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Post by chrish on Sept 15, 2010 22:27:35 GMT
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Post by ospelgull on Sept 17, 2010 7:02:40 GMT
A one the few remaining older Dutch football grounds which oozes character! I live a 45 minutes drive away from De Koel (which is dialect for kuil, which is the Dutch word for hole).
It was here where I tasted my first experience of watching professional football. In the mid '80s we could buy a season ticket for 5 guilders (= 2 euros nowadays) as a result of VVV Venlo working together with my local football club.
Chris, did you also shoot some pictures of their previous ground De Kraal? It was situated on the left hand side of De Koel. Some terracing still remains today.
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Post by chrish on Sept 17, 2010 19:03:52 GMT
A one the few remaining older Dutch football grounds which oozes character! I live a 45 minutes drive away from De Koel (which is dialect for kuil, which is the Dutch word for hole). It was here where I tasted my first experience of watching professional football. In the mid '80s we could buy a season ticket for 5 guilders (= 2 euros nowadays) as a result of VVV Venlo working together with my local football club. Chris, did you also shoot some pictures of their previous ground De Kraal? It was situated on the left hand side of De Koel. Some terracing still remains today. Ospel. Ik heb niet de andere stadion gezien!  Het is onze secret. |
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Post by merse on Sept 17, 2010 19:14:56 GMT
 I was driving accross the south of Holland once and came into Venlo and immediately thought "VVV" thinking it must be a small town or village as I had seen their old ground on the telly. Surprisingly, it is a substantially large town so I am gob smacked that their new football stadium only holds around 7,000. So what other town of that size has such a small football ground? Oh yes Torbay! 
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Post by chrish on Sept 19, 2010 10:22:25 GMT
I was driving accross the south of Holland once and came into Venlo and immediately thought "VVV" thinking it must be a small town or village as I had seen their old ground on the telly. Surprisingly, it is a substantially large town so I am gob smacked that their new football stadium only holds around 7,000. So what other town of that size has such a small football ground? Oh yes Torbay! It's a funny little city is Venlo. It got quite infamous for Germans visiting just to buy weed. They've moved all the coffee shops out onto the outskirts now where there's a rest stop with a difference. I guess it suffers more than most trapped in between Eindhoven and the Ruhr in Germany. mönchengladbach is only a 15 minute drive down the road. Not a bad place to live in my book |
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Het is onze secret.