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The Seven Wonders Of The Footballing World

nailsy

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Jul 24, 2005
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We all know the ancient wonders of the world, but what are your Seven Wonders of the footballing world? As with the original wonders you can only choose a location rather than a person, or a game. You can be as creative as you want so feel free to choose a ground, a restaurant, a train station, a pub or even your mate Dave's lounge. As long as the location relates to football in some way you can select it. :

Just for reference the original seven wonders were:

Great Pyramid of Giza.
Colossus of Rhodes
Hanging Gardens of Babylon
Lighthouse of Alexandria
Mausoleum at Halicarnassus
Statue of Zeus at Olympia
Temple of Artemis at Ephesus
 

dagraham

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Sep 20, 2005
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We all know the ancient wonders of the world, but what are your Seven Wonders of the footballing world? As with the original wonders you can only choose a location rather than a person, or a game. You can be as creative as you want so feel free to choose a ground, a restaurant, a train station, a pub or even your mate Dave's lounge. As long as the location relates to football in some way you can select it. :

Just for reference the original seven wonders were:

Great Pyramid of Giza.
Colossus of Rhodes
Hanging Gardens of Babylon
Lighthouse of Alexandria
Mausoleum at Halicarnassus
Statue of Zeus at Olympia
Temple of Artemis at Ephesus

Thanks for including my lounge. It is indeed a wonder. As you watch the football you wonder just how much more kids stuff can be crammed into every conceivable space. (y)
 

nailsy

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Jul 24, 2005
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I'll nominate a few...

New White Hart Lane - Already being labeled the best football ground in the world.
Dortmunds Westfalenstadion - Home of the Yellow Wall.
Brisbane Road - A great little stadium. Leyton Orients home ground.
Robs House - The place where Spurs Community was born.
 

Tucker

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Jul 15, 2013
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The original Wembley?
The azteca stadium with the spider shadow in the middle of the pitch.
San Siro.
 

'O Zio

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Dec 27, 2014
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For me, in no particular order:

La Bombonera, Buenos Aires
Bernabeu, Madrid
Camp Nou, Barcelona
San Siro, Milan
Maracana, Rio
Old Wembley, London
Anfield, Liverpool (I hate to say it, but rightly or wrongly it's the most iconic club stadium in England for fans around the world)
 

Gassin's finest

C'est diabolique
May 12, 2010
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I suppose White Hart Lane will be nominated by most.

As a bit of football history and personal nostalgia, I'd nominate the Old Showground, Scnthorpe United's original ground from 1910:

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Set right in the heart of a large, provincial steelworks town, this was the ground where the likes of Kevin Keegan, Ray Clemence and Keith Burkinshaw began their careers. Where Ian Botham started out as a youth player, before buggering his knee and turning to Cricket. Where my Grandad grew up and found his love of football, going to every game alongside his mate... future sports journalist Thomas Taylor, father to a certain Graham... who in turn grew up on the terraces here with my Dad, Aunts and Uncles.

Beyond the history of players and managers that Spurs have inherited from Scunny, the origins of the two clubs are similar, and it evokes the popularity of our game and its roots. Generations of working class, industrial communities, growing up and going to their football team for their weekend escape from the trials of life. The Steel works was the heartbeat of the town, but the Showground was it's soul... and one informed the other. So much so that it was the steel mill that built the world's first cantilevered stand for the ground in 1958.

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I never got to go it myself. By the 1980's, de-industrialisation was in full sway, and like many midland/northern towns, Scvnthorpe was in decline. The ground was old, in poor upkeep, and in 1988 it was demolished on the grounds of being unsafe, and the Iron moved into their new ground at Glanford Park; The first purpose built football ground in the country. A Sainsbury's sits over the site now. You can find a plaque where the old centre spot used to be in the fruit and veg aisle.

But the Old Showground, like White Hart Lane, like the football league before the Premiership, is a lost monument to the romance and love of our game, and the people and communities who formed it.
 

Lilbaz

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Apr 1, 2005
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For me, in no particular order:

La Bombonera, Buenos Aires
Bernabeu, Madrid
Camp Nou, Barcelona
San Siro, Milan
Maracana, Rio
Old Wembley, London
Anfield, Liverpool (I hate to say it, but rightly or wrongly it's the most iconic club stadium in England for fans around the world)

Maybe swap la bombonera for the azteca. More famous for having world cup finals played there.

But yeah can't disagree.
 
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jimbo

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Dec 22, 2003
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Steven Pienaar, Steven Reid, Steven Sidwell, Steven Naismith, Steven Fletcher, Steven Stone and Steven Gerrard,
 

Mr.D

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Dec 2, 2014
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Not WHL in it's whole as the old stadium lost something special when the east stand was redeveloped but the old Shelf was truly an iconic stand. Archibald Leitch was a genius.
 
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