If you invited visitors to your house, would you plunk them down on a spare, fold-up and mildew ridden garden chair from last Summer while you stretched out luxuriously on your new La Maison Coloniale divan? Would you treat them to a value pack of Iced Gems as you dined on mini Yorkshire puddings with steak tips and horseradish? I am sure most of you wouldn’t – so why do some football clubs persist in making conditions as difficult as possible for their guests?My bugbear today is the positioning of away fans. Up a level, there are notable touchline, Everton…
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The Best Championship Grounds
As international week rumbles on and as we find ourselves exhaling with anger at Sepp Blatter’s sudden imposition of a seeding system on the World Cup play offs, as well as cringing with embarrassment at the vast improvement brought about on the Beeb’s Football League show by replacing Championship with League One, Bhasin with Chapman, and Claridge with Rosenior, an idle moment has found me contemplating which of the twenty four grounds in the Championship is the most enjoyable to visit. Sure, a stadium’s surrounds do have a lot of impact on one’s thinking, so Newcastle United’s Euro 96 staging…
Stand in the Place Where You Are
Borussia Dortmund’s Westfalenstadion is rarely mentioned in the same breath as Peterborough United’s London Road but both are at the centre of one of the hottest debates among football fans of recent years: the issue of standing at matches. The Taylor Report’s seemingly incontrovertible conclusions sprung up in the aftermath of the Hillsborough disaster and its preceding long decade of trauma and, in tune with Italia 90, Fever Pitch, Richard Keys and the boys, ushered us into a new era alive and kicking. So, it was with a sense of heady nostalgia that I took up my place against the…
Swansea and Cardiff Stadia to Step Up?
It’s international weekend of course and the news that Wales are considering axing the Millennium Stadium for home matches has provided a major debating point in advance of the fixtures. This is bright news for two of our clubs, the resurgent Cities of Swansea and Cardiff. After this campaign’s encounters with Liechtenstein and Russia are concluded, the likes of Lewin Nyatanga and David Cotterill will be turning out at the Liberty and imaginatively titled Cardiff City stadia hereon in, as well as Llanelli rugby club’s Parc y Scarlets.It will be refreshing to see grounds packed to the rafters for the…
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Lloyd: An enjoyable, snappy piece of writing Will.
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