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Title: Floodlights Post by: Sippo on Saturday, September 20, 2008, 14:51:36 West Ham have had theirs on since the start of the game despite the lush weather. :unsure:
Title: Re: Floodlights Post by: STFC_Gazza on Saturday, September 20, 2008, 16:22:51 it's so the players can see the ball through the smog.
Title: Re: Floodlights Post by: Peter Venkman on Saturday, September 20, 2008, 17:23:16 It keeps the fans Pie, Mash and Liquor warm!
Title: Re: Floodlights Post by: Spencer_White on Saturday, September 20, 2008, 17:34:23 Must be tough watching football in that kind of mirky squalor.
Title: Re: Floodlights Post by: michael on Saturday, September 20, 2008, 18:36:08 Do we have the best floodlights in the football league?
There can't be too many stadia with a better rig than ours. Title: Re: Floodlights Post by: flammableBen on Saturday, September 20, 2008, 18:45:27 I think we've got one of the oldest. You'll have to ask reg.
Title: Re: Floodlights Post by: BANGKOK RED on Saturday, September 20, 2008, 18:48:50 I think we do have the oldest. And the most wattage. I could well vbe wrong though.
Googly coming up. Title: Re: Floodlights Post by: BANGKOK RED on Saturday, September 20, 2008, 18:50:47 The addition of floodlights in 1951 at a cost of £350, gave Swindon the honour of being the first League club to do so.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/County_Ground,_Swindon wiki wiki wa wa Title: Re: Floodlights Post by: Spencer_White on Saturday, September 20, 2008, 18:52:47 We must have some of the biggest erections in the FL?
Title: Re: Floodlights Post by: Batch on Saturday, September 20, 2008, 19:04:36 The addition of floodlights in 1951 at a cost of £350, gave Swindon the honour of being the first League club to do so. Yes but Quote from: wikki wikki wa wa The present pylons date from 1960. So we still need Reg to tell us who has the oldest floodlights. Title: Re: Floodlights Post by: Rich Pullen on Saturday, September 20, 2008, 19:22:41 On away days as a kid spotting floodlights was one of the most enjoyable parts of the trip. They're just not as glorious as they used to be :)
Title: Re: Floodlights Post by: Spencer_White on Saturday, September 20, 2008, 19:34:06 Some day, when every club sits next to habitat and Curries, fathers will bring their kids to Swindon from all over the country and say, son thats what real football grounds used to look like.
Title: Re: Floodlights Post by: reeves4england on Saturday, September 20, 2008, 20:33:13 Some day, when every club sits next to habitat and Curries, fathers will bring their kids to Swindon from all over the country and say, son thats what real football grounds used to look like. If we get a new ground any time soon, or ever, I want it to have old skool floodlights. They make a football ground. |