Fun fact about St George's Park. Due to being on the Isle Of Wight, it's the only English stadium to be in a different time zone - when you visit the IOW you need to set your watch back 40 years
Manchester United actually used Home Park as their 'home' ground once. It happened in the 1970s after crowd trouble during a European fixture. As a punishment UEFA ordered United to play their next home tie not less than 250 miles from Old Trafford, and Plymouth's ground was the only stadium in England with a reasonable capacity that met that criterion.
Knowing the difference between historical, ceremonial and legislative English counties, and getting it correct, is probably the greatest achievement of any Australian in history!
@@otters61 From Wikipedia... "Kingston upon Hull, usually abbreviated to Hull, is a port city and unitary authority in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England." So yes, it appears that you are wrong.
@@TheWideWorldofStadiums John Harrison is from Wakefield, West Riding of Yorkshire. He didn't quite invent time, but he is one of the most important cabinet makers in History! We are also famous for steam trains, and the most famous Literary family in the world (The Brontës)!
Berwick Rangers aren't the only English club playing in Scotland; Tweedmouth Rangers were formed in 2010 and in 2016 they joined the East of Scotland Football League. They're currently in First Division Conference A, which puts them in the 7th tier of Scottish football, two divisions below their near-neighbours Berwick Rangers. They play at a very lovely little ground that adjoins the eastern boundary of Shielfield Park.
@@howgoodistravel I'm from berwick, we are in England, 2 miles south of the Scottish border, but yes over the years England and Scotland have fought over Berwick-upon-tweed
Definitely a guilty pleasure watching your videos but love the chilled music and commentary, keep it up mate👍🏼 mrs literally asleep, lying on my as I’m watching!
yes that would be really nice. As there are only 18 states he could also do his Top 2 or 3 in every one. We certainly have enough cool stadiums in Germany
Fior future reference, if you are going by ceremonial country boundaries, then the Stadium of light in Sunderland is in County Durham and St James Park in Newcastle is in Northumberland.
JSS Huddersfield has a very unique design & was the first purpose built all seater modern stadium built from scratch after the Taylor report. The people that designed it went on to build the new Wembley stadium.
Bristol has been a county in its own right since 1373 (apart from when it was part of Avon in the 1970's/80's), and the City of London is a ceremonial county. Both are much smaller than Rutland!
@@sydnorth5868 someone call the police, that was the most correct but passive aggressive reply I've ever witnessed😂 haha i know you weren't being rude, i just love how written words can look a certain way haha. it was the exclamation mark at the end what made me spit my tea out! haha top stuff everyone.
There's a half sized football pitch at the city of London school on White Lion Hill across the Thames from the Tate Modern. Other than there there really isnt much in the way of sporting grounds in the actual City area.. with HAC being just outside. Finsbury Circus gardens might make for a neat little cricket ground if you took the park away.
Very good video. It had a high joke count. Bath's Rugby ground should have got the Somerset pick. Not sure about this 'riding of Yorkshire' stuff, last time i heard that was in that awful Abbey show.
I’m happy that u included the Isle of Wight in your video it’s just a shame that Newport’s ground is no longer used for football and is just left abandoned at the moment. As u mentioned the island I will let u off choosing the Etihad over Old Trafford 😂
Lots of tough choices there. But you have forgotten one key factor with west Yorkshire. Namely that the atmosphere at the John smiths is terrible. The lowered corners mean that fans struggle to create that noise that places like Elland road and headingley strive with. As a huddersfield I'd have to go for headingley even with the shocking away end
Boston United's new Jakemans stadium, although smaller is a much better stadium than Lincoln city's Sincil bank stadium. In my opinion. (Lincolnshire) Thanks for a great video 👍🏻
Got a video idea - Premier league club's old stadiums and what they are now - Man city; Maine Road Everton; Anfield Brighton; Withdean Arsenal; Highbury
If you find the county name “Cumbria” funny, bear in mind cumbria has a town named Cockermouth. Cumbria gets its name from “cymry”, a celtic word which also serves as the root of the word “Cymru” in welsh. Cumbria is a celtic region that used to speak Cumbric, but many aspects to its slang, place names and local culture are still celtic. Love Brunton Park. Come on Carlisle
Thoroughly enjoyed that! For Gloucestershire I would have gone with Forest Green Rovers' eco-ground in Nailsworth, or the Boys College in Cheltenham (used by Gloucestershire cricket club for a series of matches each year), but Kingsholm is a fine choice.
I agree with your Worcestershire choice but disagree on the West Midlands. Villa Park might look good from some angles but inside it is really basic and the facilities in even the new Holte End have a 1960s feel to them. Molineux in Wolverhampton might have a lower capacity but, in spite of his massive history, it is clean, modern and more comfortable. The quality of football is better and you are not disturbed by what sounds like 5,000 school girls screeching "veeellla"
@@marcmurrell8827 Dreadful sight lines at the Bucket Stadium with too many obscured views because of the roof supports. I actually preferred Fellows Park.
3:30 It's because the Taylor Report requiring all seater stadiums only applied to football stadiums, not rugby grounds. Plus rugby fans prefer to stand.
You got the no significant derby days in Derbyshire, we have the East midlands derby which is one of the biggest rivalries in British football and due to a cheating owner and a corrupt league we now have a season to enjoy with Burton albion and that in its own right is a derby and does get heated
Best stadium in each irish county (all island)next.Mind yo it would be very just the county GAA ground,but there are few interesting ones Antrim would be windsor park(soccer) down would be ravenhill(rugby) Armagh would probably be Pairc Esler which is on the border with down and is Down GAAs county ground but is in armagh ,though its a toss up with armaghs actual county ground Limerick would be thomond park rugby Wicklow would be the carlisle grounds(soccer) in Bray Louth Oriel park (soccer) Dublin would be a GAA ground ,but not the county ground ,croke park
Controversial choice of Plymouth for Devon as it straddles the "border" of Devon and Cornwall. Home Park is very pretty with the mix of very old, I think well over 100 years old, with 3 stands only 10 or 15 years old.
No way is New York Stadium better than either Bramall Lane or Hillsbrough. Burtons Pirelli stadium is probably the worst in Staffordshire. John Smiths stadium is definitely not the best considering it’s competition with Bradford Bulls, Bradford City and Leeds United. I guess it’s just opinion but the Yorkshire ones seemed so obvious. Also, Rugby Town FC ground Butlin Road would have been my pick for Warwickshire
How about the 254 counties of Texas? Hint: Loving County wouldn't have any stadium as it doesn't have any schools and less than 100 people, except for a rodeo arena. Kenedy County, which doesn't have a high school, does have a baseball field in a community park. Most of the stadiums would be for high school football, outside of the big cities.
Tyne and Wear was abolished in 1986. Its basically Tyneside (ie Newcastle and Gateshead) and Wearside (Sunderland and Washington - although that counts as one city these days). But as ever, the UK is a mess.
Well congratulations on pronouncing the county of Worcestershire correctly not many people from outside of the UK do lol however it's the River Severn not Suverrn 😉😉 greetings from the city of Warrrcesster I mean Worcester 🙂🙂
Except it is soulless. You go there and it just feels so plastic and corporate, like the person who designed it was someone who had never been to a football match in their life and designed it based on what he heard football fans like.
