What a dump!

Over the years I've been to Somerton Park, Vetch Field, Elm Park, the Dell, Selhurst Park, London Road (Peterborough), Priestfield, Ashton Gate, Loftus Road, Vicarage Road, Stamford Bridge, Old Trafford, Griffin Park, Madejski, Villa Park, the Emirates and probably a couple more I can't remember. Some of these were/are very old grounds, some new, many with character and others bland.

Last night was a first visiting Kenilworth Road and I was astonished that this place hadn't been condemned on so may counts. We were in the main stand and right in the corner and the view was like looking through a scrap yard with a massive pillar right in front. We stood to the side for the whole game!

Add to this our disappointing (understatement) showing and with the weather and having to jog back to the station to get the train it was a marked contrast to fun at the CCS last Saturday with the grandsons.

How the **** did the Premier League allow football to be played there?

Think a 'dump warning' was appropiate!

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Originally Posted by Taffy Blue in Berkshire

Over the years I've been to Somerton Park, Vetch Field, Elm Park, the Dell, Selhurst Park, London Road (Peterborough), Priestfield, Ashton Gate, Loftus Road, Vicarage Road, Stamford Bridge, Old Trafford, Griffin Park, Madejski, Villa Park, the Emirates and probably a couple more I can't remember. Some of these were/are very old grounds, some new, many with character and others bland.

Last night was a first visiting Kenilworth Road and I was astonished that this place hadn't been condemned on so may counts. We were in the main stand and right in the corner and the view was like looking through a scrap yard with a massive pillar right in front. We stood to the side for the whole game!

Add to this our disappointing (understatement) showing and with the weather and having to jog back to the station to get the train it was a marked contrast to fun at the CCS last Saturday with the grandsons.

How the **** did the Premier League allow football to be played there?

Think a 'dump warning' was appropiate!

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Didn't go last night but went the season before last and loved it. Give me that ground over the sanitised PL grounds and the CCS.

PL football at a ground like that must have been great.

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Originally Posted by TheBirchgrovePub

Didn't go last night but went the season before last and loved it. Give me that ground over the sanitised PL grounds and the CCS.

PL football at a ground like that must have been great.

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Tend to agree with that.

Character.

It may be a shit hole but it's their shit hole.

I quite like the CCS but sat in the stands you could pretty much be at any number of similar grounds.

I love Kenilworth Road and I'd have that over any of the new stadiums.

The crowd are a few feet from the players and the place roars.

Stone Age stewarding as well

Totally over the top

I'd prefer somewhere like Kenilworth Road to the generic bowls.
If you go to an away game, drink in a Wetherspoons, and then spend 90+ minutes in some generic stadium, you'll feel cheated out of the whole away-day experience.

It might have been better if we could actually see the game! Or perhaps in hindsight it was a blessing.

As someone who spent my early City years in the late 60's on the Grange End you don't have to remind me what a good atmosphere was.

The football authorities seem to have an ambition that eventually matches will still be going on at midnight as kick off times get later and later and then, of course, the shut down of public transport gets earlier giving away fans a problematic journey home - when you look at the distances involved in travelling to some away games (e.g. Middlesbrough v Cardiff seems to be a permanent midweek fixture lately), there seems to be a desire to discourage away fans from travelling.

I talk about it becoming more difficult for away fans to travel by public transport to midweek away games, but I remember a League Cup game played since I moved up here (Portsmouth?) that went to extra time where City got the winning goal just before the end with me having made a decision to leave early and miss the penalty shoot out if they had been one because it was getting too close to the stage where I would only have to miss one train and I would have been stuck in Cardiff for the night.

With people needing to get to work the next day, not to mention children to school, you would have thought a return to something like 7.30 kick offs would make more sense, but then that’s not what the all powerful broadcasters want is it.

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Originally Posted by the other bob wilson

The football authorities seem to have an ambition that eventually matches will still be going on at midnight as kick off times get later and later and then, of course, the shut down of public transport gets earlier giving away fans a problematic journey home - when you look at the distances involved in travelling to some away games (e.g. Middlesbrough v Cardiff seems to be a permanent midweek fixture lately), there seems to be a desire to discourage away fans from travelling.

I talk about it becoming more difficult for away fans to travel by public transport to midweek away games, but I remember a League Cup game played since I moved up here (Portsmouth?) that went to extra time where City got the winning goal just before the end with me having made a decision to leave early and miss the penalty shoot out if they had been one because it was getting too close to the stage where I would only have to miss one train and I would have been stuck in Cardiff for the night.

With people needing to get to work the next day, not to mention children to school, you would have thought a return to something like 7.30 kick offs would make more sense, but then that’s not what the all powerful broadcasters want is it.

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we had to jog from the ground to the station last night to get our train at 10.13 and many of the Thames Link trains were cancelled, delayed etc. jogging 1.5 miles as a 70 year old is not on my usual agenda and I sweated buckets. fortunately I keep myself fit. probably covered more ground than El Ghazi :hehe:

Fancy building these new stadiums where people can see properly and walk in comfort in the bars, refreshment areas. What a drag.

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Originally Posted by Dave Blue

Fancy building these new stadiums where people can see properly and walk in comfort in the bars, refreshment areas. What a drag.

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That sucks. Isn't there anything that can be done about this appalling situation?

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Originally Posted by Alan Lung

That sucks. Isn't there anything that can be done about this appalling situation?

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Someone should make a stand.....