have you played at any league/non league grounds?

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have you played at any league/non league grounds?

by frimmers3 » 20 Feb 2013 11:19

three appearances at the rec....two at fleet...one at wokinghams old ground....anyone played on a "big" stage?

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by Alexander Litvinenko » 20 Feb 2013 11:20

Did the Football Aid thing, playing at the MadStad, a few years ago.

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by TBM » 20 Feb 2013 11:22

Wembley
White Hart Lane
Madejski
Wokingham Town
Reading Town
Then almost all the clubs grounds in the Chiltonian League

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by cmonurz » 20 Feb 2013 11:30

Only Bracknell Town, played a pre-season friendly as an U-16s team against another team in our league, at Larges Lane.

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by Tails » 20 Feb 2013 12:19

Farnborough, Aldershot locally but a shit load of others whilst playing for Farnborough.


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by paultheroyal » 20 Feb 2013 13:15

The Dell
St Mary's
Elm Park
Fratton Park
Loftus Road
Vicarage Road
New Den
St James Park
The Valley
Plough Lane
Plainmoor
Manor Ground
County Ground
White Hart Lane
Highbury
Brisbane Road
Adams Park

I am sure I have missed a few.

As for non league, it would be a case of where I have not been. Looking down that list of conferences (not ex league teams) Ryman Leagues etc all through to Combined counties and Wessex League I have done the majority.

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by 3 veesinarow » 20 Feb 2013 14:04

My final appearance on a football field was on the biggest stage I ever played on, at York Road, Maidenhead in a cup-final winning team.

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by reading_fan » 20 Feb 2013 15:26

Played at Redditch United's ground (the name escapes me) when we won the Worcestershire Cup with the Sunday league side I played for for a few years

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by Pepe the Horseman » 20 Feb 2013 15:34

Funnily enough, I've just been invited to play at Wembley 8)


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by Badger Finger » 20 Feb 2013 15:35

The Portway - Andover
AFC Tottons old ground

Also had a kick around at Welford road, of Leicester Tigers fame... They told us stop soon enough.

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by Tony Le Mesmer » 20 Feb 2013 15:40

Played at Elm Park v The Directors XI. the lowlight was blocking shot with my nads from none other than Brendan Rogers. 15 years later he returned to do it again.

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by Tad Showbiz » 20 Feb 2013 20:30

Wokingham Town
Peppard

Almost played at Wexham Park, Slough Town but due to a waterlogged pitch we had to play on the training pitch outside.

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by Ark Royal » 20 Feb 2013 22:21

Bracknell Town
Wokingham Town (the old Finchampstead Road ground)
Windsor
Maidenhead Utd.
Dalymount Park, Dublin
La Rosaleda, Malaga


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by Royal Rother » 20 Feb 2013 22:59

My son has played at

Windsor
Maidenhead
Burnham
Beaconsfield
Ascot

Me? Nowhere.

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by Terminal Boardom » 21 Feb 2013 04:46

Ark Royal Bracknell Town
Wokingham Town (the old Finchampstead Road ground)
Windsor
Maidenhead Utd.
Dalymount Park, Dublin
La Rosaleda, Malaga


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by Terminal Boardom » 21 Feb 2013 04:47

I played at Kenilworth Rd, Luton when they were a top flight club. Other than that, Finchampstead Rd, Wokingham and the stadium pitch at Palmer Park. I wasn't that good.

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by Alan Partridge » 21 Feb 2013 09:56

DTFC
Marlow
Oxford City
Manor Ground Oxford
Abingdon Utd
Abingdon Town
Wallingford
Cirencester Town
Wantage Town

Think that's it. Most of them when I played for the League rep side as a boy, our home games were at Oxford City's ground or at Abingdon Town, we played 1 game at the Manor when Ox City were at home.

I could be playing at Upton Park in June in a charity tournament but unconfirmed as yet.

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by SPARTA » 21 Feb 2013 10:08

After Elm Park's last game I used to climb over the blue gate behind the South Bank and take a ball in with me. Only the sound of dogs would have me running for the gate again, but I often had a good 20 minutes to have a kick about in the moonlight. Near killed myself running the full length of the pitch (pretending to be Gilkesy) and then smashing the ball home from an acute angle (at the third attempt, the other times the ball went into the Tilehurst End as I was puffing and panting, and seeing stars.. by the time I took the shot). Also played at Wokingham (properly) as a 16 year-old, not long before they knocked it down.

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by Ark Royal » 21 Feb 2013 14:18

SPARTA After Elm Park's last game I used to climb over the blue gate behind the South Bank and take a ball in with me. Only the sound of dogs would have me running for the gate again, but I often had a good 20 minutes to have a kick about in the moonlight. Near killed myself running the full length of the pitch (pretending to be Gilkesy) and then smashing the ball home from an acute angle (at the third attempt, the other times the ball went into the Tilehurst End as I was puffing and panting, and seeing stars.. by the time I took the shot). Also played at Wokingham (properly) as a 16 year-old, not long before they knocked it down.


I used to do that as well! Easy to get in EP where the wall sloped down behind the South Bank. I used to leave by jumping off the the away end turnstiles into Norfolk Road.

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by parky » 21 Feb 2013 16:05

Not played, however I have refereed at all the Current Southern League Div 1 South & West grounds and the majority of Wessex league grounds.

As for league grounds, I have refereed at the Liberty in Swansea and the Madejski coupled with Swansea, Cardiff and Reading's training complexes.

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