This week, I have come close to completing a challenge that has taken a lifetime: doing the 92. Known amongst a certain geeky type of football supporter as the feat of having watched a match at every single ground in the current 92 of the top four divisions of English football.<\/p>\n
Since my Dad took me to the Lancashire derby between Preston and Burnley at the end of the season in 1973, I\u2019ve kept a tally of the grounds, gently edging up towards the ultimate target, sometimes going backwards as stadiums are knocked down, and new ones become new targets on the tick list.<\/p>\n
I love the feeling of walking towards a new ground, seeing its context in relation to the town or city it inhabits. Then, clicking through the turnstiles at a new ground, sampling the atmosphere, tasting a local pie, weighing up the balance of two teams of toilers at an unfamiliar standard and feeding off the crowd’s knowledge of who is who.<\/p>\n
The quest of doing it has been genuinely formative. Friends and family are often surprised by how I seem to know how to get anywhere, by whatever means. There are superpowers I would rather have that might have made me more money, but given that I have spent a lifetime on an urban geography field trip, it has undoubtedly made life way more interesting. That curiosity about places and people also fueled my eventual career choice of journalism, and in particular, place-based business reporting.<\/p>\n
I now have just three grounds to go; two of them are retreads, where I will try to take in the new homes of Wimbledon and Brentford. Then there is only one team in the current 92 that I have never seen play, home or away, Bromley. They are also, fact fans, the only club in all of the leagues to sit in the constituency of a Conservative MP.<\/p>\n
This, I admit, is the kind of useless trivia that seeps into the groundhopper\u2019s knowledge bank.<\/p>\n
The progress has been lumpy. I have been to 70 of the current grounds following my team, Blackburn Rovers, who have played in three different divisions.<\/p>\n
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Simon Inglis’ book<\/p><\/div>\n
But I have always been relaxed about rocking up and seeing a new town, visiting a new stadium, and learning something about a place. In the 1980s and 1990s, one of my favourite ever football books would inform a visit: The Football Grounds of England and Wales<\/em> by Simon Inglis. He lovingly describes the architecture and the setting of each ground. It captures the styles and places in the context of the pre-Hillsborough crumbling terraces and the dominance of timber structures, the vulnerability of which was exposed in the Bradford fire of 1985.<\/p>\nIn his intro, Inglis says: \u201cThe experience of visiting a football ground is inseparable from the game itself, for every ground provides a different backdrop and a different atmosphere colouring your entire appreciation of a football match.\u201d<\/p>\n
I also devoured the photography of Stuart Clarke and his coffee table collection, Homes of Football<\/em>, which captured so many images of fans and people working on a matchday, reminding us that these are also lively businesses in diverse communities.<\/p>\nWitnessing the new stadiums replace places of genuine character has been mixed, if I’m honest. When they work, they don’t just provide a better arena, but serve as an anchor for wider development, for better or for worse. As Rob Amphlett, who leads Buro Happold\u2019s UK Sport and Entertainment sector, puts it: \u201cThey tend to be part of a wider regeneration scheme from the outset \u2013 or they quickly become one.\u201d<\/p>\n
That the architectural styles of stadia have changed is self-evident; however, there is little to distinguish between the newer homes of Reading, Derby County and Middlesbrough, for example. While the rebuilt grounds around the same rectangle of grass at Preston, Blackpool and Blackburn lack the charm of the places where I first fell in love with these cathedrals of collective community experiences.<\/p>\n
The newer Premier League stadiums have been an absolute game changer and have been major drivers at the centre of profound regeneration schemes. For example, Everton’s Hill Dickinson Stadium at Bramley-Moore Dock is widely estimated to bring \u00a31.3 billion into the Liverpool economy and attract 1.4 million annual visitors. I really liked the Hill Dickinson; it was walkable from the city centre and reminded me of the Stade De Drago in Porto, and I feel pretty sure that the atmosphere will get going once the fans build some institutional memory and people find their favoured places.<\/p>\n
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Tottenham Hotspur stadium<\/p><\/div>\n
The Tottenham Hotspur stadium, which I took in when they played Morecambe in the FA Cup in 2022, is probably the best of all the new builds, and marked my 75th on the list. The thought and planning that had gone into the whole concept is highly impressive, especially when you consider the card Spurs have been dealt. Even when I lived in London I never found the access to White Hart Lane particularly enjoyable, or without difficulty. Choosing therefore to build on roughly the same site, and embracing the gritty urban setting, and still pushing public transport and pedestrian options is a brave move.<\/p>\n
Since opening in 2019, the Tottenham Hotspur stadium has helped triple the club\u2019s contribution to London\u2019s economy. According to a 2023 report by EY, the stadium now generates \u00a3900m in gross output and \u00a3478m in Gross Value Added (GVA) annually across the boroughs of Haringey, Enfield and Waltham Forest. That\u2019s up from just \u00a3120m under the old White Hart Lane ground.<\/p>\n
The fact that the stadium generates roughly \u00a3900 million annually in gross output has also raised the bar for Manchester United\u2019s proposed new Old Trafford development.<\/p>\n
It was also an upgrade from Arsenal\u2019s spectacular newish stadium, and has the advantage of not being named after a Middle Eastern airline. At the time I felt that the Emirates was a genuine architectural colossus, rising with real presence out of a complex urban mismatch of uses and serving to lift the area, rather than simply being plonked down at an out of town site. It also symbolises and represents the transformation of modern football, bigger, quieter, catering for the fan as a consumer. The seats were the most comfortable I’ve sat in at football, the leg room the best, the sight line perfect. The crowd also definitely seemed even more gentrified than even the new breed at Manchester City and the old prawn sarnie brigade at Old Trafford.<\/p>\n
Maybe it\u2019s age, but football feels safer now, and the stadium design and relocations have played a part in that, as have the shifting demographics of football supporters. A report from international law firm Addleshaw Goddard last year, Inside the new Economy of a Stadium,<\/em> revealed that the global stadium sector is undergoing one of the most significant transformations in its history, as venues evolve from single-use sports arenas into complex, year-round commercial ecosystems, a long way from the basic sheds that coralled in a rough and mainly male supporter base.<\/p>\nTo this day, some fans of other Lancashire clubs refer to us Blackburn Rovers fans as “plastics” – a fan base that is supposedly younger, more middle class, glory hunting and female. Also, as the 30,000 seater stadium that former owner Jack Walker built remains half empty most matchdays, it reminded me that forecasting and financial planning should underpin new stadium planning, rather than the optimism of the fan.<\/p>\n
Our trip to Brighton and Hove Albion\u2019s Amex stadium also reinforced that point. I genuinely don’t think I’ve ever been part of such a civilised, gentrified and polite football crowd. Maybe it was the sunshine or the success of the local team, but actually I think it’s the onward success of a club with potential in a prosperous area, something that you’d struggle to attribute to Blackburn. Even the Rovers fans seemed mostly to be marketing managers and investment directors, originally from the Ribble Valley, on a day trip from the London suburbs to see their home town club.<\/p>\n
It used to be a bit of a standing joke that wherever Blackburn Rovers were playing in London and the south, the eccentrics running the London supporters branch would somehow conspire to find the worst possible place to meet. It was the kind of 90s education that gave me a unique insight on life and rough pubs.<\/p>\n
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London stadium<\/p><\/div>\n
Years later, prior to a League Cup tie with West Ham at the Olympic Stadium, meeting for artisan pizza and craft ale in a microbrewery in hipster Hackney Wick wouldn’t have been part of the old plan. That stadium though, is all wrong.<\/p>\n
My own personal progress towards completing the 92 has been spurred on by two recent bursts. The first when Blackburn Rovers were relegated to League One at Griffin Park, Brentford in 2017. On the way home me and my two accompanying sons decided to try to go to every hitherto unvisited ground in the unfamiliar third tier.<\/p>\n
Many turned out to be identikit new boxes on the edge of town like Doncaster Rovers, Scunthorpe United, Walsall, Shrewsbury Town and Northampton Town. More interesting were attempts at modernisation that created a mish mash of styles like at Bradford City, Bristol Rovers, Peterborough United and Fleetwood Town. The tendency in sporting regeneration has been to relocate out of a town centre, maximising land values and seeking a new home with a commercial retail and leisure development out of town, such as what Bolton Wanderers and Doncaster Rovers have done. Yet the one example of a stadium moving even closer to its town centre is actually my favourite of the small scale newbuilds, New York Stadium, Rotherham, because it’s also the right size for the club it hosts.<\/p>\n
This appears to be a lesson that’s informing the plans of others. Oxford United FC\u2019s new stadium will eventually hold 16,000 fans \u2013 \u201cthe right balance\u201d, CEO Tim Williams is quoted in the Addleshaw Goddard report as saying. Similarly, Wrexham AFC\u2019s redeveloped 7,750-seat Kop Stand will bring the stadium\u2019s overall capacity to just over 18,000. In both cases, I’d expect such capacity discipline will protect atmosphere, pricing power and perception. As one of Wrexham\u2019s executives has said, \u201ca full stadium with a waiting list is better than an oversized one that\u2019s half empty\u201d.<\/p>\n
Speaking of which, I very reluctantly took in Stadium MK because it was a new ground. We ended up tucked away in the top deck of a flat pack stadium (next to IKEA) against the weird soulless shapeless thing that is MK Dons. It still upsets me that they were a movable franchise. I said when I bought the tickets that it felt a bit like I’m crossing a picket line at Parkside colliery circa 1985 while eating a Cape orange. If the experience wasn’t weird enough in this futuristic new town with its roundabouts, boulevards and no visible centre, the game was also one to forget.<\/p>\n
By the way, Doing the 92 never really ends. New teams promoted into the league need to be visited, and when Oxford move to their new stadium, for example, that will need to be visited to complete the set.<\/p>\n
That League One surge took me into the late 70s, where I then seemed stuck, like my Championship team, and so, fed up with what Blackburn Rovers offered, I made a decision last year to get to know my country even more and spend weekends completing the set.<\/p>\n
A few of the quirks of modern football have conspired to knock the plan off course. My trip to Brentford in November has also been scuppered due to Sky screening the game against Everton that I had secured tickets for, and moved it to a Monday night.<\/p>\n
Even at a lower level tickets aren\u2019t always easy to come by. I\u2019m now a registered fan at nearly every one of the clubs I’ve been to recently, as I\u2019ve had to sign up and hand over my data in order to purchase. I did this after I mistakenly thought Lincoln City would be pleased to see us rock up on the day, not realising all their games sell out. Then there are fixture changes, sometimes after I\u2019ve gone to the trouble of booking a train in advance. We had planned a day out in Cheltenham to see the visit of Tranmere Rovers, to chalk off my 85th of the 92. Except the game got called off because a 20th placed League Two side had three players called up for international duty.<\/p>\n
So, with an investment in non refundable train tickets to Gloucestershire made, a chance to skip along to Newport to take in a different 85th ground opened up, and the trip to Cheltenham had to wait. When it did happen, the delights of another League Two spa town matched the very pleasant days out in Harrogate and Lincoln earlier that season.<\/p>\n
But for every delightful town or city like that, there has also been run down Stevenage, windswept Barrow and soulless Crawley.<\/p>\n
With three to go, I remind myself that these adventures aren’t just about football, but a great way to see anywhere. The north south divide is real, so many places seem poorer and lacking in hope. But there’s also a divide of size; the scale and ambition of stadium design at the top of the pyramid, contrasts so much with cheaper options in the lower divisions.<\/p>\n
Newport County v Shewsbury Town may have been a nervy encounter between two struggling teams, in a wind swirled Rodney Parade, and it was the worst game of the season by some margin. It was rescued by a peach of a winning goal from Newport’s Bobby Kamwa, right in front of the covered wooden grandstand where we enjoyed the company of the locals.<\/p>\n
Yet lunch in Newport Market was in a food hall as good as the football was bad and was almost worth the trip itself.<\/p>\n
The best Sri Lankan fried butter squid, mutton rolls and chicken koththu – you\u2019ll never sing that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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