Favourite away ground no longer with us.

[Nev]

Another one for Highbury. Arsenal don't carry the same aura now they have moved, and sold the naming rights in particular. The move was inevitable but they could've made more of an effort to make the new ground a bit different and retain something of the old ground. Just a little bit of individuality of the sort Highbury demonstrated and why it is still held in high regard by opposition fans.

I beleive that they have recently tried to improve the atmosphere by introducing a "Clock End" and "North Bank". Too late boys, you sold out and you can't go back.

I pray, whatever the circumstances, that we don't do the same.

[usav]

Highbury, Baseball Ground, The Dell had a charm to it as well...

[PeterWithe]

Have anyone been to Ricoh Arena?

Yeah, I saw Oasis there.

I saw Take That there, my missus made me go..honest.

[Lambert and Payne]

Have anyone been to Ricoh Arena?

Yeah, I saw Oasis there.

I saw Take That there, my missus made me go..honest.

I actually seen some football there, England u17's wasnt anything decent but wasnt expecting too much anyway. When our Wigan game got called off last year we went to Cov to watch em play Barnsley. Got outta the car and my girlfriend shouts on the top of her voice in the middle of a car park: DAD YOU'VE GOT A VILLA COAT ON! Game was freezing and the atmosphere is awful with horns blowing all the way through, since been banned
You do get 5k there though so would be an interesting away day...

[Andy_Lochhead_in_the_air]

Oxfords old Manor Ground was good day out. Either standing on the steep banked terracing behind the goal you almost felt you were on the pitch, or sitting in a rickety little wooden stand on the corner. I can remember we had a few trips there in the late 60s/early 70s and of course with no M40 then you had no choice but to drive down the "pretty route". My last trip there was for the league cup game when we absolutely crucified their keeper. 45 minutes of incessant chanting, "No hair, the goalies got no hair".

[Andy_Lochhead_in_the_air]

The Old Den without a doubt. A day out like no other.

A unique experience. Went there in 1969 we won 1-0. We were standing up and I cheered when we scored, not a problem for me as I was only 11 at the time and even the Millwall fans have some code of ethics (this Millwall feller in his 60s gave my older brother the kicking instead ). Thinking back Im surprised our Mom allowed us to go, she probably hadnt heard the previous season down there when we also won, there was a  riot, pitch invasion and the referee being knocked unconscious.
Next trip there was in 1975 for a midweek game when we were on the run in to getting promoted. This time we were in the seats, again we won. My memory this time was of some Villa fans hiding at the  the back of the stand behind us, they had climbed in off the terracing because some of the Millwall lads wanted to introduce themselves.

[cdbearsfan]

Baseball Ground as we won every time I went there. Plus the car park for visting supporters had a good quality playpark in it with one of those tyres where you swing on a rope - excellent fun.

In my defence, I was only twenty-seven at the time.

[PeterWithe]

My last trip there was for the league cup game when we absolutely crucified their keeper. 45 minutes of incessant chanting, "No hair, the goalies got no hair".

I remember that game, his confidence was shot, he looked petrified.

On the way there everyone had had a few and no-one had a clue where the ground was, someone spotted an Oxford sticker on the back of a car so we decided that we would follow the driver to the ground, twenty minutes later he parked...on his driveway in a suberban estate with a van load of pissed, hysterical Villa fans howling with laughter as he walked through his front door with a bemused look on his face.

 Less amusing was our van being towed away from where we had parked it during the game.

[orourkeda]

Definitely highbury. I used to love the trips there.

Burnden Park was a right pigsty

[Dave Clark Five]

Another one for Highbury. Arsenal don't carry the same aura now they have moved, and sold the naming rights in particular. The move was inevitable but they could've made more of an effort to make the new ground a bit different and retain something of the old ground. Just a little bit of individuality of the sort Highbury demonstrated and why it is still held in high regard by opposition fans.

I beleive that they have recently tried to improve the atmosphere by introducing a "Clock End" and "North Bank". Too late boys, you sold out and you can't go back.

I pray, whatever the circumstances, that we don't do the same.

Have you seen what remains of the ground?

[nico2708]

Another one for Highbury. Arsenal don't carry the same aura now they have moved, and sold the naming rights in particular. The move was inevitable but they could've made more of an effort to make the new ground a bit different and retain something of the old ground. Just a little bit of individuality of the sort Highbury demonstrated and why it is still held in high regard by opposition fans.

I beleive that they have recently tried to improve the atmosphere by introducing a "Clock End" and "North Bank". Too late boys, you sold out and you can't go back.

I pray, whatever the circumstances, that we don't do the same.

Have you seen what remains of the ground?

this is how highbury looks now


highbury stadium square

[midlandjohn]

Gay Meadow, Shrewsbury 15 March 1972 on our way to the Third Division Championship. 16,336 packed into the old ground with 3 sides taken by Villa fans and one bloke in a corical retrieving the balls from the River Severn. Result 1 - 1.

[cdbearsfan]

Another one for Highbury. Arsenal don't carry the same aura now they have moved, and sold the naming rights in particular. The move was inevitable but they could've made more of an effort to make the new ground a bit different and retain something of the old ground. Just a little bit of individuality of the sort Highbury demonstrated and why it is still held in high regard by opposition fans.

I beleive that they have recently tried to improve the atmosphere by introducing a "Clock End" and "North Bank". Too late boys, you sold out and you can't go back.

I pray, whatever the circumstances, that we don't do the same.

Have you seen what remains of the ground?

this is how highbury looks now


highbury stadium square

Some of that looks quite tasteful.

I suppose it should at £245,000-£425,000 per flat during a recession.

[Holte L2]

Highbury, and Filbert Street odly enough.

[bertlambshank]

Leeds road Huddersfield Town.Proper old school ground.