most obscure ground or match you,ve been to

major bill

thought this would be interesting, finding out the weirdest or randomist football grounds or matches people here have attended!!!

il get the ball rolling.

its not so much obscure as in watching pygmys play in africa but burton albion v histon town in the english blue square premier is problably mine.

chughes

Does Ochill View Park, home of the mighty Stenhousemuir count ?
I spent a few months in Stenhousemuir back in 1994 and I saw them play against Queen of the South and Meadowbank Thistle.
COME ON THE WARRIORS....

Fr Tod Umptious

Barnet v Watford, pre-season friendly, August 1992

The_Kew_Tour

I prob go match, it be Darlington v Brentford.

been few poor ground in ireland like Rathbane etc but match wise that was the weirdest one just happened go threw there.

Zebra3

Old Trafford.

Thought it was a theme park like Disneyworld I was going to.

Couldn't believe it was a football ground. :eek:

Dont be at yourself

I used to regularly attend Kyoto (Purple) Sanga games circa 2005/2006, when they were in J-2. Cracking atmosphere it was, too!

stovelid

Standard would be too poor so the proposed question is anathema to me.

cashback

Went to a V-League match in Vietnam last year between The Cong and Danang. Interesting experience and good atmosphere but not great quality stuff. It did mean lots of goals though.

Diabhal Beag

The Showgrounds in middle of nowhere (Sligo?)

artanevilla

For a professional team? Probably Gannon Park in Malahide for a cup match, been to a fair few amateur league games.

Pal

Gamba v Fiorentina in Osaka Japan.

couldn't find my way home and nobody spoke English

MonkeyTennis

Sigma Olomouc vs SV Hamburg in Olomouc in the Czech Republic.

I do believe in the stadium Robbie Keane made his debut for Ireland;) fact fans

DSB

Brentford v Shrewsbury.

bohsman

Seville v Real Betis in a poorly attended preseason friendly in the Olympic Stadium in Seville was a bit bizarre.

Helix

england amateur b vs scotland amateur b i think it was, at glebe norths ground

dreamers75

Sunderlands Stadium of Light about 2 years ago for a 6pm Ko match between Sunderland reserves and St Pats. There were more players there than people :eek:

Its was minus 40, to this day i still call the **** who thought it would be a good idea to go a ****.


It was 1-1 and Quigley scored the greatest goal in the entire history of football but noone but me 2 others and about 7 stewards saw it.

Mr Maroon

Galway United vs Limerick, friendly in Ballinalsoe

or

Mervue vs Galway United in the Connacht Senior Cup Final in Fahy's Field.

or

Galway United vs Sligo Rovers friendly in somewhere that I can't remember the name of. I think it's out the Tuam road.

delta_bravo

FSV Frankfurt v Freiburg in the Commerzbank Arena last year. About 2000 people in a 60,000+ seater stadium. Terrible atmosphere.

podge018

2004, Spain v Scotland in an international friendly in Levante's ground Valencia. The floodlights failed after about 55mins then the most torrential rain Ive ever witnessed started to fall. The game was then abandoned at 1-1. Surreal experience all around.

M5

Hetman Zamosc in SE Poland, was at the ground, gave the game a miss, think they are in the Polish second division

http://www.hetman.zamosc.pl/nowa/index.php?str=stadion

Was also at the post Keegan sacking Hull Game last year, protests and all

Mint Sauce

most obscure one, was an interfirms games in derry, was one of the players, british army helecopter circled the pitch for most of the game, must have been nothing exciting happening that day, was about 9 years ago

Qprmeath

Boundary Park, Oldham v Qpr. Has to be the coldest place on earth. After 5 minutes couldnt feel my feet. Ferdinand scored a bullet free kick to put us one nil up, then they scored 4:(

Xavi6

Most obscure ground I've been to was in Port Vila, Vanuatu. It was the national stadium and the reason I went there on holiday is because I knew the country from being the worst team in FIFA 98 and was curious as to what it's like there.

iregk

Played against Dagenham and Redbridge in Victoria road back in my footballing days. Decent stadium, nice place.

civis_liberalis

A Spanish 5th tier game 10 years ago between 2 utterly forgettable teams.

Also a friendly somewhere in Turkey, Burcaspor SK (sp) against a bunch of Sunday league footballers.

pierrot

Man Utd v Maccabi Haifa in Nicosia, Cyprus. Even though they couldn't play the game at their own home ground, the Israelis beat us by a couple of goals iirc

oldyouth

irish-stew wrote: »

most obscure one, was an interfirms games in derry, was one of the players, british army helecopter circled the pitch for most of the game, must have been nothing exciting happening that day, was about 9 years ago

Very similar for me. I was with a mate at a firendly match between Portadown Supporters Club V Dundalk FC Supporters Club in Portadown.

Halfway through the game, we heard a couple of 'cracks' in the distance which sounded like shots. Suddenly, 2 helicopters rose from just outside the ground and headed off in to the distance. A few minutes later thay returned and hovered over the pitch for a while before touching down at their original position. Very surreal

Ickle Magoo

Inverness Caley Thistle Vs Greenock Morton...

s_carnage

Was at a Prague derby game involving Sparta & Bohemian Prague. Was a good enough game which also had a cracker scored from about 30 yards.

Thanx 4 The Fish

Bucks head in telford. I go there quite a lot actually, they also host reserve games from some of the prem teams.

Iago

A few years back I went to see Worksop Town v Marine in the old Unibond Division 1.

Running the show for Worksop Town was on Chris Waddle, a little older, a little wider but still oozing class with every touch.

his quickest move all day was moving away from the Marine box when Worksop were awarded a penalty

Mr_Roger_Bongos

dreamers75 wrote: »

It was 1-1 and Quigley scored the greatest goal in the entire history of football but noone but me 2 others and about 7 stewards saw it.

You serious? Describe it?! I'd be interested to hear what made it so impressive!

villains77

walsall v grimbsy town in the bescot statium and wolves v norwich in molineaux. also when i used play with fc villa (spin off football team from the supporters club) we played marston green in birmingham was on a pitch beside a cricket club house i think the score was 5 -1 to the brum team as the lads were out clubbing the night before

showry

probably Starks Park, Kirkcaldy; Hibs @ Raith Rovers in 99 on the way to promotion

Third_Echelon

NekkidBibleMan wrote: »

I used to regularly attend Kyoto (Purple) Sanga games circa 2005/2006, when they were in J-2. Cracking atmosphere it was, too!

Pal wrote: »

Gamba v Fiorentina in Osaka Japan.

couldn't find my way home and nobody spoke English

Yeah.. Japan for me too. J2 league match:

Cerezo Osaka vs Tokushima Vortis.

Bought the Cerezo Osaka jersey. Has to be the coolest jersey i own!

shoutman

Went to a Millwall match in the Den last season, was an experiance to say the least...
I was nervous until I heard some German accents a few rows back, for some reason that put me at ease.

1967

On hols one year in cyprus went to a pre season friendly Apollon Limassol v Swindon Town i am still trying to get that ninety minutes of my life back.As regards a game i planned to go to maybe Livingston at home to Hibs or Aberdeen at home to the mighty Hibs it was the coldest place i was ever in and the locals were going around in short sleeves.

DundalkDuffman

Been in a lot of the lower league grounds in England and went numerous times to Fortuna Duesseldorf but for me it has to be to see Cammel Lairds in the Unibond league last year. It made trips to GOrtakeegan and Rathbane seem like a trip to the Camp Nou! Highly enjoyable all the same.

Tom65

AIK v Hammarby - the big Stockholm derby. A last-gasp 2-1 victory for Hammarby, we left early and missed the last goal because the fans started ripping out the seats.

orourkeda

Bloomfield Road in the early 90's when Blackpool played carlisle united in the old fourth division.

Mr. Presentable

Blue vs Red, Florence 2005