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Post by Deleted on Aug 9, 2010 19:26:01 GMT
Well done:
11 Sydney Football Stadium (as it was called when I visited)
12 Mount Smart, Auckland
17 Berwick Rangers
TUFC have played at 1; 16 is a seaside club which plays in yellow and blue.
Ah 14. A monumental teaser.....
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Post by chrish on Aug 9, 2010 19:38:17 GMT
Well done: 11 Sydney Football Stadium (as it was called when I visited) 12 Mount Smart, Auckland 17 Berwick Rangers TUFC have played at 1; 16 is a seaside club which plays in yellow and blue. Ah 14. A monumental teaser..... Estadio Monumental in Ecuador. Home of the other Barcelona. You sir, are a scoundrel!  |
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Post by merse on Aug 9, 2010 19:42:57 GMT
TUFC have played at 1; 16 is a seaside club which plays in yellow and blue.
Ah 14. A monumental teaser.....  I didn't know you worked in insurance Barty, so you're the Man From Peru!That seaside club must be Nice too...............where else did we play in Ireland then ~ Cherry Orchard, it isn't and Galway it isn't; did we play at Sligo? |
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Post by Budleigh on Aug 9, 2010 19:50:08 GMT
No. 12 is indeed Mount Smart Stadium in Rarotonga (Auckland) and only a stones throw from my home in those far off distant days, and within walking distance of my school, Stanhope Road Primary. Further in the distance, past Wai O Taiki, is a spur on which sits Bucklands Beach, where my grandparents lived. And in the far distance, the misty mound in the sea, is Waiheke Island where I lived previous to Stanhope Road and where I first kissed a girl. Oh, and sorry Aussie, but did I forget to tell you of my roots?!! |
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Post by merse on Aug 9, 2010 19:52:15 GMT
Ah 14. A monumental teaser..... An (Estadio) Monumental cock up from me, I plumped for the one in Lima!  |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 9, 2010 20:07:13 GMT
Estadio Monumental in Ecuador. Home of the other Barcelona. You sir, are a scoundrel! That's the one. In beautiful Guayaquil where the locals were quick to tell us that Diego Maradona was a frequent visitor and could often be seen in the nightclubs dressed as a woman. Really? Number 15 is just up the road, albeit a steep and awkward climb. 1 is Sligo. 16 is not Nice - head west as far as mainland Europe extends. |
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Post by chrish on Aug 9, 2010 20:42:24 GMT
Estadio Monumental in Ecuador. Home of the other Barcelona. You sir, are a scoundrel! That's the one. In beautiful Guayaquil where the locals were quick to tell us that Diego Maradona was a frequent visitor and could often be seen in the nightclubs dressed as a woman. Really? Number 15 is just up the road, albeit a steep and awkward climb. 1 is Sligo. 16 is not Nice - head west as far as mainland Europe extends. I looked at every stadium in South America but I didn't think that Ecuador had a stadium that large! 16 is Estádio Antonio Coimbra da Mota in Estoril in Portugal. |
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Post by chrish on Aug 9, 2010 20:45:54 GMT
15 is Estadio Alejandro Serrano Aguilar in Cuenca, Ecuador!
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Post by Deleted on Aug 9, 2010 22:06:52 GMT
15 and 16 are spot on, Chris. Cuenca was some trip...
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Post by Rags on Aug 10, 2010 7:59:34 GMT
No. 12 is indeed Mount Smart Stadium in Rarotonga Raratonga?! I cycled round that island many times and didn't find any stadium there. In fact, Avarua itself was smaller than a football stadium! |
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Post by Budleigh on Aug 10, 2010 16:22:39 GMT
You are probably thinking of the more famous Rarotonga on the Cook Islands. This is one of the lesser-known ones!
Rarotonga literally means 'below South' and is used rather like we here would call an area 'down south'. This particular area is in an Auckland Regional Park and actually stands on a mount formed from a volcano and named after Captain Smart.
When we lived 'up the road' the stadium was quite new and only had one stand from memory.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 10, 2010 16:49:29 GMT
When we lived 'up the road' the stadium was quite new and only had one stand from memory. I would imagine that would have a been a year or two before the 1990 Commonwealth Games which led to the stadium looking as it does now. I was there for a 2002 game between the Kingz and Adelaide in whatever the Australian league was known as at that time. Not quite a local derby.... |
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Post by Budleigh on Aug 10, 2010 17:44:23 GMT
More like a decade or two!!
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Post by merse on Aug 12, 2010 17:10:54 GMT
Comer on Barty, put us (well me) out of our misery and list ALL the answers for this quiz ~ particularly the last two, so is no 19 Dover then?
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Post by Deleted on Aug 13, 2010 10:32:38 GMT
By my reckoning you all managed to identify twelve of the twenty grounds. Of the missing eight, four were in Scotland; two in Australia, one in Wales and one in England. The Scottish grounds were: 3 - the leisure centre in Lerwick on Shetland (some islanders may wince at me including this under “Scotland”). Perchance I was there one June during the local football season but couldn’t tell you who I saw playing. I believe the pitches at the leisure centre have been used for Island Games fixtures (see www.islandgames.net for more about his multi-sport event which regularly attracts the attention of hardcore groundhoppers). Apparently Shetland Council spent considerable amounts of oil industry-generated revenue on sports facilities, something you certainly notice when travelling around. 4 – Annan Athletic where I saw a game a couple of Saturdays ago. Could-be-anywhere feel but neat and tidy and a good reflection on an aspiring club. Spruce urinals but don’t go anywhere near the last cubicle because the door is over-sized and you’ll get locked in. 5 – Montrose 6 – Forfar: make sure you pick up your bridie before the game at www.thebridieshop.co.uk/forfarbridie.html8 and 10 are Australian grounds I visited in 1995. They looked vaguely familiar from these internet pictures but both have seen developments since I was there. 8 is the Hindmarsh Stadium in Adelaide where I watched a couple of West Adelaide games in the National Soccer League. That club now plays elsewhere and the Hindmarsh is used by Adelaide United of the A-league. 10 is the home of Melbourne Knights, another NSL club of the mid 1990s (Mark Viduka was playing for them when I visited). It’s at Somers Street in Sunshine North – miles out of town and, I believe, the opposite site of Melbourne to our Aussie’s old stomping ground. As for the others, 19 is Carmarthen Town (don’t you think the hillside view is vaguely Swansea-ish?). Another venue where I’ve seen top-flight European club football – Llanelli v Vetra (Lithuania) in the Inter-Toto - something to truly enliven Carmarthen on a somnolent Sunday. 20 is Highbury where, of course, the home side play in red shirts with (on occasions) white sleeves. |
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