sheepshagger98

By The Compass

• ↑ Most northerly ground: Raydale Park home to Gretna 2008
• → Most easterly ground: Cressing Road (Amlin Stadium) home to Braintree Town, Braintree Town Reserves, Dunmow Town
• ↓ Most southerly ground: Amex Stadium home to Brighton & Hove Albion
• ← Most westerly ground: Nantporth home to Bangor 1876, Bangor 1876 Women, Bangor City

About sheepshagger98

First Game

The first game I went to was Wrexham vs Wycombe Wanderers at The Racecourse Ground in a League 2 fixture, this was a trip with my primary school and I sat with my classmates in the Yale Stand. Me and my mate got our birthdays put up on the scoreboard and had them announced by the stadium announcer because our parents requested it. I can't remember what the score was but I remember that I wanted to go back there and watch another match!

Best Game

The best game I have ever been to was in January 2012 when Wrexham played Brighton & Hove Albion at the new Amex Stadium. It was a FA Cup 3rd Round tie and 2,028 other Wrexham fans travelled to Falmer, a 10 hour all-round journey!
Wrexham were in the 5th tier of the football pyramid lying top of the Blue Square Bet Premier Conference, Brighton were lying just outside of the play-off places in the 2nd tier of the football pyramid in the N Power Championship. Brighton were clear favourites!
Brighton went ahead through 17 year old striker James Forster-Caskey but not long later our Polish winger Adrian Cieslewicz ripped Brighton apart infront of the Wrexham end and blasted his shot past Peter Begavans in the Brighton net. The game finished 1-1 which led to another 1-1 at Wrexham before Brighton won on penalties!

Worst Game

That has got to be when we played Gateshead at The Racecourse Ground in 2011, we lost 7-2 and played absolutely dreadful. Wrexham at the time were going through takeover and were trying to turf owners at the time, Geoff Mo$$ and Ian Robert$ out as they had basically nearly killed the club! A protest was going on off the pitch in the stands which probably affected the players at the time.

For me and probably any other football fan who has visited there, the best ground has got to be Wembley Stadium.
I have been there twice supporting Wrexham, both in the same year...
We played there in March 2013 in the FA Trophy Final, which is basically the non-leagues version of the FA Cup. We took on Grimsby Town, both teams were battling for the league title at the time so this game proved to be a bit of a distraction really, but a good distraction in a way as the prize for winning this match was huge as there was a lot of prize money at stake to win.

35,000 fans attended the game altogether, 18,672 of them being Wrexham, which was spectacular especially when the weather conditions in Wrexham were the worst the town has seen in a decade as there were in some area's 50cm's of snow, and that was on the roads! 80 coaches managed to get to London which took just over 4 and a half hours and allWrexham fans were in good spirits.
Andy Cook put Grimsby infront early in the second half through but then Wrexham captain Dean Keates was cropped inside the 18 yard box and Wrexham were given a penalty kick, up stepped Kevin Thornton to put it away to make it 1-1! Smoke bombs and flares were going off in the Wrexham end as our half of the stadium errupted!
Then the teams could not be split after extra time even though Wrexham dominated the whole affair!
Adrian Cieslewicz, Danny Wright, Chris Westwood all scored there penalty kicks for Wrexham and Hatton, Brodie missed theres for Grimsby with Colbeck scoring Grimsby's one, Wrexham needed to score there next to win the FA Trophy Final, up stepped young John Hunt, left back for the match as vice captain Neil Ashton was out injured, he placed it into the corner and the fans were jubilant!
The next time we went there just a month later we took near enough 10,000 fans to the Play-Off Final to get into League 2, we took so little due to the expensive ticket prices and the novalty of Wembley had worn off on the part time fans. We lost 2-0 to Newport, the only thing we lacked were a striker, if we had a goalscorer we would of won the game simple as that.

I visited Holker Street on a cold Tuesday night in March 2013 for a Wrexham league fixture. I went with four others in a car and lets just say I won't be rushing back to the place in a hurry. The place is a tip, not just the ground. Run down, imprisoned and awful are just a few things that come to mind. Graffiti everywhere to be seen, the only thing there was chavs, drunks and drug users. Horrible place, thank god we won the match 1-0 thanks to Kevin Thornton in the 78th minute after Jay Harris got sent off for us on the hour mark.

67 Grounds Visited to Watch Football

#	Ground	Team(s)	Rating	# Visits	Mileage	Tot Mileage
1	Afoneitha Road	Penycae and Wrexham Women		1	9	9
2	Aggborough	Kidderminster Harriers, Wolverhampton Wanderers U23, West Bromwich Albion U23 and Worcester City		1	113	113
3	Amex Stadium	Brighton & Hove Albion		1	392	392
4	Anfield	Liverpool, Everton and Wales		1	52	52
5	Bastion Road	Bow FC and Prestatyn Town		1	52	52
6	Blundell Park	Grimsby Town		1	254	254
7	Bootham Crescent	Leeds United U23, Middlesbrough U23 and York City		1	202	202
8	Brymbo Sports Complex	Brymbo, Brymbo Lodge and Brymbo Victoria		1	4	4
9	Clappers Lane	Gresford Athletic		1	5	5
10	Court Road	Railway Rovers and Brickfield Rangers		1	2	2
11	Cressing Road (Amlin Stadium)	Braintree Town, Braintree Town Reserves and Dunmow Town		1	342	342
12	Dean Road	Borras Park Albion		1	3	3
13	Deeside Stadium	Connah's Quay Town, Connah's Quay Nomads and Connah's Quay Nomads Women		1	24	24
14	Edgar Street	Hereford FC and Hereford United		1	139	139
15	Edgeley Park	Stockport County		1	84	84
16	Ewen Fields	Hyde United and FC United of Manchester	--	1	95	95
17	Field Mill	Mansfield Town and Mansfield Town Ladies		1	150	150
18	Globe Way Stadium	Buckley Town		1	18	18
19	Gresty Road (The Alexandra Stadium)	Crewe Alexandra		1	47	47
20	Griffin Park	Brentford		1	315	315
21	Haig Avenue (Merseyrail Community Stadium)	Everton U23, Southport and Everton Women		1	81	81
22	Highbury Stadium	Fleetwood Town		1	119	119
23	Holker Street	Barrow		1	149	149
24	Kenilworth Road	Luton Town		1	270	270
25	Liberty Way	Birmingham City U23 and Nuneaton Town		1	150	150
26	Llanelian Road	Colwyn Bay		1	66	66
27	Maes Tegid	Bala Town and Llanuwchllyn		1	53	53
28	Memorial Playing Fields	Ruthin Town		1	27	27
29	Moss Lane	Altrincham, Altrincham Reserves and FC United of Manchester		1	72	72
30	Moss Rose	Macclesfield FC, Macclesfield FC Reserves, Macclesfield Town and Stoke City U23		1	77	77
31	Nantporth	Bangor 1876, Bangor 1876 Women and Bangor City		1	98	98
32	North Street (The Impact Arena)	Alfreton Town, Alfreton Town Reserves, Nottingham Forest U23 and Selston		1	135	135
33	Northolme	Gainsborough Trinity, Gainsborough Trinity Reserves and Boston United		1	191	191
34	Old Trafford	Manchester United		1	82	82
35	Park Avenue	Aberystwyth Town and Aberystwyth Town Ladies		1	127	127
36	Park Hall	Oswestry Town, St Martins, The New Saints, The New Saints Women and Wem Town Ladies		1	25	25
37	Pengelli Playing Fields	Coedpoeth United		1	5	5
38	Plaskynaston Lane	Cefn Mawr Rangers, FC Plas Madoc, Cefn Albion and Cefn Druids AFC		1	13	13
39	Prenton Park	Liverpool U23, Tranmere Rovers and Liverpool Ladies		1	44	44
40	Princes Park	Dartford, Dartford Women, London City Lionesses, Thamesmead Town, Charlton Athletic Women, Greenwich Borough and Millwall U23		1	353	353
41	Raydale Park	Gretna 2008	--	1	269	269
42	Rivacre Park	Hooton FC, Vauxhall Motors, Vauxhall Motors Reserves and City of Liverpool		1	34	34
43	Rodney Parade	Newport County		1	203	203
44	Sincil Bank	Lincoln City		1	205	205
45	Stansty Park	Coedpoeth United, Lex Glyndwr XI, FC Queens Park and Wrexham Women	--	1	1	1
46	Stonebridge Road	Ebbsfleet United		1	358	358
47	The Abbey Stadium	Cambridge United and Cambridge Regional College		1	289	289
48	The Airfield	Airbus UK Broughton, Airbus UK Broughton Ladies and Airbus UK Broughton Youth		1	16	16
49	The Darlington Arena	Darlington United, Darlington and Middlesbrough U23		1	234	234
50	The Deva Stadium	Chester City and Chester FC		1	20	20
51	The Dunks	FC Queens Park and Venture Community		1	2	2
52	The Hive	Barnet, London Bees and Tottenham Hotspur Women	--	1	304	304
53	The International Stadium	Gateshead and Newcastle United U23		1	288	288
54	The King Power Stadium	Leicester City and Leicester City Women		1	167	167
55	The Laithwaite Community Stadium	Woking, Hayes & Yeading United and Sheerwater	--	1	318	318
56	The Lamb Ground	Tamworth, Tamworth Academy, Tamworth Ladies, Aston Villa Women and Burton Albion Ladies		1	124	124
57	The New Bucks Head	AFC Telford United, Wolverhampton Wanderers Women and Wolverhampton Wanderers U23		1	65	65
58	The New Lawn	Forest Green Rovers and Gloucester City		1	198	198
59	The Pirelli Stadium	Burton Albion		1	119	119
60	The Racecourse Ground	Wrexham and Wales		1	0	0
61	The Shay	FC Halifax Town	--	1	131	131
62	Tower Fields	Llangollen Town		1	18	18
63	Twerton Park	Bath City, Team Bath, Bristol City Women and Bristol Rovers		1	237	237
64	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	332	332
65	Victoria Park	Hartlepool United		1	269	269
66	Victoria Stadium	Northwich Manchester Villa and Northwich Victoria		1	52	52
67	Wembley Stadium	England and Tottenham Hotspur		1	310	310
Total					9,002	9,133

4 Grounds Visited for Tours/Non-Football

#	Ground	Team(s)	Rating
1	Anfield	Liverpool, Everton and Wales
2	Etihad Stadium	Manchester City	--
3	Old Trafford	Manchester United
4	The Racecourse Ground	Wrexham and Wales

3 Countries Visited to Watch Football