[calvin plummers socks]

Great little article in the horrible Daily Mail by the always excellent though Oliver Holt (of of football journalism’s lasting good guys) ranking his opinion of the 92 grounds.

Could have been click bait and it’s there for discussion of course - we get a good little review and probably at about the right ranking.

Some weird ones though (how Carrow Road can be as low as 60 - with great comments, Bloomfield at 50(!) and Moulinex and The Valley as low as they are is strange but it’s his opinion I guess).

[Cartman]

Behind a paywall and I’m not giving the Daily Mail any money!

[JonB]

Not read it or plan on reading it but has he got over his paddy over what our ground has been called selling the naming rights etc?

[Paragon of Virtue]

calvin plummers socks, on 07 April 2025 - 05:36 PM, said:

Great little article in the horrible Daily Mail by the always excellent though Oliver Holt (of of football journalism’s lasting good guys) ranking his opinion of the 92 grounds.

Could have been click bait and it’s there for discussion of course - we get a good little review and probably at about the right ranking.

Some weird ones though (how Carrow Road can be as low as 60 - with great comments, Bloomfield at 50(!) and Moulinex and The Valley as low as they are is strange but it’s his opinion I guess).

Wolves do like to get it into the mixer

[calvin plummers socks]

JonB, on 07 April 2025 - 06:05 PM, said:

Not read it or plan on reading it but has he got over his paddy over what our ground has been called selling the naming rights etc?

If you read it you’d see

[Paragon of Virtue]

Non paywalled article here: https://web.archive....worst-best.html

[Mr Mercury]

Paragon of Virtue, on 07 April 2025 - 07:08 PM, said:

Non paywalled article here: https://web.archive....worst-best.html

I was going to mention his angst at our ground but it seems he’s found god, or the Kirk’s and Cook at least.

[Siberian Spireite]

41. SMH Group Stadium, Chesterfield

Division: League Two Opened: 2010 Capacity: 10,400

I used to have a bit of a vendetta against the SMH Group Stadium. Perhaps not a vendetta, but certainly a prejudice.

I loved the old ground at Saltergate but when the club moved to the new stadium and called it the b2net Stadium, it felt as if it had sold its soul.

Since 2009, it has also been called the Proact Stadium and the Technique Stadium.

I loved the old ground at Saltergate but when the club moved to the new stadium and called it the b2net Stadium, it felt as if it had sold its soul
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I loved the old ground at Saltergate but when the club moved to the new stadium and called it the b2net Stadium, it felt as if it had sold its soul

I met the owners, who are local businessmen and clearly have the club¿s best interests at heart, and took in a game and suddenly the SMH Group Stadium had new life and character and soul
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I met the owners, who are local businessmen and clearly have the club’s best interests at heart, and took in a game and suddenly the SMH Group Stadium had new life and character and soul

But getting to know a club sometimes changes your view of a place. I spent a bit of time there earlier this season when I went to watch Kieron Dyer, who is a coach at the club, and Paul Cook, the manager, at work.

I met the owners, who are local businessmen and clearly have the club’s best interests at heart, and took in a game and suddenly the SMH Group Stadium had new life and character and soul breathed into it for me.

It’s a club on the up and it’s a club that cares about its fans, and so my prejudice against the SMH Group Stadium is no more.