The Archibald Leitch stands at Bullen’s Road and Gwlady’s Street are top-drawer. The stairs, the concourse in the lower section, the wooden floor and…
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Top English Football Ground Advent Calendar 2018: 24th December
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Top English Football Ground Advent Calendar 2018: 23th December
Day 23 – Ground no. 2: Hillsborough, Sheffield Wednesday So much football ground history packed into this. The impressive Kop Stand, one of the very few stands that have kept the original embankment underneath. The first full-pitch-length cantilever stand looking very 1960’ish. The…
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Top English Football Ground Advent Calendar 2018: 22nd December
Day 22 . Ground 3: Craven Cottage, Fulham There is a reason, it is listed. THAT stand by Archibald Leitch. Well, many more ought to be so. But this is just wonderful. The Dutch renaissance-like facade with red bricks,…
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Top English Football Ground Advent Calendar 2018: 21st December
Day 21 – Ground number 4: Fratton Park, Portsmouth As you walk down the Frogmore Road and see the mock-Tudor club office and the remains of the pre-Archibald Leitch stand, you know that you are in for something special. And,…
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Top English Football Ground Advent Calendar 2018: 20th December
Day 20 . Ground no. 5: Kenilworth Road, Luton A rarity now. Entrance to the Oak Stand through the terraced housing. The ground litterately in the backyard. The laundry hanging between the stand and the houses. The toilets are inside…
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Top English Football Ground Advent Calendar 2018: 19th December
Day 19 – Ground no. 6: Brunton Park, Carlisle United Perilously close to a river. In a residential area, close to the city centre. Brunton Park has it all. A fabulous standing terrace with an iconic triple, triangle roof. A…
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Top English Football Ground Advent Calendar 2018: 18th December
Day 18 – Ground no. 7: Blundell Park, Grimsby A Victorian pitch and the oldest stand still in use in the football league. A wooden stand, making the soundscape so different from modern concrete stands. Four stands in the ground,…
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Top English Football Grounds Advent Calendar 2018: 17th December
Day 17 – Ground no. 8: Griffin Park, Brentford It has just about everything. It is almost hidden behind the terraced housing. It is the floodlight pylons that signal that there is football ground. And not just terraced houses. There…
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Top English Football Grounds Advent Calendar 2018: 16th December
Day 17 – Ground no. 9: London Road, Peterborough Another proper old school ground. A standing terrace at the London Road End without a concourse. During halftime I have to queue for the toilets and my warm coffee out in…
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Top English Football Grounds Advent Calendar 2018: 15th December
Day 15 – Ground no. 10: Selhurst Park, Crystal Palace It has almost everything. The huge Holmesdale Road stand rises above the terraced housing at the foot of the hill – with the peculiar floodlight sticking into the air. Inside…
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