For me , very sad. I have visited most of these stadiums and with the possible exception of Gay Meadow, they have been replaced with some of the least inspiring houses in the country, or identikit shopping centres. Highbury should have been a grade one listed building, and retained as a training ground for the English national team.
Not that I ever went to Highbury but you could tell even from the TV what an atmosphere it had. It's a shame that the business of football got bigger than the game, what can you do?
Boy, was this depressing, especially the derelict wastelands left behind in Leicester and Stoke. As a fan in the 80s I visited so many of these grounds: Filbert Street, Highfield Road, Victoria Ground, Highbury, Upton Park, Roker Park, Maine Road, Ayresome Park, White Hart Lane, Gigg Lane, Sealand Road... ok, a lot of them were decrepit, but they all had their own quirky characteristics.
Victoria Ground (Stoke) now has plenty of new houses there with more being built around it too. Nothing like what you see in this video which could count for Leicester too.
However, it lacked facilities compared to the new stadia of similar-sized clubs, which was one of the main causes of the move to the Ricoh Arena. Another reason for relocation was that parking facilities in the local area were inadequate. (From Wikipedia)
That question was one asked by Cov supporters for many a year! Especially once we found ourselves playing "at home" in Northampton and Birmingham! The ground was sold in a "master plan" chairman at the time Bryan Richardson had to make Cov one of the top ten teams in the Premiership. Big Ron came in. Massive overspending. Then relegation. Then another relegation and bankruptcy. Thank God for Mark Robins! PUSB!
So glad I got to visit many of these old grounds, Baseball ground, Victoria ground, Gay meadow, Highfield road, Boothferry park, Leeds road, Bolyn ground, White hart lane, Ayrsome park, old Wembley and over 400 times at Maine Road watching my club Manchester City, great memories.
Have to agree. I'm a manchester united supporter but I miss Upton Park and Highbury the most. I hope we never leave Old Trafford, the cricket ground just got a refresh, so maybe the glazers will spend to upkeep ot. Yeah, and pigs will fly mate! 🐖
Thanks. I remember Wigan Springfield Park. Hooligans had their own supply of ammo. The away end was just shingles no roof. North End had more fans there than the Pie Eaters. Catering was dad's shed. Choice. Don't be silly. We actually paid for this. Great days unless it rained. Tranmere away torrential rain. Drowned rat. Pockets full of water.
I just remembered what Anfield was like. Fantastic atmosphere of course. OMG the urinals. All peeing at once a tidal wave of piss cascading. Down the Kop. The beautiful game. We didn't care. Football in the raw.
Ayresome park was always a decent battle ground in the 80s that graveyard next to it made for so much fun . Also the baseball ground had its moments the atmosphere inside that away shed was unbelievable 🦉 Filbert street as well what memories 👍
Was Swansea City (Vetch Field) missing on the (admittedly correct) grounds that we're in Wales? And another ground east of here we shan't mention? We have some Housing Association flats but also Community Allotments and a playground. Quite nice, but mainly because land values here fell sharply when the ground was waiting for demolition. At least you can still walk across it!
Seeing all of them becoming either a residential area or a shopping complex tells you how expensive the land had become at that time for developers to make substantial offers that club couldn't refuse. Or that the cost of tearing down old stadiums to build new one on top of them was too high.
Modern bland housing developments in with no imagination - just identikit. More thought could have gone into not just building better quality homes, but making the space abit more appealing. More trees, more greenery....abit more gone into landscaping. But hey, this is the UK and everything now is about cost cutting (cutting corners), building bog standard houses that aren't that well designed and built to the minimum industry specifications - both in terms of size of rooms, and quality.
Beatiful stadiums that all had there own character.. replaced by boring ugly all seater stadiums that all look the same, and look like warehouses from the outside,
Shame, as a Hull fan been to most of these, used to love my visits to Gay Meadow at least pleased to see it looks like they've made a nice job of the place. Sad that I never got to go to the Old Show Ground been to Glanford Park plenty and it's a soulless place. See they've not done anything with the Victoria ground yet, it never looked a dump when we went, always wondered why Stoke left it when they did?
It would have been doubley sad to lose them all, to know the blandest new-builds imaginable (if imagination was even part of it) would replace them. Soulful to soulless. With the exception of Arsenal and Shrewsbury. Doesn't help that almost all the new stadiums are equally soulless.
They had a better one built - originally named Ricoh Arena. Then due to typical appalling mismanagement had to sell it, have twice had to play out of the city (at Northampton and Birmingham!), and are currently back as tenants of Wasps Rugby. Who were originally from London. Couldn't make it up.
Its in with the wycombe one at about 4.35 it is very brief, i had a look after reading your comment because i knew i had seen it & it did take a bit of finding, have a look chris
Which of these stadiums was your favourite?
For me its Leeds Road
Maine Road
Highbury
Highbury and Upton park
All
This video would have been greatly improved if it had included information about when the stadiums were built, and when demolished.
Exactly what I was thinking -- date built, date last used, data demolished, date of new construction.
A great idea but would be much better if you could show your "then and now" photos as taken from the same position.
Not possible I'd say sometimes
I would have preferred it if there was a comparable air view (easy from Google maps) rather than a ground shot. Would better convey the changes.
For me , very sad. I have visited most of these stadiums and with the possible exception of Gay Meadow, they have been replaced with some of the least inspiring houses in the country, or identikit shopping centres. Highbury should have been a grade one listed building, and retained as a training ground for the English national team.
Not that I ever went to Highbury but you could tell even from the TV what an atmosphere it had. It's a shame that the business of football got bigger than the game, what can you do?
Boy, was this depressing, especially the derelict wastelands left behind in Leicester and Stoke. As a fan in the 80s I visited so many of these grounds: Filbert Street, Highfield Road, Victoria Ground, Highbury, Upton Park, Roker Park, Maine Road, Ayresome Park, White Hart Lane, Gigg Lane, Sealand Road... ok, a lot of them were decrepit, but they all had their own quirky characteristics.
Victoria Ground (Stoke) now has plenty of new houses there with more being built around it too. Nothing like what you see in this video which could count for Leicester too.
@@danprice4459 Cheers for the update, I guess some of these "now" photos are just as out of date as me!
Old den?
@@MillwallRobest Never made it there (reputation may have had something to do with that)
@@geedus71 oh sorry lol 😂😂😂
Could you do the same video with Stadiums in Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Russia,...? :)
Jesus give the guy a break 😂
What about Mars aswell
He can't now, brexit....
Coventrys ground look good why did they need to move?
However, it lacked facilities compared to the new stadia of similar-sized clubs, which was one of the main causes of the move to the Ricoh Arena. Another reason for relocation was that parking facilities in the local area were inadequate.
(From Wikipedia)
That question was one asked by Cov supporters for many a year! Especially once we found ourselves playing "at home" in Northampton and Birmingham! The ground was sold in a "master plan" chairman at the time Bryan Richardson had to make Cov one of the top ten teams in the Premiership. Big Ron came in. Massive overspending. Then relegation. Then another relegation and bankruptcy. Thank God for Mark Robins! PUSB!
So glad I got to visit many of these old grounds, Baseball ground, Victoria ground, Gay meadow, Highfield road, Boothferry park, Leeds road, Bolyn ground, White hart lane, Ayrsome park, old Wembley and over 400 times at Maine Road watching my club Manchester City, great memories.
Aerial shots would make it much easier to compare. Good ole Google maps
Take me home, Highfield Road 💔
Only highbury demolished partially as major structure remains n converted to part of condominium
The main stand was a listed building so they were not allowed to demolish it.
@@michaelscott7166 no wonder. That's why it preserved. That's good
Some great stadiums there badly missed
Have to agree. I'm a manchester united supporter but I miss Upton Park and Highbury the most. I hope we never leave Old Trafford, the cricket ground just got a refresh, so maybe the glazers will spend to upkeep ot. Yeah, and pigs will fly mate! 🐖
Old den was the best
Upton Park and Highbury :'(
Old den :(
Highbury❤️
Few missing but nice vid 👍
God I miss Upton Park 😢
Ewww
From unique old school stadiums to very generic landscapes 😢
Highfield Road
All these old grounds had different characters. Most were shit holes. Catering was Wagon Wheels. Modern stadiums are sanitised and bland.
Thanks. I remember Wigan Springfield Park. Hooligans had their own supply of ammo. The away end was just shingles no roof. North End had more fans there than the Pie Eaters. Catering was dad's shed. Choice. Don't be silly. We actually paid for this. Great days unless it rained. Tranmere away torrential rain. Drowned rat. Pockets full of water.
I just remembered what Anfield was like. Fantastic atmosphere of course. OMG the urinals. All peeing at once a tidal wave of piss cascading. Down the Kop. The beautiful game. We didn't care. Football in the raw.
The old den was W horrible stadium but I miss it
Lived in the student halls that now stand on Filbert Street, no idea why they didnt develop the rest of it.
i went to that ikea ages ago and never knew it was where the old bristol rovers ground was
Ayresome park was always a decent battle ground in the 80s that graveyard next to it made for so much fun .
Also the baseball ground had its moments the atmosphere inside that away shed was unbelievable 🦉
Filbert street as well what memories 👍
Was Swansea City (Vetch Field) missing on the (admittedly correct) grounds that we're in Wales? And another ground east of here we shan't mention? We have some Housing Association flats but also Community Allotments and a playground. Quite nice, but mainly because land values here fell sharply when the ground was waiting for demolition. At least you can still walk across it!
I think you could have improved the video by showing photo of each team's new ground as well.
That would have been even more depressing
Seeing all of them becoming either a residential area or a shopping complex tells you how expensive the land had become at that time for developers to make substantial offers that club couldn't refuse. Or that the cost of tearing down old stadiums to build new one on top of them was too high.
What strikes me is how much the buildings around the country looks so similar
Modern bland housing developments in with no imagination - just identikit. More thought could have gone into not just building better quality homes, but making the space abit more appealing. More trees, more greenery....abit more gone into landscaping.
But hey, this is the UK and everything now is about cost cutting (cutting corners), building bog standard houses that aren't that well designed and built to the minimum industry specifications - both in terms of size of rooms, and quality.
@@robtyman4281 Modern bland housing for modern bland people.
Beatiful stadiums that all had there own character.. replaced by boring ugly all seater stadiums that all look the same, and look like warehouses from the outside,
That's the nature of the beast. A combination of bums on seats and safety regulations have changed the face of stadiums forever.
How depressing :(
Especially Stoke. Once Stanley Matthews played there. Now it isn't even flats or shops, just fenced off and abandoned
@@Staszu13 It's had a housing estate built on it now. That picture was taken pre 2019.
Very depressing.
Didn't see Nene Park - Rushden & Diamonds
Didn’t know Cambridge had a previous ground
*Stadium about to get demolished*
Nobody:
Tesco: "it's free real estate"
Belle Vue means “Beautiful View” doesn’t it? I assume that name was chosen ironically?
Shame, as a Hull fan been to most of these, used to love my visits to Gay Meadow at least pleased to see it looks like they've made a nice job of the place.
Sad that I never got to go to the Old Show Ground been to Glanford Park plenty and it's a soulless place.
See they've not done anything with the Victoria ground yet, it never looked a dump when we went, always wondered why Stoke left it when they did?
make a video about biggest retractable roof stadiums in the world
Plough lane 😢
Lets play a game of Shopping Centre , Supermarket or Housing Development
It would be nice to show from what year it open until it demolished
As ManCity still played at the Maine Road was City still City.
Now they're like Real Madrid.
What happened to Newton Heath which was Man Utd’s first stadium?
I miss Highbury and Upton Park...
Old den was better than Upton Park
No White Hart Lane?
What about white heart lane?
Built on the same site, same as Wolves
@@ianpodmore9666 And also The Valley (Charlton) nothing left of the original stadium.
What about the old ninian Park cardiff
Do they call arsenal's stadium DIAL SQUARE now
It would have been better if u would have put new stadiums to compare
I feel bad for Southampton. The dell had a lot of character and now they have one of the most generic stadia ever
It would have been doubley sad to lose them all, to know the blandest new-builds imaginable (if imagination was even part of it) would replace them. Soulful to soulless.
With the exception of Arsenal and Shrewsbury. Doesn't help that almost all the new stadiums are equally soulless.
There is no birds eye view to prove it is in the same place
Highbury
Wtf happened to Coventry City??? That stadium was beauty prem quality and just like that it’s housing. I never realized how big a club they were
They had a better one built - originally named Ricoh Arena. Then due to typical appalling mismanagement had to sell it, have twice had to play out of the city (at Northampton and Birmingham!), and are currently back as tenants of Wasps Rugby. Who were originally from London. Couldn't make it up.
Tescos or flats then
Arsenal fans still have Highbury to visit 🎖🎖🎖
I think many would agree that Coventry should never have left Highfield Road for the soulless vacuum of sterile nothingness that is the Ricoh Arena.
WAWAW 1867. Massiv. We hate the Blunts. Oh they will not like that. Always moaning. 1867 and proud. Love The Original Sheffield team.
The original Sheffield team would be Sheffield FC then, which we all know are the oldest footnall club formed in 1857
Where's Maine Road ?
Its in with the wycombe one at about 4.35 it is very brief, i had a look after reading your comment because i knew i had seen it & it did take a bit of finding, have a look chris
Roker Park Car Sprays aqehahehaea
To be honest all of them were really ugly stadiums
This country is just one big housing estate now
Edit police
BGM！
Gay meadow. It looks like an actual gay meadow boa.
What a depressing video
arsenal still standing
British housing is shit.
Edit: in fact, most of Britain's built environment is just bloody awful, a concreted car-stewn soulless mess.
That’s why you keep to the older sides of the outskirts or “suburbs” when in a city
Too sad and stupid
Crap just pics of houses
You know that Google maps has aerial photos, right? The decision to use street view was…. dubious.
As can be seen, most English grounds were complete and utter dumps.
It's amazing that we accepted them.