cranium82

By The Compass

• ↑ Most northerly ground: St James' Park home to Newcastle United
• → Most easterly ground: JobServe Community Stadium home to Colchester United
• ↓ Most southerly ground: Home Park home to Plymouth Argyle
• ← Most westerly ground: Home Park home to Plymouth Argyle

About cranium82

First Game

My first ever game was when I was 7 years old - my Dad and Uncle took me, my brother and my cousin to see York City V Carlisle United in the old Division 4. I remember the game well, the main memory being suprised they had changed ends at half time. I thought they were stupid trying to score in their own goals for the first 5 minutes of the second half until Dad told me what was happening. I also remember eating a Wagon Wheel for the first time in my life, and Chris Marples, the York goalkeeper, diving to save a ball which was blocked by a defender. I thought it was highly amusing that he had just dived for no reason.

Best Game

The best game I have ever seen, and I am biased, is the Everton v Spurs game in December 2009. We were 2-0 down at home to a decent Spurs outfit, and not looking like we were going to get back into the game. However, a mini revival of Cahill and Saha brought it back to 2-2 and we were ecstatic until, in the 92nd minute, Hibbert brought down a Spurs player (Defoe I think) and conceeded a penatly. However, the mighty Tim Howard made a wonder save from the spot and we earnt a 2-2 draw.

Worst Game

Unquestionably, and I've been to some drab games on cold evenings on my own in the middle of nowehere, but nothing will top York City v Grimsby Town in the 90's at Christmas time. It was cold, it was 0-0 and there wasnt a shot on goal. It was dreadful, and will always be remembered as the worst game of football I have ever seen.

Everyone at Charlton was friendly. It has kept some of it's unique features in this ever changing world of football stadia, where they all look the same. It has been well modernised, yet the away stand is still on it's own with the fans raised above ground level. I was in the amin stand and it was great seeing the hoards of people make their way down to the stadium from the top of the steps. It was a vibrant atmosphere and a thoroughly enjoyable day out.

I'm from Plymouth, and I am not a fan of new stadia. They are all the same, lacking in charachter and there is always very little atmosphere. At Argyle, even in the successful era of th mid 2000's, the atmosphere is pretty much non-existant. The ground is too big and never gets filled - it almost has an eerie silence to it whenever I have been. I'd rather go and watch Torquay or Exeter each week.

79 Grounds Visited to Watch Football

#	Ground	Team(s)	Rating	# Visits	Mileage	Tot Mileage
1	Adams Park	Wycombe Wanderers, Reading U23 and Reading Women	--	1	309	309
2	Amex Stadium	Brighton & Hove Albion	--	1	432	432
3	Anfield	Liverpool, Everton and Wales	--	1	4	4
4	Ashton Gate	Bristol City	--	1	276	276
5	bet365 Stadium (The Britannia Stadium)	Stoke City	--	1	91	91
6	Bloomfield Road	Blackpool	--	1	53	53
7	Bootham Crescent	Leeds United U23, Middlesbrough U23 and York City	--	1	174	174
8	Brisbane Road (Breyer Group Stadium)	Leyton Orient and Tottenham Hotspur Women	--	1	360	360
9	Broadhall Way (Lamex Stadium)	Stevenage and Tottenham Hotspur U23	--	1	317	317
10	Brunton Park	Carlisle United	--	1	203	203
11	Cardiff City Stadium	Cardiff City and Wales	--	1	270	270
12	Craven Cottage	Fulham	--	1	357	357
13	Dean Court (The Vitality Stadium)	AFC Bournemouth	--	1	385	385
14	Deepdale	Preston North End	--	1	54	54
15	DW Stadium	Wigan Athletic	--	1	33	33
16	Edgar Street	Hereford FC and Hereford United	--	1	190	190
17	Elland Road	Leeds United	--	1	127	127
18	Etihad Stadium	Manchester City	--	1	67	67
19	Ewood Park	Blackburn Rovers	--	1	59	59
20	Fratton Park	Portsmouth	--	1	399	399
21	Gay Meadow	Shrewsbury Town	--	1	101	101
22	Gigg Lane	Bury FC, Bury FC Women and FC United of Manchester	--	1	62	62
23	Goodison Park	Everton	--	1	4	4
24	Gresty Road (The Alexandra Stadium)	Crewe Alexandra	--	1	66	66
25	Griffin Park	Brentford	--	1	351	351
26	Highbury	Arsenal	--	1	355	355
27	Highbury Stadium	Fleetwood Town	--	1	68	68
28	Highfield Road	Coventry City	--	1	188	188
29	Hillsborough	Sheffield Wednesday	--	1	124	124
30	Home Park	Plymouth Argyle	--	1	431	431
31	Huish Park	Yeovil Town and Bridgwater United Women	--	1	343	343
32	JobServe Community Stadium	Colchester United	--	1	387	387
33	Loftus Road	Queens Park Rangers	--	1	353	353
34	Meadow Lane	Notts County and Notts County Ladies	--	1	168	168
35	Memorial Stadium	Bristol Rovers and Bristol City Women	--	1	270	270
36	Molineux	Wolverhampton Wanderers	--	1	136	136
37	Moss Rose	Macclesfield FC, Macclesfield FC Reserves, Macclesfield Town and Stoke City U23	--	1	77	77
38	Plainmoor	Torquay United and Truro City	--	1	410	410
39	Prenton Park	Liverpool U23, Tranmere Rovers and Liverpool Ladies	--	1	7	7
40	Pride Park	Derby County	--	1	147	147
41	Priestfield	Gillingham, Brighton & Hove Albion and Gillingham Women	--	1	412	412
42	Roots Hall	Southend United	--	1	405	405
43	Select Car Leasing Stadium	Reading and Reading Women	--	1	325	325
44	Selhurst Park	Crystal Palace, Charlton Athletic and Wimbledon	--	1	373	373
45	Sixfields	Northampton Town and Coventry City	--	1	238	238
46	Spotland	Rochdale	--	1	73	73
47	St Andrew's	Birmingham City, Birmingham City Women and Coventry City	--	1	162	162
48	St James Park	Exeter City	--	1	375	375
49	St James' Park	Newcastle United	--	1	242	242
50	St Mary's Stadium	Southampton and Southampton FC Women	--	1	374	374
51	Stadium:MK	Milton Keynes Dons, Milton Keynes Dons Ladies and Milton Keynes Dons Development	--	1	273	273
52	Stamford Bridge	Chelsea	--	1	358	358
53	The Bescot	Aston Villa U23, Aston Villa Women and Walsall	--	1	146	146
54	The Broadfield Stadium	Brighton & Hove Albion Ladies, Brighton & Hove Albion U23 and Crawley Town	--	1	400	400
55	The City Ground	Nottingham Forest	--	1	169	169
56	The County Ground	Swindon Town	--	1	277	277
57	The Coventry Building Society Arena	Coventry City and Coventry United Ladies	--	1	184	184
58	The Crown Ground	Accrington Stanley and Burnley Women	--	1	70	70
59	The Den	Millwall and London City Lionesses	--	1	365	365
60	The Hawthorns	West Bromwich Albion	--	1	153	153
61	The John Smith's Stadium	Huddersfield Town	--	1	106	106
62	The Kassam Stadium	Oxford United	--	1	280	280
63	The KCOM Stadium	Hull City	--	1	221	221
64	The King Power Stadium	Leicester City and Leicester City Women	--	1	190	190
65	The Liberty Stadium	Swansea City and Wales	--	1	258	258
66	The Pirelli Stadium	Burton Albion		1	141	141
67	The Riverside Stadium	Middlesbrough	--	1	216	216
68	The Stadium of Light	Sunderland and Sunderland Ladies	--	1	244	244
69	The Valley	Charlton Athletic	--	1	370	370
70	Toughsheet Community Stadium	Bolton Wanderers	--	1	44	44
71	Turf Moor	Burnley	--	1	81	81
72	Underhill	Barnet and London Bees	--	1	341	341
73	Upton Park (Boleyn Ground)	Charlton Athletic and West Ham United	--	1	366	366
74	Vale Park	Port Vale	--	1	85	85
75	Vicarage Road	Watford and Wealdstone	--	1	329	329
76	Victoria Road (Chigwell Construction Stadium)	Dagenham & Redbridge, West Ham United U23 and West Ham United Women	--	1	372	372
77	Villa Park	Aston Villa	--	1	157	157
78	Whaddon Road	Cheltenham Town and Gloucester City	--	1	224	224
79	White Hart Lane	Tottenham Hotspur	--	1	353	353
Total					17,960	17,882

2 Countries Visited to Watch Football