Whimsical anecdotes concerning real or imagined visits to empty stadia

[glenshane]

@Sidney

In July 1990 myself and my family were in London and took the Tube out to Wembley. The World Cup had finished less than a week previously and both myself and my brother were wearing “Who’ll Put The Ball In The English Net?” t-shirts from the Penneys World Cup range of the time.

I knew from previous

@Sidney

visited that stadium with my family on July 31st, 1993.

As we walked to the stadium, two chaps on a motorbike, who appeared

The loneliest day trips, the shortest sell, the disenfranchisement of sporting dreams. The stadium tour…

[Sidney]

See if you can find any others, mate.

There’s definitely at least one more lying somewhere on the forum.

I won’t charge you for it.

[Little_Lord_Fauntleroy]

vile thread

[glenshane]

I threw you a like for that one…

[Little_Lord_Fauntleroy]

@Sidney

See if you can find any others, mate.

There’s definitely at least one more lying somewhere on the forum.

I won’t charge you for it.

[glenshane]

@Sidney

Anfield
Old Trafford
Highbury
Goodison Park
Parken Stadium, Copenhagen
Parnell Park
St. Conleth’s Park, Newbridge
The Carlisle Grounds

Whimsical anecdotes?

[Sidney]

That’s a list - I don’t see any anecdotes there, never mind whimsy.

[glenshane]

I know. Could you provide same?

[Sidney]

I already have - it’s up to you to find it.

[backinatracksuit]

The best ever was the day a former poster got a bus out to Epsom to take a picture of the locked gates

[KinvarasPassion]

Signing in

[Little_Lord_Fauntleroy]

wtf?

a half finished stadium?

[Horsebox]

@Little_Lord_Fauntleroy

wtf?

a half finished stadium?

3/4 finished actually, smartarse.

[balbec]

Dungeon this shit