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That old Holte End was wicked at Villa.......seem to remember the Wednesday home end was massive also when terraced.

The townend was better with out seats and the shrivy road

I'd agree with the townend, but the Shrivvy, better than the DRS? Can't agree there.

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I went in both in the mid 60's....the Holte End, when Town played Forest in a 3rd FA Cup match on a neutral ground, along with about 20,000 other Town fans....somewhat awesome.

The Wednesday Kop when Town played them in the cup.  Going in there was a mistake, some kindly policeman escorted us to where the other Town fans were stood at the other end  :)

Back then the TE seemed massive to me....bit of a shock to see these legendary terraces close up.

I like this photo.

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I always liked the Shrivvy enclosure and was sad to see the old south stand go. Did we ever have to postpone a game due to the risk of it collapsing in high winds, or was it just the stand that got closed for the day?

I used to like the old Holmesdale Road Terrace at Selhurst Park. It was massive, although it doesn't look that big in this picture...

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sheff weds end is fooking massive.i remember being in awe of it as a teen.
stokes old terrace behind the goal made alot of noise and was memorable.
my best days watching football were in the shrivvy road stand.

This isn't old or lost but I love it...Westfalenstadion, Borussia Dortmund...

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Maine Road looks quite decent in those pics, especially compared to other old grounds... I've got vague memories of being sat on some sort of temporary seats on a scaffold type of stand there?! And we lost 6-0?

Great memories of being in the Rovers family end(terrace) at Eastville when we beat them 4-1
1981-82
You can still pass it going down the M32, not that it's a football ground any more of course.

Lost next game 5-0 away at Walsall seem to remember.

The best for me was the old Valley at Charlton, don't remember the name of the terrace but it was massive and steep.

The big terrace at the side of The Vetch Swansea was always packed and made a lot of noise.

I miss the old grounds with character and atmosphere.

Cannot say why but I do have a soft spot for this place - not sure why

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The seats were quite often closed. I can remember one game at least being called off due to high winds, and the stand being cited as being dangerous. I never actually went up in the seats, did anyone ever sit there? Was it as manky as it looked from below?

Found a picture of the Old Valley stand, the East Terrace.

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Oh and found another I had long forgotten about, the old Molyneaux and Wolverhampton, massive home end.

Here is a pic 1 filled and one empty

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yeah wolves is a good shout.we used to stand in the bit to the left of the bottom picture.
i'm sure charltons gorund had a capacity of 73,000 back in the day.

I sat in the seats a few times in the early 70's. I can't remember them being manky but I was probably glad to sit down after climbing up those steps.

In the semi final there at Wolves. I started up in the top right of the away bit, after we scored, I ended up with my face pressed against the fence at the bottom. Scary but exhilerating as a young lad.

We had a trip organised by the under-14s football team I played for to go and see Villa play Liverpool back in the eighties. I think our parents probably all waved us off assuming we were set fair for some nice seats in some sort of family stand, but the reality when we got there was that we were all on the Holte End with two blokes to look out for the lot of us. It was fucking brilliant.

I enjoyed Fulham's old terracing when I went. That might be because it was one of my first away matches though. 0-0 until the last minute and then Louis Saha popped up with a winner (what a cunt!) if I remember correctly. Seeing as though you don't see much terracing around these days, I've always thought the tight Yeovil away end's got good potential. We never seem to be that loud down there though

That's a good one. I stood pretty close to where that picture was taken the first time I went to Old Trafford. I think it was £2.20 to get in and the programme was 50p. At the time, it cost £2.00 to get in at Swindon. How times change.

I went on a tour of Fenway park yesterday, oldest stadium in baseball. Apparenty they've sold out every game since 2003 there.

Sorry it's not really related but bored at Boston Logan watchin espn talk about Brett Favre for about the 20th time this hour!

The Old Goldstone was a laugh.....remember seeing us play shite and still win.

I'd love to go to a game at Fenway.

Even though I know nothing about baseball, the tour (which was free) was really
interesting. The story about them not winning the world
series in 86 years which seemed to be attributed to babe ruth being sold to the Yankees didn't seem
that far fetched. The guide had loads of good stories and we got to sit on the green monster, great story when a Yankee hit a hr over it, some guy in the street threw it back. Some Yankee ran on and chucked it back over only for the ball to come back again determined not to keep a Yankee hr ball. Their rivalry is fairly fierce from
what I've learnt.

I sat up there once, school organised trip to watch a game during the 82/83 season (I think) - seem to recall it being a bit of a scary experience.

Wasn't it second hand when we got it, from the Aldershot forces show ground? Or did I make that up?

The old Bloomfield Road looked quite impressive to me:
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Yes I think it did come from Aldershot.

I regularly sat up in the 'upper tier' of the Shrivenham Road Stand during my first proper season watching Town. Those steep, rickety stairs on the outside to get to the turnstile were terrifying to a six year old. My first game was Vs Hull City in 1979. It ended 0-0.

I went to nearly every game that season and I never realised there was a terrace below where I sat, until a sweet fell on the floor and I bent down to retrieve it and saw a load of heads through a crack in the wooden floor ... I was amazed.

I managed to get hold of the match programme for that game off of ebay, a young Steve MacLaren was in the tigers squad. Not really that interesting I suppose.

Of course it's interesting Arch. I've never been in the Shrivenham Road End or the DRS as it is now. My granddad always used to take me in the Arkells, but we used to park down Shrivenham Road, it was a pretty scary monstrosity and I'm sure I can remember seats being closed due to weather conditions on the odd occasion

 One of the great things about the Shrivenham Road terrace, was that it was filled in at the corners to the TE and Bank, which meant when you got a big gate there was atmosphere all the way round. That was lost when the DRS was built.

I remember many years ago sitting on wooden benches in front of the Shrivvy Road stand.

It's extremely fierce. Yankees v Red Sox is one of the great sporting rivalries :nod: I love Boston as well.

I watched a programme on ESPN about the new Yankees stadium. Apparently one of the workers was a Red Sox fan and buried something (a Red Sox cap, or shirt, or something) under the pitchers mound to try and put a curse on them. Obviously he couldn't keep his mouth shut and they made him dig it up (they didn't want to risk it, just in case).

I got to see a game at Fenway in the mid 90's, pretty easy getting tickets back then. Glad I went but didn't find it that exciting or special and I was in to baseball and the Red Sox at the time. Strange atmosphere, like being at a cricket match I imagine, very laid back and most people only seemed to have a passing interest in the game.

my mate put a swindon scarf under one of the stands at the kassam as he was laying the  foundations.

I remember standing in the Shrivvy for the Prem Season and saw Mark Hughes get twatted..

My Old man tells me that when the upper tier was open people would stamp their feet and shitty bits would fall on those below..

Stand came from the Army didnt it?  Tattoo venue or something..

It was mate, Aldershot tattoo parade ground.