[Football] Quirky stadiums

[ATFC Seagull]

Not a particularly high level, but I enjoyed having a gander at Taormina (Sicily) FC's home every day on my honeymoon on the cable car from the hotel to town.

 

[LowKarate]

Stadion Voždovac – Belgrade, Serbia.

Built on top of a shopping centre.
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Palace tried that in the 80s but Noades spilled his Strawberry Angel Delight on the plans and the rest is history.

 

[wolfie]

Exeter (St James' Park) used to have a hedge behind one goal, I think Aldershot did too.

Aldershot had a floral clock behind one goal in the sixties.

 

[PTC Gull]

Mercedes Benz Stadium here in Atlanta with the quirky roof which can shut or open. Home of the NFL Falcons and MLS Atlanta Utd.

 

[Ⓩ-Ⓐ-Ⓜ-Ⓞ-Ⓡ-Ⓐ]

In Rhodes, Greece

 

[Easy 10]

Mercedes Benz Stadium here in Atlanta with the quirky roof which can shut or open. Home of the NFL Falcons and MLS Atlanta Utd.

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Stunning isn't it. They really do push the boundaries of stadium design in the US.

 

[Sussex Nomad]

Aldershot had a floral clock behind one goal in the sixties.

Did they have a hedge though? I'm sure they did.

 

[Seasider78]

Lofoten islands in Norway

 

[Triggaaar]

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This isn't a photoshop, it is real and alive in Sheffield.

Yeah, but they don't actually play football on it, it's just been made as a joke (right?)

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

 

[Sussex Nomad]

Yeah, but they don't actually play football on it, it's just been made as a joke (right?)

Absolutely no idea!

 

[Notters]

Apparently this doubles up as a stadium?

 

[Mr Bridger]

 

[Driver8]

Lofoten islands in Norway

Ulloa’s penalty would definitely have made the sea.

 

[Barham's tash]

Do they have a coracle ?

Alas no just a **** off big bet around the ground.

Ulloa’s penalty would have got over it mind.

 

[Bry Nylon]

Apparently this doubles up as a stadium?

For all of SP's obvious shortcomings, I do LOVE a stadium surrounded by narrow streets and rows of houses.

 

[Sirnormangall]

Did they have a hedge though? I'm sure they did.

I’m fairly sure it was a floral clock set in a flower bed.

 

[Bry Nylon]

I’m fairly sure it was a floral clock set in a flower bed.

"Analogue?"
"No - just a floral clock."

 

[Lady Whistledown]

I like this one. Cathkin Park, once home of Third Lanark FC. Used to be a proper old ground until they went out of business fifty odd years ago. Now most of the terracing- which goes around most of the stadium bowl- has slowly been subsumed by trees. It has a faintly Withdean-esque feel to it. They're trying to restore it now.

This is what it used to look like:

 

[Lady Whistledown]

Very close to Hampden Park, by the way.