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steeplejack
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Gateshead take on Nat Lofthouse's Bolton Wanderers at Redheugh Park in the 1952/53 season. Bolton won narrowly in front of 17,616.
Redheugh is long gone but football is still played on the site on Pitz 5 a side pitches covering half the old park.
bromley
...isn't as good as Lewisham.
If you like that one...
Not played at Celtic Park as that ground only had a capacity of 80k at the time.
Fedayn
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If you like that one...
Not played at Celtic Park as that ground only had a capacity of 80k at the time.
Well it needed it given the attendance was 136,000.
Brixton Hatter
Home is south London mate
Love that photo. Is it Robin Friday?
steeplejack
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Flares. lots of smoke, crackling violent tension in the air...it must be the Mostar derby.
Velež fans at Vrapčići stadium get behind their team against bitter rivals HSK Zrinjski. Velež played at Bijeli Brijeg stadium during Yugoslav times but after the Bosnian war, that stadium was in the Croat side of a now bitterly divided Mostar. Velež were usurped by the re-formed Zrnjski, who had existed before Communist times, and were forced to start again at the much less grand Vrapčići on the eastern outskirts of the city.
Add the legacy of a shockingly awful war to continued ethnic division and stadium eviction and you have the ingredients of a really noxious derby.
steeplejack
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Željezničar, Champions of Yugoslavia in 1972 and the oldest club in Sarajevo. Željo lost their tie with Derby 4-1 on aggregate.
Today Željo are champions of Bosnia Herzegovina and their European campaign crashed in flames before everyone had gone on holiday in August. Both Željo and bitter rivals FK Sarajevo are shoo-ins for the new Balkan league scheduled to begin in two or three seasons' time. Grbavica stadium is less than a kilometre from where I now live.
steeplejack
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Continuing the "feisty Bosnian derby" theme, this was from the 100th Sarajevo derby towards the end of last year. FK (in maroon) beat a listless Željo 1-0 at Koševo stadium.
steeplejack
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Last from me today:
A more normal game at Koševo, this time between FK and "Olimpic" Sarajevo, in the odd green and gold kit. Olimpic were founded in 1993 at the height of the siege and still have a small following compared to the two more established capital clubs. Whilst massive crowds turn up for the Sarajevo derby there isn't anything like the same rivalry for games featuring Olimpic; probably about 1500-2000 in the crowd here.
Olimpic are a well run community club, playing at Otoka stadium, and they are probably "my team" here.
A more normal game at Koševo, this time between FK and "Olimpic" Sarajevo, in the odd green and gold kit. Olimpic were founded in 1993 at the height of the siege and still have a small following compared to the two more established capital clubs. Whilst massive crowds turn up for the Sarajevo derby there isn't anything like the same rivalry for games featuring Olimpic; probably about 1500-2000 in the crowd here.
Olimpic are a well run community club, playing at Otoka stadium, and they are probably "my team" here.
steeplejack
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Thanks!
Merthyr Tydfil 2, Atalanta 1, Penydarren Park, 1987. The Welsh Cup winners humiliated the Italians in Merthyr but ended up losing the Cup-Winners Cup tie very narrowly. This team are still sporting legends in the area today, having been in Comnference National in the late 80s and early 90s. They are now called Merthyr Town and play in the lower reaches of the southern league, have suffered a protracted financial death in 2010.
Merthyr Tydfil 2, Atalanta 1, Penydarren Park, 1987. The Welsh Cup winners humiliated the Italians in Merthyr but ended up losing the Cup-Winners Cup tie very narrowly. This team are still sporting legends in the area today, having been in Comnference National in the late 80s and early 90s. They are now called Merthyr Town and play in the lower reaches of the southern league, have suffered a protracted financial death in 2010.
steeplejack
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Plymouth Parkway at home to Falmouth Town in the Western League (Step 9 I think).
Falmouth were formerly the big name in Cornish football but have been swept aside in recent years, firstly by St. Blazey and more recently by Truro City.
steeplejack
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JK Nomme Kalju (black /pink) v Flora Tallinn at the Hiiu Stadium in Nomme. Flora have been the most successful team since independence, but Nomme, with some Brazilian players and a fair bit of money, won the title last time.
Despite being of a reasonable standard, and being very well organised, the Estonian Meistrliiga attracts only apathy, with only the derby between Flora and Levadia attracting four figure crowds. sub-100 crowds are sadly commonplace for league games, as the utterly unavoidable "Premiership" dominates even over there.
Clint Iguana
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steeplejack
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A central Bosnian derby between "Turbina" Jablanica and "Igman" Konjić, and the ref has his red card out already for a home player. Although games in the Bosnian third tier are often watched by little more than family and friends, derby games like this can attract quite big crowds, with more than a smattering of young nuggets who've worn out their pirated copy of Green Street. "Igman" is a famous Bosnian mountain, whilst Jablanica's team are the only team in the world I know named after a socialist-era hydroelectric dam.
entry to Turbina's rickety little stadium- something like a run down ground in the Kent League or Glasgow juniors- is around 90p.
steeplejack
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Good goalscoring celebrations are often fun. Here is Bradley Woods-Garness of Lowestoft Town celebrating his first goal in Suffolk, having moved from Canvey Island this summer. Woods-Garness, currently Montserrat's big goal threat at international level, signed for Lowestoft after being assured that someone could give him a lift from the Essex area- he doesn't drive. Over such fine details do big money moves involving seasoned internationals collapse.
Bradley's Montserrat strike partner is Ellis Remy, who plays for Hitchin Town in the Calor League. Remy is a bit of a maverick who changes clubs every six months.
steeplejack
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One of the bigger derbies in Scottish football, though people often laugh when you first say that. Montrose (blue) knock the loathsome maroon of Arbroath out of the league cup at Gayfield, on the first day of this season.
Other games in the lower leagues in Scotland, involving these clubs, usually attract crowds in the low hundreds, this fixture always attracts between 1500-2000 and the atmosphere never disappoints.
I see myself as a rational person, but although I live 1000s of miles away now I still genuinely detest Arbroath.
steeplejack
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Chris Balderstone in action for Carlisle United in the 70s. Balderstone was part of the only Carlisle team that spent one season in the old first division (74 / 75). He was also one of the rare breed who played pro football *and* first class cricket. Today he is better remembered for his long career at Gloucestershire and as a first class cricket umpire.
Ungrateful
Tired and Weary
<Put on anorak> Falmouth being the only football ground in Cornwall to host a 1st class match (having got through to the FA Cup first round).1 </Takes off anorak>
1. A fact derived from the video "Non-League Grounds of Cornwall", which to avoid ridicule I hide within the cover of "Anal Nurses Go Wild".
