Heroes & Villains, the Aston Villa fanzine
Heroes & Villains => Heroes Discussion => Topic started by: villa `cross the mersey on June 16, 2014, 07:20:35 PM
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The Reebok Stadium - All the brown tourist signs were put up last week around the ground, followed by a big sheet with the Macron sign on being placed over the old blue Reebok sign today - extremely classy :(
Don`t think we missed a trick on this one, however it cant be long before our sacred name becomes something else - if only for the TV companies.
Anyone know if Reebok have been bought out by Macron?
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No buyout just a straightforward rebranding after Macron won the naming rights.
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Bloody hell, I must have been concentrating on the road yesterday when I drove past the Reebok/Macron and didn't notice any of the changes. I'm sure I saw/heard something in the local media up here last week about Bolton sponsoring an educational academy to be built on the estate on which the ground is built.
Bog awful ground to get away from as like the AJ Bell Stadium (Sale Sharks & Salford Reds ground), it's built too near to a motorway junction and causes log jams on the motorways way beyond what they should be for the size of crowds that all these teams get.
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I've never been to the Reebok, but I once had to go to Bolton for a work meeting, and on the way back got stuck in one of the worst traffic jams I've ever encountered, right next to the Reebok.
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I've never been to the Reebok, but I once had to go to Bolton for a work meeting, and on the way back got stuck in one of the worst traffic jams I've ever encountered, right next to the Reebok.
I've been and it was terrible.
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I went for the league cup semi. It was bland, boring and small.
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Been a few times and wouldn't disagree with PWS.
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I stopped off for a break from driving and ended up at the supermarket near the ground (a saturday, but they were away from home) it was insanely busy then so I'd hate to know what its like for a game
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Bolt on the landscape.
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I've never been to the Reebok, but I once had to go to Bolton for a work meeting, and on the way back got stuck in one of the worst traffic jams I've ever encountered, right next to the Reebok.
I've been and it was terrible.
I've been to worse places
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I like the stadium, but having been to Burnden Park who wouldn't!
Weren't we the first team ever to win there?
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There is a hotel on site. So after the game, pop into the bar and have a sit down. That way you miss the queues!
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Wretched place
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Shithole.
I always wanna go home!
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Retching place.
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The trouble with the modern trend of naming stadiums after sponsors is that they fail then to build or retain any sense of history and god knows it's hard enough to build any type of aura to hell holes like the one in Bolton.
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The trouble with the modern trend of naming stadiums after sponsors is that they fail then to build or retain any sense of history and god knows it's hard enough to build any type of aura to hell holes like the one in Bolton.
Agreed, Brighton is a good example, their new ground is called The Amex stadium after a flippin' banking company or something like that.
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Retching place.
Yep, though it's where we first met I believe.
Just another identikit stadium.
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The worst thing about these new grounds is that they tend to be in the middle of nowhere and miles away from the town/city centres.
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My abiding memory of my one visit there was the lengths we had to go to to get a drink. We ended up drinking a couple of cans sat in my brothers car.
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Think yourselves lucky !!I have to walk over that way most lunchtimes to get my butties from ASDA
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The Bolton ground only seemed to have one pub near the ground, which was unsurprisingly rammed.
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I've been there once. Think it was the game when Collymore got into a fight with Andy Todd. If my memory is semi-reliable [debatable] there was a Tesco close by. Pre-match, we were in a pub in Little Lever, which probably confirmed every Coronation Street stereotype possible.