Your Favourite Football Ground?

[SUFCFARAWAY]

Fratton Park. Great atmosphere. Looking forward to the new Wembley though. Be great to watch Southend lift the FA Cup there in 2006!

 

[Matt the Shrimp]

Quote[/b] (nnatt76 @ Aug. 18 2005,13:46)]Ok what the most strange country you have watched a league game

Hmm... surprisingly few for me, alas - only England, Scotland, Wales, France and Brazil.

You want to speak to a mate of mine, and a fellow Shrimper - a guy called Will, who now lives in Seoul.  If spending 3 hours with the home fans in the terrace at the Ali Sami Yen before kick-off of Galatasaray v. Trabzonspor in Turkey wasn't unusual enough, he then went and saw a league game in (I think) Burkina Faso.

Matt

P.S. Maracana's record gate was for the 1950 World Cup final - which Brazil lost to Uruguay.  215,000 made their way into the stadium for that one.  It is a beast of a ground - still the biggest I've ever seen.  Went to see Flamengo v. Santos there, over 100,000 in the ground, and it felt half-empty!

 

[Westcliff Shrimper]

Quote[/b] (nnatt76 @ Aug. 18 2005,13:46)]Ok what the most strange country you have watched a league game

Wales.

 

[Guest]

Quote[/b] (Matt the Shrimp @ Aug. 18 2005,13:59)] If spending 3 hours with the home fans in the terrace at the Ali Sami Yen before kick-off of Galatasaray v. Trabzonspor in Turkey wasn't unusual enough, .

Ok, it was only a friendly but the game I saw in the Summer was amazing. 1 FC Koln v Fernebache was amazing. The atmosphere was wicked and they even had 3 people down the front of the stand, not watching the game but to get the Fernebache fans singing. Standing on a terrace with 10,000+ mad turks was a brilliant experience!!

Come on you 1 FC Koln!!!

 

[Matt the Shrimp]

Quote[/b] (nnatt76 @ Aug. 18 2005,13:46)]Just got back from Brazil and watched a couple of games at Vasgo de Gama's ground apologies but cant remember the name.

It's called São Januário...

BTW, it's Vasco da Gama, not Vasgo de Gama...

 

[nnatt76]

Ha ha ha i stand corrected.....me and my mate only went because 2 yanky birds we fancied at our hotel were going...

and no we never got anywhere with them.

I saw an inter provincial game out in Laos and was not a bad standard. although not much grass just dirt

 

[shrimperman]

think i might be in the running for this one!whilst on holiday in venezuela this year went to a friendly made up of veneulean 'legends' vs the isle of margerita, which is a state just off mainland venezuela. the game waas played in an old dog racing track just outside of our resort infront of about 500.

 

[Fish]

Quote[/b] (keefmoon @ Aug. 17 2005,11:37)]I thought that wouldn't go down too well!
I really do hate The Ham. I grew up with enough of them, having gone to school in Brentwood...

Schoolboy error from the schoolboy!

Putting *pt*n P*rk as your favourite ground on here? Only a drum-kit owner would do that...