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General Category => Altrincham FC First Team => Topic started by: Knutsford Alty on October 20, 2011, 03:19:33 PM
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and bringing back memories of past FA Cup exploits, did anyone have the pleasure of visiting any of these three grounds?
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Sealand Road, Chester City
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Leeds Road, Huddersfield Town
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Springfield Park, Wigan Athletic
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No
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Classic old grounds Mister....for a ground buff like me Leeds Road looked a peach to visit.
Have the teddy bears turned to stone yet?
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Leeds Rd - so long ago V who I cannot recall put poss Leeds in a pre season friendly. soooo vague!
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went to springfield park once not for an fa cup tie though npl first season lost 3-2
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interesting thread all round this one. Thinking back to grounds I've been to that are no longer there...
Filbert Street
Burnden Park
Maine Road
Drill Field
Leeds Road
The Old Wembley
Saltergate or whatever the official name was
Old Show Ground
Rockingham Road
not sure whats happened to the original Enfield FC ground.
how the game has changed in 20 years or so.
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Went to Sealand Road in the late 70s - a league cuo tie where Chester beat Walsall. I missed an earlier chance to go to Sealand Road to see them play Hartlepool as I had my first experience of All Bran and it didn't agree with me!
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Grounds I've been to that are no longer there....
Sealand Road
Drill Field
Seamer Road
Enfield
Th'old Wembley
Nuneaton Borough's Manor Park
Feethams
Millmoor
Saltergate
Cold Blow Lane
Belle Vue (Donny)
Baseball Ground
Filbert Street
Highfield Road
Maine Road
Rockingham Road (probably still there?)
And plenty more have changed completely.
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good list...
i forgot about
seamer road, feethams, and belle vue.
blimey!
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Yes (Cheshire League), No, and Yes (CL and NPL) ! I thought they were both dumps but could understand why the home fans liked them in a strange kind of way!
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FAO : AltyFanInNottm
Cold Blow Lane.....I have been to the New Den but fair play for getting the old beast in
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I went to cold blow lane too
also
arsenal
brighton coventry
darlinton
millwall
morecambe
northampton
oxford
rotherham
scarborough
sC**thorpe
stoke
wimbledon
and probably lots of non league grounds
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been to chester and wigan back in the late 60s
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been to chester and wigan back in the late 60s
Didn't know you were in my age bracket ASMO!!!! :D :D :o
(or were you a 'child prodigy? ;) )
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Do Sandbach Ramblers and Ashington count?
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Maine Road
Burnden Park
Springfield Park
Sealand Road
The Old Show Ground
The Recreation Ground, Seamer Road
Manor Park
Fellows Park
"Saltergate"
The Windmill
Simonside Hall
The Tower Ground
Barton Stadium
Jackson Avenue
er....Lawrence Road ? !
Not as many as some, but some forgotten gems on the end of the list.
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I'm surprised non of you have mentioned the Central Ground, Wittons old home or are you all too young for that one?! Some great old grounds mentioned in those lists though
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Yes to all 3 in the original question and a good few of the others mentioned, but what about another couple much closer to home:
Witton's old Central Ground
Runcorn - Canal Street
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Yes to all 3 in the original question and a good few of the others mentioned, but what about another couple much closer to home:
Witton's old Central Ground
Runcorn - Canal Street
Missed Canal Street - and the Drill Field ! Strangely, I never got to the Central Ground though.
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Who can forget the South Liverpool experience at scenic Holly Park...?
Or watching us lose at Jackson Avenue, Nantwich in 1976?
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Or on a cricket pitch at Emley?
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Loakes Park Wycombe and The McCain Stadium Scarborough to add to alot of those already mentioned.
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Colne Dynamos,Kings Lynn,Hinckley,Horwich RMI,Leigh RMI and there are probably quite a few more! Ive also been to Kiddy and Telford before they built new grounds on top or around the old ones.
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Colne Dynamos,Kings Lynn,Hinckley,Horwich RMI,Leigh RMI and there are probably quite a few more! Ive also been to Kiddy and Telford before they built new grounds on top or around the old ones.
Christ, someone had to mention them. Just when I finally thought the therapy had worked and the experience had been pushed so deep into the murky recesses of my mind that it would never re-surface.
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Has no-one mentioned Millmoor? A great FA Cup triumph, a painful Trophy semi final and a woeful FA Cup debacle in one South Yorkshire location
And how about our Conf North playoff venues - Manor Park and Rockingham Road - both gone now
Surprisingly, the first season of the Conference - about half the grounds have gone - Weymouth, Maidstone, AP Leamington, Northwich, Scarborough, Kettering, Nuneaton, Wealdstone, Yeovil Town. And Worcester go at the end of the season.
And two more to add - a painful trophy quarter final - Watling Street, Dartford and a more succesful one at Bishops Stortford
Of the over 90 grounds I have been to watching Alty, more than half have gone. And there are some real good memories in there
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the list grows! Some dumps like canal street had their own weird charm that I miss. It's fine going to places like nene park but they are soulless and bland.
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I thought that Rockinghorse Road was still there, being used by the reserves or something.
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And Enfield:
Our trophy semi final triumphs: Canal Street, Loakes Park, Southbury Road - all gone!
I live near Wycombe - Loakes Park is now a supermarket / shopping centre / hospital extension
I go to Enfield every wednesday - Southbury Park is either a morrisons or a Cine World (the latter I think) depending on which side of the A10 junction it was
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Did anyone watch Alty away at Layer Road in the early 90's when Colchester were in the conference
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Did anyone watch Alty away at Layer Road in the early 90's when Colchester were in the conference
The 2 games at Colchester were memorable, for the wrong reasons unfortunately. 90/91 was a top-ish of the table clash, finishing 3-3. Early on, a bunch of local knuckle heads were let into the away end as they persuaded the police that they were Alty fans who had gone in the wrong end by mistake. Despite our protests to the police that they were squadies itching for a fight, in they came and all hell broke loose.
91-92 was different as there were only about 30 of us there, as opposed to 200 the year before. Can't remember much about the game apart from it finishing 1-1. On the way out a few Alty fans were jumped by some friendly locals and we ended up getting a lift back to the station by the police to avoid any more nonsense.
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Did anyone watch Alty away at Layer Road in the early 90's when Colchester were in the conference
The 2 games at Colchester were memorable, for the wrong reasons unfortunately. 90/91 was a top-ish of the table clash, finishing 3-3. Early on, a bunch of local knuckle heads were let into the away end as they persuaded the police that they were Alty fans who had gone in the wrong end by mistake. Despite our protests to the police that they were squadies itching for a fight, in they came and all hell broke loose.
91-92 was different as there were only about 30 of us there, as opposed to 200 the year before. Can't remember much about the game apart from it finishing 1-1. On the way out a few Alty fans were jumped by some friendly locals and we ended up getting a lift back to the station by the police to avoid any more nonsense.
That really was policing at its best. All the other bits are full and Alty haven't fuilled their end so we'll just let a few more in there. A scary day as a 15 year old!!
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Did anyone watch Alty away at Layer Road in the early 90's when Colchester were in the conference
The 2 games at Colchester were memorable, for the wrong reasons unfortunately. 90/91 was a top-ish of the table clash, finishing 3-3. Early on, a bunch of local knuckle heads were let into the away end as they persuaded the police that they were Alty fans who had gone in the wrong end by mistake. Despite our protests to the police that they were squadies itching for a fight, in they came and all hell broke loose.
91-92 was different as there were only about 30 of us there, as opposed to 200 the year before. Can't remember much about the game apart from it finishing 1-1. On the way out a few Alty fans were jumped by some friendly locals and we ended up getting a lift back to the station by the police to avoid any more nonsense.
The game in the 90/91 season was 1-1, wasn't it? Nicky Daws with ours, I seem to remember.
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Spotter's badge there Laurence, you are of course correct - I mixed up the scores. Will attempt to rectify my failing memory with a night of Alty chat in the Bull tonight with JTH.
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Thanks Knutsford Alty for the photo of Cold Blow Lane. Looks a beast even when empty.
I went to an FA Cup match there in 1989 between Millwall and Liverpool.
Full house of about 24,000. The fences were high with the revolving spikes on top, making it impossible to get onto the pitch.
Somehow a Millwall fan did get onto the pitch whereupon a trio of burly officers pounced on him.
And then the crowd pelted the coppers with pies.
Aaah, golden memories.
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Spotter's badge there Laurence, you are of course correct - I mixed up the scores. Will attempt to rectify my failing memory with a night of Alty chat in the Bull tonight with JTH.
Can't imagine he'll want to tell you any Alty-based anecdotes.
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Did anyone watch Alty away at Layer Road in the early 90's when Colchester were in the conference
Ahh yes, as Mad Frankie describes (apart from the scores mix-up). I remember having a heated debate with one of the officers in our end explaining that ALL Alty fans were already in, but he was singularly uninterested. Come kick-off it did in our end, I was caught with a glancing blow and caught one of them with similar. I returned to the same officer to give him a piece (and not a particularly pleasant one) of my mind whereupon I was basically told to shut it or I'd be arrested (not the first time that's happened to me at an Alty match, the other occasion being away at Boston......that's being threatened with arrest rather than the actual thing). A thoroughly unpleasant experience.
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Cold Blow Lane.....I have been to the New Den but fair play for getting the old beast in
Never was a ground more aptly named.......