Shithouse stadiums

[1973Blade]

Shithouse stadia please

 

[ChipButtyBlade]

It's going to be interesting to see how that works considering White Hart Lane never had a kop.

I should imagine they will love having one.

 

[Ricky]

Spurs and West Ham... they couldn't have gone in more different directions. Unlucky, West Ham.

 

[vorpal blade]

erm... can't think who Jsw1981 from Dronnie supports .......

 

[Part timer]

I should imagine they will love having one.

I do think it will work at Spurs, Tottenham are a big club with a lot of working class supporters.

 

[vorpal blade]

Selhurst Park really is shit.

The new stand at Molineux is proper shit.

Stamford Bridge used to be shit.

 

[vorpal blade]

just what the shit were they thinking of? not sure why it says Wolues on it?

 

[vorpal blade]

 

[vorpal blade]

Leeds is pretty shabby too, unless you are a fan of corrugated asbestos roofing.

 

[blade.i.am]

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erm... can't think who Jsw1981 from Dronnie supports .......

Was with him all the way until 'might of'

 

[vorpal blade]

Adds to it mate.

He couldn't even be bothered getting his grammar right or wasting the ink for the two extra letters.

Prime Slagging of the old school.

 

[YES Blade]

To me, West Han is really the only stadium which isn't really fit for football and that's for obvious reasons. The rest of the new stadiums see some great atmospheres.

It's all well and good slagging off "soulless bowls" but just think of what they replaced.

The Dell and Filbert Street were massive shit holes which couldn't be expanded. It's always sad to move away from traditional old football grounds, but you have to move with the times. To me it would be like keeping the Kop for nostalgic reasons and the great memories we've seen whilst sat there. The fact is it's crap and needs rebuilding!

We're lucky that Bramall Lane is suitable for where we currently are as a football club and where we are likely to be for the foreseeable future. If a mega rich billionaire bought us, then who knows what could happen. I'd like to think if we did build a new stadium it would at least be on the same site as per Spurs.

 

[Bert]

It's going to be interesting to see how that works considering White Hart Lane never had a kop.

They did however have one of the best and most iconic stands in the land.

 

[Part timer]

They did however have one ofView attachment 33639 the best and most iconic stands in the land.

The Shelf wasn't a kop but it was a bloody lovely old stand.

 

[davidblade]

Imagine the stadium we could have if we merged with wednedzednesday. 60,000 every match. It would be amazing!

6000000000000000000000000000000000000000
Idiot

 

[Rodders]

It does certainly look like that. What I can’t understand though is why Michael Appleton, reknowned Oxford miracle worker, wasn’t able to build a stand in his spare time while he was manager.

Coz he spent it all on roid juice... allegedely

 

[Bert]

The Shelf wasn't a kop but it was a bloody lovely old stand.

Bert has once sat in that stand and has stood on The Shelf. Jimmy Greaves was playing on both occasions.

 

[mosbolad]

Bert has once sat in that stand and has stood on The Shelf. Jimmy Greaves was playing on both occasions.

Why was Jimmy Greaves playing on a shelf?

Was Bert on the sherbert again? (see what I did there)............

 

[Ginger Gnome]

The Kassam Stadium. Much like their fans’ dislike for Wilder is baffling, this is a stadium opened this century that inexplicably has just 3 sides.

It's not inexplicable. They're a tiny shit club who had no money, it was a half built shell for 3 years before finally finishing what they've got. The 3-sided ground is bigger than it needs to be for how many fans go to their games and it has the foundations for a 4th stand if they ever need it.

Huddersfield only had 3 sides in their new ground for ages, it meant they had a stadium that was big enough for their needs for a few seasons and gave them time to raise the funds for the 4th side which could be built to whatever size they needed and had corporate boxes and stuff they didn't need when it first opened. Oxford intended to add the 4th side after a few seasons too, but being non-league and having a crook for a chairman meant it never happened and now the club don't own the ground, so can't do anything about it.

 

[LoughboroBlade]

It's not inexplicable.

On reflection, inexcusable might be the better term. But even a temporary stand, mooted for ages and a cheap alternative, is better than a car park.

 

[metalblade]

I like football grounds where you are close to the action take the Millenium stadium purpose built but my god it pisses all over Wembley because you feel closer to the pitch. Football pitches are rectangular so why would you build stands that curve? Bowls should be kept for watching cricket only. I wonder who the idiot was that thought it would be a good idea for W Ham to move into that white elephant of an athletics stadium where to pitch is nowhere near the fans, trust me it will kill that club, a slow and painful death is all they can look forwards to .
These soulless stadiums which sprang up after the Hillsborough disaster all look the same and have no discerning features that make one end different to the other. Every ground should have a kop where the home fans can make a noise and roar there team on it just doesn't seem to happen at these new stadiums having two tiers kills the singing too. Spurs are pulling a master stroke making one end a huge single tier, that really does look like it will be some stadium. Old Trafford is said to be one of the best stadiums around but that lost something when the Stretford end had another tier and executive boxes added.

 

[Hartley Hare]

The Weston Homes stadium at Colchester epitomises everything that is bad about new stadiums.

In the middle of nowhere, no atmosphere, too big for the club and never likely to be full. Crap.

HH

 

[Canterbury Blade]

A few musings...

The bowl is dead, modelled on some European stadiums with athletic tracks (Olympiastadion in Berlin and Munchen) it doesn't suit the need for atmosphere in England. Plus athletics should be kept away from football grounds, a bit like pitch churning rugby league and Christian evangelicals.

New Euro builds/rebuilds (Allianz, Hsv, Werder, schalke) have oval exterior but rectangle interior, gets more people in and retains the atmos.

Could Bramall Lane be rotated or even angled and the car park used? May avoid the road issues, or build a motorway under it a la the old Athletico ground.

Colchester's design was the coldest I've been to for a long time with the lack of filled in corners.

The quaint joys of Stevenage and Crawley are best left in the past as are the retro joys of the bogs of
Peterborough, Swindon and Southend. I look forward to the retro joys of the Mestalla and the funky rebuild of the San Mames.

Worst shithole without fail is Priestfield... that rickety uncovered stand will not be missed and we will not return there all the while Sir Chris is with us,

Brighton fans I know rave about the Amex and I will enjoy my visit next season (assuming they don't go down).

But no ground is ever a success without decent beer and service. The Germans excel at it. A quiet revolution could start at the Lane if we sorted out the ale front. If ten thousand of our crowd were served an extra pint at half time think of the extra profit over a season, especially in those European night games to come.

Finally, when I go to Twickenham and Lords I can sup merrily and watch the game. England v Wales I had 2 pints per half and a swift one at half time whilst fetching rations, Usually at Lords I take in a very nice Montrachet Puligny (much more SUFC than brash Champers) that was washed down with a gallon of Pedigree ( quid cheaper in the MCC area...). Why nowadays can't a man ( or woman) enjoy a pint watching football?? Ridiculous outdated law.

Revolution inside football grounds is about more than just the ground, lead the charge
Kevin, once you've enjoyed next May's victory parade.

 

[diode_blade]

could be worse

bouncing day massacre 2 at new fowls stadium

 

[ShockingBadBuy]

The Riverside. Especially when half-empty and you can see the lumps of lego holding it together. Other than the fact that it is, literally, next to a river, was ever a ground more inappropriately named ?

In the shithouse new stadium stakes, it's only beaten to the bottom of the pile, for me, by the Ricoh and Wembley.

 

[Rusty view]

Spurs are trying their best to copy Dortmund,its a bowl with a real Kop.
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That single tier will go a lot further back when done. Tgeyvecmanaged to mix the usual coprate "club" levels and boxes with a "kop" style end. Been following the construction closely. It looks fantastic.

Sliding pitch for nfl
Underground car park under the stadium
Fan zones
Bars stay open after match

 

[Robby Blade]

Dont ever leave Bramall Lane...

There is something about the place I find quite emotional and moving the times ive been, a magic and history you just can never get back or replicate at a new plastic soulless bowl

I'd find it emotional too if my team had been stuffed 3-0☺

 

[grafikhaus]

Bert has once sat in that stand and has stood on The Shelf. Jimmy Greaves was playing on both occasions.

I stood on The Shelf on 18th Jan., 1975. We won 3-1. No Greavsie but Martin Peters, Jennings, Kinnear, Cyril Knowles and Perryman all played. At half time, I wandered down to the bar and, because the game was on BBC, there was a 'media centre' under the terracing - literally a four-side box constructed of 'tennis-court style' chain link fence. They had pre-made 'captions' covering all likely scores so they could prop them up in front of a camera. Basically sheets of card with Letraset letters.

 

[Hartley Hare]

Why nowadays can't a man ( or woman) enjoy a pint watching football?? Ridiculous outdated law.

The perils of drinking at football matches.



HH

PS - Mind you I do agree.

 

[I should coco]

Imagine the stadium we could have if we merged with wednedzednesday. 60,000 every match. It would be amazing!

Not even remotely amusing.

You could well imagine that if we went up a certain D Chansiri Esq might put a call in to McCabe.

"Mr Kevin, hello. Have you ever thought about........"