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Do you know your football grounds?

I've seen this from a paper I don't read very often but was surprisingly good.
http://www.theguardian.com/football/ng-interactive/2014/dec/22/football-stadiums-then-and-now-interactive-quiz

and http://www.theguardian.com/football/ng-interactive/2014/dec/18/chelseas-stamford-bridge-then-and-now

posted on 22/12/15

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comment by sph (U11456)

posted on 22/12/15

I got 7 out of 10. Ridiculously, I didn't get the Meadow Lane one, and I used to go past that stand on the odd occasion the Pies gave our primary school complimentary tickets!

posted on 22/12/15

comment by sph (U11456)
posted 13 minutes ago
I got 7 out of 10. Ridiculously, I didn't get the Meadow Lane one, and I used to go past that stand on the odd occasion the Pies gave our primary school complimentary tickets!
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Could have changed your destiny for the better there, sph....

posted on 22/12/15

Well I got 10 out of 10. As mentioned there were plenty of clues as to which ground it was even if you had never been there. Fulham hardly looks any different and Filbert Street looks better now than it did then.

posted on 22/12/15

Really enjoyed that, cheers. Brought back some memories.

posted on 22/12/15

I got 8 out of 10, I got meadow Lane right because one of the cars had a Derby registration on it! I got Villa Park wrong, I never remember it being that decrepit.

Do any of our older (spart and ramdini) posters remember the old stand at Chelsea? This is one of my favourite memories.

For that match in the league Cup I went on a bus trip. The driver said we should come back straight to the bus and we would have a drink later somewhere. We never expected to get a draw and reluctantly I went back to the bus. An hour or two later several passengers arrived at the bus the worse for wear and couldn't believe we all hadn't gone celebrating. They weren't very popular with the rest of us.

Wonderful days and King's Road was good fun.

posted on 22/12/15

I remember Stamford Bridge from the late eighties when it had the main stand and three delapidated stands. There was always those pale blue three wheelers parked around the pitch.

comment by Scouse (U9675)

posted on 22/12/15

7/10.

I only got Meadow Lane by the Mk1 escort, which has a Derbyshire registration (RB), which was closer than the other options!

posted on 23/12/15

9.i even surprised myself.

posted on 23/12/15

Photography by Murdo Mcloud 😳

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