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Premier League's QUIRKIEST EVER STADIUM⁉️ THE DELL Southampton Tour in 2024 ⚽️
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 17 ส.ค. 2024
- In 2001 Southampton Football Club left their ICONIC former football stadium THE DELL 🏟️ In 2024 we take a look around that former football ground and reminisce about the "good old days" in Southampton. On Ry's Football Paradise we take a look at abandoned and former great football stadiums as well as taking a look at the modern grounds and jumping on stadium tours... LET US KNOW IN THE COMMENTS BELOW 👉🏽 WHERE NEXT⁉️ We've got an Emirates stadium tour as well as a wonder around the former Arsenal ground coming to the channel THIS WEEK 👍🏽 ...so SUBSCRIBE to make sure you don't miss out! ⚽️🏝️
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As a Man United fan, I have to say Matt Le Tissier was one of my favourite players growing up.
An enigma, a maverick, a sausage & egg McMuffin eating legend
Went there a few times with UTD a right shitole of a ground especially the away end.
@@robertbaglin3973were you there when Le Tiss chipped Schmeichel?
I used to love to go to the Dell in the 1950s. The atmosphere was great. Note - Ted Bates not only played but, as a manager, he rescued the team from the "oblivion" of the lower leagues. Thanks for the video - good to know the place was used quite tastefully.
That place was a fortress.The fans was so loud it was crazy times
You would have entered the set of buildings via Milton Rd and that was the name of the the stand where Le Tiss scored the final goal. The other end was The Archers (Rd) end. The sides were the East & West Stands respectively. The dug outs were in the East Stand and that is also where the players entered into the pitch from the corner of The Milton/East stands. I was lucky enough to be at both thrashings of United.
Sorry you have the East and West the wrong way around. The North was Archers road the South Milton road. The players entered from the south end of the west stand with the dug out the same side. I saw all the England World cup winners play there with their respective teams. Up the Saints.
@@terrysaint7629 quite right thanks. The Milton was South Side, so I got the stands mixed up. Cheers for the correct info.
Went to The Dell once, the two tier standing Milton Rd End always intrigued me. Looked amazing when full.
Dell resident and Saints fan here, if you look closely at the walls around the grassed area there’s football boot imprints as a little nod to the past. There’s also photos of the ground inside the blocks. Always makes me chuckle that the development next door is Crossley Place - only guy to save a Le Tiss penalty!
Haha true! 😅 thanks for sharing that mate 👍🏾 I’ll pop up for a cuppa next time… ☕️
@@RysFootyParadisewhat makes it funnier is that it is a No Through Road.
Crossley Place*
@@UndercoverUploads Doh! Thanks, walk past it every day too lol
@@RysFootyParadise Kettle is ready anytime lol
Being in the away ‘corner’ at the dell was a great day out, loved going there
Did watch my first ever English football match here in 1976-77 Saints v Luton Town with my girllfriend Karen and her Dad. Still look for the Saints score now. Those were the days, Whenever I hear the name of Mick CHannon or Le Tiss reminds me of the Dell. 🥵
Great video, really enjoyed this and as a Southampton fan who went to their first game in 1991 ive never been back to where The Dell was since Rosler scored against Brighton. I was lucky enough to be a 10 year old behind the goal when MLT scored those 2 goals against Newcastle in 1993, still have the programe of the game. So many great memories of the dell including beating Man Utd 6-3, beating Newcastle pretty much every season and relegation survivals. I had a season ticket from 96 until the last game at the dell and still have a season ticket to this day at St Marys. Stokes court is named after Bobby Stokes who scored the winner in the 1976 FA Cup Final and Ted Bates was with the club as player, manager and president but sadly died in 2003, was a shame the Portsmouth fans booed his minute silence and it had to be cut short as that was the game that proceeded his death. Great video snd been subbed a while as love the football shirt vids
Hey mate, thanks for sharing your memories - if you ever wanna jump in on a video I’d love to capture a fans perspective of Southampton over the years 🍻 no worries if it’s not your thing
Memories I used to go there as a sixteen year old thanks for the view
Great video. I only went to the Dell. A 4-1 win for my team Aston Villa in 1998 and celebrating a new club record of 12 games unbeaten at the start of the season. Great away day and always remember the pub by the train station serving up steak and cheap beer.
Villa were class up to Xmas in that 98/99 season weren’t they 👏🏽
Cracking video - I have only just discovered your channel which is remiss of me as I love things like this.
Keep up the good work.
Another site to consider would be Somerton Park, Newport. Fascinating history.
Thanks for tuning in 👍🏾 I’m sure I’ll cover every blade of grass of every pitch in the country at some point 😅
Miss The Dell ☹️ I’ve got a pic of the old stadium clock on the touchline when they demolished the place. Saw some great games/ players there . ❤⚪️❤️⚪️😇
Great video. Having been a Saints fan since January 1980 I went to The Dell for the first time during easter 1985, 17 years old, with my best mate Thomas, and we saw Saints play Everton. A 1-3 loss unfortunately - against the champions to be - but the atmosphere inside The Dell I will never forget. Then Saints legend keeper Peter Shilton had a world class save 10 meters away from our position in the stands, and Joe Jordan scored for Saints while George Lawrence missed a pen for Saints. I loved that stadium and will always miss it and I thank you for making this video 🥰
Sincerely yours, Kristian, family doctor, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Thanks for watching Kristian and sharing your memories 😊 🇩🇰
Went to the Dell in 1987. Pompey won 2nil Play up Pompey🤗⚽️👍
Still can’t hear you from down there fish 🐟
@@dougsmith9748same league now Worzel
I went to Fratton Park in 2019, when we beat you 4-0 😂
There was 3 Wallace brothers playing in same team at once Danny Raymond and Rodney
Loved the tour. I went to the Dell regularly from 1967 until I emigrated to Australia in 1994. Still a Saints fan who loves nothing better than seeing Saints touch up Man United.
😅 happened most seasons in the 90s when I grew up… still love Le Tiss
Great vlog you should perhaps do a video on Charles William Miller who came from Brazil to Southampton and took the first football and FA rules back to Brazil to set up the game there
Great suggestion mate, I’ll be back in Southampton next month so probs a good time to cover that 👍🏾
yes!! when brazil won the world cup in 2002 they had a banner saying thank you man from southampton, and atletico and bilbao got their stripes from us
@@dev0nSA1nt agree 👍
I used to go too the dell in the millton road end great atmosphere
I used to stand in Milton Rd end from 10yrs old early eighties. You were squashed in but the atmosphere was loud and electric.
Turned up there 29th Jan 1997 with my team Stockport County. I was refused entry as I was on crutches (I’d be a fire hazard if the place had to be evacuated) but managed to get in via another turnstile. Took my seat (0-1 down at the time, brilliant goal from Matt Le Tissier) but was asked by the same steward to leave as my crutches were somehow ‘an offensive weapon’! I of course refused and County fans around me began to rear up so they sheepishly retreated. They came back with a compromise…I could stay but my crutches would be confiscated until after the match, again I refused and mentioned that I might want to go to the toilet (I didn’t) so they retreated yet again to hails of abuse from County fans…only to return yet again with a new plan, they would have a young steward at the end of the aisle with my crutches and I had to indicate to him if I needed the loo. This worked out badly for them as I summoned the poor lad 4 times in a very cramped wooden stand before changing my mind. They eventually put me in the bottom tier (where I was allowed to smoke👍) and County went on to unfeasibly win the evening’s Quarter Final replay 2-1. All ended well especially as I managed to see Matt’s superb goal first hand….not so clever for my mate though as, after travelling all the way there and back from Stockport, was also refused entry for being pissed and had to sit on on the coach watched over by 2 plod…poor Mick was stone cold sober but suffers from partial vision!
Haha cheers for that mate, quite the experience!
Visited as an Everton fan once in the 60s. One stand looked like a row of big balconies. The locals nicknamed them, 'The Chocolate Boxes'.
Can’t believe they haven’t named a block after Ali dia😂 love these former stadium vids. Favourite so far is the Highbury love how they’ve kept that old main stand facade untouched
Was there Friday, but got a backlog of videos to edit up so it might be the end of the week before I get Highbury up 😅👍🏾
Ps. Ali Dia 🤣 wasn’t he “related” to Roger Miller or George Weah? 😅
@@RysFootyParadise was supposed to be George weah’s cousin mate and souness fell for it😂
@@ryancarr1997that’s the one haha I remember hearing about it on that Quickly Kevin podcast 🤣 only in the 90s!
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Hey Ry, I remember all the players who had Courts named after them. Local trivia , Tom Parker who played for Saints 1919-26 and Played 246 times and Manager of Saints 1937-1943 who went on to Captain Arsenal to their first Trophy The FA Cup in 1930 and Their First Tier One League Championship in 1930-31 and still holds the Arsenal record of 172 consecutive appearances is buried in St Mary’s church, Warsash. Tom Parker 19/11/1897- 1/11/1987. Maybe if you’re going to do a St Mary’s Stadium tour a stop off here? The Pronunciation of Uwe Rosler is Oo-Va. German language swaps the W for V and E for A sounds. Good work mate. Looking forward to the next one.
Thanks for the info mate 😊👍🏾 haha I know I did A-level German but like the funny Englishman way of saying it 😅 cracking player 👏🏽 and deffo worth a stop on the next visit… if I wasn’t struggling for time I had planned a visit 5 mins up the road to another previous Saints ground the Antelope ground which might be worth wondering round next time? 🍻
@@RysFootyParadise Brilliant Mate! I grew up attending all The London clubs grounds. Back in the 80s some of the grounds were proper raw and lacked facilities. Todays grounds are a world away from the former shit pits. We have gone forward, but the Premier League has become too corporate for me. I can no longer afford to pay admission prices in todays world.
@@highbury1972 that’s a spot on assessment mate 👍🏾 I’ve literally been thinking lately - football has become “middle class” well… the Premier League at least…
@@RysFootyParadise Just an update, Apparently Tom Parker who I mentioned was sold to Arsenal in 1926 to help pay for the building of new stands at The Dell.
Great video Ryan. I spent most my teenage years on the stand where you walked in. Did you know its where Alan shearer started his pro career, he scored a hat trick on his debut against Arsenal
Big teams always struggled there. The atmosphere was immense.
I went to the last game at the Dell vs Brighton , there wasn't much left of the grass in the centre circle after the match as fans were taking a chunk home , the seats went too , wasnt much left really (still got my seat) . miss the Dell 😓
Hope you’ve got that seat in a Saints themed ManCave?!
pride of place 😀
I remember getting on the pitch and taking my chunk of turf home. Potted it up and kept it for quite are fair few years. Watered and cut regularly with kitchen scissors. Sorry to say I no longer have it.
One of the chants was "One, Two, Three, Four, have you heard the Milton Roar? S-O-UTH-AMPT-ON" because of course the Milton Rd end was the popular one. As a primary schoolboy I misheard that as "One, Two, Three, Four, have you heard the milkman roar?", and wondered how on earth a single milkman could make himself heard above the racket.
To the left of the dell development where you are stood at the entrance is a wall,the wall seperating the building next to the dell development is the original wall from the archers road end of the ground , many times as a season ticket holder would I have been stood by that wall waiting for the turnstiles to open
Matt was a great player and is a great lad. 👍👍
The game where Man Utd changed kits at half time was the 3-1 game in April 1996. The 6-3 game was the following season in October 1996. I read a story a few years back that Man Utd were fined something like £10K by the premier league for changing kits.
96 was the best year in my warped nostalgic memory 😁🍻
There was no hope of ever changing the name of The Dell when it became a housing estate, it was known as "the dell" before it was transformed into a football ground. Incidentally, the first one in England to have stands with covered seating on both sides of the pitch.
The Dell was carved out by a stream called Rollsbrook which was, in the 1880s, channelled into a culvert by the Didcot, Newbury & Southampton Railway Company when the dell was excavated to accommodate railway sidings. For reasons far too complex to go into here the DN&S were obliged to merge their system with the London & South Western lines at Winchester leaving the dell looking like a quarry. One of the Saints' directors, George Thomas, saw its potential as a stadium and developed it at his own expense.
You mentioned the bomb: it landed in the Milton Road penalty area during the Southampton Blitz of November 30th and December 1st 1940. It shattered the culvert and Rollsbrook was damned, and the pitch swamped.
Nice presentation by the way. Thank you.
I’m a new subscriber❤❤❤
Legend 👍🏾
I'm very surprised that they have one building named after a chap from Pompey lol.
Must have been the demolition groups influence
Would’ve been a nice touch if the developers had added a marker to indicate where the old centre spot used to be
Deffo! Bit of a red & white paint too 😁
Brilliant Ry, my only visit to the dell was to watch United in an fa cup game in 1977!! 2.2 draw. Stood in the away end (archers was it?) and could only see the the furthest half of the pitch! Awful! Hey can you do some photos on your vides maybe before and after of the aerial views. The modern dell from above does resemble a stadium!!!
Good idea mate I’ll keep that in mind 👍🏾
Best days of my life.sadly missed
I remember going to the Dell with Spurs when we were in the 2nd division,we needed a draw to get promoted depending on the other results. I was one of a few thousand Spurs fans who was there ticketless.All of us were putting pressure on the gate which was held in the middle with a giant padlock and a line police with their linked arms.eventually the lock broke. And about a thousand of us got in, sadly for the Saints fans it was their home end.
Oh sh!ttt - it’s a miracle a major crushing incident didn’t happen prior to 89… I know spurs were close in the early 80s at Hillsborough weren’t they - people on the side of the pitch
Wallace court should have been Wallace Brothers as it was the first time 3 brothers played in a team together Danny ,Raymond and Rodney
True I was reading up about that the other day, fair play 😊
I liked the grey kit, had it as a kid. I want to rebuy it
It’s become a thing of legend 🤩
The highest attendance at the dell not 1969. On the monday after the fa cup final in 1976, There was a testimonial for Mick Channon. There was 3 people to every two seats in the stands. That many people got in to the terraces that young children were passed over the crowd and sat round the pitch on the touchline. Well over 31,000!! But never admitted, I was lucky to go to the final and the testimonial. I was 13 years old
ahh haha fair play. Mad how many people they'd squeeze into the old terraces
@@RysFootyParadise was at wembley when we beat man utd. we were right inline with stokes as he hit the ball, and I swear time seemed to go slow as the ball ran towards the net.
I mis-read the title there,i thought the video was going to end with an official tour of the new ground and im thinking "well,it's the King Power stadium but with red seats" . Unique ground though The Dell.Especially off-putting for teams who turned up in grey away shirts 😂
Haha I thought I’d double the st Mary’s tour up with Portsmouth who don’t offer tours very often - February next opportunity- went down for Bournemouth but like to make the most of the fuel ⛽️
@@RysFootyParadise if you want some real excitement with your football ground tours you could always return to Southampton to watch Hampshire Hawks T20 or Southern Brave T100 at the Ageas Bowl between May and August. Best County Cricket Ground in England,and fairly new.
Great names played there Terry paine. Keegan chanon ball Wallace brothers Frank Worthington etc..Great names some Great teams. LE TISS .HAS GOT TO BE THE NUMBER 1.ONE... SAINT....ALWAYS REMEMBER WHEN THEY BEAT MAN.U. SIX..THREE... GREAT OLD STADIUM THE DELL...
The Stands were East Stand , West Stand , Milton Rd end
And Archers Road end
I support the 22 games unbeaten saints fan
Would really like to see Leeds stadium
I’ll get my Man United shirt out ready…. 😅
Belle vue stadium doncaster rovers plz
Le tissier is not a bad man. He has been hung out to dry for daring to say what he wants. The modern world sucks
First 😊
2nd
Have you done Springfield park Wigan athletic old ground
Not yet but did the DW 😊
Come meadow lane home of notts county come to a game
Possibly Friday next week 👍🏾
Uwe (Rosler) is pronounced "Oo-Vay"!!
Le Tissier has the DISTINCTION of scoring the last goal at the Dell, not the RECORD!!
The buildings on that site are FLATS not HOUSES!!
Feisty one you are 🤣
Do you have to shout, fucking grow up
It's got nothing on Kenilworth Rd
Delusional