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Where's your favourite/most spectacular place to watch sport?

I've been looking at stadiums today, this one looks beautiful:

http://www.worldstadiums.com/stadium_menu/past_future/pictures/future_stadiums/berlin_olympiastadion2.jpg

― chris (chris), Monday, 7 June 2004 15:00 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.worldstadiums.com/stadium_menu/past_future/pictures/future_stadiums/guadalajara_omnilife.jpg

oh wow

― chris (chris), Monday, 7 June 2004 15:02 (twenty-one years ago)

stadium MK!!!!

http://www.worldstadiums.com/stadium_menu/past_future/pictures/future_stadiums/milton_keynes_mk.jpg

― chris (chris), Monday, 7 June 2004 15:06 (twenty-one years ago)

are these actual-existing places?

i love the Millennium STadium tho i have sadly never been

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 7 June 2004 15:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Eastlands owns this thread.

― ___ (___), Monday, 7 June 2004 15:13 (twenty-one years ago)

also that Japanese one they can move around. please tell me they didn't demolish their World Cup stadia!

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 7 June 2004 15:14 (twenty-one years ago)

they're stadiums in the design stages, the top is Berlin's Olympicstadion, the second is one in Guadalajara. My favourite place to watch football is the Spion Kop of Saltergate, up in the back left corner, which gives you a view over just about every part of the ground, fans and pitch.

― chris (chris), Monday, 7 June 2004 15:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Twickenham is v nice. I always thought Wembley was a dump. Old Trafford not all that considering (bloody awful food). The White Sox stadium in Chicago was neat tho I'm sure the Cubs ground far surpasses it. Loftus Road is a bit of a hole as you would expect. I went to Stamford Bridge ten years ago and sat on wooden seats.

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 7 June 2004 15:15 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.ballparksofbaseball.com/nl/pnc743.jpg

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Monday, 7 June 2004 15:18 (twenty-one years ago)

The new Wembley is looking rather pretty, for a building site. But the old one wasn't great, no.

The San Mames was a lovely ground, proper. Nicer than Camp Nou in a lot of ways.

― chris (chris), Monday, 7 June 2004 15:18 (twenty-one years ago)

really? i liked it. i dream of visiting both Nou Camp and Bernabeu tho.

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 7 June 2004 15:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Old Trafford not all that considering

It's ugly and looks like it is made out of meccano!

City of Manchester Stadium - stunning. Has leg room. All they need to do now is learn to pre-pour beer at half-time.

― ___ (___), Monday, 7 June 2004 15:21 (twenty-one years ago)

250000 muscovites???

http://www.worldstadiums.com/stadium_menu/architecture/stadium_proposals/moskva_national/index.shtml

Steve - Camp Nou is great, but maybe a bit too big when Barca are playing Oviedo and only (ONLY!!) 55000 turn up

― chris (chris), Monday, 7 June 2004 15:23 (twenty-one years ago)

― hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 7 June 2004 15:24 (twenty-one years ago)

I love that photo, I think it's the way you scan "see through" the stadium

― chris (chris), Monday, 7 June 2004 15:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Millennium Stadium is brilliant - on every level. Has the 'ooh, we're in a city and there's a stadium right in the middle of it' and gets a great buzz going which even the local cops can't harsh. Celtic Park is great and huge and stuff. Azteca was very impressive - not as big as I thought, but it did have waitress service with beer, which was v. cool.

Always fancied seeing cricket in the MCG or Eden Gardens. San Siro a see one day venue.

The new wembley - Don't get me started. private fucking railway line for corporate interests gnash gnash fucking London inertia.

x-post- I think the expansion of Ot was bodged - they waited 30 years for the Atherton Fuller Masterplan to be finfished and then buggered it up within 2 years with an ugly stand, compunded with two others - I found it really disjointed as a venue.

― Dave B (daveb), Monday, 7 June 2004 15:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Steve, San Mames had that thing that you felt that everyone was right on top of everything, it reminded me of a traditional British ground (we ended up on a bigger Valley) Camp Nou is all a little set back, even though there's no running track. (I'm sure I read somewhere that Cruyff said he'd never coach a team that had a running track round a pitch - good man)

― chris (chris), Monday, 7 June 2004 15:35 (twenty-one years ago)

wrigley field owns

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 7 June 2004 15:36 (twenty-one years ago)

I love Wrigley Field too. Although I'll always have a soft spot for Maple Leaf Gardens:
http://leafs.wz.cz/images/mlg.jpg
http://www.sportsposterwarehouse.com/warehouse/mlg99-d-1.jpg
Too bad it closed down...

― Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Monday, 7 June 2004 15:40 (twenty-one years ago)

running tracks around a football pitch = definite dud

Stade de France supposedly nice tho i hear the acoustics are poor...

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 7 June 2004 15:42 (twenty-one years ago)

I like the Oval.

― jel -- (jel), Monday, 7 June 2004 16:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Wrigley Field looks great from the train as you pull into the city (if my memory serves me right - I was there 14 years ago).

City of Manchester Stadium is great. My mate who's 6 foot 8 or so feels comfortable in there.

It's dilapidated, but I have such a soft spot for Headingley Cricket Ground. Part nostalgia, part genuine atmosphere - the kind of thing no refurb could generate.

― Daniel (dancity), Monday, 7 June 2004 16:26 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.extrainningstour.com/photogallery/Week15/Staten%20Island/perfectdiamond.jpg

If that works, it's the view from the stands at the Staten Island Yankees' stadium. My favorite. Large ships periodically pass by right on the other side of the outfield wall.

― Hurlothrumbo (hurlothrumbo), Monday, 7 June 2004 17:20 (twenty-one years ago)

At the risk of sounding predictable, Celtic Park. Voted the most atmospheric sporting venue in the UK, and for good reason.

I've never been inside, but I like the way St James' Park looks from a train going through Newcastle. On top of a hill in the city centre, like a football ground SHOULD be.

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 7 June 2004 17:28 (twenty-one years ago)

http://web.kyoto-inet.or.jp/org/orion/img/hst/pcd03-5.gif

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 7 June 2004 17:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Ailsa - Millenium Stadium has all of that minus the hill. If truth be tol;d, I think we can do with hills. the MS in on the river which I think makes up for it, as do nice bobbies advising which pubs are worth a look.

― Dave B (daveb), Monday, 7 June 2004 17:37 (twenty-one years ago)

b-but the Millenium Stadium isn't a proper football ground, just for high days and holidays and Welsh rugby.

I haven't been to Cardiff since it was built. But I don't like it for last year's FA Cup Final with the roof shut. FA Cup Finals are meant to be in the sunshine, not INDOORS!!!

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 7 June 2004 17:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Growing up in Toronto, Maple Leaf Gardens was often more impressive then the Maple Leafs playing in it.
Fletcher's Fields north of Toronto was a wonderful rugby pitch which I always felt guilty for playing on.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Monday, 7 June 2004 19:19 (twenty-one years ago)

And Maple Leaf Wrestling:
http://www.canoe.ca/WrestlingImagesS/slaughter_hogan.jpg

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Monday, 7 June 2004 19:21 (twenty-one years ago)

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