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Bert said:
For Bert, the Baseball Ground was always a favourite, an old fashioned cramped cockpit with the crowd right next to the pitch.
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Like the Baseball ground , but always herded like a sheep / animal by the police from the station to the ground .

Maine Road , Manchester for me . Had everything , even danger .

UTB
 
Born at a bad time. Missed out on pretty much all of them.

Based on historic images, I would have liked to have seen Ayresome Park, Leeds Road and the Goldstone ground.
 
Bramall lane
Baseball Ground
Burden Park
Ayresome Park
Victoria Ground
Boundary Park
Vale Park
Swillsborough
 
Tyler Durden said:
Born at a bad time. Missed out on pretty much all of them.

Based on historic images, I would have liked to have seen Ayresome Park, Leeds Road and the Goldstone ground.
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Bert and his gang had a snooker ball (white) chucked at them once at Ayresome Park.
Grimsby is another good old fashioned ground. Freezing cold, usually with a gale blowing off the North Sea.
 
Hampden Park
Celtic End. Roofless.

When it rained, a Glaswegian monsoon.
In the sunshine, an Oklahoman dustbowl.

Many Scottish grounds, many that are still the same today as they were back in the day.

St James' Park - Newcastle United
Bloomfield Road - Blackpool
Filbert Street - for the 2-5 day.
 
Highfield Road
City Ground
Baseball Ground
BDTBL
Villa Park
Edgar Street
Wembley
Tynecastle
Stonebridge Road


And the dear old departed St Georges Lane , my home for 30 years :(
 
Bert said:
Freezing cold, usually with a gale blowing off the North Sea.
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If you want freezing cold sea gales, you'd have to go a long way to beat stood on the open away end backing onto Roker beach of a winters evening.

Also for 'old ground' I'm interpreting that as a ground no longer with us. I loved the BBG too (complete with quagmire of a pit h by the end of August) but my favourite 'old' ground would be Maine Road. Slap in the middle of the roughest part of Manchester, wooden benches for seats and the most intimidating away terrace I have witnessed in the Kippax that ran along one side.

Oxford worth a mention, ok it was a dive but otherwise had it all - open terraced away end, about 10 mini ramshackle stands dotted about and an old school sloping pitch.
 
Hard question to answer because all the old grounds had their particular character. Incidentally Barnsley's ground used to have some terracing and a muck stack behind one goal, at times during the match miners used to pop up from the depths after some snap (food).

Leeds road used to have huge terracing on the right hand side looking from the away end. The Shay and Wigans old ground were the worst I ever saw.

The Baseball ground had the muddiest pitch ever.
 

Bladepicker said:
If you want freezing cold sea gales, you'd have to go a long way to beat stood on the open away end backing onto Roker beach of a winters evening.

Also for 'old ground' I'm interpreting that as a ground no longer with us. I loved the BBG too (complete with quagmire of a pit h by the end of August) but my favourite 'old' ground would be Maine Road. Slap in the middle of the roughest part of Manchester, wooden benches for seats and the most intimidating away terrace I have witnessed in the Kippax that ran along one side.

Oxford worth a mention, ok it was a dive but otherwise had it all - open terraced away end, about 10 mini ramshackle stands dotted about and an old school sloping pitch.
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Agree with you on Maine Road . Surprised that only us have flagged it up . With Manchester City today , it is easy to forget or the very younger fan generation to forget they were division 3 like we are , and got promoted by the play offs after being 2-0 down

How times change .

UTB.
 
Highbury for me, closeley followed by Maine Road. Many fond memories of Highbury, the game when Brucey took the players off, the ensuing replay but best of all that 1-1 F.A Cup draw in the dying minutes when Senderos handled in front of 6,000 noisy Blades and Andy Gray sticking away the penalty!
 
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Vetch Field Swansea City, Manor Ground(away end) Oxford Utd, Elm Park Reading

All 3 of these were favourites of mine, but all 3 became antiquated, and staying put after the Taylor report became unviable
 
I'd also have to say the Baseball Ground, for atmosphere and character and Highbury was just a beautiful football stadium! We will never see a ground like that ever again, mores the pity!

Despite our shocking records......Turf Moor or Deepdale anyone?!
 
Saltergate was great ... you were practically on the touch line wherever you sat.... short walk out of town centre too.... I remember at one point the goal posts were sort of wedge shaped rather than round? Very strange
 
Highbury: there was nowhere like it in terms of period design.

I was mighty impressed with Villa Park when I first went in 1993.

I have to say I thought the Baseball ground was a dump, Oxford horrible (I got drenched there last time I went) and Reading's Elm Park lived up to Simon Inglis' description of it as the "least interesting ground in the league.

Another ground that is not used for football now but still stands is Munich's Olympic Stadium - saw 1860 Munich there in the late 1990s. Not great sightlines for football but what an iconic ground. Looks modern 45 years after it was built.
 
I won't have been to nearly as many as the older blades but of the 'old' grounds I've been to (those no longer in operation), I would say Maine Road was the best. The Dell, Feethams or Millmoor would be the worst.
 
Revolution said:
Highbury: there was nowhere like it in terms of period design.

I was mighty impressed with Villa Park when I first went in 1993.

I have to say I thought the Baseball ground was a dump, Oxford horrible (I got drenched there last time I went) and Reading's Elm Park lived up to Simon Inglis' description of it as the "least interesting ground in the league.

Another ground that is not used for football now but still stands is Munich's Olympic Stadium - saw 1860 Munich there in the late 1990s. Not great sightlines for football but what an iconic ground. Looks modern 45 years after it was built.
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Highbury was a good one but the shit Arsenal fans let the atmosphere down.

I also thought Nene Park was very impressive for a non-league club.
 
Ayresome Park for me, being squashed into the corner during the game, then walking out through those old wooden gates into the open and welcoming arms of the 'Smoggies' when the game was over...
 
I can't make my mind up if this is the best or the worst but the old Shay Stadium had what I can only describe as a quarry behind one of the goals. Went there in 1975 for a league cup tie (Guthrie hat-trick anyone?) and the perimeter wall behind the "quarry" backed on to the main road. It was only about 4 feet tall and you could get an uninterrupted view of the game without paying to get in.
 

Filbert Street around 1990
Filbert Street around 1990
Filbert Street around 1990
Filbert Street around 1990
Filbert Street around 1990
Filbert Street around 1990
Filbert Street around 1990
Filbert Street around 1990
Filbert Street around 1990
Filbert Street around 1990

I think that covers most of them
 
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