dave1985seaton

By The Compass

• ↑ Most northerly ground: Tynecastle home to Heart of Midlothian
• → Most easterly ground: The Homelands home to Ashford United, Canterbury City, Kennington, Maidstone United
• ↓ Most southerly ground: Fratton Park home to Portsmouth
• ← Most westerly ground: Tynecastle home to Heart of Midlothian

About dave1985seaton

First Game

The first home match I went to was Coventry vs Arsenal at Highfield Road, would have been the 1992/93 season. I was seven and I don't think I took it in that much, my brother and i spent most of our time that season mishearing and regurgitating songs and chants, e.g. "Score Goalie!" (Sky Blue Army), and demanding cheseburgers during play. It was 1-0 to the Arse, I recall.

My first away game was at the Dell, for a 0-0 draw with Southampton. Jonny Gould played a blinder to keep a clean sheet- my abiding memory of the game is the whole away section stamping in rhythm on the wooden terracing! Crap grounds have the most character.

Best Game

Hands down most satisfying match was CCFC v Man Utd during the 1997/98 season. Huckerby scored in the dying minutes with a (then) trademark mazy run, making the Utd defenders look like a pub team. Other highlights include several wins over Chelsea during the Premiership days, the Euro '96 semi against Germany (the atmosphere was incredible), 5-0 at home to Blackburn when they were champions (in the snow!) and, most recently, 3-2 away at Watford- cracking comeback, 3-2.

Worst Game

Prize for most depressing goes to last game of our relegation season against Bradford City-
Us: "Going down, going down, going down..."
Them: "So are we, so are we, so are we..."

Rochdale away in the Cup was a bloody awful day, too.

Hard to choose, but WHL staff were top notch, replacing a dropped hotdog for free.

I really wanted to choose one of the generic new stadiums (like the Ricoh!!!) but it's impossible to choose just one! I chose Priestfield out of annoyance that, at the time I went, all of the home stands were comfy and modern, whilst the away end was some concrete on the side of a hill.

43 Grounds Visited to Watch Football

#	Ground	Team(s)	Rating	# Visits	Mileage	Tot Mileage
1	Anfield	Liverpool, Everton and Wales	--	1	183	183
2	bet365 Stadium (The Britannia Stadium)	Stoke City	--	1	94	94
3	Bramall Lane	Sheffield United and Sheffield United Women	--	1	127	127
4	Burnden Park	Bolton Wanderers	--	1	173	173
5	Deepdale	Preston North End	--	1	208	208
6	DW Stadium	Wigan Athletic	--	1	180	180
7	Elland Road	Leeds United	--	1	184	184
8	Ewood Park	Blackburn Rovers	--	1	195	195
9	Fetcham Grove	Leatherhead, Leatherhead U23, Epsom & Ewell, Epsom & Ewell, Kingstonian and Rising Ballers Kensington FC	--	1	188	188
10	Fratton Park	Portsmouth		1	231	231
11	Gresty Road (The Alexandra Stadium)	Crewe Alexandra	--	1	118	118
12	Highfield Road	Coventry City		1	5	5
13	Hillsborough	Sheffield Wednesday	--	1	133	133
14	Kenilworth Road	Luton Town	--	1	119	119
15	Kingsmeadow (Cherry Red Records Stadium)	Chelsea Ladies, AFC Wimbledon, AFC Wimbledon Ladies and Kingstonian		1	177	177
16	Loftus Road	Queens Park Rangers	--	1	169	169
17	Maine Road	Manchester City	--	1	152	152
18	Moatside	AFC Wimbledon Development, Frenches Athletic, Merstham, Surrey, Epsom & Ewell and Walton Casuals	--	1	201	201
19	Molineux	Wolverhampton Wanderers	--	1	57	57
20	Old Trafford	Manchester United	--	1	155	155
21	Old Wembley Stadium	England	--	1	161	161
22	Pride Park	Derby County	--	1	65	65
23	Priestfield	Gillingham, Brighton & Hove Albion and Gillingham Women		1	229	229
24	Select Car Leasing Stadium	Reading and Reading Women		1	148	148
25	Selhurst Park	Crystal Palace, Charlton Athletic and Wimbledon	--	1	188	188
26	Spotland	Rochdale	--	1	172	172
27	St Andrew's	Birmingham City, Birmingham City Women and Coventry City	--	1	32	32
28	St Mary's Stadium	Southampton and Southampton FC Women	--	1	213	213
29	Stamford Bridge	Chelsea	--	1	174	174
30	The City Ground	Nottingham Forest	--	1	74	74
31	The Coventry Building Society Arena	Coventry City and Coventry United Ladies	--	1	0	0
32	The Dell	Southampton	--	1	212	212
33	The Emirates Stadium	Arsenal	--	1	171	171
34	The Hawthorns	West Bromwich Albion		1	40	40
35	The Homelands	Ashford United, Kennington, Canterbury City and Maidstone United	--	1	274	274
36	The Riverside Stadium	Middlesbrough	--	1	295	295
37	The Valley	Charlton Athletic	--	1	186	186
38	Turf Moor	Burnley	--	1	195	195
39	Tynecastle	Heart of Midlothian	--	1	502	502
40	Valley Parade	Bradford City and Bradford Park Avenue	--	1	189	189
41	VBS Stadium	Crystal Palace Ladies, Sutton United, Sutton United U18, Sutton United Women, Sutton United Women U21, AFC Wimbledon Ladies, Sutton Common Rovers and Tamil Eelam	--	1	186	186
42	Vicarage Road	Watford and Wealdstone	--	1	144	144
43	White Hart Lane	Tottenham Hotspur	--	1	169	169
Total					7,068	7,068

2 Grounds Visited for Tours/Non-Football

2 Countries Visited to Watch Football