Key Takeaways Stadiums are a crucial part of the make-up of any professional footballing side. Particularly in the 21st century, many teams have moved to grounds with a higher capacity to facilitate more fans at the games. Wembley Stadium, with a 90,000-seat capacity, is the largest stadium in England by a considerable margin. Stadiums are…
Home advantage is one of the most important factors in football. Playing at home gives you an edge over your opponent, as the players enjoy familiar surroundings and have the fans acting as the 12th man. When things aren’t going well, playing at home can put more pressure on the players, with the home fans…
Key Takeaways The atmosphere at a football ground can significantly impact the fan experience on match days. Going away to intimidating grounds can be a real give supporters a real buzz of adrenaline, especially when they come away with all three points Some stadiums, such as the venues for Premier League clubs Fulham and Southampton,…
There are many beautiful stadiums around the world, Wembley Stadium being one of them, but to maintain that position, the stadium needed to be rebuilt in 2007. The old Wembley, while an all-seater stadium, was really an old-fashioned terraced bowl that had seats retrofitted in to meet the requirements of the Taylor Report. Like all…
In football, it is often the players, managers and even fans who are discussed the most, and the football stadiums are forgotten. These magnificent arenas, where supporters go to worship their team every week, are pivotal to the sport. Sometimes these stadiums are old, ugly, and falling apart, but certain venues are works of art….
“The stadium,” writes Frank Andre Guridy in ‘The Stadium – An American History of Politics, Protest, and Play’ (Basic Books), “has never been a merely a sports facility.” From the first wooden ballparks, through the huge concrete edifices of the 1950s and 1960s and on to today’s vast, state-of-the-art arenas, Guridy reveals just what the stadia means to American life —…
