Aldershot was a three sider. I’m sure Maidstone had houses at one end too.
Don’t know if it counts but the best was when Wolves was a two sider and one of those sides was in a different post code it was that far away from the pitch.
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Oh errr …
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Oxford?
The Kassam is still 3 sided.
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East fife has only one side, and
it’s stanchionless.
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The further the better I reckon.
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Fellows Park when the laundry was still there (before my time though).
The last couple of times we played there before they started the rebuild, the away end at Blackpool’s Bloomfield Road was shut for safety reasons (we had to use the terracing down the side). The next time we went they had 2 sides built, event seating down the side they put away fans, and the old home end completely missing.
I’ve a feeling that the away end at Burnden Park Bolton was also condemned for the last season or do before they moved to the Reebok.
If we played them too early or late in the season, parts of the ground would shut because they couldn’t get workers as they would be off working the promenade
Anyone remember when UTS threads weren’t restricted to a maximum of 10,000 posts 
Well 10001 if you count PT’s last one (how did you do that?)
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Re the Stoke cup match in 1966 would you believe a coach full of the oval ball mob from QMGS were there. I remember turning up at the ticket office at FP and asking for 50 tickets. My mate booked the coach. Anyone else on here who was on it? Re the next round at Norwich we went on a Railway special. Think we were 2-1up and looking good when a Carling mistake gave them the equaliser before they went on to get a third late on. I stand to be corrected if my memory is wrong.
Like platform 9 3/4 or that back alley that Rodney used to pop down in that time travelling sit com, or maybe I was typing whilst travelling at 88 mph in a delorean - I must have found some kind of hole in the vortex.
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Wasn’t Aldershot within a local park with just a limited separation?
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Yes - the Rec. still there though I think they put up a small stand at the old open end.
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Was there for the 2-0 win in the FA Cup in the round before the Stoke match and after the 6-3 win over Swansea in the first round. Ah the days of cup runs.
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Around 1983 ish was the last time there was a stop press in the E and S and Sporting Star.
Good Lord. Wouldn’t have guessed it was that long ago.
Yes it was a very long time ago! By the end of the 1980’s the two daily editions of the E and S and B’ham Mail discontinued to just one. It was really annoying if you picked up the first edition of the Sporting Star as the match reports only went as far as just after half time!
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Was there for the 2-0 win in the FA Cup in the round before the Stoke match.[/quote]
My first ever away match, aged 8. The only thing I remember is Jim McMorran having a tussle with an Aldershot defender and ripping the shirt off his back. Said defender played in “skins” for about 5 minutes, and got quite muddy!
Jimmy Mac’s response when I asked him about his memory of the injury he sustained in that cup game at Stoke in 1966…
“Roy Vernon did me good and proper. I was hobbling around in a lot of pain, mind you , a half bottle of whiskey in the dressing room after that victory helped to numb the pain for a while!”
See,everyone thinks alternative medicine is a modern phenomenon 
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