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Offline Nev

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Re: Welcome to the Macron Stadium, formerly known as ..........
« Reply #15 on: June 17, 2014, 10:20:31 PM »
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.

Offline Gregorys Boy

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Re: Welcome to the Macron Stadium, formerly known as ..........
« Reply #16 on: June 18, 2014, 01:33:16 AM »
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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Re: Welcome to the Macron Stadium, formerly known as ..........
« Reply #17 on: June 19, 2014, 12:23:00 PM »
Retching place.

Yep, though it's where we first met I believe.

Just another identikit stadium.

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Re: Welcome to the Macron Stadium, formerly known as ..........
« Reply #18 on: June 19, 2014, 04:02:44 PM »
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.

Offline LeeB

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Re: Welcome to the Macron Stadium, formerly known as ..........
« Reply #19 on: June 19, 2014, 04:06:52 PM »
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.

Offline villa `cross the mersey

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Re: Welcome to the Macron Stadium, formerly known as ..........
« Reply #20 on: June 19, 2014, 04:35:02 PM »
Think yourselves lucky !!I have to walk over that way most lunchtimes to get my butties from ASDA

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Re: Welcome to the Macron Stadium, formerly known as ..........
« Reply #21 on: June 19, 2014, 04:38:22 PM »
The Bolton ground only seemed to have one pub near the ground, which was unsurprisingly rammed.

Offline Lizz

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Re: Welcome to the Macron Stadium, formerly known as ..........
« Reply #22 on: June 19, 2014, 10:27:34 PM »
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.

 


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