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!

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

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8 Countries Visited to Watch Football