Football Museums

[rrruss]

I need YOUR help!

I am doing a college assignment on football museums. Last week I visited Hampden Park (excellent) and Celtic (not quite so good) and now would like to know of others' experiences at football museums.

Would especially like to know if anyone went who wasn't an out and out footie fan, and what they thought.

So come on, get posting your reviews!..............

 

[Yorkie]

I went on an Old Trafford tour with a group of American students 18 months ago.

They didn't know that much about 'soccer' but they were impressed with the Man United museum.

Obviously the Munich air disaster was featured quite strongly. It caught their imagination. The tour guide was very good and answered lots of questions after giving his usual specch.

 

[JJ McClure]

Went to the premier league hall of fame or what ever it's called up in't London a couple of years back. Seem to recall it was a load of cack.

 

[rrruss]

Thanks Yorkie and 80's Seagull. Good and bad is what I want. Why was the hall of fame a load of cack? Too expensive or sweet FA in there?

 

[JJ McClure]

Not too expensive as I got a free ticket somehow. It was a general lack of content I think. Went through the years and the teams etc but not with anything much that you didn't already know.

 

[fatbadger]

Recently went to the national museum at Preston with a Pompey-supporting mate.

Although we appreciated a lot of it (particularly the very early stuff), we thought an opportunity was lost. It would have been so easy to make sure that every league club got a mention - every club has its moment of glory, and therefore every club could have been slipped in somewhere. But, unfortunately, while I appreciate the reasons behind the emphasis on the successful clubs of the last 30 years, and understand (though not necessarily agree with) the emphasis on Lancashire, the complete absence of a number of clubs with a long tradition on the league was very disappointing.

Worse still (and to some extent related to the above problem), this museum should have been the opportunity to re-write back into the history of English league football the story of the Southern League. The Football League is appallingly myopic in its understanding of football's history, so for this museum (the national football museum, not the Football League's museum) to continue in this tradition is very poor indeed.

Still, they do have Bert Trautman's Neck Brace.

 

[Soton Seagull]

Nou Camp Museam at Barca's stadium is amazing. Big tribute to Zamora (who was a goalkeeper)! Really shows everything that is great about football, and even has sections dedicated to the other sports that it supports in the community.

 

[rrruss]

Thanks for replies.

Anyone else? Highbury, Liverpool? Uruguay?