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What Premier/Football League Grounds have you played at?

Posted: Sat May 22, 2021 6:35 am
by mkmel
Just the two grounds for me...
Luton Town and Peterborough Utd

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Posted: Sat May 22, 2021 6:41 am
by BenWickes
Preston (several times), Oldham, Accrington Stanley and the old Bolton ground

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Posted: Sat May 22, 2021 7:06 am
by Vegas Claret
I've been on the Turf as a mascot, ran on the pitch at York, walked around the pitch at Carlisle but other than that it's a big fat zero for me.

My own fault for turning down Liverpool in 1993 when they wanted me to partner Ian Rush up front. I had a Saturday job.

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Posted: Sat May 22, 2021 8:22 am
by CharlieinNewMexico
Deepdale when it was plastic and very, very hard. I can still feel it in my back 30 years later 🤷

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Posted: Sat May 22, 2021 10:16 am
by IanMcL
Email Park.
Long gone.

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Posted: Sat May 22, 2021 1:42 pm
by minnieclaret
Neither league grounds now but:
Feethams, Darlington. Youth Cup Final
Haig Ave, Southport. Fire Service Cup Final

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Posted: Sat May 22, 2021 2:11 pm
by ClaretTony
Played a few times on the plastic pitch at Preston but Cambridge is the only ground where I scored a goal.

I have to admit though I was the only person on the pitch when I scored but it was a good finish. ⚽️⚽️⚽️

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Posted: Sat May 22, 2021 2:49 pm
by Milltown1882
Deepdale, Stanley

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Posted: Sat May 22, 2021 2:56 pm
by Vegas Claret
ClaretTony wrote:
Sat May 22, 2021 2:11 pm
Played a few times on the plastic pitch at Preston but Cambridge is the only ground where I scored a goal.

I have to admit though I was the only person on the pitch when I scored but it was a good finish. ⚽️⚽️⚽️
sorry, VAR have just checked it and it's been ruled out for offside :D

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Posted: Sat May 22, 2021 3:13 pm
by ClaretTony
Vegas Claret wrote:
Sat May 22, 2021 2:56 pm
sorry, VAR have just checked it and it's been ruled out for offside :D
Not having that, not even VAR can take 51 years to make a decision. Was on the way to Ipswich in Sep 1970.

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Posted: Sat May 22, 2021 3:16 pm
by Vegas Claret
ClaretTony wrote:
Sat May 22, 2021 3:13 pm
Not having that, not even VAR can take 51 years to make a decision. Was on the way to Ipswich in Sep 1970.
:D :D :D

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Posted: Sat May 22, 2021 3:24 pm
by Clarets4me
The son and heir was part of a Premier League Club's Fitness & Conditioning team, and in the 2010-11 season, made a point of slotting one home at every EPL ground, and at Wembley ... usually about 40 minutes before kick-off ! :D

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Posted: Sat May 22, 2021 4:18 pm
by Cajun
Turf Moor (charity game), Bloomfield Road (schools finals), Fleetwood (schools), and York's Bootham Crescent (media cup) when it was a League ground.

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Posted: Sat May 22, 2021 4:28 pm
by GodIsADeeJay81
Just a former Cymru Alliance and then League of Wales ground, Belle Vue, home of Rhyl FC.

2 dozen of us used to regularly jump the wall/fence in the summer and have kick abouts in there.

The groundsman eventually gave up chasing us out.
So long as it wasn't more than a couple of times a week and we didn't leave any rubbish there, we got a large chunk of the summer to play there.

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Posted: Sat May 22, 2021 4:31 pm
by Covclaret
Turf Moor (same charity game as Cajun), Coventry City ((Highfield Rd), Fulham, MK Dons, Sunderland ( Stadium of Light), Aston Villa, and Leicester’s training ground with Burnley fans v Leicester fans.

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Posted: Sat May 22, 2021 4:40 pm
by Stan Tastic
Turf Moor in the late sixties with the Junior Clarets. We weren't allowed to use the proper goals and had to play across the width of the pitch.

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Posted: Sat May 22, 2021 4:58 pm
by Paul Waine
Stamford Bridge, 11th May 2010, charity game for Cystic Fibrosis Trust, Parliamentary team v Celebrities and the "pay to play" punters. I was, of course, one of the latter. I was 56, played at centre half, all 5ft 8in of me. Alastair Campbell was left back alongside me. Ben Shephard, was our team captain. The MPs team included Andy Burnham - told me he'd rather play for Everton than be in politics. Mark Bright (Crystal Palace etc), turned out for the MPs. Both teams had (roughly) two teams, so we all played 25 mins of one half and 20 mins of the other. We won 3-1. There were tv cameras at the game - and a very brief report featured me failing to get in a challenge to stop their attacker scoring their only goal. (Well, it was a friendly). It was shown on the BBC 6 o'clock news, as a final clip. We'd been told there would be a longer report on the later news - Cystic Fibrosis Trust is a big national charity. However, this was the Tuesday after the May 2010 general election and Gordon Brown resigned around 8pm that evening.

Chelsea had already won the Premier League before the game - and won the FA cup the following w/end. I was looking forward to seeing the inside of a Premier League club's changing rooms, as well as enjoying a game on their "premier league" standard pitch. It wasn't to be: they put us all in portacabins behind the stands and the pitch had almost as much sand as Blackpool beach.

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Posted: Sat May 22, 2021 5:01 pm
by dougcollins
Racecourse, Ninian Park and the Vetch - I can see a pattern here..

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Posted: Sat May 22, 2021 6:22 pm
by holdyourfire
Rochdale and Barrow