themightysimmonite

By The Compass

• ↑ Most northerly ground: Victoria Park home to Ross County
• → Most easterly ground: Portman Road home to Ipswich Town
• ↓ Most southerly ground: Home Park home to Plymouth Argyle
• ← Most westerly ground: Victoria Park home to Ross County

About themightysimmonite

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First Game

Blackpool v Sunderland at Bloomfield Road sometime in the early 70's (1973 I think).

Best Game

Liverpool v Blackpool
Anfield 03 October 2010
2-0 to Blackpool
Married to a Scouser and weaned on football through the Reds glory years of the 70's & 80's.
At that time never in a million years did I ever believe I would see my team play and win at Anfield.

Worst Game

Between 1978 & 2007 there were so many bad games it would be impossible to chose just one.
Collectively that period nearly finished my club off but paradoxically it made the next 3 years so special. Culminating as it did in triumph over Cardiff at Wembley in the Championship play off Final & the first glorious season in the Premier League.
If I had to select on worst game Bradford at home. All true Pool fans share this hurt.

In terms of quality and facilities it is hard to beat but sadly the atmosphere was absolutley terrible. Remember the Arse beat Pool 6-0 but it really was so quiet. From Highbury to Library in one short step. Fortunately 3000 Pool fans showed them how to really support a team.
For atmosphere I really enjoyed Brightons new ground (shame about the name) and their fans created a great atmoshpere.

Do I really need to explain..............

Cold Blow Lane was always a deeply dangerous experience.

105 Grounds Visited to Watch Football

#	Ground	Team(s)	Rating	# Visits	Mileage	Tot Mileage
1	Amex Stadium	Brighton & Hove Albion	--	1	478	478
2	Anfield	Liverpool, Everton and Wales	--	1	52	52
3	Annfield	Stirling Albion	--	1	326	326
4	Ashton Gate	Bristol City	--	1	329	329
5	Ayresome Park	Middlesbrough	--	1	180	180
6	Bayview Park	East Fife	--	1	329	329
7	Belle Vue	Doncaster Rovers and Doncaster Rovers Belles	--	1	164	164
8	bet365 Stadium (The Britannia Stadium)	Stoke City	--	1	134	134
9	Bloomfield Road	Blackpool		1	0	0
10	Blundell Park	Grimsby Town	--	1	248	248
11	Bootham Crescent	Leeds United U23, Middlesbrough U23 and York City	--	1	161	161
12	Boothferry Park	Hull City	--	1	217	217
13	Bramall Lane	Sheffield United and Sheffield United Women	--	1	143	143
14	Brockville Park	Falkirk	--	1	310	310
15	Brunton Park	Carlisle United	--	1	151	151
16	Burnden Park	Bolton Wanderers	--	1	61	61
17	Christie Park	Morecambe	--	1	40	40
18	Craven Cottage	Fulham	--	1	400	400
19	Dean Court (The Vitality Stadium)	AFC Bournemouth	--	1	436	436
20	Deepdale	Preston North End	--	1	30	30
21	Dens Park	Dundee	--	1	369	369
22	DW Stadium	Wigan Athletic	--	1	48	48
23	Eastville	Bristol Rovers	--	1	325	325
24	EBB Stadium	Aldershot Town and Chelsea U23	--	1	402	402
25	Edgar Street	Hereford FC and Hereford United	--	1	243	243
26	Edgeley Park	Stockport County	--	1	91	91
27	Elm Park	Reading	--	1	368	368
28	Etihad Stadium	Manchester City	--	1	82	82
29	Ewood Park	Blackburn Rovers	--	1	47	47
30	Feethams	Darlington	--	1	156	156
31	Fellows Park	Walsall	--	1	191	191
32	Field Mill	Mansfield Town and Mansfield Town Ladies	--	1	178	178
33	Filbert Street	Leicester City	--	1	227	227
34	Firhill	Partick Thistle and Queen's Park	--	1	303	303
35	Firs Park	East Stirlingshire	--	1	309	309
36	Fratton Park	Portsmouth	--	1	448	448
37	Gay Meadow	Shrewsbury Town	--	1	154	154
38	Gigg Lane	Bury FC, Bury FC Women and FC United of Manchester	--	1	69	69
39	Goodison Park	Everton	--	1	51	51
40	Gresty Road (The Alexandra Stadium)	Crewe Alexandra	--	1	111	111
41	Griffin Park	Brentford	--	1	394	394
42	Hampden Park	Queen's Park and Scotland	--	1	295	295
43	Highbury	Arsenal	--	1	397	397
44	Highfield Road	Coventry City	--	1	232	232
45	Home Park	Plymouth Argyle	--	1	481	481
46	Kenilworth Road	Luton Town	--	1	344	344
47	Layer Road	Colchester United	--	1	423	423
48	Leeds Road	Bradford City and Huddersfield Town	--	1	107	107
49	Loakes Park	Wycombe Wanderers	--	1	357	357
50	Loftus Road	Queens Park Rangers	--	1	395	395
51	London Road	Peterborough United	--	1	289	289
52	Maine Road	Manchester City	--	1	83	83
53	Millmoor	Rotherham United	--	1	147	147
54	Molineux	Wolverhampton Wanderers	--	1	184	184
55	Ninian Park	Cardiff City and Wales	--	1	322	322
56	Oakwell	Barnsley	--	1	134	134
57	Old Trafford	Manchester United	--	1	78	78
58	Plainmoor	Torquay United and Truro City	--	1	462	462
59	Portman Road	Ipswich Town	--	1	425	425
60	Prenton Park	Liverpool U23, Tranmere Rovers and Liverpool Ladies	--	1	60	60
61	Priestfield	Gillingham, Brighton & Hove Albion and Gillingham Women	--	1	451	451
62	Rockingham Road	Kettering Town	--	1	272	272
63	Roker Park	Sunderland	--	1	205	205
64	Roots Hall	Southend United	--	1	442	442
65	Saltergate	Chesterfield	--	1	154	154
66	Spotland	Rochdale	--	1	75	75
67	Springfield Park	Wigan Athletic	--	1	47	47
68	St Andrew's	Birmingham City, Birmingham City Women and Coventry City	--	1	208	208
69	St James Park	Exeter City	--	1	427	427
70	St James' Park	Newcastle United	--	1	198	198
71	Stamford Bridge	Chelsea	--	1	401	401
72	The Baseball Ground	Derby County	--	1	180	180
73	The Broadwood Stadium	Cumbernauld Colts, Glasgow City, Rangers Women, Broomhill FC and Clyde	--	1	306	306
74	The City Ground	Nottingham Forest	--	1	198	198
75	The County Ground	Swindon Town	--	1	328	328
76	The County Ground	Northampton Town	--	1	281	281
77	The Dell	Southampton	--	1	423	423
78	The Emirates Stadium	Arsenal	--	1	397	397
79	The Forthbank Stadium	Stirling Albion and Stirling University FC	--	1	327	327
80	The Goldstone Ground	Brighton & Hove Albion	--	1	476	476
81	The Hawthorns	West Bromwich Albion	--	1	200	200
82	The Huish	Yeovil Town	--	1	397	397
83	The Manor Ground	Oxford United	--	1	321	321
84	The National Hockey Stadium	Milton Keynes Dons	--	1	309	309
85	The New Bucks Head	AFC Telford United, Wolverhampton Wanderers Women and Wolverhampton Wanderers U23	--	1	160	160
86	The Old Den	Millwall	--	1	408	408
87	The Old Showground	Scunthorpe United	--	1	198	198
88	The Racecourse Ground	Wrexham and Wales	--	1	104	104
89	The Stadium of Light	Sunderland and Sunderland Ladies	--	1	203	203
90	The Victoria Ground	Stoke City	--	1	132	132
91	The Withdean Stadium	AFC Varndeanians, Brighton Electricity, Withdean 2000 and Brighton & Hove Albion	--	1	475	475
92	Tony Macaroni Arena	Hibernian Ladies, Livingston, Livingston Reserves and Livingston WFC	--	1	290	290
93	Toughsheet Community Stadium	Bolton Wanderers	--	1	52	52
94	Turf Moor	Burnley	--	1	67	67
95	Twerton Park	Bath City, Team Bath, Bristol City Women and Bristol Rovers	--	1	340	340
96	Underhill	Barnet and London Bees	--	1	382	382
97	Upton Park (Boleyn Ground)	Charlton Athletic and West Ham United	--	1	407	407
98	Vale Park	Port Vale	--	1	126	126
99	Valley Parade	Bradford City and Bradford Park Avenue	--	1	105	105
100	Vetch Field	Swansea City and Wales	--	1	312	312
101	Vicarage Road	Watford and Wealdstone	--	1	371	371
102	Victoria Park	Hartlepool United	--	1	192	192
103	Victoria Park	Ross County	--	1	535	535
104	Villa Park	Aston Villa	--	1	203	203
105	White Hart Lane	Tottenham Hotspur	--	1	394	394
Total					26,449	26,449

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