Football Grounds - Reviews, Tips, Info

Getting there: Dead easy. Train into Brighton station, queue for about ten mins for a train which then leaves you at the ground in 5 minutes

Stadium itself: Great Design, modern but with the fan in mind and great view from the seats and queues not to bad under the stands.

Staff, Stewards, coppers: All fantastic from start to finish. People saying hello when you are queuing to get in, asking how your day is. Couldn't have been more helpful and it actually felt really refreshing to not be treated like we were an inconvenience. Best experience in the regard for years

Pints: In the ground they were reasonable at £4.90. All bars in the way end stayed open after the game to allow people to stagger their queuing for the train back. And all the bars in the North stand also open after the game and away fans are welcome to go in there and join the home fans for a beer. Again, a refreshing attitute.

In town we were told that there was no designated away pub as away fans are welcome everywhere. Not quite true as the bar right across the road from the station wouldn't let in away fans but somebody directed me around the corner to the Prince Albert where I could watch the end of the Wrexham game.

All in all, a stadium I'm be very happy to go back to if it wasn't for the fact that their team are a bit too good!

Actually, you are right - It is definitely cheap for down south. I guess I'm a bit too used to paying £3.50 at Anfield!

Would definitely recommend a trip to the Amex. 

Old Trafford

Anfield 

Emirates

Tottenham Hotspur Stadium

Olympic Stadium (West Ham)

King Power

Stamford Bridge

Goodison

St Mary's

Selhurst Park

Craven Cottage

Molineux

The Den

Deepdale

Loftus Road

Pride Park

Pirelli Stadium

Wembley

Would answer questions on any of those but if I were to throw up reviews I'd be at it for the week.

Edit - forgot I was at the John Smith stadium too a few years back when Huddersfield were in the Premier League, though it was for an FA Cup game.

Been to Bloomfield Road three times down the years, with the first being January 1991 i.e. before it was rebuilt.

This was when BFC were in the old 4th Division and they drew Spurs in the 3rd round of the FA Cup. I don't remember much about the game - Spurs won 1-0 via a Paul Stewart goal and went on to win the Cup that year.

But I do remember two things clearly. There was a truly ferocious storm blowing in from the Irish Sea that day, with the spray being blown right over the beach and the Promenade, including the cars driving along.

The weather in turn affected the game, since Bloomfield Road was so decrepit that for safety reasons they had to close one stand completely and herd the Spurs fans into a section normally reserved for home fans. From there, we were able to see great chunks of paint and other debris blowing from the roof of the vacated stand. I'm half surprised it didn't blow down, since in those pre-Holloway days, the whole place really was a dump (town too, as it happens). The crowd of 9k that day was their best of the season.

Been there since and tbf, they've rebuilt most of it quite nicely - a decent ground for a club of that status and support. And while Blackpool is not my own choice of resort (The Last Resort?), it's still friendly enough and all told, it's easily one of the cheapest away weekends in English football.

Jack City wrote: They love Big Mick in Blackpool.

I read somewhere that that win over QPR was the first time one of his teams had ever scored six goals in all the time he's been a manager - over 1,000 games!