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By The Compass

• ↑ Most northerly ground: Ibrox home to Rangers
• → Most easterly ground: Priestfield home to Brighton & Hove Albion, Gillingham, Gillingham Women
• ↓ Most southerly ground: Fratton Park home to Portsmouth
• ← Most westerly ground: Ibrox home to Rangers

About crosspool-blade

Always loved Grimsby away, not for the numerous dog-shit alleys leading up to the ground (disgusting chavs, how can they live like that.....) but for the low roof over the away fans which made the 2,000 or so allowed from Sheffield drown out the entire 3 sides of the home fans, fantastic volume....crank it up...........

Any ground where we take huge support and as good as take over the ground, if nothing else volume-wise.....fabulous....Boothferry Road, both Nottinghams, the smaller grounds.....

First Game

circa 1970, @ Bramall Lane, I was only 5 and shamefedly can't remember

Best Game

Darlington (Feethams) in 1981 and Leicester (Filbert Street) in 1990 (both promotions) Leeds away (4-0) and any win versus Wednesday (too many to mention)

Worst Game

Wigan at home, Bristol City at home, Chelsea away (all relegations, Bristol in the old style play-offs)
Any loss to Wednesday (thankfully they're infrequent)

Surely for the size to be so near the pitch, old style, not as coprorate as the new MFI-style builds....

The Theatre Of Rust, I know I'm biased, but it's now 'massive' (see what I did there) ly in need of some DIY.....however, I have placed my beloved Grandad's RIP brick on the Chris Turner wall in the South Stand, so it's not 100% bad........

62 Grounds Visited to Watch Football

#	Ground	Team(s)	Rating	# Visits	Mileage	Tot Mileage
1	Anfield	Liverpool, Everton and Wales		1	123	123
2	Blundell Park	Grimsby Town		1	120	120
3	Bootham Crescent	Leeds United U23, Middlesbrough U23 and York City		1	89	89
4	Boothferry Park	Hull City		1	102	102
5	Boundary Park	Oldham Athletic		1	60	60
6	Bramall Lane	Sheffield United and Sheffield United Women		1	0	0
7	Burnden Park	Bolton Wanderers		1	83	83
8	Craven Cottage	Fulham		1	282	282
9	Deepdale	Preston North End		1	114	114
10	DW Stadium	Wigan Athletic		1	100	100
11	Edgeley Park	Stockport County		1	57	57
12	Elland Road	Leeds United		1	57	57
13	Etihad Stadium	Manchester City		1	62	62
14	Ewood Park	Blackburn Rovers		1	97	97
15	Feethams	Darlington		1	159	159
16	Field Mill	Mansfield Town and Mansfield Town Ladies		1	39	39
17	Filbert Street	Leicester City		1	107	107
18	Fratton Park	Portsmouth		1	357	357
19	Gigg Lane	Bury FC, Bury FC Women and FC United of Manchester		1	74	74
20	Glanford Park	Scunthorpe United		1	70	70
21	Goodison Park	Everton		1	124	124
22	Highbury	Arsenal		1	276	276
23	Hillsborough	Sheffield Wednesday		1	6	6
24	Ibrox	Rangers		1	411	411
25	Loftus Road	Queens Park Rangers		1	278	278
26	Maine Road	Manchester City		1	64	64
27	Meadow Lane	Notts County and Notts County Ladies		1	65	65
28	Millmoor	Rotherham United		1	12	12
29	Oakwell	Barnsley		1	25	25
30	Old Trafford	Manchester United		1	69	69
31	Pride Park	Derby County		1	63	63
32	Priestfield	Gillingham, Brighton & Hove Albion and Gillingham Women		1	324	324
33	Queen's Terrace	Ossett Albion	--	1	43	43
34	Sandy Lane	Worksop Town, Worksop Town Reserves, Handsworth and St Josephs Rockware of Worksop		1	29	29
35	Selhurst Park	Crystal Palace, Charlton Athletic and Wimbledon		1	297	297
36	Sincil Bank	Lincoln City		1	80	80
37	Spotland	Rochdale		1	68	68
38	Springfield Park	Wigan Athletic		1	100	100
39	St James' Park	Newcastle United		1	222	222
40	St Mary's Stadium	Southampton and Southampton FC Women		1	341	341
41	Stadium:MK	Milton Keynes Dons, Milton Keynes Dons Ladies and Milton Keynes Dons Development		1	198	198
42	Stamford Bridge	Chelsea		1	282	282
43	The Baseball Ground	Derby County		1	64	64
44	The City Ground	Nottingham Forest		1	66	66
45	The EnviroVent Stadium	Harrogate Town and Harrogate Town Ladies	--	1	86	86
46	The John Smith's Stadium	Huddersfield Town		1	46	46
47	The KCOM Stadium	Hull City		1	104	104
48	The Keepmoat Stadium	Doncaster Rovers and Doncaster Rovers Belles	--	1	35	35
49	The Millennium Stadium (Principality Stadium)	Wales		1	299	299
50	The Pirelli Stadium	Burton Albion		1	77	77
51	The Riverside Stadium	Middlesbrough	--	1	168	168
52	The Shay	FC Halifax Town	--	1	57	57
53	The Stadium of Light	Sunderland and Sunderland Ladies		1	213	213
54	The Victoria Ground	Stoke City		1	78	78
55	Toughsheet Community Stadium	Bolton Wanderers		1	92	92
56	Turf Moor	Burnley		1	85	85
57	Vale Park	Port Vale		1	74	74
58	Valley Parade	Bradford City and Bradford Park Avenue		1	64	64
59	Vicarage Road	Watford and Wealdstone		1	254	254
60	Villa Park	Aston Villa		1	124	124
61	Watnall Road	Hucknall Town, Hucknall Town Reserves and Worksop Town		1	52	52
62	Wembley Stadium	England and Tottenham Hotspur		1	270	270
Total					7,837	7,840

41 Grounds Visited for Tours/Non-Football

#	Ground	Team(s)	Rating
1	Ashton Gate	Bristol City	--
2	bet365 Stadium (The Britannia Stadium)	Stoke City	--
3	Bloomfield Road	Blackpool	--
4	Blundell Park	Grimsby Town
5	Bootham Crescent	Leeds United U23, Middlesbrough U23 and York City
6	Boothferry Park	Hull City
7	Bramall Lane	Sheffield United and Sheffield United Women
8	Brunton Park	Carlisle United	--
9	Celtic Park	Celtic	--
10	Edgar Street	Hereford FC and Hereford United	--
11	Elland Road	Leeds United
12	Elm Park	Reading	--
13	Etihad Stadium	Manchester City
14	Griffin Park	Brentford	--
15	Ingfield (4G Voice & Data Stadium)	Ossett Town, Ossett United, Ossett United Ladies and Yorkshire	--
16	Leeds Road	Bradford City and Huddersfield Town	--
17	Maine Road	Manchester City
18	Moss Rose	Macclesfield FC, Macclesfield FC Reserves, Macclesfield Town and Stoke City U23	--
19	Murrayfield	Heart of Midlothian	--
20	Oakwell	Barnsley
21	Odsal Stadium	Bradford City	--
22	Old Trafford	Manchester United
23	Pittodrie	Aberdeen	--
24	Plainmoor	Torquay United and Truro City	--
25	Pride Park	Derby County
26	Roots Hall	Southend United	--
27	Select Car Leasing Stadium	Reading and Reading Women	--
28	Sixfields	Northampton Town and Coventry City	--
29	Spotland	Rochdale
30	St James' Park	Newcastle United
31	Tannadice	Dundee United	--
32	The Darlington Arena	Darlington United, Darlington and Middlesbrough U23	--
33	The Den	Millwall and London City Lionesses	--
34	The Emirates Stadium	Arsenal	--
35	The KCOM Stadium	Hull City
36	The Old Showground	Scunthorpe United	--
37	The Racecourse Ground	Wrexham and Wales	--
38	The Riverside Stadium	Middlesbrough	--
39	The Shay	FC Halifax Town	--
40	Valley Parade	Bradford City and Bradford Park Avenue
41	Villa Park	Aston Villa

3 Countries Visited to Watch Football