Well it's comparing a slagheap in Liverpool against prime real estate in North London
Also women's football wasn't anywhere nearly so much a thing when we moved
Well it's comparing a slagheap in Liverpool against prime real estate in North London
Also women's football wasn't anywhere nearly so much a thing when we moved
Been to Goodison Park once before and I definitely can’t remember a stadium worse than that. The Hawthorns is probably a close 2nd.
Something quite charming about these grounds from a bygone era though.
The Boleyn Ground got a facelift that Goodison Park never got before West Ham moved to Stratford. But I went there in the 1990s and the place was an utter shit hole…the stalls looked and smelt like Pony stablesOriginally Posted by Marc Overmars
One of my favourite old grounds was Layer Road (Colchester United), one of the stands resembled an actual Chicken Coop. I don’t remember if there was any seats in the ground but it was mainly all terracing.
I think the worst I went to was the old Chelsea ground when they had the race track around it, you needed binoculars to see anything
That said I've also been downstairs at the new one and the roof above was so low it felt really claustrophobic
also went to the old Shite Hart Lane and it was so steep it gave me a mild form of vertigo - plus it was spuds ofc so that gets extra 'shite' points...
This is true (the bit about women’s football being bigger now than it was when we moved) and that’s kind of the point I was making, that actually as a revenue driver it appears that its seen as more profitable to keep the ground for women’s football than to sell it for real estate.
but again it depends on where that real estate is, I'm willing to bet they still wouldn't do it with Arsenal now
Forest keep themselves just about in the hunt for champions league football with a goal at West Ham
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