Fans of Arsenal remember when the new stadium opened just a few years ago and younger fans only know the team's home field as Emirates Stadium. Now it appears that fans will know of that name for a lot longer as Fly Emirates recently signed a major deal with Arsenal in order to secure the naming rights to the stadium for the next decade and a half.
Curzon Ashton3 Goole3 AET FT 2-2CA win4-3 on pens HT: 1-0 Att: 106
Evans 26, Watson 77, Walker 120: Russell 58, 75, 117
from Tameside Stadium
This was a game too far. A lot of groundhoppersappear to have no limits, doing fourfive groundsa week without a glimmer of remorse of self consciousness.
Date: Tuesday7th August 2012 Ground:Abbey Stadium or Goredale Avenue Comp:Vodkat League Division Two Match:Abbey Hey 5 Leek County School Old Boys 2HT: 3-0
ATT: Additional: Entrance £5, Programme £1.00
Abbey Stadiuminpictures Ground Statistics (marks out of ten, maximum 40) Character 7, Structures/Terracing 8, Hospitality 9, Backdrop/Scenery or aesthetics for larger stadiums7 Total 31
Abbey Hey, surely the first football club alphabetically, hail from Abbey Hey, Gorton, in south Manchester.
Date: Tuesday 21st August 2012 Ground:Red Lion Ground Comp: Midland Combination Match:Bloxwich United 1 Stafford Town 0HT: 1-0
ATT: Additional: Entrance £5, Programme £1.00
Old Red Lion Groundin pictures Ground Statistics (marks out of ten, maximum 40) Character 7, Structures/Terracing 6, Hospitality 7, Backdrop/Scenery or aesthetics for larger stadiums5 Total 25
I'm glad I got Bloxwichin when I did, in August this year, as they have now sadly resigned from the Midland Combination.
Saturday August 25th Cymru Alliance RhayaderTown o Cefn Druids 3 HT: 0-1 Att: 83
from Y Weirglodd
Entrance £5 Programme £1 Y Weirglodd pictures
Having seen the first two games of the Mid Wales hop (out of 11), I went my own way, choosing quality over quantity in Cymru Alliance new boys RhayaderTown.
Ground Statistics (marks out of ten, maximum 40) Character 9, Structures/Terracing 6, Hospitality 7, Backdrop/Scenery or aesthetics for larger stadiums8 Total 30
I'd spent the previous night in the Severn Arms in Penybont.
Date:FridayAugust24th 2012 Ground:Mount Field Comp:Spar Mid Wales League Div 2 (welsh step four) Match:LlanfairUnited 4 Abermule 1HT: 2-1
ATT:261 Additional: Entrance £3.00 Programme £1 Mount Fieldin pictures
Ground Statistics (marks out of ten, maximum 40) Character 7, Structures/Terracing 7, Hospitality 7, Backdrop/Scenery or aesthetics for larger stadiums7 Total 28
This was the first night of the August Bank Holiday weekend Welsh Groundhop, a marathon of an event that takes in 11 grounds in four days.
Most football connoisseurs will have heard of Caersws (pron. care-soos), from James Alexander Gordon's reading of the football results at 5 o'clock on a saturday afternoon, from when they were a top flight Welsh club.
The first workday after the clocks had gone back and a trip to see my first ever Collieries-suffixed team. The first day of the newly foreshortened sunsets, where the evening seems eerily black andseemingly extra cold; the curtain has finally closed on any hope of Indian summers the winter football season is here, with its endless postponements, cut up pitches and loss of feeling in the feet.
