When Saturday Comes

21. A football ramble: (Fan culture); ... teenage starlet Luka Modric. We were too busy studying the odd design of the floodlights. The obsessive gene required to embark on this adventure in the first place means that choosing the next destin ...; Created on 01 May 2012
22. Plastic fantastic: (Organisation & structure); ... ton of sand on the surface. The glare of the floodlights and the composition of this "beach" combined to give the impression that the pitch had been lit from beneath. That night, Boundary Park must have ...; Created on 01 May 2012
23. Untimely endings: (Governing bodies); ... n battle. After the teams failed to appear for the second half, supporters were asked to evacuate the stadium due to an electrical fire in one of the floodlights. The game was abandoned and rearranged f ...; Created on 01 April 2012
24. Brighton & Hove Albion 0 Hull City 0: (Match of the month); ... then, to my young eyes, it was a veritable Humberside Xanadu, wreathed in the alluring odour of fried onions, a mass plumage of hats and scarves, the floodlights towering with Wellesian awe like giganti ...; Created on 21 December 2011
25. Gateshead 1 Cambridge United 1: (Match of the month); ... nd blue shirt saunter from the Metro station towards the floodlights through the Playmobil-neat-and-tidy St James' Village estate. A group of visitors from the south-east, meanwhile, do their bit for regiona ...; Created on 01 November 2011
26. Pick and mix: (Non-League); ... thing new for Scarborians however. In 1969 they donated their floodlights to Tamworth when about to erect new ones. The latter's Lamb Ground still boasts them today. Furthermore, those floodlights were ...; Created on 21 October 2011
27. Shady practises: (Managers); ... afternoon as I watched a Conference match at Forest Green's inappropriately named ground, The Lawn. At just after four it was getting dark. As the floodlights came out to play, my dependably disobedien ...; Created on 21 September 2011
28. That empty feeling: (Grounds); ... administration and was sentenced to three years in jail in 2005 for tax evasion). The club’s former ground, Feethams, was old-football: terraces at both ends, floodlights in each corner and smack-ban ...; Created on 21 May 2011
29. Stuck in the stiffs: (Youth football); ... playing on a midweek afternoon, though, they save the cost of floodlights but guarantee a pitiful attendance. The FA wants young players to be rehearsing for the professional game by playing weekly matches, ...; Created on 21 May 2011
30. Olympic dreams: (Non-League); ... could end up in your back garden is the kind of thing that makes you divert the walk to the corner shop, just so you can admire the floodlights peeking up from behind the fence. In my case this ground ...; Created on 21 November 2010
31. Ripping it up: (Clubs); ... At this point, United chairman Steven Thompson let loose with both barrels. United, a club not known to be swimming in a lake of cash, had spent thousands on replacing ageing seats and floodlights at Tannadice ...; Created on 21 October 2010
32. European Union: (Europe); ... of Juventus. They were accused of fixing a game between Como and Sampdoria but the charges came to nothing. At Eupen, much work remains to be done on the stadium – undersoil heating and floodlights have ...; Created on 21 September 2010
33. Chesterfield 1 Hereford United 2: (Match of the month); ... ancient echo in the floodlighting department. Chesterfield were the last of the then current League clubs to install permanent floodlights (in 1967), an absolutely killer fact I have known for decades ...; Created on 21 May 2010
34. The joy of nets: (Miscellaneous); ... that my memory has embellished some details – it was a misty afternoon and small droplets of water hung from the knots glinting in the floodlights like the tiniest diamonds. Seventeen years later I scored ...; Created on 21 February 2010
35. Weekly Howl 23-10-09: (2009); ... had picked his spot by aiming away from Shilton's torso which was luminous under the floodlights. Shilton reverted to wearing green and trunkloads of unsold white shirts must have been shipped back ...; Created on 28 October 2009
36. Weekly Howl 09-10-09: (2009); ... first club in Turkey to install floodlights – but a religious epiphany is a much more striking message. And a leather football's religious epiphany is criminally underused in 20th-century sporting ...; Created on 14 October 2009
37. Weekly Howl 14-08-09: (2009); ... to help the players to pick each other out under the floodlights. Buy this shirt and hundreds of others at Classic Football Shirts --- from Mike Smith "Ian Goddard's story about Ally McCoist ...; Created on 20 August 2009
38. Lost forever: (Webwatch); ... out to be either 60-foot kids’ climbing frames modelled on the original floodlights, or the token plaque in an outer wall. Meanwhile, Tottenham Hotspur fan Jim Tuite has founded a site to preserve part ...; Created on 21 May 2009
39. WBA 1 Bolton Wanderers 1: (Match of the month); ... North or South, with traffic slowing as drivers rubberneck at dead pigeons in the road. However, the stadium itself is compact but impressive indeed. The floodlights arch, diagonal and bright white above ...; Created on 21 May 2009
40. Letters, WSC 260: (Readers' letters); ... to be: old-style floodlights; a terrace the length of one side of the pitch; seagulls taking flight in panic at the surge of electricity up the pylons; a club shop with no new kit in stock before the start ...; Created on 21 October 2008

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