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[Football] EFL stadiums with running tracks
- Thread starter Swansman
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Brighton Rocker
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Withdean those were the days. Miles from the pitch in the pissing rain but, always a laugh in H Block.
Fans today don’t know they are born!
At least we were allowed in the stadium.
Pogue Mahone
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- Apr 30, 2011
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There are none left, and Withdean was the last one.
When Crystal Palace get relegated ( It will happen) they will move to the Crystal Palace National Sports Centre.
Tbf that’s better than their current home anyway.
Hampster Gull
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Didnt Newport play in a Stadium with a running track recently?
- Apr 5, 2014
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Some may have been used for Speedway. I'm sure The Shay had another function.
The Wookiee
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Wasn’t the Etihad an athletics stadium 
Pogue Mahone
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- Apr 30, 2011
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I think it just looks like it should have a running track as the terraces behind the goals are so far from the pitch. The side stands are close to the pitch, though.
Gateshead got to the Final of the Conference Play Offs in 2014. They've got one. Unfortunately for them they were defeated by the mighty Cambridge United.
Pogue Mahone
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- Apr 30, 2011
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Yeah, you're right. I thought they had left there before we left Withdean...it seems it was a year later.
So, Don Valley was the last.
VAL1850
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Not EFL by a long way - Eastbourne Utd - The Oval had a running track to 2008?
blockhseagull
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Wasn’t the Etihad an athletics stadium
It was yes, used for the commonwealth games.
Difference is they properly converted it before they moved in unlike Wet Sham
Indeed - the key difference between Wet Sham and Citeh was that the ground’s legacy was properly thought through and the outset, and designed accordingly.
The Commonwealth Stadium was a two tier design with a temporary end. After the games, they then dug down to complete the extra tier and added the permanent end.
el punal
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In our last season at Withdean I got chatting with a couple of Sheffield Wednesday fans. I told them that the requirements for away fans was (1) suncream and (2) a pair of binoculars. They thought I was joking until I explained that, dependent on the time of year, you would either suffer extreme frostbite, and/or hypothermia for Withdean cloudbursts. Sunstroke came into play when the old currant bun made an appearance.
The binoculars explanation would have been obvious to them when they got to the away section positioned behind the hammer throwing area, the running track and forty yards from behind the goal.
Theatre of Trees
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Didn't we play Leicester in thick fog and the first time the away fans realised they'd scored was when their team came running back to their own half to kick off.
maffew
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Withdean was my last home Brighton game!! That should change next year as I look to relocate back to Sussex in the next couple of months after 11 years away
Pogue Mahone
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Yes, a friend of mine who is a Leicester fan remembers it well!