Odd Football Grounds

[Deutsch Wolf]

Feel free to add your own nominations:

FC Lahti:

Ski jumps

Artemio Franchi, Siena

Glebe Park, Brechin:

FC Braga (famous from Euro 2004):

Singapore:

Gibraltar:

Central Coast Mariners:

Pancho Arena, Hungary:

Dumbarton:

Vicente Calderon in Madrid and the ring road (sadly going after this season, they're moving to some soulless place near the airport):

Taiwan:

Stadio Sant'Elia, Cagliari, built inside the original stadium which they never bothered knocking down:

Mmabatho Stadium, South Africa:

Falkirk:

Perennial favourite Kenilworth Road:

Faroe Islands:

 

[machin05]

Some of those are brilliant. The South African one is just batshit :icon_lol:

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Not that it would have ever happened but Portsmouth's proposed new stadium was crazy:

Good access roads, lads.

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

I've been to the Siena one!

Ochilview Road Stennie - built into a biscuit factory. Shit football but ACE smell.

 

[Trips]

Been to see them a few times when I lived there, love the Kassam Stadium with just 3 stands and a car park where the fourth stand should be.

 

[darlowolf64]

The Singapore and Faroe Islands grounds... Danny Batth could get the ball into the sea, easy!

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

The Singapore and Faroe Islands grounds... Danny Batth could get the ball into the sea, easy!

How about a bit of a challenge for him...could he manage it at Gayfield Park, Arbroath?

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

NK Imotski, Croatia. I'm not going to pretend I understand what's going on here.

 

[jd1981]

Gap between Dundee and Dundee Utd grounds been to both and they're both shite.

 

[darlowolf64]

How about a bit of a challenge for him...could he manage it at Gayfield Park, Arbroath?

He'd give it a bloody good go

 

[jd1981]

Who remembers this shithole away at Burnden with the supermarket blocking the view of the one corner.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Burnden Park was bloody horrible.

Hull had a similar thing with one of their stands at Boothferry Park.

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

I try and bleach my mind of that particular cunt hole.

Brunton Park - Carlisle. Big new stand, cunningly positioned so a third of it provides a view of the rear of the end terrace and the park next door. Genius.

 

[jd1981]

Went there twice in the 90's vile place that and Oxfords old manor ground.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

The Manor was a deathtrap. Easily the worst ground in professional football I've ever been to. Bonus stupid Lego stands to go with the dreadful away end.

Filbert Street was weird too. One quality new stand (which you never saw on TV as they put the cameras in there) and three strange stands which didn't match each other.

 

[Kenny]

The Singapore and Faroe Islands grounds... Danny Batth could get the ball into the sea, easy!

It would be all I was trying to do if I played on those pitches...

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

I can remember it before the new stand. My student house was the other side so I got a free bit of football while the new stand went up. The terraces for the away (bottom right of the picture and far side of the pitch, although it has been seated in that later shot) were bloody deadly and the rest of the joint made Kenilworth Road look like the Maracana.

 

[The Bear]

La Bombonera of Boca Juniors. I remember seeing it on TV and it always stuck in my mind with that vertical stand on one side.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

La Bombonera is class.

El Mahalla Stadium, Egypt:

 

[Sniffer]

I've played cricket at a couple of Power Station grounds and they were a nightmare. Bear might remember Drakelow Power Station with the humming of the overhead lines that could also be hit if a skier went up.