Football Grounds Picture Quiz (4)

Yes I think so, I'm stumped can't see any ones with cars in them, last one looks like the dog track in Exeter where we raced our greyhounds when I was just a little boy

Maybe just do three of the ones you think are the hardest merse

That picture of Bramall Lane fully illustrates the point I was making about the distance of the cricket pavilion and terracing from the near touchline and yet they were used when necessary to fit a large football crowd in. Behind the Kop at the bottom end of the photo is the Sheffield CC nursery where the nests were always laid out for pre match batting and bowling practice.

New Kilbowie Park was only the second ground to go "all seater" (Aberdeen was the other) in the seventies although wooden benches screwed onto open terracing is calling "all seater" a bit ingenuous don't you think?

You may have sat in that main stand at Sealand Road even if you never visited Chester's old ground which is just across the road from their current Deva Stadium................IF you have sat in the away end at Vale Park that is for Port Vale bought the nearly new structure when Chester moved out for Macclesfield; dismantled it and re sighted it in the Potteries!

The Gordon Road Stand at Priestfield Stadium was the oldest surviving structure on any Football League ground until it's demolition a few years ago......................Gillingham and neighbouring Chatham have a footballing history as old as most areas in the world and the current day Chatham Town are in fact the same and continuous club as the famous Royal Engineers those old time F.A. Cup winners!

That rickety old stand at Valley Parade was the starting point of that terrible fire in which so many lost their lives and was once described by renowned football ground historian Simon Inglis as "having all the charm of a Sopwith Camel being seemingly held together with all sorts of wires and strands"

Finally, although I've never been to Shawfield Stadium in Glasgow; former member of this forum K1pper has. He slipped off for a spot of dog racing during one of the Queens Park FC summer tournaments us CGs went up to a few years ago and I remember he returned with tales of there being barely forty spectators there, just the one bookmaker (the redoubtable and late Freddie Williams) and they even had an "Afghan Race"!

Football stadiums.........................don't you just love 'em!