Tonight cup replay is on Itv4 @ 19:45, will watch it just to see how Woots gets on
The Deva Stadium, Chester, the most pointless, soulless stadium I can ever remember visiting. Tiny, plastic and completely devoid of atmosphere. It was like watching football in the middle of someone's Lego set. The ground is situated at the back end of an industrial estate downwind of a pungent sewage farm, and I can't remember seeing any signposts to it. Probably because no-one in their right mind would ever want to find it.
I enjoyed going to Darlington's ground. Might just have been that we won the championship there but also everyone was so friendly. If I remember correctly, we relegated them that night also but their fans stayed and clapped us off, one club I really hope get back to where they were is Darlington. Also, ample parking!
Yes the Darlington/Reynolds Arena was obviously a huge white elephant, but a pleasant enough ground to visit to be fair. Quite bizarre to see a tiny gaggle of Darlo fans sat behind the dugout looking out onto 20,000+ unoccupied seats, with giant scoreboards at both ends if memory serves me correctly!
Of course, it has been said before that Derek Pavis was too ambitious building a 20,000 all-seater stadium for a club with an average attendance around 6,000, but at least we have some prospect of improving that attendance in the future. I don't think Darlington would have drawn more than 10,000 even if they had reached the Premier League!