North Stand Demolition

[ADVILLAFAN]

There's also Little Hampden next to Hampden Park.

Have to say that Hampden Park is a bit of a soulless bowl now and strange for Queen's Park games, when they have about 300 fans there

[The Edge]

Great script / voiceover / great sound track  ... great story.

Thanks but no thanks. I don't think she would look the same now in those tight black satin trousers. Hmmmmm

[dave.woodhall]

The three biggest grounds in Europe (maybe the world) at one point were all in Glasgow.

[brian green]

At a tangent, for which I apologise but Epsom Downs, a natural amphitheatre with buildings, regularly had over half a million spectators for the Derby.

[Andy_Lochhead_in_the_air]

The three biggest grounds in Europe (maybe the world) at one point were all in Glasgow.

The Maracana overtook Hampden as the largest stadium in the world in 1950.

https://www.sambafoot.com/en/news/19321_maracana__the_largest_stadium_of_the_world.html

[eamonn]

There's also Little Hampden next to Hampden Park.

Have to say that Hampden Park is a bit of a soulless bowl now and strange for Queen's Park games, when they have about 300 fans there

Would they not be better off playing at Little Hampden ?

[dave.woodhall]

There's also Little Hampden next to Hampden Park.

Have to say that Hampden Park is a bit of a soulless bowl now and strange for Queen's Park games, when they have about 300 fans there

Would they not be better off playing at Little Hampden ?

Lesser Hampden. There are plans to make it suitable for the Scottish League as Queen's Park's lease on Hampden has run out and the SFA now own it. 

[Andy_Lochhead_in_the_air]

Hampden Park derives its name from an Englishman John Hampden.

John Hampden (c. June 1595 – 24 June 1643) was an English landowner and politician whose opposition to arbitrary taxes imposed by Charles I made him a national figure. An ally of Parliamentary leader John Pym, and cousin to Oliver Cromwell, he was one of the Five Members whose attempted arrest in January 1642 sparked the First English Civil War.

After war began in August 1642, Hampden raised an infantry regiment, and died of wounds received at the Battle of Chalgrove Field.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hampden

[algy]

There's also Little Hampden next to Hampden Park.

Have to say that Hampden Park is a bit of a soulless bowl now and strange for Queen's Park games, when they have about 300 fans there

Would they not be better off playing at Little Hampden ?

Lesser Hampden. There are plans to make it suitable for the Scottish League as Queen's Park's lease on Hampden has run out and the SFA now own it.

They were planning on moving this coming season - I'd plans on going up in April to watch the last home game there, but it wasn't to be. The atmosphere there was shocking, mind - even when they played Rangers in the league it was atrocious.

[Pat McMahon]

The three biggest grounds in Europe (maybe the world) at one point were all in Glasgow.

The Maracana overtook Hampden as the largest stadium in the world in 1950.

https://www.sambafoot.com/en/news/19321_maracana__the_largest_stadium_of_the_world.html

These are all brilliant facts, ones I would have known when I was a kid

[LeeB]

Hampdens official capacity was 185,000, but the Scottish FA were only allowed to sell 150,000.

Empty seats m'lord.

[PeterWithesShin]

Hampden used to look fantastic, it's shit now.

[Drummond]

I'm surprised the Scottish FA have never come an agreement with the Scottish RFU about a groundshare at Murrayfield.

[Simon Page]

Hampden used to look fantastic, it's shit now.

Except in that small second tier on the south side. The sightline is spectacular, the ground looks great and, when the fitbah gets cloggy, the view over Glasgow to the hills in the north is unsurpassed. The only stadium other than Villa Park to give me goose bumps.

Excuse the love in, I've been missing Scotland a lot lately. Still easily the best country in the world. No need for a discussion.

[Brazilian Villain]

Simon, will this help?