Dave L
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Post by Dave L on Oct 29, 2010 12:22:44 GMT
Think there's a fair few people out there keeping count and I know a lot will have done more than me.
Saturday's visit to Worcester will be my 102nd football ground to have watched a match at.
1st - Gander Green Lane, 19/09/87 - Sutton 3 - 0 Cheltenham (missed all the goals because we left 5 minutes before the end)
100th - Worthing, 31/07/10
Who can stun us with the highest ground count? Strange ground? Furthest travelled to see a game?
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Post by Stewart on Oct 29, 2010 12:54:17 GMT
Tonyd over to you...
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Post by Chalmers on Oct 29, 2010 14:29:01 GMT
I've been to malta to watch England and Ukraine to watch Kiev but I'm sure some have seen a game in oz. Taz did I think when he was there a year or so ago
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Rax
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Post by Rax on Oct 29, 2010 15:25:37 GMT
Interesting thread I think. It's amazing how many grounds get taken in. I've only really started doing away Sutton matches in the last few seasons but even so I've racked up 30. Well 29 if you exclude Accrington where I met the Chairman and got a tour of the ground but didn't get to see 'em play.
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Post by Amber Aleman on Oct 29, 2010 15:41:47 GMT
I'm up to 213 grounds in the UK.
I've visited exactly half of the 92 current Premier League and Football League grounds.
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filbert
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Post by filbert on Oct 29, 2010 16:00:58 GMT
I saw Manly v St Georges in Sydney in the NSW premier league in 1968. With cheap air fares their comp is now national.
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Gareth
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Post by Gareth on Oct 29, 2010 16:05:20 GMT
131 grounds visited for me, of which only 14 are part of the 92
Foreign grounds visited for football are in Scotland, Republic of Ireland, France, Ukraine, South Africa and Australia
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Post by Chalmers on Oct 29, 2010 16:45:17 GMT
On the facebook football grounds thingy i've got 171 but Moreton town aren't on there, possibly more, so at least 172!!
45 league grounds in that total also.
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Post by os on Oct 29, 2010 17:18:47 GMT
My first away game was Hendon November 1975, a cold foggy day I seem to remember, no one said to start counting grounds so I have no idea how many I have been to since. Must be near 200 I should guess, with quite a few we will never see again:
Dulwich (not sure if they knocked it down or it fell down?) Enfield (not a lucky ground for us) Wycombe / Loaks Park ( Not a place for those with balance problems) Walthamstow Avenue (Ground long gone, but floodlights live on at Waltham Abbey) Toots / Sandy Lane (No cover just the stand I think I remember getting soaked there one year?) Hendon / Claremont Rd (Always reminded of the Bobbins place) Aylesbury (It had a big car park always seemed a long run back with their supports on our heals ) Horsham Maidstone (when they were good) Wokingham Leytonstone
I bet there are lots more?
Just thought of another 'Liberty Lane' think we scored 7 or 8 there one year to avenge a 3-0 FA Cup defeat at home who were they?
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Post by Andy K on Oct 29, 2010 22:44:14 GMT
I did a count a few years back and it was around 100, but that was when we were in the BSS. I reckon 150 odd now.
My first away game I think was Welling in Oct 88, but then i've never been to grounds like Hitchin etc.
Seen matches in 5 grounds in Cyprus, including internationals. Thats my furtherest east - North is Anfield, and west is probably Newport County
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jr
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Post by jr on Oct 30, 2010 13:17:39 GMT
Well the strangest game I went to was a World Cup qualifer in Barbados in 1992 between Barbados and Trinidad and Tobago. If I remeber correctly Julian Goater and Dwight Yorke played. We knew there was huge anticipation in this game so we (Walligton CC and other tourists) got there early. It was chaos outside the ground and the y closed the gates. Suddenly a small group of us saw a gate open and we rushed in without paying and then the gtes closed. So 4 or 5 of us managed to see the game. There were no programmes at all which was a shame.
The game itself was strange as at one stage there was a torrential downpour with Trinidad having a corner with only a dozen or so players on the pitch as everyone else were changing their boots.
Trinidad won 3-1 I think.
Also on that tour i was present at the first ever Test match between the West Indies and South Africa which SA managed to lose when only needing 80 odd on the last day with 8 wickets in hand. Might have had to do with the festivities the previous night!
Great memories.
Been to the Nou Camp and Bernabaeu as well
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Post by Andy K on Oct 30, 2010 23:42:29 GMT
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tonyd
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Post by tonyd on Oct 31, 2010 8:39:31 GMT
Tonyd over to you... I'm on 496, but if you take a look at www.nonleaguematters.co.uk you'll see I'm a rank amateur! There' be at least one more new ground with the U's this season (Bury Town) and I'm hoping for an interesting Trophy draw. I'm planning no. 500 to be Valencia in January.
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tonyd
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Post by tonyd on Oct 31, 2010 8:41:12 GMT
Just thought of another 'Liberty Lane' think we scored 7 or 8 there one year to avenge a 3-0 FA Cup defeat at home who were they? Addlestone. The ground's under the M25 now.
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Post by meddles on Oct 31, 2010 8:57:33 GMT
Tonyd over to you... I'm planning no. 500 to be Valencia in January. Funnily enough, i'm planning to go to a Valencia game in January, vs. Malaga on the 23rd
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