32 stadiums that no longer exist

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White Hart Lane
The Goldstone Ground
Eastville
Doncaster ???
Stoke ????
Rotherham ????
Brain freeze

[splott parker]

White Hart Lane
The Goldstone Ground
Eastville
Doncaster ???
Stoke ????
Rotherham ????
Brain freeze

One of my coldest days ever at a football match at the Brain Freeze Arena

[splott parker]

Fir Park and Sophia Gardens are a couple of our old grounds, we also played a few friendlies at the Harlequins Ground in Roath, Middlesbrough and Bristol City two of the clubs we played there. Apparently the teams got changed in The Royal Oak and walked over to the pitch. I sometimes imagine the great Steve Bloomer walking across Newport Rd in his kit.

[splott parker]

There’s loads of old grounds that are gone, too many to list, e.g. Norwich have had at least three, The Nest being a favourite name of mine for one of them. Arsenal, of course, played south of the river on a few grounds before moving north, even after their Dial Square days. I love looking through clubs’ histories unearthing their origins, so interesting how our game took a hold on the country and then the world.

[the other bob wilson]

There’s loads of old grounds that are gone, too many to list, e.g. Norwich have had at least three, The Nest being a favourite name of mine for one of them. Arsenal, of course, played south of the river on a few grounds before moving north, even after their Dial Square days. I love looking through clubs’ histories unearthing their origins, so interesting how our game took a hold on the country and then the world.

I did a grounds picture quiz in the blog years ago which featured the Nest. I’d not heard of it before and was amazed that league football could ever be played there - pretty sure the photo in this piece is the one I used - the article is well worth a read.

http://liberalengland.blogspot.com/2...d-at-nest.html

Watched this interesting video about Arsenal’s origins a couple of weeks ago. I’d heard of Dial Square, but the fact you can have a pint there came as a surprise.

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[splott parker]

I did a grounds picture quiz in the blog years ago which featured the Nest. I’d not heard of it before and was amazed that league football could ever be played there - pretty sure the photo in this piece is the one I used - the article is well worth a read.

http://liberalengland.blogspot.com/2...d-at-nest.html

Watched this interesting video about Arsenal’s origins a couple of weeks ago. I’d heard of Dial Square, but the fact you can have a pint there came as a surprise.

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Isn't there a photo somewhere showing the sheer cliff face at one end of The Nest? I’m sure I’ve seen one somewhere.

[the other bob wilson]

Isn't there a photo somewhere showing the sheer cliff face at one end of The Nest? I’m sure I’ve seen one somewhere.

There’s an incredible photo I’d not seen before at the top of this article.

https://readtheleague.com/the-big-feature/thenest

[Sloop_Jon_Bee]

Isn't there a photo somewhere showing the sheer cliff face at one end of The Nest? I’m sure I’ve seen one somewhere.

I have seen that one SP. Mad in it. I just could not imagine a player hammering down the wing near it.
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