Bramall Lane voted 3rd best ground in Division One..

[Jon Bon]

Meanwhile over in South Barnsley, the magnificent Theatre of Rust comes fourth from bottom of Championship grounds.

http://www.epworthbells.co.uk/news/...dium-named-sixth-best-in-league-one-1-7223228

Funny how they didn't run this piece in The Star, innit?

 

[TarquinDelouche]

It's not exactly voted, is it? It's one man's opinion.

 

[boo radley]

All the ones above us in the two leagues are new grounds.

 

[Deleted member 1486]

Typical Stir...

NEWS. REALLY IMPORTANT FOOTBALL NEWS!!!! ROLL UP, ROLL UP!!!!!! (..)

Doncaster Rovers 6th best football ground in the league. Congratulations Doncaster!

<1000 words on how great Doncaster is>.

Well done to Barnsley who finished slightly lower down the table.... Bradford City (also from Yorkshire) also finished somewhere in the table. Congratulations all! Well done Yorkshire! You've all done us proud! This is what the local massive club Sheffield Wednesday (who also appeared in a table!) had to say on the award

<1000 words from a pig>

P.S. Sheffield United finished 3rd.

 

[Bladepicker]

Anyone who thinks the god forsaken, half empty, built on wasteland, soulless Ricoh Arena is better than Bramall Lane wants sectioning.

 

[Punk Blade]

I may be missing something here, but if he visited all 92 in 12 days surely he can't have seen more than about half a dozen during match day operation. He talks about Keepmoat's acoustics, so maybe he saw that during a game, but how can he compare that to 'few thousand coloured plastic seats, list of refreshments I can't sample' that would have been his notes everywhere else?

 

[davidpinder]

Anyone who thinks the god forsaken, half empty, built on wasteland, soulless Ricoh Arena is better than Bramall Lane wants sectioning.

But let's be honest if a stadium doesn't get used its goin to be in good knick.

 

[davidpinder]

Its

I may be missing something here, but if he visited all 92 in 12 days surely he can't have seen more than about half a dozen during match day operation. He talks about Keepmoat's acoustics, so maybe he saw that during a game, but how can he compare that to 'few thousand coloured plastic seats, list of refreshments I can't sample' that would have been his notes everywhere else?

It's what's known as bollocks.

 

[judge]

3rd best in l
our league is a fucking insult

 

[Ben_1982]

Stadium MK & The Ricoh top 2! Both have less than 10k in most weeks... You can tell the articles a load of crap when he says " when the keepmoat is full" ... When did that last happen!

 

[mattbianco1]

Stadium MK & The Ricoh top 2! Both have less than 10k in most weeks... You can tell the articles a load of crap when he says " when the keepmoat is full" ... When did that last happen!

As stadiums go. Both MK and Ricoh are fantastic grounds. Neither are "proper" football stadiums though and neither get full or anywhere near full.

A proper stadium is Bramall Lane, Hillsborough, Anfield, Highbury, Goodison etc..

None of this rose bowl shit.

Depends on how they defined the list (I haven't read the article). I could put Bramall Lane above Nou Camp in a list of stadiums if the criteria was "Who's club badge is better = better stadium"

 

[dingledog]

For me no football ground should ever be considered that sits in a retail park, has no local connection or culture and visiting it is like going to a barren waste land. MK. And Rioch both fall in that category for me. I wonder if the voting took place while Coventry were still playing at Northampton, or only Asda customers were surveyed.

 

[HillmortonBlade]

As stadiums go. Both MK and Ricoh are fantastic grounds. Neither are "proper" football stadiums though and neither get full or anywhere near full.

In fact, when it's full of enthusiastic fans cheering on a successful team with a fantastic atmosphere the Ricoh is a great stadium. A great rugby stadium. Expect the sky blue seats to change to yellow and black over the summer. Some of the Cov fans I talk to will argue that it would be better for them to leave the Ricoh and develop a stadium along the lines of the Theatre of Chuckles, perhaps at the land currently occupied by Coventry Rugby.

 

[Sharrowblade]

I may be missing something here, but if he visited all 92 in 12 days surely he can't have seen more than about half a dozen during match day operation. He talks about Keepmoat's acoustics, so maybe he saw that during a game, but how can he compare that to 'few thousand coloured plastic seats, list of refreshments I can't sample' that would have been his notes everywhere else?

I believe he was drawing on his experience, on visiting the ground before, as mentioned he was just visiting all 92 grounds to maintain an update for the website and do a bit for Great Ormond Street.

However, the author quite clearly has never been stuck in that 'god damn awful car park' after the game.

 

[FTPE]

All the ones above us in the two leagues are new grounds.

Well, you'd be hard pressed to find an older one

 

[sitwell]

Put 20k fans in Coventry or MK and try and get parked ,wouldn't be fucking 1st and 2nd then.

 

[FleaPitBlade]

Define best?

Every football ground in the country is built from concrete, steel, glass and metal - its the stories written within them which sets one apart from the other. Its why, any man will vote for his own - because thems his stories.

Its the grounds that every fan has memories of that are truly the greatest. If you're to look properly at the history of Bramall Lane, it has a story that will strike a cord with every football person. The same can also be said of Wembley, Old Trafford, The Millenium, Villa Park as regualr hosts of semi finals. Hillsbrough and Valley Parade for entirely different reasons also stir the emotions across the piste.

 

[BushBlade]

Define best?

Every football ground in the country is built from concrete, steel, glass and metal - its the stories written within them which sets one apart from the other. Its why, any man will vote for his own - because thems his stories.

Its the grounds that every fan has memories of that are truly the greatest. If you're to look properly at the history of Bramall Lane, it has a story that will strike a cord with every football person. The same can also be said of Wembley, Old Trafford, The Millenium, Villa Park as regualr hosts of semi finals. Hillsbrough and Valley Parade for entirely different reasons also stir the emotions across the piste.

As the resident artist I'm shocked you only consider the history of a ground as being what defines it. What about functionality and aesthetics? I'm less surprised you forgot to mention brickwork (think Villa).

Seriously though, it is hugely subjective and we all have our own criteria for what makes a good ground, or indeed a good building. These articles are a bit of fun but meaningless. We've all got our own views and don't need someone else to validate them.

 

[shorehamview]

Define best?

Bramall Lane. Everywhere else is a fucking shithole. And whoever compiled this list is clearly a simpleton.

 

[raul]

As the resident artist
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Form an orderly queue tap-in fans.

 

[mattbianco1]

I love looking at stadiums whether that be aerial views, driving past or actually visiting them.

For instance Valley Parade - that looks brilliant when you're down the bottom of the hill in Bradford (near Range Rover Overfinch). It steels the landscape almost like St James Park and sits on top of the hill. Inside it, it generates great noise too.

One of the "new" stadiums that is also very loud is Britannia Stadium. It is sooo loud when Stoke score and I've seen us lose there numerous times.

Then... You get into Stadium:MK. A morgue is livelier. It generates no noise. The fans are too spread out. They should just fill one stand and close the rest of the home ends.

 

[PeterNdlovu081]

I love looking at stadiums whether that be aerial views, driving past or actually visiting them.

For instance Valley Parade - that looks brilliant when you're down the bottom of the hill in Bradford (near Range Rover Overfinch). It steels the landscape almost like St James Park and sits on top of the hill. Inside it, it generates great noise too.

One of the "new" stadiums that is also very loud is Britannia Stadium. It is sooo loud when Stoke score and I've seen us lose there numerous times.

Then... You get into Stadium:MK. A morgue is livelier. It generates no noise. The fans are too spread out. They should just fill one stand and close the rest of the home ends.

Valley Parade is one of my favourite grounds, along with The Valley.

Both have bags of character.

 

[Bladebri]

92 English clubs done, now I'm off to Scotland, can some one point me in the right direction

 

[Bladebri]

TE="mattbianco1, post: 748934, member: 1396"]I love looking at stadiums whether that be aerial views, driving past or actually visiting them.

For instance Valley Parade - that looks brilliant when you're down the bottom of the hill in Bradford (near Range Rover Overfinch). It steels the landscape almost like St James Park and sits on top of the hill. Inside it, it generates great noise too.

One of the "new" stadiums that is also very loud is Britannia Stadium. It is sooo loud when Stoke score and I've seen us lose there numerous times.

Then... You get into Stadium:MK. A morgue is livelier. It generates no noise. The fans are too spread out. They should just fill one stand and close the rest of the home ends.[/QUOTE]
Here is an aerial view for you, any idea,s I will let you know if you don't.

 

[grafikhaus]

Here is an aerial view for you, any idea,s I will let you know if you don't.

Stamford Bridge?

 

[Bladebri]

Stamford Bridge?

No

 

[blade too long]

I see the sheffield star has totally side stepped this survey , , the only one in this paper group to do so as wednesdays rusting edifice is down at 21st in the championship , someone needs to ask why its a story in doncaster but not here, checked other areas middlesboro and bolton and the stories there but not in sheffield
how strange

 

[YES Blade]

The Championship list is pretty strange, Derby and Middlesbrough are very similar stadiums so how is Derby 1st and Boro 5th? Rotherham is just a smaller version of Cardiff so how is Rotherham 2nd and Cardiff 7th?

 

[Silent Blade]

TE="mattbianco1, post: 748934, member: 1396"]I love looking at stadiums whether that be aerial views, driving past or actually visiting them.

For instance Valley Parade - that looks brilliant when you're down the bottom of the hill in Bradford (near Range Rover Overfinch). It steels the landscape almost like St James Park and sits on top of the hill. Inside it, it generates great noise too.

One of the "new" stadiums that is also very loud is Britannia Stadium. It is sooo loud when Stoke score and I've seen us lose there numerous times.

Then... You get into Stadium:MK. A morgue is livelier. It generates no noise. The fans are too spread out. They should just fill one stand and close the rest of the home ends.

Here is an aerial view for you, any idea,s I will let you know if you don't.
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Maine Road?

 

[mattbianco1]

He visited all 92 in 12 days so how does he know what noise the keepmoat generates? Was that a lucky ground that he visited on a match day?