Brunton Park

When I visited in October 2002 it was over 15 years since my last visit and somehow I expected to find a dilapidated and decaying ground. In fact I found an excellent ground that would not look out of place in Div2. There is a large main stand on one side and a much older stand on the opposite side. The newer stand gives good views. The older stand is to me the more interesting though. There are seats at the rear part with terracing at the front. The stand is also divided up into many sections each apparently architecturally different to each other! Really reminds me of football in the 1970's and that it a compliment. Behind one goal there is a small area of disused terracing and behind the other a larger terraced stand of which not so many exist these days. It is like the stands at Oldham and Swindon but unlike them has not been converted to seats ( thank goodness). The total ridiculousness of this all-seater concept is beyond me at a level where grounds are frankly never full. The floodlights are like something that I have never see before.Certainly I do not know of any lights like them anywhere else. I hope the club survives the 2002-3 season and begins to thrive. I have to put this down as one of my favourite league grounds as it reminds me of proper football played for the right reasons.

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