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Nice quiz that one. 9/10.
2/7 so I stopped.
7/10 but I got 10/10 in repechage
6/10.
Not paying attention, I got the fcuking etihad wrong, so should have been 7.
Got the Dundee one wrong as well.
I got it wrong too 
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8/10.
No 2 and 5 I got wrong.
The Dundee Utd one was a no-brainer with the visible Tangerine seats!
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The Bombonera is rocking, literally.
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A grand auld setup for a game of backs and forwards.
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You would be hoping for a game of two halves if you were inside in that stand.
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A short series on stadiums which made/make use of natural/built surroundings.
- The old Croke Park.
The essential feeling of being in the old Croke Park was to be on Hill 16 and see the hills way in the distance over the old Canal End. In front of the hills were the chimneys of the Georgian four storeys jokingly peeping up over Belvedere Place and Mountjoy Square. Gardiner Street church. The feeling you had was that the rest of Dublin was peeping in, whereas in the new stadium, the rest of Dublin feels sealed off. And at the back of the Canal End, two essential features - the human operated scoreboard box which counted only total points, and the Toyota clock.
A few scores come to mind when I think of this vista - Henry Downey storming through to put Derry 14-13 up against Dublin in the 1993 All-Ireland football semi-final, after Derry had been behind for nearly the whole match, an intensely visually dramatic score when viewed from high up on Hill 16.
Leo O’Connor’s point for Limerick in the 1994 All-Ireland hurling final, a lazy dream of a point which blended beautifully with the Georgian chimneys in the background. The Limerick flags lifted lazily, not quickly, as the Derry and Tyrone flags did in 1993 and 1995. Crafty underdogs Limerick were on their way and would not be stopped today.
A point Paul Clarke got in the 1995 Leinster final, just before he got his goal. Charlie Redmond shot a low floating exocet of a pass across the face of the goal and Clarke caught it and in the blink of an eye had the ball skyscrapering into the air and seemingly up into the far hills. That score broke Meath on the finest day of the finest summer.
What a view, obliterated, by the new Canal End.
Howth Head in the background over Hill 16. Lurking. Peeping. Building the tension like Bernard Flynn in the below game as he roasted Brendan McKernan and kept knocking over point after point.
The Toyota clock in all its glory. Note the Gasometer peeping in on the left. Every stadium should have a proper clock, with hands. Five to five was the witching hour for All-Ireland semi-finals and finals. Once it reached five to five you knew the game was up.
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- The Rose Bowl, Pasadena.
FIFA Architect: “Hey, do you know what this stadium needs? A roof which will block out the view!”
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I see a lot of excitement around Mounthawk. Maybe if you could watch the match from a thousand feet in the air it would be cool, but its the biggest fucking kip you’ll ever watch a LOI match in. Down a dirty pot holed boreen that won’t handle the traffic at all. A shitty little stand that covers one half of the field and an astro turf pitch that is decent for playing a local league match on but will be a killer for proper teams. Absolutely zero facilities. Like there is no jacks bar the dressing rooms. I presume they will get in porta potties or something. The far side is another pitch with a biteen of a stand. The side at the top end is an 10ft wall at the back of Parks pitch and a narrow stand and road between the field and it. Normal game the ball goes over at its not coming back and the ball goes over a lot although from that photo it looks like they might have a gap now. The back end is a farmers field. Again ball is a cunt to get back. You can see fuck all of that “view”
I would imagine the reality of it will be a tad disapointing 
