I do love Craven Cottage, to me it sounds like where a very British but only mildly evil version of the Legion of Doom would meet.
Wrigley is just another corporate branded stadium!
Two of those three are named after people. One of them a chewing gum magnate, the other a longtime coach.
Agree 100% on saying La Bombanera. I think the name itself along with that wall of fans is why I tend to root for Boca. Their great rivals, River Plate, play at the Estadio Monumental, which I like too. I’ve also liked saying El Riazor (the Z pronounced with a soft “th” sound) in A Coruña. I’ve always been struck by Athletic Bilbao naming their stadium, San Mamés, after a Catholic saint who allegedly tamed lions that were supposed to devour him, hence the nickname of the Lion’s Den for San Mamés and the club is known as the Lions.
Yeah, don't love the word 'Stadium' in there...you'd never hear it referred to as "yankee" or whatever. Makes me think of the Polo Grounds though which was a great name.
It's true about Wrigley (sort of) which is funny. Great call on Soldier Field
Really? Ok, thanks for imparting your wisdom. I had no idea.
I don't disagree with the Soldier Field call, I was just quickly replying to the thread and those were the first that popped into my head.
The 'Bowls' are a good call for American sports that don't have corporate names. Maybe NCAA stadiums are the way to go (The Big House, Death Valley, etc, but those are just nicknames).
It really is - and gets bonus points, I think, because the stadium is actually still surrounded by the forest.
I assume this is withering sarcasm. And ok fine, you knew that and liked it anyway, I don't begrudge you that.
Closest I could think of would be 1860’s ground, Das Städtliches Stadion an der Grünwalder Straße, or the city stadium on Green Forest Street.
Millwall's stadium used to be called The New Den, to distinguish it from its predecessor, but they eventually renamed it just to The Den.
No error, I meant area. For example white hart lane is the name of the road that led to the stadium at Tottenham.
Agreed, I just love the variety of names as opposed to everything being "Corporate Brand Stadium."
Carrow Road is Norwich (great call on that name) and Leeds is at Elland Road which is a putrid name and a place akin to the Mos Eisley Cantina
It is! The English beat the Norwegians on PKs but lost a bunch of guys to injury and card accumulation and went out to the French at Hastings in the next round.
The Battle of the Bridge!
The Wanda Metropolitano is now the Estadio Metropolitano after the Wanda sponsorship ended. I think one of the great mistakes in Spanish media was to refer to it as “The Wanda” initially instead of “The Metropolitano” which is more fun to say. Anoeta is now the Reale Arena (and it’s stunning after the renovations). Agree on the two Seville stadiums and prefer saying The Benito Villamarín over the Sánchez Pizjuan with a great deal of bias. La Cartuja, also in Seville, is a good name but a terrible stadium.
On my Sunday pub team we have a motley crew of gringos, Latinos, Arabs, white, and black dudes, so mocking pronunciation is a huge past time for us. And the Irish United guy insists on calling Lisandro 'MAR-tin-ez' (instead of the correct 'mar-TEE-nez') while the Latinos ridicule him mercilessly. I added that he should throw some respekt on a World Cup winner's name. I also tell him he should say it correctly since United are banking on him having a huge season. He's also our oldest player by a longshot, so I obviously took several swipes at his age.
22 years, but agree w/you. In 1973, it was 3 Rivers Stadium; of the 3 cookie cutter places, Phila, Pitt and Cinci; the first two got to live their lives out w/o a name change (Cinci, was Cynergy at the end, I believe).
Isn't Fenway Park at least partly named to promote the Fenway Realty Company that the Taylors owned? Vague memories of reading that in a SABR publication once.
Hey pal, that's my line.
A few others... Deepdale in Preston, and Spotland in Rochdale.
It's mostly because it's been unchanged since the 50s, so 'new field' moniker is kinda ironic. It's also just important as it was one of the few public places Franco tolerated anti-Franco rhetoric. Finally, it gets some bonus points for being Catalan as opposed to Spanish (Campo Nuevo).
