Old and New Grounds

[nordenvillain]

Bolton, Wigan, Man City, Hull, Middlesborough, Rotherham and Wembley.

The old Wigan and Hull grounds were definitely the most open and soulless grounds I have ever been to.

[Des Little]

Coventry, Derby, Leicester, Doncaster, Manchester City, Bolton, Stoke, Arsenal, Middlesbrough, Sunderland, Brentford, West Ham, Southampton, Oxford, plus Wembley and Charlton/Wimbledon/Fulham at different grounds

[Risso]

Bolton, Wigan, Man City, Hull, Middlesborough, Rotherham and Wembley.

The old Wigan and Hull grounds were definitely the most open and soulless grounds I have ever been to.

I liked Sprigfield Park. I can't say it was vastly different to most lower league grounds of its day to be honest, and soulless isn't a word I'd use. That for me is more the identikit new grounds.

[dcdavecollett]

Agreed. A lot of the old grounds had a lot going for them.

Derby's Baseball Ground was a good example -stands that were tight to the pitch. On cup nights, the atmosphere was amazing.

[ADVILLAFAN]

Tend to find new Bowl grounds more soulless. They're usually stuck on a motorway nowhere near the centre of town/city and are a bit indentikit.

Reading comes to mind, although the game I went to there was a Cracker.

[joe_c]

Arsenal, Spurs, West Ham, Man City, Wembley. Been to both Coventrys (Coventries?) but only seen concerts at the new edition, a California funk rock band whose name I don't recall and Bruce Springsteen.

[simboy]

Derby, Man City, Leicester, Middlesbrough, Arsenal, Wembley, Walsall.

[Risso]

I've been to Spurs as well but wasn't sure if it counted if it's on the same site?

[Andy_Lochhead_in_the_air]

Aresenal, Man City, Southampton, Hull City, Middlesbrough, Stoke, Sunderland, Wigan Athletic, Bolton Wanderers, Derby County, Oxford United, Shrewsbury Town, Doncaster Rovers, Walsall, and Chester. Plus old and new Wembley. Wimbledon at the original Plough Lane then Selhurst Park. If I'm really stretching it, Paget Rangers at 5 different places.. Springfield Road Walmley, Castle Vale, Boldmere St Michaels, Sutton Town, and the old Gas ground in Erdington. Admittedly Boldmere and Sutton wasn't to watch Paget, and the Gas ground was for a function.

[Andy_Lochhead_in_the_air]

Bolton, Wigan, Man City, Hull, Middlesborough, Rotherham and Wembley.

The old Wigan and Hull grounds were definitely the most open and soulless grounds I have ever been to.

I liked Sprigfield Park. I can't say it was vastly different to most lower league grounds of its day to be honest, and soulless isn't a word I'd use. That for me is more the identikit new grounds.

Wigans Springfield Park was certainly very open, Lancashires answer to The Shay at Halifax.  I think both of them has Speedway tracks round the pitch.
As for Hull City being souless,  I can remember sitting in the stand seeing trains  arriving at Boothferry Park Halt. The railway station operated purely for match days.

[LeeB]

Aresenal, Man City, Southampton, Hull City, Middlesbrough, Stoke, Sunderland, Wigan Athletic, Bolton Wanderers, Derby County, Oxford United, Shrewsbury Town, Doncaster Rovers, Walsall, and Chester. Plus old and new Wembley. Wimbledon at the original Plough Lane then Selhurst Park. If I'm really stretching it, Paget Rangers at 5 different places.. Springfield Road Walmley, Castle Vale, Boldmere St Michaels, Sutton Town, and the old Gas ground in Erdington. Admittedly Boldmere and Sutton wasn't to watch Paget, and the Gas ground was for a function.

I've played on all of those Paget pitches listed

[Risso]

Bolton, Wigan, Man City, Hull, Middlesborough, Rotherham and Wembley.

The old Wigan and Hull grounds were definitely the most open and soulless grounds I have ever been to.

I liked Sprigfield Park. I can't say it was vastly different to most lower league grounds of its day to be honest, and soulless isn't a word I'd use. That for me is more the identikit new grounds.

Wigans Springfield Park was certainly very open, Lancashires answer to The Shay at Halifax.  I think both of them has Speedway tracks round the pitch.
As for Hull City being souless,  I can remember sitting in the stand seeing trains  arriving at Boothferry Park Halt. The railway station operated purely for match days.

I'm fairly certain Springfield Park never had a speedway track, at least it didn't when I was there. There used to be a speedway track in another part of Wigan called Poolstock, but that was demolished in the 70s I think.

[LeeB]

What was the fucking point of Speedway exactly?

[Andy_Lochhead_in_the_air]

Bolton, Wigan, Man City, Hull, Middlesborough, Rotherham and Wembley.

The old Wigan and Hull grounds were definitely the most open and soulless grounds I have ever been to.

I liked Sprigfield Park. I can't say it was vastly different to most lower league grounds of its day to be honest, and soulless isn't a word I'd use. That for me is more the identikit new grounds.

Wigans Springfield Park was certainly very open, Lancashires answer to The Shay at Halifax.  I think both of them has Speedway tracks round the pitch.
As for Hull City being souless,  I can remember sitting in the stand seeing trains  arriving at Boothferry Park Halt. The railway station operated purely for match days.

I'm fairly certain Springfield Park never had a speedway track, at least it didn't when I was there. There used to be a speedway track in another part of Wigan called Poolstock, but that was demolished in the 70s I think.

I've checked, your right. But it was used by almost anybody vaguely wigany and most sports other than speedway.

The stadium had previously been home to Wigan County, Wigan United, Wigan Town, and Wigan Borough (previously Wigan United and Wigan Association) as well as Wigan and Springfield Borough rugby league sides. It was also used for horse trotting, as a track cycling velodrome, for wrestling and for athletics

You can see the horse trotting here. Not sure which carriage Nii Lamptey was in.

https://player.bfi.org.uk/free/film/watch-trotting-match-at-springfield-park-wigan-1904-1904-online



 

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