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• ↑ Most northerly ground: New Broomfield (Excelsior Stadium) home to Airdrie Ladies, Airdrieonians, Airdrieonians Reserves, Celtic B, Celtic Women, Glasgow University, Motherwell Ladies, Motherwell Reserves, Queen's Park
• → Most easterly ground: Stadium Puskas Ferenc home to Hungary
• ↓ Most southerly ground: Heliodoro Rodriguez Lopez home to Canary Islands, Tenerife
• ← Most westerly ground: Citrus Bowl (Camping World Stadium) home to Orlando City, Orlando Pride, USA

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First Game

My dad took me to my very first Blades game when I was 6 years old (1988/1989 season). We played Swansea at home and won by a big margin - either 5-1 or 5-2. I can't remember much about the game, but I can remember that I was hooked and my dad took me to another few games that year and the year after before buying me a season ticket for the 1990/1991 season.

Best Game

There's been a few crackers that I've been to over the years. Winning 4-0 away at Leeds in 2004/2005, 5-0 away at Bradford in 2002/2003 and 4-1 away at Grimsby in 2002/2003.

However, the pick of the bunch for me has to be the Play-Off Semi Final victory over Nottingham Forest at the end of the 2002/2003 season. After drawing the first leg 1-1 at the City Ground, we played the second leg at Bramall Lane on at Thursday night. Just after half time we found ourselves 2-0 down, but that team had great fighting spirit and we quickly made it 2-2 with goals from Michael Brown and Steve Kabba which took the game into extra time. Another 2 goals in extra time (one from Paul Peschisolido and an own goal from Des Walker) saw us win a pulsating game 4-3.

Worst Game

There's been a few bad ones over the years - any Play-Off Final we get to is guaranteed to be a disappointment as we've lost all 3 (vs Crystal Palace, Wolves and Burnley). Add to that any game which we lose to Wednesday.

It may surprise a few, but I quite like Molineux. It's a good old-fashioned ground that's been redeveloped and it now a magnificent venue. Other grounds I enjoy going to include:

- The City Ground (Nottingham Forest), close to the city centre and always a good atmosphere
- Valley Parade (Bradford City), another nice old-fashioned ground that's been redeveloped
- Blundell Park (Grimsby Town), not the best ground in the world, but it's a proper old ground and a place where we usually get a good result

As a general rule, I don't like the new build grounds... they all look the same and are mostly built miles away from anywhere. The Walkers' (Leicester), The Britannia (Stoke), The Stadium of Light (Sunderland), Pride Park (Derby), Lakeside (Doncaster) and The Riverside (Middlesborough) all look the same.

But by far the worst ground I've been to is none other than the New Wembley Stadium. It was massively over-budget, late and is in an awful location (London). Inside, it's big and ugly with awful padded seats (in some areas) and simply too many tickets given to corporate people who don't care about our beautiful game. Tickets are massively over-priced and under-issued meaning that many genuine fans can't get to the games. I hate the place.

108 Grounds Visited to Watch Football

#	Ground	Team(s)	Rating	# Visits	Mileage	Tot Mileage
1	Amex Stadium	Brighton & Hove Albion	--	1	360	360
2	Anfield	Liverpool, Everton and Wales		1	137	137
3	Belle Vue	Doncaster Rovers and Doncaster Rovers Belles		1	28	28
4	bet365 Stadium (The Britannia Stadium)	Stoke City		1	88	88
5	Birch Park	Bottesford Town and Bottesford Town Development		1	59	59
6	Bloomfield Road	Blackpool		1	156	156
7	Blundell Park	Grimsby Town		1	108	108
8	Bootham Crescent	Leeds United U23, Middlesbrough U23 and York City		1	87	87
9	Boundary Park	Oldham Athletic		1	73	73
10	Bracken Moor Stadium	Sheffield Wednesday U23, Stocksbridge Park Steels, Stocksbridge Park Steels Development, Stocksbridge Park Steels Reserves and Sheffield United U23		1	29	29
11	Bramall Lane	Sheffield United and Sheffield United Women	--	1	14	14
12	Broadhall Way (Lamex Stadium)	Stevenage and Tottenham Hotspur U23		1	223	223
13	Brumby Hall	Appleby Frodingham, Appleby Frodingham Ladies, Appleby Frodingham Reserves, Scunthorpe United U18 and Bottesford Town	--	1	62	62
14	Brunton Park	Carlisle United		1	249	249
15	Cannon Park	Retford United, Retford United Reserves and Retford FC		1	32	32
16	Citrus Bowl (Camping World Stadium)	Orlando City, Orlando Pride and USA	--	1	8,532	8,532
17	Coronation Park	Belper United, Eastwood Community FC, Eastwood Town, FC Sez, Nottingham Forest Women and Nottingham Forest Women Development	--	1	47	47
18	Craven Cottage	Fulham		1	276	276
19	Cricklefield	Barkingside, Ilford, Barkingside and Walthamstow FC	--	1	275	275
20	Deepdale	Preston North End	--	1	127	127
21	Don Valley Stadium	Handsworth, Rotherham United and Sheffield FC		1	11	11
22	DW Stadium	Wigan Athletic	--	1	114	114
23	Easy Buy Stadium	Barton Town, Barton Town Reserves, Hull City Ladies and Westella & Willerby	--	1	85	85
24	Elland Road	Leeds United		1	62	62
25	Etihad Stadium	Manchester City		1	76	76
26	Ewood Park	Blackburn Rovers	--	1	110	110
27	Field Mill	Mansfield Town and Mansfield Town Ladies		1	31	31
28	Forest Town Arena	AFC Mansfield and Woodhouse Colts	--	1	31	31
29	Gardiners Close	Basildon Town, Basildon United and Basildon Town	--	1	287	287
30	Gay Meadow	Shrewsbury Town		1	150	150
31	Gigg Lane	Bury FC, Bury FC Women and FC United of Manchester	--	1	87	87
32	Glanford Park	Scunthorpe United		1	59	59
33	Goodison Park	Everton	--	1	137	137
34	Gresty Road (The Alexandra Stadium)	Crewe Alexandra		1	101	101
35	Griffin Park	Brentford	--	1	272	272
36	Heliodoro Rodriguez Lopez	Tenerife and Canary Islands	--	1	3,761	3,761
37	Highbury	Arsenal	--	1	268	268
38	Highfield Road	Coventry City	--	1	131	131
39	Hillsborough	Sheffield Wednesday	--	1	18	18
40	Home of Football Stadium	Dronfield United, Norton Woodseats, Sheffield FC, Sheffield FC Ladies, Sheffield FC Reserves and Sheffield FC U19		1	16	16
41	Huish Park	Yeovil Town and Bridgwater United Women		1	352	352
42	Inter&Co Stadium	Orlando City, Orlando Pride, Orlando City B and USA	--	1	8,531	8,531
43	La Rosaleda	Malaga	--	1	2,317	2,317
44	Len Salmon Stadium	Bowers and Pitsea, Bowers and Pitsea Ladies, Bowers and Pitsea U23, Catholic United, Frenford and Hashtag United	--	1	290	290
45	Loftus Road	Queens Park Rangers		1	271	271
46	Maine Road	Manchester City		1	78	78
47	Meadow Lane	Notts County and Notts County Ladies		1	59	59
48	Millmoor	Rotherham United		1	11	11
49	Molineux	Wolverhampton Wanderers		1	126	126
50	Moss Rose	Macclesfield FC, Macclesfield FC Reserves, Macclesfield Town and Stoke City U23	--	1	70	70
51	Muglet Lane	Maltby Main and Maltby Main Reserves	--	1	12	12
52	New Broomfield (Excelsior Stadium)	Airdrieonians, Airdrieonians Reserves, Celtic B, Celtic Women, Glasgow University, Motherwell Reserves, Airdrie Ladies, Motherwell Ladies and Queen's Park	--	1	406	406
53	New York Stadium	Rotherham United		1	11	11
54	Northmoor Park	Scotter United	--	1	56	56
55	Northolme	Gainsborough Trinity, Gainsborough Trinity Reserves and Boston United		1	44	44
56	Oakwell	Barnsley	--	1	30	30
57	Old Trafford	Manchester United		1	83	83
58	Old Wembley Stadium	England	--	1	263	263
59	Portman Road	Ipswich Town	--	1	273	273
60	Prenton Park	Liverpool U23, Tranmere Rovers and Liverpool Ladies		1	143	143
61	Pride Park	Derby County	--	1	62	62
62	Saltergate	Chesterfield	--	1	19	19
63	Sandy Lane	Worksop Town, Worksop Town Reserves, Handsworth and St Josephs Rockware of Worksop	--	1	16	16
64	Select Car Leasing Stadium	Reading and Reading Women	--	1	269	269
65	Selhurst Park	Crystal Palace, Charlton Athletic and Wimbledon		1	289	289
66	Sincil Bank	Lincoln City		1	66	66
67	SMH Group Stadium	Chesterfield, Sheffield United U23 and Sheffield United Women	--	1	17	17
68	Son Moix	Real Mallorca	--	1	1,938	1,938
69	Spotland	Rochdale	--	1	81	81
70	St Andrew's	Birmingham City, Birmingham City Women and Coventry City	--	1	130	130
71	St James Park	Exeter City	--	1	409	409
72	St James' Park	Newcastle United	--	1	225	225
73	St Pauls Sports Stadium	Bermondsey Town FC, Fisher, Millwall Lionesses and London City Lionesses	--	1	277	277
74	Stadium Puskas Ferenc	Hungary	--	1	1,961	1,961
75	Stadium:MK	Milton Keynes Dons, Milton Keynes Dons Ladies and Milton Keynes Dons Development	--	1	192	192
76	Stamford Bridge	Chelsea		1	276	276
77	The Bescot	Aston Villa U23, Aston Villa Women and Walsall	--	1	123	123
78	The Bradley Football Development Centre	Grimsby Borough, Grimsby Borough Ladies, Grimsby United and Cleethorpes Town	--	1	101	101
79	The City Ground	Nottingham Forest	--	1	59	59
80	The County Ground	Swindon Town	--	1	251	251
81	The Den	Millwall and London City Lionesses	--	1	279	279
82	The Emirates Stadium	Arsenal		1	268	268
83	The Hawthorns	West Bromwich Albion	--	1	129	129
84	The Hawthorns	Brigg Town, Brigg Town Reserves, Grimsby Borough and Scunthorpe United U18	--	1	73	73
85	The John Smith's Stadium	Huddersfield Town		1	56	56
86	The KCOM Stadium	Hull City		1	94	94
87	The Keepmoat Stadium	Doncaster Rovers and Doncaster Rovers Belles		1	26	26
88	The King Power Stadium	Leicester City and Leicester City Women	--	1	103	103
89	The Liberty Stadium	Swansea City and Wales		1	324	324
90	The Millennium Stadium (Principality Stadium)	Wales	--	1	304	304
91	The Pirelli Stadium	Burton Albion	--	1	79	79
92	The Riverside Stadium	Middlesbrough	--	1	169	169
93	The Shay	FC Halifax Town	--	1	67	67
94	The Stadium of Light	Sunderland and Sunderland Ladies	--	1	215	215
95	The Valley	Charlton Athletic	--	1	282	282
96	Toughsheet Community Stadium	Bolton Wanderers	--	1	106	106
97	Turf Moor	Burnley	--	1	97	97
98	Upton Park (Boleyn Ground)	Charlton Athletic and West Ham United		1	276	276
99	Vale Park	Port Vale	--	1	85	85
100	Valley Parade	Bradford City and Bradford Park Avenue	--	1	72	72
101	Vicarage Road	Watford and Wealdstone	--	1	248	248
102	Victoria Park	Hartlepool United	--	1	184	184
103	Victoria Pleasure Grounds	Goole AFC, FC Humber United and Goole United	--	1	59	59
104	Victoria Road (Chigwell Construction Stadium)	Dagenham & Redbridge, West Ham United U23 and West Ham United Women	--	1	279	279
105	Villa Park	Aston Villa	--	1	127	127
106	Wembley Stadium	England and Tottenham Hotspur	--	1	263	263
107	Wibbandune Sports Ground	Colliers Wood United, Westside and Balham	--	1	282	282
108	York Street (The Jakemans Stadium)	Railway Athletic and Boston United	--	1	119	119
Total					41,621	41,392

41 Grounds Visited for Tours/Non-Football

#	Ground	Team(s)	Rating
1	Arena Garibaldi - Romeo Anconetani	AC Pisa 1909	--
2	Ashton Gate	Bristol City	--
3	Badgers Hill (The SpecialEffect Stadium)	Frome Town, Frome Town Ladies and Frome Town Sports	--
4	Birch Park	Bottesford Town and Bottesford Town Development
5	Bramall Lane	Sheffield United and Sheffield United Women	--
6	Causeway Lane	Matlock Town and Matlock Town Reserves	--
7	Edgeley Park	Stockport County	--
8	Estadi Municipal Els Arcs	Unio Deportiva Alcudia	--
9	Estadio Balear	Atletico Baleares	--
10	Estadio do Restelo	Os Belenenses and Belenenses SAD	--
11	Estadio Olimpico Municipal Antonio Dominguez	CD Marino	--
12	Field Mill	Mansfield Town and Mansfield Town Ladies
13	Generali Arena	Czech Republic and Sparta Prague	--
14	Glanford Park	Scunthorpe United
15	Hall Corner	Glapwell, Glapwell Development and Chesterfield Women	--
16	Hillsborough	Sheffield Wednesday	--
17	Inkersall Road	Chesterfield Women, Staveley Miners Welfare and Staveley Miners Welfare Reserves	--
18	Johan Cruyff Arena (Amsterdam Arena)	Ajax and Netherlands
19	New York Stadium	Rotherham United
20	Nou Camp D'Inca	CE Constancia	--
21	Olympiastadion Berlin	Germany and Hertha Berlin	--
22	Owlerton Stadium	Sheffield FC	--
23	Phoenix Park	Dinnington Town and Dinnington Town Reserves	--
24	Porta Elisa	Lucchese	--
25	Queensgate	Bridlington Town, Bridlington Town Reserves and Scarborough Athletic	--
26	Riazor	Deportivo La Coruna, Galicia and Deportivo Fabril	--
27	San Mames	Athletic Bilbao and Basque	--
28	Sandy Lane	Worksop Town, Worksop Town Reserves, Handsworth and St Josephs Rockware of Worksop	--
29	Son Moix	Real Mallorca	--
30	Southfields Recreation Ground	Radstock Town and Radstock Town Reserves	--
31	Stadio Artemio Franchi	ACF Fiorentina	--
32	Stadio Comunale di Pontassieve	Pontassieve Calcio	--
33	Stadion Albert Florian (1971)	Ferencvaros	--
34	Stadion Evzena Rosickeho	Czechoslovakia, FK Slavoj Vysehrad, Olympia Praha, FK Bohemians Prague (Strizkov) and Slavia Prague	--
35	Strahov Stadium	Sparta Prague B and Sparta Prague Women	--
36	Swallownest Miners Welfare	Swallownest	--
37	The Hive	Barnet, London Bees and Tottenham Hotspur Women	--
38	The Keepmoat Stadium	Doncaster Rovers and Doncaster Rovers Belles
39	Vetch Field	Swansea City and Wales	--
40	Viridor Stadium	Taunton Town and Bridgwater United Women	--
41	Warner Park	Eyemouth United	--

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