This site is about my experiences of watching sports, mainly football, around the world, with pictures.
My favourite pics…
Grenta penalty v Hearts. Even the Gretna sub can’t bear to watch.
Same game, outside. Boys will be boys.
Saudi Arabia v Tunisia, Munich WC 2006. Fans outside.
Portugal v Iran, Frankfurt WC 2006. Fans inside.
Japan v Croatia, Nuremburg WC 2006. Japanese fans fly the flag.
Happy Valley Racecourse, Hong Kong
Late equaliser at Sagantosu.
Young fan at Urawa Red Diamonds
Old style football at Ebbsfleet
Salisbury’s 119th minute equaliser is the play-off final.
Elvis Hammond scores in front of the Woking fans at Farnborough
Ready for promotion, at a packed RheinEnergy Stadium, Cologne.
Fremantle, not living up to Western Australia’s sunny stereotype.
Soggy St Petersburg. No roof, but plently of light bulbs.
I’ve currently been to these grounds…
Manchester UnitedNewcastle
Liverpool
Man City (Maine Road)
Chelsea
Arsenal (Highbury)
Arsenal (Emirates)
Tottenham
Aston Villa
Sunderland (Roker Park)
West Ham
Middlesbrough (Ayresome Park)
Birmingham
Charlton
Bolton (Burnden Park)
WBA
Fulham
Wigan (Springfield Park)
Wigan (JJB)
Portsmouth
Norwich
Ipswich
Derby (Baseball Ground)
Derby (Pride Park)
Wolves
Southampton (The Dell)
Southampton (St Mary’s)
Leeds
Leicester (Filbert St)
Leicester (Walkers)
Coventry (Highfield Road)
Coventry (Ricoh)
Reading (Elm Park)
Reading (Madejski)
Hull (Boothferry Park)
Crystal Palace
Watford
Stoke (Victoria Ground)
Stoke (Britannia)
Preston
Plymouth
QPR
Burnley
Cardiff (Ninian Park)
Millwall (The Den)
Millwall (New Den)
Luton
Brighton (Goldstone)
Crewe
Swansea (Vetch)
Huddersfield (Leeds Road)
Bristol City
Barnsley
Bradford
Southend
Tranmere
Brentford
Gillingham
Bournemouth
Swindon
Blackpool
Oldham
Milton Keynes (Hockey Stadium)
Milton Keynes (MK Stadium)
Walsall (Fellows Park)
Walsall (Bescot)
Rotherham
Hartlepool
Chesterfield
Port Vale
Colchester
Bristol Rovers
Northampton (Country Ground)
Northampton (Sixfields)
Notts County
Nottingham Forest
Wycome (Loakes Park)
Wycome (Adams Park)
Oxford (Manor Ground)
Oxford (Kassam Stadium)
Grimsby
Stockport
Orient
Wrexham
Peterborough
Shrewsbury
Shrewsbury (New Meadow)
Mansfield
Cheltenham
Rushden
Chester
Torquay
Bury
Barnet
Macclesfield (for Chester City)
Exeter
York
Hereford
Cambridge
Aldershot
Stevenage
Welling
Dorchester
Farnborough
Basingstoke
Maidenhead
Wimbledon (Plough Lane)
Bath City
Chippenham
Calne
Slough
Aylesbury
Chesham
Witney
Bracknell
Camberley
Wokingham
Maidstone
Windsor & Eton
Woking
Kettering
Didcot
Tamworth
Hayes & Yeading
Wealdstone
Corinthian Casuals
Binfield
Tonbridge
Braintree
Tilbury
Witham Town Ebbsfleet Dover Abingdon Havant Hednesford Eastleigh Salisbury Hampton & Richmond Staines St. Neots Town Wembley
Millennium Stadium
Livingston
Hampden
Barcelona
Real Madrid
Austria Vienna
Anderlecht
Slavia Prague
FC Schmeichtal
Cologne
Borussia Dortmund
Hanover
Nuremburg
Frankfurt
Hamburg
Munich
Leipzig
Berlin
Brondby
Helsinki JK (& Jokerit)
Panathinaikos
Ferencvaros
Inter
SVBV Barchem
Ajax
AZ Alkmaar
NEC Nijmegen
PSV
Zenit
Lokomotiv
Topedo
Malmo
Djurgardens
Gelfe
Brage
Solder Field
Rochester Raging Rhinos
Kyoto Purple Sanga
Bohemians Praha
Galatasaray
Besiktas
Happy Valley
Kaiserslautern
Stuttgart
Ceske Budejovice
Viktoria Zizkov
Sevilla
SV Wehen Wiesbaden
Fortuna Dusseldorf
Kickers Offenbach
Sagantosu
Urawa Red Diamonds
Aachen
Borussia Moenchengladbach
Duisburg
Thai Army Stadium Olympic Stadium, Phnom Penh Sriracha FC BEC Tero Sasana Bangkok Glass Thai Port
204 in all. 117 with Reading.
The English grounds on here will almost always be non-league grounds. I don’t watch league games unless Reading are playing, and I don’t tend to take a camera to Reading games. Clearly the pictures of “the cities they play in” will be rather limited as well as I’m not likely to go round photographing the sights of Braintree. You can see the same port cranes in the backgrounds of the Tilbury and Ebbsfleet pictures though, which is about exciting as it gets.
