the-cragheadian

By The Compass

• ↑ Most northerly ground: Strawberry Arena home to AIK, Sweden
• → Most easterly ground: 3Arena home to Djurgardens IF, Hammarby IF, Hammarby IF Dom
• ↓ Most southerly ground: Estadio Municipal Puerto de Mogan home to CF Mogan
• ← Most westerly ground: Estadio Municipal Puerto de Mogan home to CF Mogan

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!

227 Grounds Visited to Watch Football

#	Ground	Team(s)	Rating	# Visits	Mileage	Tot Mileage
1	3Arena	Djurgardens IF, Hammarby IF and Hammarby IF Dom	--	1	1,575	1,575
2	Alder Street	Atherton Collieries, Bolton Ladies and Oldham Boro	--	1	212	212
3	Alfred Davis Ground	Marlow and Marlow United		1	464	464
4	Anchor Ground	Darwen, Darwen Women and Blackburn Rovers Ladies	--	1	188	188
5	Anfield	Liverpool, Everton and Wales	--	3	241	723
6	Ashton Gate	Bristol City	--	1	491	491
7	Bedford Terrace	Billingham Town, Billingham Town Reserves, Middlesbrough Women and Yarm & Eaglescliffe	--	1	44	44
8	Belle View Stadium	Consett AFC and Consett AFC Reserves	--	1	36	36
9	Belle Vue Park	Consett AFC and Durham City	--	50	36	1,800
10	bet365 Stadium (The Britannia Stadium)	Stoke City	--	1	274	274
11	Billy Hardy Complex	Hylton Colliery Welfare		1	5	5
12	Birtley Sports Complex	Birtley Hanlon, Birtley Town and Thomas Wilson	--	1	16	16
13	Birtley Welfare	A1 Allerdene and Birtley Town Development	--	1	15	15
14	Bishopton Road West	Billingham Synthonia and Stockton Town	--	1	48	48
15	Blackwell Meadows	Darlington	--	1	58	58
16	Bloomfield Road	Blackpool	--	1	203	203
17	Blundell Park	Grimsby Town	--	1	215	215
18	Boldon Colliery Welfare Ground	Boldon Community Association	--	1	8	8
19	Bootham Crescent	Leeds United U23, Middlesbrough U23 and York City	--	1	133	133
20	Boundary Park	Oldham Athletic	--	1	197	197
21	Bramall Lane	Sheffield United and Sheffield United Women	--	3	213	639
22	Brewery Field	Spennymoor Town and Spennymoor Town Ladies	--	1	34	34
23	Brinkburn Road	Darlington Railway Athletic and Darlington Railway Athletic Reserves	--	1	54	54
24	Broadhall Way (Lamex Stadium)	Stevenage and Tottenham Hotspur U23	--	1	429	429
25	Brunton Park	Carlisle United	--	2	121	242
26	Cantilever Park	Warrington Town and Warrington Town Reserves	--	1	233	233
27	Cardiff City Stadium	Cardiff City and Wales	--	1	499	499
28	Carrow Road	Norwich City	--	1	386	386
29	Celtic Park	Celtic	--	1	256	256
30	Cherrywood Road (Easy As HGV Stadium)	Farnborough, Farnborough Reserves, Lightwater United, Badshot Lea and Reading Women	--	1	501	501
31	Craik Park	Morpeth FC, Morpeth Town and Morpeth Town Reserves	--	1	42	42
32	Craven Cottage	Fulham	--	2	485	970
33	Croft Park	Blyth Spartans and Blyth Spartans Reserves	--	1	30	30
34	Darlington Road	West Auckland Town, West Auckland Town Reserves and Bishop Auckland	--	1	47	47
35	Dean Bank	Ferryhill Athletic	--	1	35	35
36	Dean Court (The Vitality Stadium)	AFC Bournemouth	--	1	579	579
37	Dean Street	Shildon AFC and Bishop Auckland	--	1	44	44
38	Deepdale	Preston North End	--	1	189	189
39	Derwent Park	Annfield Plain	--	4	29	116
40	DW Stadium	Wigan Athletic	--	3	215	645
41	East Palmersville Sports Pavillion	Forest Hall Celtic and West Allotment Celtic	--	1	20	20
42	Eastbourne Sports Complex	Darlington Reserves and Darlington Town	--	1	55	55
43	Easter Road	Hibernian	--	1	201	201
44	Edgeley Park	Stockport County	--	1	219	219
45	Elland Road	Leeds United	--	2	158	316
46	Eslington Park	Gateshead Redheugh 1957 FC and Saltwell SC	--	1	20	20
47	Essity Park	Newcastle University, Prudhoe Town, Prudhoe Town Women, Prudhoe Youth Club Seniors and Newcastle University A	--	5	36	180
48	Estadio Gran Canaria	Canary Islands and Las Palmas	--	1	3,964	3,964
49	Estadio Municipal Puerto de Mogan	CF Mogan	--	1	4,011	4,011
50	Etihad Stadium	Manchester City	--	1	208	208
51	Ewood Park	Blackburn Rovers	--	2	186	372
52	Fantastic Media Welfare Ground	Emley AFC and Wakefield	--	1	181	181
53	Feethams	Darlington	--	1	56	56
54	Field Mill	Mansfield Town and Mansfield Town Ladies	--	2	246	492
55	Filbert Street	Leicester City	--	1	317	317
56	Fir Park	Motherwell	--	1	236	236
57	Ford Quarry Complex	Chester-le-Street United, Sunderland West End, Sunderland West End Reserves, Chester-le-Street Town, Silksworth Colliery Welfare and Washington FC	--	1	4	4
58	Frenchfield Park	Carlisle United U18 and Penrith FC	--	1	111	111
59	Gelredome	Vitesse Arnhem	--	1	724	724
60	Gigg Lane	Bury FC, Bury FC Women and FC United of Manchester	--	3	198	594
61	Glanford Park	Scunthorpe United	--	1	192	192
62	Glebe Sports Ground	Whickham	--	1	24	24
63	Globe Arena	Morecambe	--	1	167	167
64	Goodison Park	Everton Women and Everton	--	3	241	723
65	Grayfields Enclosure	FC Hartlepool and Hartlepool United Women	--	1	33	33
66	Green Lane	Redcar Athletic and Redcar Athletic Reserves	--	1	51	51
67	Gresty Road (The Alexandra Stadium)	Crewe Alexandra	--	2	266	532
68	Grounsell Park	Heaton Stannington and Heaton Stannington A	--	1	20	20
69	Hall Lane	Willington AFC and Durham City	--	1	37	37
70	Hebburn Sports & Social Ground	Hebburn Town, Hebburn Town Reserves and Sunderland Ladies	--	1	13	13
71	Heritage Park	Bishop Auckland, Bishop Auckland Ladies, Middlesbrough U23 and Darlington	--	1	45	45
72	Highbury	Arsenal	--	3	476	1,428
73	Highbury Stadium	Fleetwood Town	--	1	191	191
74	Highfield Road	Coventry City	--	1	346	346
75	Hillheads Park	Whitley Bay and Whitley Bay Reserves	--	1	17	17
76	Hillsborough	Sheffield Wednesday	--	1	208	208
77	Hilltop	Gateshead Leam Rangers	--	1	14	14
78	Holker Street	Barrow	--	1	184	184
79	Ibrox	Rangers	--	1	263	263
80	Ings Lane (Global Stadium)	Leeds United LFC and Tadcaster Albion	--	1	143	143
81	Ironworks Road	Tow Law Town	--	2	41	82
82	JobServe Community Stadium	Colchester United	--	1	454	454
83	Johan Cruyff Arena (Amsterdam Arena)	Ajax and Netherlands	--	3	631	1,893
84	Kayte Lane	Bishops Cleeve, Bishops Cleeve Development and Smiths Barometrics	--	1	415	415
85	Kenilworth Road	Luton Town	--	1	426	426
86	Keys Park	Hednesford Town, Hednesford Town Ladies and West Bromwich Albion U23	--	1	310	310
87	King George V Recreation Ground	Arnold Town	--	1	265	265
88	Kingsley Park	Ryton & Crawcrook Albion and Ryton & Crawcrook Albion Tynedale Ladies	--	1	33	33
89	Kingsway	Bishop Auckland	--	1	42	42
90	Lew Hill Memorial Ground	Odd Down and Odd Down Reserves	--	1	499	499
91	Leyburn Grove	Durham City, Sunderland Hall Farm Glasshus, Sunderland TC Plastics and Farringdon Detached FC	--	1	12	12
92	Lintz Welfare	Burnopfield Sun Inn FC	--	1	28	28
93	LNER Community Stadium	York City	--	1	131	131
94	Lodge Road	Frampton Rangers Ladies, Iron Acton, Yate Town, Yate Town Reserves, Bristol City Women, Bristol Rovers Development and Bristol Rovers U18	--	1	473	473
95	Loftus Road	Queens Park Rangers	--	2	480	960
96	London Road	Peterborough United	--	2	338	676
97	Love Lane	Petersfield Town and AFC Petersfield	--	1	541	541
98	Maine Road	Manchester City	--	2	213	426
99	Manor Fields	Buckingham Town FC, Milton Keynes Borough FC, Milton Keynes City (1974), Milton Keynes Irish FC, Milton Keynes Irish FC Reserves and Unite MK	--	1	407	407
100	Mariners Park	South Shields and Sunderland Ladies	--	1	11	11
101	Meadow Lane	Notts County and Notts County Ladies	--	1	273	273
102	Meadow Park	Sunderland RCA and Sunderland RCA Reserves	--	1	7	7
103	Meadowbank Sports Centre	Boroughmuir Thistle, Edinburgh City, Hibernian Ladies and Leith Athletic	--	1	200	200
104	Memorial Stadium	Bristol Rovers and Bristol City Women	--	1	484	484
105	Millfield Ground	Crook Town	--	1	40	40
106	Millmoor	Rotherham United	--	1	205	205
107	Molineux	Wolverhampton Wanderers	--	2	327	654
108	Moor Lane	Salford City	--	1	206	206
109	Moor Park	Chester-le-Street Ladies and Chester-le-Street Town	--	1	19	19
110	Moore Lane Park	Newton Aycliffe	--	1	43	43
111	Nethermoor Park	Guiseley, Guiseley AFC Vixens, Bradford City Women and Leeds United U23	--	1	146	146
112	New Douglas Park	Clyde, Hamilton Academical, Hamilton Academical Reserves and Hamilton Academical Women	--	1	241	241
113	New Ferens Park	Durham Corinthians, Durham Corinthians Reserves, Boro Rangers, Durham City, Durham Women and Washington FC	--	15	21	315
114	New York Stadium	Rotherham United	--	1	205	205
115	Newbiggin Sports Centre	AFC Newbiggin and AFC Newbiggin Central	--	1	39	39
116	Nissan Sports Complex	Sunderland Nissan, Washington United, Sunderland West End and Washington FC	--	1	7	7
117	North Durham Academey	Esh Winning	--	1	25	25
118	Northburn Sports And Community Centre	Cramlington United	--	1	30	30
119	Northern Area Playing Fields	Washington FC	--	1	11	11
120	NU Academy	Newcastle United U18	--	1	18	18
121	Oakwell	Barnsley	--	2	188	376
122	Old Trafford	Manchester United	--	2	213	426
123	Old Wembley Stadium	England	--	3	473	1,419
124	Perth Green	Jarrow FC	--	1	9	9
125	Pittodrie	Aberdeen	--	1	315	315
126	Plain Ham	Larkhall Athletic, Larkhall Athletic Development and Larkhall Athletic Ladies	--	1	492	492
127	Ponteland High School	Ponteland United	--	1	33	33
128	Portland Park	Ashington	--	1	41	41
129	Portman Road	Ipswich Town	--	1	447	447
130	Prenton Park	Liverpool U23, Tranmere Rovers and Liverpool Ladies	--	4	251	1,004
131	Pride Park	Derby County	--	1	276	276
132	Priestfield	Gillingham, Brighton & Hove Albion and Gillingham Women	--	1	514	514
133	PTS Stadium	Billingham Synthonia	--	1	44	44
134	Ralph Gardner Park	North Shields		1	14	14
135	Rat Verlegh Stadion	NAC Breda	--	1	684	684
136	Raydale Park	Gretna 2008	--	1	135	135
137	Riverside Sports Pavilion	Chester-le-Street United PV and Chester-le-Street United	--	2	16	32
138	Roker Park	Sunderland	--	75	2	150
139	Sam Smith's Park	Newcastle Benfield	--	1	17	17
140	Scotswood Sports Centre	Newcastle Blue Star and Newcastle Blue Star Reserves	--	1	26	26
141	Seaham Town Park	Seaham Red Star and Seaham Red Star Reserves	--	1	10	10
142	Sedgefield Community College	Wynyard Village	--	1	36	36
143	Select Car Leasing Stadium	Reading and Reading Women	--	1	484	484
144	Selhurst Park	Crystal Palace, Charlton Athletic and Wimbledon	--	2	498	996
145	SFC Stadium	Bamber Bridge, Blackburn Rovers Ladies and AFC Fylde Women	--	1	194	194
146	Shielfield Park	Berwick Rangers, Berwick Rangers Reserves and Tweedmouth Rangers	--	1	127	127
147	Sincil Bank	Lincoln City	--	2	244	488
148	Sixfields	Northampton Town and Coventry City	--	1	372	372
149	SMH Group Stadium	Chesterfield, Sheffield United U23 and Sheffield United Women	--	1	230	230
150	Snows Stadium	AFC Totton and Southampton FC Women	--	1	550	550
151	Solitude	Cliftonville, Cliftonville Women and Newington	--	1	366	366
152	South Moor Greenland CP	South Moor AFC	--	1	26	26
153	South Moor Sports Club	South Moor AFC	--	1	27	27
154	South Newsham Playing Fields	Blyth AFC, Blyth Town, Blyth Town Ladies and Blyth Town U23	--	1	28	28
155	Spotland	Rochdale	--	2	190	380
156	St Andrew's	Birmingham City, Birmingham City Women and Coventry City	--	1	339	339
157	St James Park	Alnwick Town, Alnwick Town Development and Alnwick Town Ladies	--	1	72	72
158	St James' Park	Newcastle United	--	3	20	60
159	St Mary's Stadium	Southampton and Southampton FC Women	--	1	554	554
160	Stade Julien Denis	Calais Racing Union	--	1	612	612
161	Stadium:MK	Milton Keynes Dons, Milton Keynes Dons Ladies and Milton Keynes Dons Development	--	1	405	405
162	Stair Park	Stranraer and Stranraer Reserves	--	1	288	288
163	Stamford Bridge	Chelsea	--	2	485	970
164	Station Road	Shotton Colliery and Shotton Comrades	--	1	20	20
165	Strawberry Arena	AIK and Sweden	--	1	1,572	1,572
166	Teesdale Park	Thornaby and Middlesbrough Women	--	1	51	51
167	The Abbey Stadium	Cambridge United and Cambridge Regional College	--	1	394	394
168	The Bescot	Aston Villa U23, Aston Villa Women and Walsall	--	1	328	328
169	The Calvert Stadium	Northallerton Town and Northallerton Town Reserves	--	1	81	81
170	The City Ground	Nottingham Forest	--	1	274	274
171	The County Ground	Swindon Town	--	1	464	464
172	The Coventry Building Society Arena	Coventry City and Coventry United Ladies	--	1	341	341
173	The Crown Ground	Accrington Stanley and Burnley Women	--	1	177	177
174	The Darlington Arena	Darlington United, Darlington and Middlesbrough U23	--	3	57	171
175	The Dell	Southampton	--	2	553	1,106
176	The Den	Millwall and London City Lionesses	--	1	487	487
177	The Emirates Stadium	Arsenal	--	1	476	476
178	The EnviroVent Stadium	Harrogate Town and Harrogate Town Ladies	--	1	128	128
179	The Graham Sports Centre	Durham Cestria, Durham United and Durham Women	--	2	24	48
180	The Hawthorns	West Bromwich Albion	--	2	336	672
181	The Hetton Centre (Eppleton Colliery Welfare)	Sunderland Ladies, Sunderland U23 and Sunderland U18	--	1	14	14
182	The Hive	Barnet, London Bees and Tottenham Hotspur Women	--	1	467	467
183	The International Stadium	Gateshead and Newcastle United U23	--	1	17	17
184	The John Smith's Stadium	Huddersfield Town	--	2	177	354
185	The Kassam Stadium	Oxford United	--	1	442	442
186	The KCOM Stadium	Hull City	--	2	181	362
187	The Keepmoat Stadium	Doncaster Rovers and Doncaster Rovers Belles	--	1	195	195
188	The King Power Stadium	Leicester City and Leicester City Women	--	1	318	318
189	The Lawns	Cribbs FC, Cribbs FC A, Cribbs FC Reserves and Bristol City Women	--	1	480	480
190	The Manor Ground	Oxford United	--	1	436	436
191	The New Lawn	Forest Green Rovers and Gloucester City	--	1	450	450
192	The New Meadow	Shrewsbury Town	--	1	327	327
193	The Pirelli Stadium	Burton Albion	--	1	290	290
194	The Riverside Stadium	Middlesbrough	--	1	48	48
195	The Rock (Cheaper Insurance Direct Ground)	Broomhill FC, Dumbarton and Rangers B	--	1	286	286
196	The Silverlake Stadium	Eastleigh and Eastleigh Ladies	--	1	548	548
197	The Stadium of Light	Sunderland and Sunderland Ladies	--	201	0	0
198	The Valley	Charlton Athletic	--	1	488	488
199	Thornhill Park (Wisloe Road)	Slimbridge and Slimbridge Reserves	--	1	448	448
200	Top Field	Hitchin Town		1	419	419
201	Tottenham Hotspur Stadium	Tottenham Hotspur	--	1	470	470
202	Toughsheet Community Stadium	Bolton Wanderers	--	1	206	206
203	Turf Moor	Burnley	--	2	170	340
204	Turnbull Ground	Whitby Town	--	1	84	84
205	Twerton Park	Bath City, Team Bath, Bristol City Women and Bristol Rovers	--	1	496	496
206	Tynecastle	Heart of Midlothian	--	1	202	202
207	Upton Park (Boleyn Ground)	Charlton Athletic and West Ham United	--	2	482	964
208	UTS Stadium	Dunston UTS	--	2	22	44
209	Vale Park	Port Vale	--	2	266	532
210	Valley Parade	Bradford City and Bradford Park Avenue	--	4	156	624
211	Vicarage Road	Watford and Wealdstone	--	1	458	458
212	Victoria Park	Hartlepool United	--	2	34	68
213	Villa Park	Aston Villa	--	2	335	670
214	Villa Park	Grange Villa FC	--	1	21	21
215	Waterside Park	AFC Aldermaston, Thatcham Town and Thatcham Town Development	--	1	487	487
216	Webbswood Stadium	Swindon Supermarine, Swindon Supermarine Development, Swindon Supermarine Women and New College Swindon	--	1	458	458
217	Welfare Ground	Brandon United	--	1	29	29
218	Welfare Park	Horden Community Welfare	--	1	21	21
219	Welfare Park	Easington Colliery	--	1	19	19
220	Welfare Park	Bedlington Terriers	--	1	34	34
221	Wembley Stadium	England and Tottenham Hotspur	--	1	473	473
222	West Terrace	Esh Winning	--	1	34	34
223	Whaddon Road	Cheltenham Town and Gloucester City	--	1	419	419
224	White Hart Lane	Tottenham Hotspur	--	2	470	940
225	Windsor Park	Linfield and Northern Ireland	--	1	367	367
226	Woodhorn Lane	Ashington and Ashington Reserves	--	1	40	40
227	York Road	Maidenhead United, Maidenhead United Ladies and Hayes & Yeading United	--	1	472	472
Total					60,125	47,525

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8 Countries Visited to Watch Football