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Altrincham FC First Team / Re: Gateshead Match Thread
« on: January 19, 2020, 09:41:35 PM »I am not sure I ever need to go back there.
My thoughts exactly. I thought that I must have entered a potential subject for an episode of 'Abandoned Engineering'. Everyone attending the game was housed in the same stand on the West side of the stadium and it made it appear as if the venue was empty. The large deserted looking East stand is missing it's roof covering but still has the twisted skeletal remains of the metal frame that used to hold it up exposed. The running track around the pitch has seen better days and there were puddles of standing water everywhere. There was also a big dirty looking tarpaulin sheet stretched out across the ground below where we were sat for some unknown reason and whilst many of the seats looked to have been quite recently replaced, many of them were covered with seagull sh*t. Incidentally, It was also bloody freezing!
'Its grim up north'... as it happens grim is a good word to describe our performance. Best leave it at that.
The tarps cover the long jump pit. There is one at the other end, I assume one is for the triple jump?I
I know nowt about athletics, but Olympics apart do spectator numbers justify an 11800 all seater stadium? The place looked well past it.
It was a major athletics venue back in Brendan Foster's day. In 1993, a crowd of almost 15,000 attended a meeting at which Linford Christie competed. The football club would be happy with 10% of that. You can tell it used to be important as it has its own station on the Tyne & Wear Metro. Past it's best now I'm afraid, but better than the massive tip it was built on !
