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• ↑ Most northerly ground: St James' Park home to Newcastle United
• → Most easterly ground: Stadio Olimpico home to Italy, SS Lazio, AS Roma
• ↓ Most southerly ground: Nou Camp home to Barcelona, Catalonia
• ← Most westerly ground: Home Park home to Plymouth Argyle

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First Game

Wimbledon away, February 1996. Eric Cantona's return to Selhurst Park after the Kung Fu incident the year before. He scored twice in an entertaining 4-2 win.

Best Game

Probably the best game was the Manchester derby this season, but hard to pick just one. The Champions League home games against Roma (7-1) and AC Milan (3-2, Rooney injury time winner) were also pretty special.
Other games that stand out in the memory are Watford v West Brom back in 2001, a topsy turvy 3-3 draw, and Swansea v Bournemouth in 2008, when Bournemouth scored twice in injury time to win 2-1 against the league leaders.

Worst Game

A fair few horrendous Bournemouth away games...they never seem to turn up for the Tuesday night games away from home up North on a cold Tuesday night. Stoke v Watford in 2007, two direct teams cancelling each other out for a 0-0. United losing at home to West Ham 1-0 in 2001. Their 6th loss of the league season, and the seemed like they were already out of the title race even in December. Very rare off year for United.

Just for it's sheer size, it takes your breath away. The olympic stadium in Rome brings out a similar reaction, but the poor facilities let it down. In England, the nicest grounds in my opinion are situated a few miles apart, Old Trafford and Eastlands. Newcastle's St James' Park is also pretty impressive.

An athletics stadium, with temporary stands and an absolutely awful view, and yet still not a particularly cheap place to visit. Gillingham's ground is also pretty awful for away fans with extremely heavy-handed stewarding.

101 Grounds Visited to Watch Football

#	Ground	Team(s)	Rating	# Visits	Mileage	Tot Mileage
1	Adams Park	Wycombe Wanderers, Reading U23 and Reading Women	--	1	283	283
2	Anfield	Liverpool, Everton and Wales	--	1	55	55
3	Ashton Gate	Bristol City	--	1	281	281
4	bet365 Stadium (The Britannia Stadium)	Stoke City	--	1	66	66
5	Bloomfield Road	Blackpool	--	1	78	78
6	Boundary Park	Oldham Athletic	--	1	18	18
7	Bramall Lane	Sheffield United and Sheffield United Women	--	1	69	69
8	Brisbane Road (Breyer Group Stadium)	Leyton Orient and Tottenham Hotspur Women	--	1	325	325
9	Broadhall Way (Lamex Stadium)	Stevenage and Tottenham Hotspur U23	--	1	280	280
10	Brunton Park	Carlisle United	--	1	204	204
11	Cardiff City Stadium	Cardiff City and Wales	--	1	286	286
12	Carrow Road	Norwich City	--	1	321	321
13	Christie Park	Morecambe	--	1	95	95
14	Craven Cottage	Fulham	--	1	325	325
15	Dean Court (The Vitality Stadium)	AFC Bournemouth	--	1	379	379
16	Deepdale	Preston North End	--	1	54	54
17	Don Valley Stadium	Handsworth, Rotherham United and Sheffield FC	--	1	72	72
18	DW Stadium	Wigan Athletic	--	1	32	32
19	EBB Stadium	Aldershot Town and Chelsea U23	--	1	332	332
20	Edgar Street	Hereford FC and Hereford United	--	1	197	197
21	Elland Road	Leeds United	--	1	73	73
22	Etihad Stadium	Manchester City	--	1	8	8
23	Ewood Park	Blackburn Rovers	--	1	40	40
24	Faraday Road	Newbury Ladies FC and Newbury	--	1	296	296
25	Fratton Park	Portsmouth	--	1	383	383
26	Gigg Lane	Bury FC, Bury FC Women and FC United of Manchester	--	1	16	16
27	Globe Arena	Morecambe	--	1	95	95
28	Goodison Park	Everton	--	1	56	56
29	Gresty Road (The Alexandra Stadium)	Crewe Alexandra	--	1	53	53
30	Griffin Park	Brentford	--	1	320	320
31	Hillsborough	Sheffield Wednesday	--	1	65	65
32	Holker Street	Barrow	--	1	119	119
33	Home Park	Plymouth Argyle	--	1	453	453
34	Huish Park	Yeovil Town and Bridgwater United Women	--	1	349	349
35	JobServe Community Stadium	Colchester United	--	1	341	341
36	Johan Cruyff Arena (Amsterdam Arena)	Ajax and Netherlands	--	1	623	623
37	Kenilworth Road	Luton Town	--	1	268	268
38	Loftus Road	Queens Park Rangers	--	1	321	321
39	London Road	Peterborough United	--	1	211	211
40	Meadow Lane	Notts County and Notts County Ladies	--	1	120	120
41	Memorial Stadium	Bristol Rovers and Bristol City Women	--	1	274	274
42	Molineux	Wolverhampton Wanderers	--	1	121	121
43	Moss Lane	Altrincham, Altrincham Reserves and FC United of Manchester	--	1	12	12
44	Moss Rose	Macclesfield FC, Macclesfield FC Reserves, Macclesfield Town and Stoke City U23	--	1	33	33
45	Nou Camp	Catalonia and Barcelona	--	1	1,719	1,719
46	Oakwell	Barnsley	--	1	69	69
47	Old Trafford	Manchester United	--	1	0	0
48	Old Wembley Stadium	England	--	1	313	313
49	Park Road Stadium	Cheadle Town, Cheadle Town Reserves and Cheadle Town Stingers Women	--	1	12	12
50	Plainmoor	Torquay United and Truro City	--	1	426	426
51	Portman Road	Ipswich Town	--	1	347	347
52	Prenton Park	Liverpool Ladies, Liverpool U23 and Tranmere Rovers	--	1	62	62
53	Pride Park	Derby County	--	1	103	103
54	Priestfield	Gillingham, Brighton & Hove Albion and Gillingham Women		1	375	375
55	Raymond McEnhill Stadium	Salisbury, Salisbury City and Salisbury Development	--	1	329	329
56	Recreation Ground	Kintbury Rangers, Kintbury Rangers Development and Kintbury Rangers Reserves	--	1	294	294
57	Saltergate	Chesterfield	--	1	77	77
58	Select Car Leasing Stadium	Reading and Reading Women	--	1	303	303
59	Selhurst Park	Crystal Palace, Charlton Athletic and Wimbledon	--	1	341	341
60	Sincil Bank	Lincoln City	--	1	148	148
61	Sixfields	Northampton Town and Coventry City	--	1	204	204
62	Spotland	Rochdale	--	1	24	24
63	St Andrew's	Birmingham City, Birmingham City Women and Coventry City	--	1	141	141
64	St James Park	Exeter City	--	1	392	392
65	St James' Park	Newcastle United	--	1	216	216
66	St Mary's Stadium	Southampton and Southampton FC Women	--	1	362	362
67	Stadio Olimpico	AS Roma, Italy and SS Lazio	--	1	2,094	2,094
68	Stadium:MK	Milton Keynes Dons, Milton Keynes Dons Ladies and Milton Keynes Dons Development	--	1	239	239
69	Stamford Bridge	Chelsea	--	1	326	326
70	The Bescot	Aston Villa U23, Aston Villa Women and Walsall	--	1	127	127
71	The City Ground	Nottingham Forest	--	1	120	120
72	The County Ground	Swindon Town	--	1	266	266
73	The Coventry Building Society Arena	Coventry City and Coventry United Ladies	--	1	155	155
74	The Crown Ground	Accrington Stanley and Burnley Women	--	1	42	42
75	The Darlington Arena	Darlington United, Darlington and Middlesbrough U23	--	1	157	157
76	The Den	Millwall and London City Lionesses	--	1	332	332
77	The Deva Stadium	Chester City and Chester FC	--	1	64	64
78	The Hawthorns	West Bromwich Albion	--	1	135	135
79	The John Smith's Stadium	Huddersfield Town	--	1	50	50
80	The Kassam Stadium	Oxford United	--	1	258	258
81	The KCOM Stadium	Hull City	--	1	163	163
82	The Keepmoat Stadium	Doncaster Rovers and Doncaster Rovers Belles	--	1	97	97
83	The King Power Stadium	Leicester City and Leicester City Women	--	1	151	151
84	The Liberty Stadium	Swansea City and Wales	--	1	287	287
85	The New Meadow	Shrewsbury Town	--	1	114	114
86	The Pirelli Stadium	Burton Albion	--	1	104	104
87	The Riverside Stadium	Middlesbrough	--	1	177	177
88	The Stadium of Light	Sunderland and Sunderland Ladies	--	1	213	213
89	The Valley	Charlton Athletic	--	1	336	336
90	The Withdean Stadium	AFC Varndeanians, Brighton Electricity, Withdean 2000 and Brighton & Hove Albion	--	1	404	404
91	Toughsheet Community Stadium	Bolton Wanderers	--	1	26	26
92	Turf Moor	Burnley	--	1	45	45
93	Underhill	Barnet and London Bees	--	1	307	307
94	Upton Park (Boleyn Ground)	Charlton Athletic and West Ham United	--	1	331	331
95	Vale Park	Port Vale	--	1	58	58
96	Valley Parade	Bradford City and Bradford Park Avenue	--	1	64	64
97	Vicarage Road	Watford and Wealdstone	--	1	297	297
98	Victoria Park	Hartlepool United	--	1	191	191
99	Victoria Road (Chigwell Construction Stadium)	Dagenham & Redbridge, West Ham United U23 and West Ham United Women	--	1	335	335
100	Villa Park	Aston Villa	--	1	136	136
101	Whaddon Road	Cheltenham Town and Gloucester City	--	1	216	216
Total					23,076	24,109

3 Grounds Visited for Tours/Non-Football

6 Countries Visited to Watch Football