the-cragheadian

By The Compass

• ↑ Most northerly ground: Pittodrie home to Aberdeen
• → Most easterly ground: Gelredome home to Vitesse Arnhem
• ↓ Most southerly ground: St Mary's Stadium home to Southampton, Southampton FC Women
• ← Most westerly ground: The Rock (Cheaper Insurance Direct Ground) home to Broomhill FC, Dumbarton, Rangers B

About the-cragheadian

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First Game

Sunderland v Liverpool Easter it was 0-0 and I got taken home at halftime as it was snowing. I remember the toilet was a piece of clay pipe.

Best Game

Newcastle 1 Sunderland 2 August 1999. Newly promoted the Sunderland squad cost less than Fergusson and Shearer who were both on the bench. Torrential rain and no roof. Derby given 3,000 tickets the week before Sunderland 800. Newcastle score before Quinn and Phillips win it for Sunderland but not before Kevin Ball hits his own crossbar from the halfway line.

Worst Game

Wembley ‘98 Sunderland 4 Charlton 4. Many chances to win for both sides great game but crushed at the end. Possibly the best thing that could have happened winning the league with 100+ points the next year but it felt like the big chance missed.

Loved my first visit to Crewe in 97-98 with both the away fans and Crewe fans from the main stand leaving from the same exit and mingling on the way out. Seemed so nice compared to most grounds with heavy segregation.

Temporary stand which has seen better days, no roof, access via a back street. Driving 400 miles first didn’t help!

168 Grounds Visited to Watch Football

#	Ground	Team(s)	Rating	# Visits	Mileage	Tot Mileage
1	Alfred Davis Ground	Marlow and Marlow United		1	464	464
2	Anfield	Liverpool, Everton and Wales	--	3	241	723
3	Ashton Gate	Bristol City	--	1	491	491
4	Bedford Terrace	Billingham Town, Billingham Town Reserves, Middlesbrough Women and Yarm & Eaglescliffe	--	1	44	44
5	Belle View Stadium	Consett AFC and Consett AFC Reserves	--	1	36	36
6	Belle Vue Park	Consett AFC and Durham City	--	50	36	1,800
7	bet365 Stadium (The Britannia Stadium)	Stoke City	--	1	274	274
8	Billy Hardy Complex	Hylton Colliery Welfare		1	5	5
9	Birtley Sports Complex	Birtley Hanlon, Birtley Town and Thomas Wilson	--	1	16	16
10	Birtley Welfare	A1 Allerdene and Birtley Town Development	--	1	15	15
11	Blackwell Meadows	Darlington	--	1	58	58
12	Bloomfield Road	Blackpool	--	1	203	203
13	Blundell Park	Grimsby Town	--	1	215	215
14	Bootham Crescent	Leeds United U23, Middlesbrough U23 and York City	--	1	133	133
15	Bramall Lane	Sheffield United and Sheffield United Women	--	3	213	639
16	Brunton Park	Carlisle United	--	2	121	242
17	Cantilever Park	Warrington Town and Warrington Town Reserves	--	1	233	233
18	Cardiff City Stadium	Cardiff City and Wales	--	1	499	499
19	Carrow Road	Norwich City	--	1	386	386
20	Celtic Park	Celtic	--	1	256	256
21	Cherrywood Road (Easy As HGV Stadium)	Farnborough, Farnborough Reserves, Lightwater United, Badshot Lea and Reading Women	--	1	501	501
22	Craik Park	Morpeth FC, Morpeth Town and Morpeth Town Reserves	--	1	42	42
23	Craven Cottage	Fulham	--	2	485	970
24	Croft Park	Blyth Spartans and Blyth Spartans Reserves	--	1	30	30
25	Darlington Road	West Auckland Town, West Auckland Town Reserves and Bishop Auckland	--	1	47	47
26	Dean Bank	Ferryhill Athletic	--	1	35	35
27	Dean Street	Shildon AFC and Bishop Auckland	--	1	44	44
28	Deepdale	Preston North End	--	1	189	189
29	Derwent Park	Annfield Plain	--	4	29	116
30	DW Stadium	Wigan Athletic	--	3	215	645
31	East Palmersville Sports Pavillion	Forest Hall Celtic and West Allotment Celtic	--	1	20	20
32	Easter Road	Hibernian	--	1	201	201
33	Edgeley Park	Stockport County	--	1	219	219
34	Elland Road	Leeds United	--	2	158	316
35	Eslington Park	Gateshead Redheugh 1957 FC and Saltwell SC	--	1	20	20
36	Essity Park	Newcastle University, Prudhoe Town, Prudhoe Town Women, Prudhoe Youth Club Seniors and Newcastle University A	--	5	36	180
37	Ewood Park	Blackburn Rovers	--	2	186	372
38	Feethams	Darlington	--	1	56	56
39	Field Mill	Mansfield Town and Mansfield Town Ladies	--	2	246	492
40	Filbert Street	Leicester City	--	1	317	317
41	Gelredome	Vitesse Arnhem	--	1	724	724
42	Gigg Lane	Bury FC, Bury FC Women and FC United of Manchester	--	3	198	594
43	Glanford Park	Scunthorpe United	--	1	192	192
44	Glebe Sports Ground	Whickham	--	1	24	24
45	Globe Arena	Morecambe	--	1	167	167
46	Goodison Park	Everton	--	3	241	723
47	Gresty Road (The Alexandra Stadium)	Crewe Alexandra	--	2	266	532
48	Grounsell Park	Heaton Stannington and Heaton Stannington A	--	1	20	20
49	Hall Lane	Willington AFC and Durham City	--	1	37	37
50	Hebburn Sports & Social Ground	Hebburn Town, Hebburn Town Reserves and Sunderland Ladies	--	1	13	13
51	Heritage Park	Bishop Auckland, Bishop Auckland Ladies, Middlesbrough U23 and Darlington	--	1	45	45
52	Highbury	Arsenal	--	3	476	1,428
53	Highbury Stadium	Fleetwood Town	--	1	191	191
54	Highfield Road	Coventry City	--	1	346	346
55	Hillheads Park	Whitley Bay and Whitley Bay Reserves	--	1	17	17
56	Hillsborough	Sheffield Wednesday	--	1	208	208
57	Holker Street	Barrow	--	1	184	184
58	Ibrox	Rangers	--	1	263	263
59	Ironworks Road	Tow Law Town	--	2	41	82
60	JobServe Community Stadium	Colchester United	--	1	454	454
61	Johan Cruyff Arena (Amsterdam Arena)	Ajax and Netherlands	--	3	631	1,893
62	Kenilworth Road	Luton Town	--	1	426	426
63	King George V Recreation Ground	Arnold Town	--	1	265	265
64	Kingsley Park	Ryton & Crawcrook Albion and Ryton & Crawcrook Albion Tynedale Ladies	--	1	33	33
65	Kingsway	Bishop Auckland	--	1	42	42
66	Leyburn Grove	Durham City, Sunderland Hall Farm Glasshus, Sunderland TC Plastics and Farringdon Detached FC	--	1	12	12
67	Lintz Welfare	Burnopfield Sun Inn FC	--	1	28	28
68	LNER Community Stadium	York City	--	1	131	131
69	Loftus Road	Queens Park Rangers	--	2	480	960
70	London Road	Peterborough United	--	2	338	676
71	Love Lane	Petersfield Town and AFC Petersfield	--	1	541	541
72	Maine Road	Manchester City	--	2	213	426
73	Mariners Park	South Shields and Sunderland Ladies	--	1	11	11
74	Meadow Lane	Notts County and Notts County Ladies	--	1	273	273
75	Meadow Park	Sunderland RCA and Sunderland RCA Reserves	--	1	7	7
76	Memorial Stadium	Bristol Rovers and Bristol City Women	--	1	484	484
77	Millfield Ground	Crook Town	--	1	40	40
78	Millmoor	Rotherham United	--	1	205	205
79	Molineux	Wolverhampton Wanderers	--	2	327	654
80	Moor Park	Chester-le-Street Ladies and Chester-le-Street Town	--	1	19	19
81	Moore Lane Park	Newton Aycliffe	--	1	43	43
82	New Ferens Park	Durham Corinthians, Durham Corinthians Reserves, Boro Rangers, Durham City, Durham Women and Washington FC	--	15	21	315
83	New York Stadium	Rotherham United	--	1	205	205
84	Nissan Sports Complex	Sunderland Nissan, Washington United, Sunderland West End and Washington FC	--	1	7	7
85	Northern Area Playing Fields	Washington FC	--	1	11	11
86	NU Academy	Newcastle United U18	--	1	18	18
87	Oakwell	Barnsley	--	2	188	376
88	Old Trafford	Manchester United	--	2	213	426
89	Old Wembley Stadium	England	--	3	473	1,419
90	Pittodrie	Aberdeen	--	1	315	315
91	Portland Park	Ashington	--	1	41	41
92	Portman Road	Ipswich Town	--	1	447	447
93	Prenton Park	Liverpool Ladies, Liverpool U23 and Tranmere Rovers	--	4	251	1,004
94	Pride Park	Derby County	--	1	276	276
95	Priestfield	Gillingham, Brighton & Hove Albion and Gillingham Women	--	1	514	514
96	PTS Stadium	Billingham Synthonia	--	1	44	44
97	Ralph Gardner Park	North Shields		1	14	14
98	Rat Verlegh Stadion	NAC Breda	--	1	684	684
99	Riverside Sports Pavilion	Chester-le-Street United and Chester-le-Street United PV	--	2	16	32
100	Roker Park	Sunderland	--	75	2	150
101	Sam Smith's Park	Newcastle Benfield	--	1	17	17
102	Seaham Town Park	Seaham Red Star and Seaham Red Star Reserves	--	1	10	10
103	Sedgefield Community College	Wynyard Village	--	1	36	36
104	Select Car Leasing Stadium	Reading and Reading Women	--	1	484	484
105	Selhurst Park	Crystal Palace, Charlton Athletic and Wimbledon	--	2	498	996
106	Shielfield Park	Berwick Rangers, Berwick Rangers Reserves and Tweedmouth Rangers	--	1	127	127
107	Sincil Bank	Lincoln City	--	2	244	488
108	Sixfields	Northampton Town and Coventry City	--	1	372	372
109	Snows Stadium	AFC Totton and Southampton FC Women	--	1	550	550
110	South Moor Greenland CP	South Moor AFC	--	1	26	26
111	South Newsham Playing Fields	Blyth AFC, Blyth Town, Blyth Town Ladies and Blyth Town U23	--	1	28	28
112	Spotland	Rochdale	--	2	190	380
113	St Andrew's	Birmingham City, Birmingham City Women and Coventry City	--	1	339	339
114	St James' Park	Newcastle United	--	3	20	60
115	St Mary's Stadium	Southampton and Southampton FC Women	--	1	554	554
116	Stade Julien Denis	Calais Racing Union	--	1	612	612
117	Stamford Bridge	Chelsea	--	2	485	970
118	Station Road	Shotton Colliery and Shotton Comrades	--	1	20	20
119	The Abbey Stadium	Cambridge United and Cambridge Regional College	--	1	394	394
120	The Bescot	Aston Villa U23, Aston Villa Women and Walsall	--	1	328	328
121	The Calvert Stadium	Northallerton Town and Northallerton Town Reserves	--	1	81	81
122	The City Ground	Nottingham Forest	--	1	274	274
123	The County Ground	Swindon Town	--	1	464	464
124	The Coventry Building Society Arena	Coventry City and Coventry United Ladies	--	1	341	341
125	The Crown Ground	Accrington Stanley and Burnley Women	--	1	177	177
126	The Darlington Arena	Darlington United, Darlington and Middlesbrough U23	--	3	57	171
127	The Dell	Southampton	--	2	553	1,106
128	The Den	Millwall and London City Lionesses	--	1	487	487
129	The EnviroVent Stadium	Harrogate Town and Harrogate Town Ladies	--	1	128	128
130	The Graham Sports Centre	Durham Cestria, Durham United and Durham Women	--	2	24	48
131	The Hawthorns	West Bromwich Albion	--	2	336	672
132	The International Stadium	Gateshead and Newcastle United U23	--	1	17	17
133	The John Smith's Stadium	Huddersfield Town	--	2	177	354
134	The Kassam Stadium	Oxford United	--	1	442	442
135	The KCOM Stadium	Hull City	--	2	181	362
136	The Keepmoat Stadium	Doncaster Rovers and Doncaster Rovers Belles	--	1	195	195
137	The King Power Stadium	Leicester City and Leicester City Women	--	1	318	318
138	The Manor Ground	Oxford United	--	1	436	436
139	The New Lawn	Forest Green Rovers and Gloucester City	--	1	450	450
140	The New Meadow	Shrewsbury Town	--	1	327	327
141	The Pirelli Stadium	Burton Albion	--	1	290	290
142	The Riverside Stadium	Middlesbrough	--	1	48	48
143	The Rock (Cheaper Insurance Direct Ground)	Broomhill FC, Dumbarton and Rangers B	--	1	286	286
144	The Silverlake Stadium	Eastleigh and Eastleigh Ladies	--	1	548	548
145	The Stadium of Light	Sunderland and Sunderland Ladies	--	201	0	0
146	The Valley	Charlton Athletic	--	1	488	488
147	Thornhill Park (Wisloe Road)	Slimbridge and Slimbridge Reserves	--	1	448	448
148	Toughsheet Community Stadium	Bolton Wanderers	--	1	206	206
149	Turf Moor	Burnley	--	2	170	340
150	Turnbull Ground	Whitby Town	--	1	84	84
151	Upton Park (Boleyn Ground)	Charlton Athletic and West Ham United	--	2	482	964
152	UTS Stadium	Dunston UTS	--	2	22	44
153	Vale Park	Port Vale	--	2	266	532
154	Valley Parade	Bradford City and Bradford Park Avenue	--	4	156	624
155	Vicarage Road	Watford and Wealdstone	--	1	458	458
156	Victoria Park	Hartlepool United	--	2	34	68
157	Villa Park	Aston Villa	--	2	335	670
158	Villa Park	Grange Villa FC	--	1	21	21
159	Webbswood Stadium	Swindon Supermarine, Swindon Supermarine Development, Swindon Supermarine Women and New College Swindon	--	1	458	458
160	Welfare Ground	Brandon United	--	1	29	29
161	Welfare Park	Bedlington Terriers	--	1	34	34
162	Welfare Park	Easington Colliery	--	1	19	19
163	Wembley Stadium	England and Tottenham Hotspur	--	1	473	473
164	West Terrace	Esh Winning	--	1	34	34
165	Whaddon Road	Cheltenham Town and Gloucester City	--	1	419	419
166	White Hart Lane	Tottenham Hotspur	--	2	470	940
167	Woodhorn Lane	Ashington and Ashington Reserves	--	1	40	40
168	York Road	Maidenhead United, Maidenhead United Ladies and Hayes & Yeading United	--	1	472	472
Total					37,000	47,525

3 Grounds Visited for Tours/Non-Football

12 on the Wish List

4 Countries Visited to Watch Football