Holte End v South Bank (Molineux)

[DB]

The South Bank was split between home and away. It wasn't even their end.

Was that always the case though? I stood on a few occasions back when it was split. Never had the class of the Holte End of course!

They split it as the north bank and other shitty stand were condemned to accommodate away fans. After Bradford disaster I think. Also, they built a new stand that was miles away from the pitch and no-one wanted to go in it.

[Clark W Griswold]

That's right it was. It was a proper turd of a place back then but i suppose when in the 3rd and 4th division it still had enough capacity. That new stand they built is still there and the away fans sit in the bottom now.

[PeterWithesShin]

Younger fans would probably find it hard to believe that The Valley was the biggest club ground in the country for a numbers of years, up until sometime in the 70s when it fell into disrepair.

As for Molineux, most of it was an absolute shit tip for the majority of the 80s. Piss taking aside it must have been a miserable experience going to games for those that were old enough to remember the ground and team in their pomp and then be in Division 4 in a ground falling apart with 'crowds' of 4k and under.

[Brend'Watkins]

The South Bank was split between home and away. It wasn't even their end.

Yes, their end like all ends back then was all important and their end was the North Bank. 

[Rico]

I'm sure that I have read somewhere that the Holte End was designed to hold 40,000 people. Wether it ever did is anyone's guess, but when I started going in the 70s capacity had been reduced to 26000 for safety reasons, and then after the Taylor Report it was reduced further to 19000.

[dave.woodhall]

The South Bank was split between home and away. It wasn't even their end.

Was that always the case though? I stood on a few occasions back when it was split. Never had the class of the Holte End of course!

They split it as the north bank and other shitty stand were condemned to accommodate away fans. After Bradford disaster I think. Also, they built a new stand that was miles away from the pitch and no-one wanted to go in it.

It was before then. I remember going there in 1979 and it was split.

[Flamingo Lane]

The first time I stood on the South Bank at Wolves was in the 1975/76 season, when home and away fans would both stand on that terrace.  It was a night match, and I recall it was kind of a strange atmosphere on there.  Wolves were relegated that season, and their last match was at home v Liverpool, which Wolves needed to win to stay up, and Liverpool needed to win to pip QPR to the title.  Liverpool won of course, 3-1.  Me and a mate went to the game, which wasn't all-ticket. We tried to get into the South Bank, but were locked out, and thankfully so, as it was total mayhem all around.  I think it was after that game that the fence went up on the South Bank, so that home and away fans could stand seperately.

[Legion]

Could somebody amend the spelling of the Doghead ground in the title please, it's doing my head in!

Done...

[PeterWithesShin]

Could somebody amend the spelling of the Doghead ground in the title please, it's doing my head in!

Done...

How about it being done correctly? 

[Risso]

He's made it simple...

[LeeB]

C-u-s-t-a-r-d b-o-w-l

[Legion]

C-u-s-t-a-r-d b-o-w-l

The winner.

[astonvilla82]

Use to have one of them football diaries where it had how big certain sections of each ground held in terms of fans,it had the Holte as 28 thousand and the South Bank as 28,5000

[FatSam]

The Holte was much more of a building, (rather than an earthen bank) than the other two (the Kop and the South Bank), or the Valley for that matter.

[dave shelley]

I stood on that East Terrace at Charlton a couple of times back in the sixties, it really was huge.