[Football] What is the best Prem stadium experience?

Hometownglory · 2024-09-21T21:00:24+0100

Which Prem stadium do you think offers the best all round experience? This includes things like location, travel (to and from), design, atmosphere, fans and food.

Where do you The Amex ranks out of the 20?

Jackthelad · 2024-09-21T21:09:23+0100

In recent modern football I don't think any of the current EPL teams have a great atmosphere. I like to complain about the travel issues and the food being shit but The Amex for me is the best by some way.

Mackenzie · 2024-09-21T21:10:39+0100

Forest.

By a distance.

As for Falmer, I love it, not as noisy as some but it feels a special place to me still.

dazzer6666 · 2024-09-21T21:12:43+0100

This requires a big spreadsheet and a defined scoring system covering a wide range of criteria.

I can’t be arsed. Would probably end up broadly equal between several grounds due to various plusses and minuses, but not Selhurst, Goodison, OT or West Ham which have virtually no redeeming features

jcdenton08 · 2024-09-21T21:18:17+0100

I like The Amex for location, which is sort of against the spirit of this really.

I never eat at the football, so our terrible food isn’t an issue for me. I like our stadium a lot despite the flat atmosphere and train issues.

Much easier is worst - Goodison or Selhurst. Two dreadful grounds.

Anger · 2024-09-21T21:21:37+0100

Wolves.

Sid and the Sharknados · 2024-09-21T21:27:55+0100

jcdenton08 said:
I like The Amex for location, which is sort of against the spirit of this really.

I never eat at the football, so our terrible food isn’t an issue for me. I like our stadium a lot despite the flat atmosphere and train issues.

Much easier is worst - Goodison or Selhurst. Two dreadful grounds.

When I'm down that way, I'd say the Amex has great beer, great pies and keeps the bars open after the match finishes so I don't have to engage with the train back to Lewes until it's calmed down. And then I'm in Lewes where there are a bunch of great pubs. It's a great stadium.

Away ground wise, Bramall Lane, Turf Moor, both Liverpool grounds (for Liverpool as a city more than anything about the grounds themselves) and the City Ground would all be up there for me. But those are much more about the city/town/train journey around them than anything about the stadiums themselves. As far as the ground itself is concerned the only thing that differentiates them for me is a) whether they do a balti pie, and b) do they have a beer tent like Turf Moor.

dazzer6666 · 2024-09-21T21:30:41+0100

jcdenton08 said:
I like The Amex for location, which is sort of against the spirit of this really.

I never eat at the football, so our terrible food isn’t an issue for me. I like our stadium a lot despite the flat atmosphere and train issues.

Much easier is worst - Goodison or Selhurst. Two dreadful grounds.

Not all our food is terrible

jcdenton08 · 2024-09-21T21:38:40+0100

dazzer6666 said:
Not all our food is terrible

I really wouldn’t know, I see people looking sadly at their alleged burgers while sipping my Harvey’s on the concourse, and I’m not tempted to try any of it.

junior · 2024-09-21T21:39:30+0100

I quite like Old Trafford. Easy to get to buy tram, train, taxi etc. there's even quite a bit of parking close-by.

It's a massive stadium and the atmosphere in there can be quite something sometimes. When I'm there I often think about those who have played on that pitch and walked down the tunnel, and it's some list of players. Some absolute legends. The history of the place can't be matched by any other stadium in the top flight perhaps except A field?

It's in a residential area, you walk down terraced streets to the ground etc. If you compare that to Man City for example, it was just built on barren wasteland.

We've also had some good memories there recently from an Albion perspective.

dazzer6666 · 2024-09-21T21:40:17+0100

jcdenton08 said:
I really wouldn’t know, I see people looking sadly at their alleged burgers while sipping my Harvey’s on the concourse, and I’m not tempted to try any of it.

Oh the burgers are absolutely crap. The sausage rolls are, however, excellent

The Grockle · 2024-09-21T21:40:22+0100

Two important metrics for me are location and atmosphere so I think Newcastle and forest rank quite highly.
I like the matchday experience at the Amex but I average a couple of times a season, If I was going to every home game I think the train queues would grate on me.

dazzer6666 · 2024-09-21T21:41:20+0100

junior said:
I quite like Old Trafford. Easy to get to buy tram, train, taxi etc. there's even quite a bit of parking close-by.

It's a massive stadium and the atmosphere in there can be quite something sometimes. When I'm there I often think about those who have played on that pitch and walked down the tunnel, and it's some list of players. Some absolute legends. The history of the place can't be matched by any other stadium in the top flight perhaps except A field?

It's in a residential area, you walk down terraced streets to the ground etc. If you compare that to Man City for example, it was just built on barren wasteland.

We've also had some good memories there recently from an Albion perspective.

It’s a decrepit dump with tiny seats and crap kiosks.

Happy Exile · 2024-09-21T21:44:31+0100

From previous threads I imagine this may be an unpopular opinion but I’ve got a soft spot for Anfield - probably my favourite away ground to visit now. I enjoy the walk in from the city, the murals, the atmosphere inside and outside the ground, and the fact it feels like it hasn’t been manufactured as an experience by Sky. The whole “this means more” thing annoys me enormously though! St James’s Park pre-Saudi I enjoyed too.

Wardy's twin · 2024-09-21T21:46:00+0100

dazzer6666 said:
Oh the burgers are absolutely crap. The sausage rolls are, however, excellent

as are the chicken based pies

BN9 BHA · 2024-09-21T21:50:49+0100

dazzer6666 said:
Not all our food is terrible

Crisps are nice :smile:

dazzer6666 · 2024-09-21T21:51:38+0100

BN9 BHA said:
Crisps are nice

…and the yorkies

zefarelly · 2024-09-21T21:56:03+0100

I'd never been to Goodison park until last season . . . Proper old ground with lots of wood, seats designed for stunted ewoks who smoked picadilly from an early age. A shit view, but great service ( better than 1901, which isn't saying much)

Weststander · 2024-09-21T21:58:18+0100

I haven’t been to a quite a few.

From my incomplete perspective I love Anfield and like Molyneux. The latter ticks that wonderful thing of a genuine city centre stadium.

Noise. it’s subjective and varies depending on team fortunes. Were the Forest or Arsenal crowds passionately noisy 5 years ago, no. Newcastle crowds seemed forever glum about the owner, until the murderers took-over. Whilst Championship Leeds must be near the pinnacle, I know that will annoy people.

Change at Barnham · 2024-09-21T21:58:59+0100

Forest or Wolves

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