Premiership Stadiums Questions

[OutKast3000]

Can Anybody help me out -- I have no idea what Team belongs with which stadium.....especailly all of the London ones. Can you fill me in?

I know the easy ones:
White Hart Lane - Spurs
Anfield - Liverpool
Craven Cottage - Fulham
Highbury - Arseenal
Old Trafford - Man U
Stamford Bridge - Chelsea

What about the rest? And why are they named what they are???? Here in the US all of the stadiums are named after coporate sponsors these days :( I really dig the names of the UK stadiums.

[royalstilton]

http://www.stadiumguide.com/england.htm Can Anybody help me out -- I have no idea what Team belongs with which stadium.....especailly all of the London ones. Can you fill me in?

I know the easy ones:
White Hart Lane - Spurs
Anfield - Liverpool
Craven Cottage - Fulham
Highbury - Arseenal
Old Trafford - Man U
Stamford Bridge - Chelsea

What about the rest? And why are they named what they are???? Here in the US all of the stadiums are named after coporate sponsors these days :( I really dig the names of the UK stadiums.

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[John Boy]

West Bromwich Albion - The Hawthorns

The club's move to The Hawthorns came when the lease expired on the old Stoney Lane ground. It was sited on the old Hawthorns Estate, and hawthorn bushes had been grown there in the past

http://www.wba.premiumtv.co.uk/page/Records/0,,10366,00.html

[royalstilton]

[QUOTE=John Boy]West Bromwich Albion - The Hawthorns
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now if you'll just tell us what's the deal with Albion we'll all be very pleased.

[John Boy]

the best I can do is from www.baggies.com/faq

why the "Albion" bit at the end ?
From Dr Bryn Jones:

I defer to the experts on this one. However, there is an old foundry district of West Bromwich which predates the club and used to be called 'Albion' - it may still be on some maps. It's a reasonable guess - though only a guess - that the original players just took the name from there; either because some came from that district, or just because it sounded impressive.

From Stephen Webb:

As I understand it (and I may misunderstand it) back in the mists of time we used to be the WB Strollers, until a time before the turn of the century when many of our players worked on the Albion industrial estate. So we changed the name. This might be utter crap of course. Or I might just have got it wrong.

[eejit]

It is worth noting that many of these clubs have recently left their traditional homes for new purpose built stadia.

Whilst the new grounds are upto date and offer a better deal for the paying spectator many of the old grounds had much more character e.g. Roker Park (Sunderland), Baseball Ground (Derby County), Maine Road (Manchester City) etc.

Some of the old footage from these grounds is great to watch. In fact back in the 70's the Baseball Ground literally had no grass on it and was one giant mud bath. There is some footage where a penalty is awarded during a match and the spot has to be repainted because nobody has any idea where it is.

It was recently revealed that this was a deliberate tactic by the club who secretly ordered the groundsman to overwater the pitch. It had the effect of levelling out skill levels of passing teams. It was certainly effective as Derby won their only Championship (Premiership) during this time.

[pompeyrob]

[QUOTE=John Boy]West Bromwich Albion - The Hawthorns
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now if you'll just tell us what's the deal with Albion we'll all be very pleased.
Albion is the ancient name for the island of Great Britain and although we don`t use the word much anymore it used to be very popular. Theres loads of old pubs in England called "The Albion".

So my theory is - In the late 1800`s the West Brom founders were, in a roundabout way, calling the club "West Bromwich from England" as did the founders of Brighton & Hove Albion.

Probably quite a cool name at the time! Unlike nowadays. :)

[pompeyrob]

Carrying on from what Eejit was saying , I worked recently with a couple of lads from Dundee.
Dundee is a two team town and one was a Dundee fan, and the other was a Dundee United fan.
And when they argued about football (which was alot) , the Dundee fan used to call the United fan a "feckin Arab!"

So I eventually asked him why he called his mate an Arab?

He tells me that during the seventies, Dundee United`s pitch was a so muddy one winter, - they bought in truckloads of sand and covered every bit of the pitch with it!

Apparently when it got windy the sand used to make dunes on the pitch. LOL

So Dundee fans will call Dundee United fans "The Arabs" for evermore !

He started reeling off some jokes like "Have we scored? .... No its a mirage!" - and the pub on the corner being the "oasis".

He says to his mate "I bet your mam walks around in one of those big black arab feckin robe things saying - does my bomb look big in this?" FAF!

His mate shakes his head " He`s just jealous `cos UTD are the biggest club in......."
And so it went on.
They were always down the pub dinnertimes!

They were a good couple of lads! Made me laugh anyway! :)

[pompeyrob]

Just read through the thread again . Portsmouth - Fratton Park

Southampton - The New Dellhi

[RobB]

Albion is the ancient name for the island of Great Britain and although we don`t use the word much anymore it used to be very popular.


Didn`t California used to be called New Albion? Or is that just a myth.

[pompeyrob]

Didn`t California used to be called New Albion? Or is that just a myth.
Quite possibly mate! Loads of towns cities and states in America are named after English places for example, New York - York, Washington DC - Washington (up north somewhere), Milwaukee - Millwall etc.

[RobB]

Quite possibly mate! Loads of towns cities and states in America are named after English places for example, New York - York, Washington DC - Washington (up north somewhere), Milwaukee - Millwall etc.


That reminds me, I was reading Chris Waddles column in The Sun and he said how he joked with Gazza about how he had only joined Boston United because he thought it meant he`d be playing in the US. According to Waddle, Gazza didn`t deny it. :D

[210597]

Isn't Milwaukee an ancient Indian word, or was that line from Wayne's World a lie? :D

here are some other ones off the top of my head:

Everton-Goodison Park
Coventry City-Highfield Road
Queens Park Rangers-Loftus Road (although the stadium lies on South Africa Road)
Blackburn Rovers-Ewood Park
Aston Villa-Villa Park, not much mystery there
Manchester City-City of Manchester Stadium, again not a toughie
Crystal Palace-Selhurst Park
Newcastle Utd-St. James Park

Bolton Wanderers play at the Reebok Stadium, though.

[Wide Boy]

Quite possibly mate! Loads of towns cities and states in America are named after English places for example, New York - York, Washington DC - Washington (up north somewhere), Milwaukee - Millwall etc.

My guess is that Washington DC was named after George of that name.

However, his family did take its name from Washington in England; it is a town roughly between Newcastle and Sunderland.

[Mobile]

Cambridge United play at The Abbey Stadium. The club were originally called Abbey United when founded in 1912, named after the Abbey district of Cambridge where they played. They changed their name in 1951.

[erictheking]

Manchester City-City of Manchester Stadium, again not a toughie

I thought Citys stadium was called Broadlands

[royalstilton]

Isn't Milwaukee an ancient Indian word, or was that line from Wayne's World a lie? :D
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http://www.turtletrack.org/CO_FirstPerson/CO_04052003_Milwaukee.htm
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the link is a long read. suffice to say that the derivation of "Milwaukee" is in dispute, owing to the fact that the guy who named it didn't bother to write it down. maybe he had no written language. did you ever think of that?

[pompeyrob]

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owing to the fact that the guy who named it didn't bother to write it down. maybe he had no written language.

Yep, he was definately from Millwall! :)

[RobB]

I thought Citys stadium was called Broadlands

Eastlands is an alternative name for the City of Manchester stadium.

[Mr McG]

So I eventually asked him why he called his mate an Arab?


More on this from a Dundee United fan site, Proud to Be an Arab:

The most popular theory is that the name was coined during the severe winter of 1962/63. It was so bad that between 22nd December and 2nd March, United were able to play only three times. One of these was a Scottish Cup tie against Albion Rovers, for which the management, in a desperate attempt to get Tannadice playable, hired a tar burner to melt the several inches of snow and ice. Hundreds of tons of sand were then spread on the pitch, so that not a blade of grass could be seen. United adapted well to this playing surface and won 3-0. This led to them being dubbed 'The Arabs'. But it was the club, not the fans to which the name referred.
Today, and for at least the last 25 years, it's been the fans, not the players, who are known as Arabs. No-one can recall the team having a nickname other than The Terrors, so it seems likely that around the mid 60's the name 'The Arabs' was adopted by Tannadice regulars. For whatever reason it stuck and today, more than ever United fans are proud to be an Arab.

Gotta love yer history.