a2robinson

By The Compass

• ↑ Most northerly ground: St James' Park home to Newcastle United
• → Most easterly ground: Portman Road home to Ipswich Town
• ↓ Most southerly ground: Plainmoor home to Torquay United, Truro City
• ← Most westerly ground: Plainmoor home to Torquay United, Truro City

About a2robinson

First Game

Port Vale vrs Hartlepool 1980/81. It was just after my birthday and my dad took me for the first time. We sat (on the terrace) just in front of the refreshment hut in a part of the ground that is now buried beneath the new disabled stand. I don't remember it being a particularly good game, but it was exciting all the same and I've been a fan ever since.

Best Game

There are quite a few good ones but it has got to be the LDV final at the Millenium Stadium, 2-1 victory over Brentford after going a goal down - magic.

Worst Game

Port Vale v Hereford in the Freight Rover Trophy, 1986/87. It was a freezing cold night and I had convinced some of my (none-Vale fan) friends to come with me. Truly awful football, but thankfully we won 1-0. Incidently none of the friends came again!

Can't tell you why this is the best, but I always get excited when we go and I always thoroughly enjoy the day (even though we often lose).

The home fans were overly aggresive and in fact hostile to anyone not Welsh. I'm all for passion and patriotism, but this was borderline xenophobia - very very uncomfortable visit - will probably never go back.

71 Grounds Visited to Watch Football

#	Ground	Team(s)	Rating	# Visits	Mileage	Tot Mileage
1	Adams Park	Wycombe Wanderers, Reading U23 and Reading Women	--	1	229	229
2	Anfield	Liverpool, Everton and Wales	--	1	82	82
3	Ayresome Park	Middlesbrough	--	1	223	223
4	bet365 Stadium (The Britannia Stadium)	Stoke City	--	1	9	9
5	Bloomfield Road	Blackpool	--	1	126	126
6	Boothferry Park	Hull City	--	1	177	177
7	Boundary Park	Oldham Athletic	--	1	70	70
8	Bramall Lane	Sheffield United and Sheffield United Women	--	1	74	74
9	Brisbane Road (Breyer Group Stadium)	Leyton Orient and Tottenham Hotspur Women	--	1	276	276
10	Burnden Park	Bolton Wanderers	--	1	74	74
11	Craven Cottage	Fulham	--	1	274	274
12	Dean Court (The Vitality Stadium)	AFC Bournemouth	--	1	321	321
13	Deepdale	Preston North End	--	1	108	108
14	EBB Stadium	Aldershot Town and Chelsea U23	--	1	277	277
15	Edgeley Park	Stockport County	--	1	48	48
16	Elland Road	Leeds United	--	1	113	113
17	Ewood Park	Blackburn Rovers	--	1	97	97
18	Fellows Park	Walsall	--	1	68	68
19	Fratton Park	Portsmouth	--	1	326	326
20	Gresty Road (The Alexandra Stadium)	Crewe Alexandra	--	1	21	21
21	Griffin Park	Brentford	--	1	269	269
22	Haig Avenue (Merseyrail Community Stadium)	Everton U23, Southport and Everton Women	--	1	104	104
23	Highbury	Arsenal	--	1	271	271
24	Highfield Road	Coventry City	--	1	106	106
25	Jubilee Field	TD Shipley FC, Three Bridges and Three Bridges U23	--	1	318	318
26	Kenilworth Road	Luton Town	--	1	219	219
27	Layer Road	Colchester United	--	1	305	305
28	Leeds Road	Bradford City and Huddersfield Town	--	1	91	91
29	Loftus Road	Queens Park Rangers	--	1	270	270
30	London Road	Peterborough United	--	1	176	176
31	Molineux	Wolverhampton Wanderers	--	1	64	64
32	Ninian Park	Cardiff City and Wales	--	1	234	234
33	Oakwell	Barnsley	--	1	92	92
34	Plainmoor	Torquay United and Truro City	--	1	373	373
35	Portman Road	Ipswich Town	--	1	312	312
36	Prenton Park	Liverpool Ladies, Liverpool U23 and Tranmere Rovers	--	1	83	83
37	Priestfield	Gillingham, Brighton & Hove Albion and Gillingham Women	--	1	328	328
38	Roker Park	Sunderland	--	1	268	268
39	Roots Hall	Southend United	--	1	321	321
40	Saltergate	Chesterfield	--	1	68	68
41	Select Car Leasing Stadium	Reading and Reading Women	--	1	247	247
42	Selhurst Park	Crystal Palace, Charlton Athletic and Wimbledon	--	1	290	290
43	Sixfields	Northampton Town and Coventry City	--	1	154	154
44	Springfield Park	Wigan Athletic	--	1	79	79
45	St Andrew's	Birmingham City, Birmingham City Women and Coventry City	--	1	84	84
46	St James Park	Exeter City		1	340	340
47	St James' Park	Newcastle United	--	1	270	270
48	St Mary's Stadium	Southampton and Southampton FC Women	--	1	304	304
49	Stadium:MK	Milton Keynes Dons, Milton Keynes Dons Ladies and Milton Keynes Dons Development	--	1	189	189
50	The Abbey Stadium	Cambridge United and Cambridge Regional College	--	1	228	228
51	The Broadfield Stadium	Brighton & Hove Albion Ladies, Brighton & Hove Albion U23 and Crawley Town	--	1	318	318
52	The County Ground	Swindon Town	--	1	208	208
53	The Dell	Southampton	--	1	302	302
54	The Den	Millwall and London City Lionesses	--	1	282	282
55	The Hawthorns	West Bromwich Albion	--	1	77	77
56	The John Smith's Stadium	Huddersfield Town	--	1	91	91
57	The Manor Ground	Oxford United	--	1	196	196
58	The National Hockey Stadium	Milton Keynes Dons	--	1	184	184
59	The Racecourse Ground	Wrexham and Wales	--	1	67	67
60	The Victoria Ground	Stoke City	--	1	7	7
61	The Withdean Stadium	AFC Varndeanians, Brighton Electricity, Withdean 2000 and Brighton & Hove Albion	--	1	350	350
62	Twerton Park	Bath City, Team Bath, Bristol City Women and Bristol Rovers	--	1	232	232
63	Underhill	Barnet and London Bees	--	1	257	257
64	Vale Park	Port Vale	--	1	0	0
65	Valley Parade	Bradford City and Bradford Park Avenue	--	1	110	110
66	Vicarage Road	Watford and Wealdstone	--	1	246	246
67	Victoria Park	Hartlepool United	--	1	240	240
68	Victoria Road (Chigwell Construction Stadium)	Dagenham & Redbridge, West Ham United U23 and West Ham United Women	--	1	287	287
69	Villa Park	Aston Villa	--	1	79	79
70	Wembley Stadium	England and Tottenham Hotspur	--	1	262	262
71	White Hart Lane	Tottenham Hotspur	--	1	269	269
Total					13,514	13,514

2 Countries Visited to Watch Football