Quiz: Name The Old Ground

Been watching some old YT football videos and got me thinking how I couldn't remember some of the names of the old grounds teams had moved from.

So I was bored and creatd a quiz...just a bit of fun.

Google if you want, PM me if you want but let's take a wander down Memory Lane...

So name the old ground - current stadium in brackets.

1) Derby County - (Pride Park)

2) Oxford United - (Kassam Stadium)

3) Walsall - (Bescot Stadium)

4) Manchester City - (City of Manchester Stadium)

5) Arsenal - (Emirates)

6) Middlesboro - (Riverside Stadium)

7) Southampton - (St Mary's Stadium)

8) West Ham United - (London Stadium)

9) Leicester City - (King Power)

10) Shrewsbury Town (New Meadow)

11) Cardiff City - (Cardiff City Stadium)

12) Wigan Athletic - (JJB)

13) Hull City - (KC Stadium)

14) Swansea City - (Liberty Stadium)

15) Huddersfield - (Galpharm Stadium)

16) Coventry City - (Ricoh Arena)

17) Brighton & Hove Albion - (before the Withdean - The AMEX, Falmer)

18) Colchester United - (Colchester Community Stadium)

19) Stoke City - (Britannia Stadium)

20) Sunderland - (Stadium of Light)

21) Rotherham United - (New York Stadium)

22) Barnet - (The Hive Stadium)

23) Reading - (Madjeski Stadium)

24) Chesterfield - (B2Net Stadium)

25) Doncaster Rovers - (Keepmoat Stadium)

 

1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 11, 14, 17, I know these and couple of the others are on the tip of my tongue 16, 19 & 20?

 

Good quiz. I love old grounds so I think I probably know all of these so won’t spoil the fun!

 

The old ground names are so much better than these new corporate or unimaginative ones.

 

Colchester, Rotherham and Donny were Layer Road, Millmoor and Bellevue.

Filbert Street has a big, ugly block of flats on it now. I was 10 when they knocked it down so I don’t remember loads about it other than you couldn’t see the goal in front of the south stand if you sat in the top tier and the men’s toilet in the South Stand was just a room with a very wet, smelly sloped floor and a gutter at one end.

 

I forgot one, it was the one that inspired the quiz (oh the irony)

26) Bolton Wanderers (Reebok Stadium)

 

I remember sitting glumly at the old Bolton stadium watching us lose 3-0 in the cold. Think Ramage was playing with Miller in goal so probably under Roeder.

 

Ramage AND Miller in goal ?

 

Walsall is Fellows Park
Huddersfield is Leeds Road

 

there’s a good photo somewhere of Galpharm about 3 quarters complete with Leeds Road right next to it with Huddersfield playing.

 

That was Burnden Park, scene of a less-known crowd disaster in 1946.

 

I think it's the only club on that list that I've never seen at either new or old ground

 

Oh, you've missed out. It's a unique stadium design with a great atmosphere and decent, enthusiastic home supporters. Also handy for the Peak District if you fancy making a weekend of it. Really sorry they went down.

 

Surely must have had one of the smallest/worst away sections the Prem has seen. About a third of the tiny east stand which can’t have had more than 10 rows and exited straight out onto Filbert Street.

I remember Chelsea fans launching flaming toilet rolls into the South Stand and there being an absolutely terrifying brawl on Filbert Street afterwards. I’m fairly sure it was at same the time Donal Macintyre did his doc about Chelsea fans * and seeing some of the footage of the fighting on there.

I was a year late for Cottee and Heskey and got Akinbiyi and Dean Sturridge instead.

*The one where he infiltrates their gang as a lifelong Chelsea nutter but none of them question where he’s been all this time or why he has an Irish accent.

 

The Football League has lost a few good stadiums in the past 50 years on that list on the OP.

We have also lost the following venues from the League in the past 50 years, all grounds that I believe Watford have played League games at during the past 50 years. So name the team:

1) Borough Park
2) Feethams
3) Brisbane Road
4) Meadow Lane
5) Holker Street
6) Haig Avenue
7) Racecourse Ground
8) The Shay
9) Victoria Ground (not Stoke)
10) Plainmoor
11) Recreation Ground
12) Victoria Park
13) Twerton Park
14) Bootham Crescent
15) Sealand Road
16) Edgeley Park
17) Edgar Street
18) Old Show Ground
19) Gigg Lane
20) County Ground
21) The Den
22) Plough Lane
23) Huish Park

and I'll throw in a bonus three ex-League grounds of this time period I think we never played at:
1) York Street
2) Aggborough
3) Watling Street

Feel free to add any to either list I've missed

 

drat - just checked. 9) should read Victoria Park.

 

Double mistake - I mean Victoria Road and it should be #4 on the second list not #9 on the first.

That will teach me for not concentrating during home schooling.

 

1) Borough Park
2) Feethams - Darlington
3) Brisbane Road - Leyton Orient
4) Meadow Lane - Notts County
5) Holker Street
6) Haig Avenue
7) Racecourse Ground - Wrexham?
8) The Shay - Halifax
9) Victoria Ground (not Stoke)
10) Plainmoor - Torquay
11) Recreation Ground - Aldershot?
12) Victoria Park
13) Twerton Park - Bristol Rovers
14) Bootham Crescent - York
15) Sealand Road
16) Edgeley Park - Stockport
17) Edgar Street - Hereford
18) Old Show Ground - Scunthorpe
19) Gigg Lane - Bury
20) County Ground - Swindon? Are they not there anymore?
21) The Den - Millwall
22) Plough Lane - Wimbledon
23) Huish Park - Yeovil

 

County Ground is the Northampton one. Victoria Ground = Hartlepool? Sealand Road want to say another Bristol Rovers ground but not sure.

 

Aggborough is Kidderminster.

 

York Street = Boston Utd

 

Sealand Rd = Chester.

 

Holker Street = Barrow
Haig Avenue = Southport

 

Bristol Rovers also had Eastville.

 

I think Nene Park saw league action too.. Rushden.

 

Twerton Park was of course Bath City’s ground which was shared by Bristol Rovers after they left Eastville (where the gasworks was - hence ‘The Gas’). Borough Park, I assume, must have been Workington.
I’m pleased to say I saw Watford play at twelve of those venues.

 

of course, missed it

 

top effort to be to 12

 

yep - another good call as well into the 70s if not early 80s.

 

I believe all have been spotted.

For clarity Victoria Road (not Ground) was Dagenham and Redbridge and we never played there. Victoria Park is Hartlepool.

 

Huddersfield - Leeds Road
Colchester - Layer Road
Doncaster - Millmoor

 

Dear me, no...