cranium82

By The Compass

• ↑ Most northerly ground: St James' Park home to Newcastle United
• → Most easterly ground: JobServe Community Stadium home to Colchester United
• ↓ Most southerly ground: Home Park home to Plymouth Argyle
• ← Most westerly ground: Home Park home to Plymouth Argyle

About cranium82

First Game

My first ever game was when I was 7 years old - my Dad and Uncle took me, my brother and my cousin to see York City V Carlisle United in the old Division 4. I remember the game well, the main memory being suprised they had changed ends at half time. I thought they were stupid trying to score in their own goals for the first 5 minutes of the second half until Dad told me what was happening. I also remember eating a Wagon Wheel for the first time in my life, and Chris Marples, the York goalkeeper, diving to save a ball which was blocked by a defender. I thought it was highly amusing that he had just dived for no reason.

Best Game

The best game I have ever seen, and I am biased, is the Everton v Spurs game in December 2009. We were 2-0 down at home to a decent Spurs outfit, and not looking like we were going to get back into the game. However, a mini revival of Cahill and Saha brought it back to 2-2 and we were ecstatic until, in the 92nd minute, Hibbert brought down a Spurs player (Defoe I think) and conceeded a penatly. However, the mighty Tim Howard made a wonder save from the spot and we earnt a 2-2 draw.

Worst Game

Unquestionably, and I've been to some drab games on cold evenings on my own in the middle of nowehere, but nothing will top York City v Grimsby Town in the 90's at Christmas time. It was cold, it was 0-0 and there wasnt a shot on goal. It was dreadful, and will always be remembered as the worst game of football I have ever seen.

Everyone at Charlton was friendly. It has kept some of it's unique features in this ever changing world of football stadia, where they all look the same. It has been well modernised, yet the away stand is still on it's own with the fans raised above ground level. I was in the amin stand and it was great seeing the hoards of people make their way down to the stadium from the top of the steps. It was a vibrant atmosphere and a thoroughly enjoyable day out.

I'm from Plymouth, and I am not a fan of new stadia. They are all the same, lacking in charachter and there is always very little atmosphere. At Argyle, even in the successful era of th mid 2000's, the atmosphere is pretty much non-existant. The ground is too big and never gets filled - it almost has an eerie silence to it whenever I have been. I'd rather go and watch Torquay or Exeter each week.

79 Grounds Visited to Watch Football

#	Ground	Team(s)	Rating	# Visits	Mileage	Tot Mileage
1	Adams Park	Wycombe Wanderers, Reading U23 and Reading Women	--	1	309	309
2	Amex Stadium	Brighton & Hove Albion	--	1	432	432
3	Anfield	Liverpool, Everton and Wales	--	1	1	1
4	Ashton Gate	Bristol City	--	1	278	278
5	bet365 Stadium (The Britannia Stadium)	Stoke City	--	1	90	90
6	Bloomfield Road	Blackpool	--	1	51	51
7	Bootham Crescent	Leeds United U23, Middlesbrough U23 and York City	--	1	170	170
8	Brisbane Road (Breyer Group Stadium)	Leyton Orient and Tottenham Hotspur Women	--	1	359	359
9	Broadhall Way (Lamex Stadium)	Stevenage and Tottenham Hotspur U23	--	1	316	316
10	Brunton Park	Carlisle United	--	1	201	201
11	Cardiff City Stadium	Cardiff City and Wales	--	1	272	272
12	Craven Cottage	Fulham	--	1	356	356
13	Dean Court (The Vitality Stadium)	AFC Bournemouth	--	1	386	386
14	Deepdale	Preston North End	--	1	51	51
15	DW Stadium	Wigan Athletic	--	1	30	30
16	Edgar Street	Hereford FC and Hereford United	--	1	192	192
17	Elland Road	Leeds United	--	1	124	124
18	Etihad Stadium	Manchester City	--	1	63	63
19	Ewood Park	Blackburn Rovers	--	1	56	56
20	Fratton Park	Portsmouth	--	1	399	399
21	Gay Meadow	Shrewsbury Town	--	1	103	103
22	Gigg Lane	Bury FC, Bury FC Women and FC United of Manchester	--	1	59	59
23	Goodison Park	Everton	--	1	0	0
24	Gresty Road (The Alexandra Stadium)	Crewe Alexandra	--	1	65	65
25	Griffin Park	Brentford	--	1	351	351
26	Highbury	Arsenal	--	1	354	354
27	Highbury Stadium	Fleetwood Town	--	1	66	66
28	Highfield Road	Coventry City	--	1	188	188
29	Hillsborough	Sheffield Wednesday	--	1	121	121
30	Home Park	Plymouth Argyle	--	1	433	433
31	Huish Park	Yeovil Town and Bridgwater United Women	--	1	345	345
32	JobServe Community Stadium	Colchester United	--	1	385	385
33	Loftus Road	Queens Park Rangers	--	1	352	352
34	Meadow Lane	Notts County and Notts County Ladies	--	1	166	166
35	Memorial Stadium	Bristol Rovers and Bristol City Women	--	1	272	272
36	Molineux	Wolverhampton Wanderers	--	1	136	136
37	Moss Rose	Macclesfield FC, Macclesfield FC Reserves, Macclesfield Town and Stoke City U23	--	1	74	74
38	Plainmoor	Torquay United and Truro City	--	1	412	412
39	Prenton Park	Liverpool U23, Tranmere Rovers and Liverpool Ladies	--	1	10	10
40	Pride Park	Derby County	--	1	145	145
41	Priestfield	Gillingham, Brighton & Hove Albion and Gillingham Women	--	1	411	411
42	Roots Hall	Southend United	--	1	404	404
43	Select Car Leasing Stadium	Reading and Reading Women	--	1	325	325
44	Selhurst Park	Crystal Palace, Charlton Athletic and Wimbledon	--	1	372	372
45	Sixfields	Northampton Town and Coventry City	--	1	238	238
46	Spotland	Rochdale	--	1	69	69
47	St Andrew's	Birmingham City, Birmingham City Women and Coventry City	--	1	161	161
48	St James Park	Exeter City	--	1	377	377
49	St James' Park	Newcastle United	--	1	239	239
50	St Mary's Stadium	Southampton and Southampton FC Women	--	1	375	375
51	Stadium:MK	Milton Keynes Dons, Milton Keynes Dons Ladies and Milton Keynes Dons Development	--	1	272	272
52	Stamford Bridge	Chelsea	--	1	357	357
53	The Bescot	Aston Villa U23, Aston Villa Women and Walsall	--	1	145	145
54	The Broadfield Stadium	Brighton & Hove Albion Ladies, Brighton & Hove Albion U23 and Crawley Town	--	1	399	399
55	The City Ground	Nottingham Forest	--	1	167	167
56	The County Ground	Swindon Town	--	1	278	278
57	The Coventry Building Society Arena	Coventry City and Coventry United Ladies	--	1	184	184
58	The Crown Ground	Accrington Stanley and Burnley Women	--	1	66	66
59	The Den	Millwall and London City Lionesses	--	1	365	365
60	The Hawthorns	West Bromwich Albion	--	1	153	153
61	The John Smith's Stadium	Huddersfield Town	--	1	103	103
62	The Kassam Stadium	Oxford United	--	1	280	280
63	The KCOM Stadium	Hull City	--	1	217	217
64	The King Power Stadium	Leicester City and Leicester City Women	--	1	189	189
65	The Liberty Stadium	Swansea City and Wales	--	1	261	261
66	The Pirelli Stadium	Burton Albion		1	140	140
67	The Riverside Stadium	Middlesbrough	--	1	212	212
68	The Stadium of Light	Sunderland and Sunderland Ladies	--	1	241	241
69	The Valley	Charlton Athletic	--	1	370	370
70	Toughsheet Community Stadium	Bolton Wanderers	--	1	40	40
71	Turf Moor	Burnley	--	1	77	77
72	Underhill	Barnet and London Bees	--	1	340	340
73	Upton Park (Boleyn Ground)	Charlton Athletic and West Ham United	--	1	365	365
74	Vale Park	Port Vale	--	1	84	84
75	Vicarage Road	Watford and Wealdstone	--	1	328	328
76	Victoria Road (Chigwell Construction Stadium)	Dagenham & Redbridge, West Ham United U23 and West Ham United Women	--	1	371	371
77	Villa Park	Aston Villa	--	1	157	157
78	Whaddon Road	Cheltenham Town and Gloucester City	--	1	225	225
79	White Hart Lane	Tottenham Hotspur	--	1	352	352
Total					17,882	17,882

2 Countries Visited to Watch Football