Former grounds quiz

[Maltshoveller]

4 hours ago, CodeRed said:

13 out of 15, the 2 overseas grounds Schalke and the Calderon stumped me!  slight guess on Ninian Park as I don't ever remember it being open terrace like that picture but the shirts helped and by elimination it couldn't be the others.

 

Here's another old lost ground, picture taken in 1929 and it staged league football until 2005 (redeveloped obviously) when the club moved to a new stadium. which club?

 

:Looking at the angle of the houses behind the goal

lm going with The dell Southampton

[publandlord]

11/15  didnt recognise the boleyn, victoria ground filbert street  or Schalke's old stadium  and Ihave been to the first 3 too. good quiz

[Merrick's Marvels]

12. Never been to Schalke. Recognise John Charles and Stanley Matthews though which was presumably a clue and the Brighton one was nowhere near enough of a shithole to be the home of da famuz gASS.

Edited November 17, 2023 by Merrick's Marvels

[Open End Numb Legs]

5 hours ago, CodeRed said:

13 out of 15, the 2 overseas grounds Schalke and the Calderon stumped me!  slight guess on Ninian Park as I don't ever remember it being open terrace like that picture but the shirts helped and by elimination it couldn't be the others.

 

Here's another old lost ground, picture taken in 1929 and it staged league football until 2005 (redeveloped obviously) when the club moved to a new stadium. which club?

 

That is one very weird looking stadium, I had no idea where it was at first.

I have cheated online (out of curiosity) so won't give away the answer but it continued to look very weird in later years! It looks like something Picasso would have designed.

[Merrick's Marvels]

5 hours ago, CodeRed said:

slight guess on Ninian Park as I don't ever remember it being open terrace like that picture but the shirts helped

I believe it's John Charles pictured - in the red shirt of Wales. Or for those of you watching in black and white, the, er, black shirt.

Edited November 17, 2023 by Merrick's Marvels

[Redtucks]

9/15

Some with a bit more luck than judgment!

Good test though.

 

[SecretSam]

10. Fluke.

[The Bard]

14.

 

Guessed Feethams over Belle Vue.

Other guesses were lucky

[pongo88]

Only 8 for me. I hadn’t a clue with the foreign ground and all of my guesses for these were wrong. I’d actually been to some of the UK grounds that I got wrong, but as that connoisseur of all thing football and beer, @Dr Balls, said  it’s all about the angles 

 Angles are very interesting - e.g. When  a line crosses parallel lines,
alternate angles are equal.
When a line crosses parallel lines,
corresponding angles are equal.

Not a lot of many people know that 

[Kingswood Robin]

15/15

Cardiff and Schalke were guesses mind

 

[redsquirrel]

On 17/11/2023 at 09:47, 22A said:

Just the six.

For those interested there is a Facebook page for "Former football grounds".

same for me too, the shilton and banks one i thought had to be stoke, wrong again 

[Sir Geoff]

12/15

[Blagdon red]

10 for me.

[Ska Junkie]

13 here, not bad.

[Miah Dennehy]

13 for me. Just had to guess on the foreign grounds and although I didn't recognise Upton Park, I though there was a bit of a clue in the question.

[Swede]

14 out of 15. Never went to Belle Vue!!!

[Merrick's Marvels]

On 18/11/2023 at 13:04, redsquirrel said:

same for me too, the shilton and banks one i thought had to be stoke, wrong again 

The stand behind them is wrong for Stoke - much bigger stands behind the goals at the Victoria Ground, whereas Filbert Street had a low single tier a bit like the East End behind one goal. 

[Son of Fred]

On 17/11/2023 at 06:26, Dr Balls said:

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2023/nov/16/quiz-can-you-identify-these-former-football-grounds
 

More difficult than it first looked, especially given the angles at which some of the pictures were taken. Was quite happy with 8/15!

10 scored..

Happy with that!

[Mike Hunt-Hertz]

10/15