No shot too sh*t - your photos of football

[torres]

I bet Liverpool to win the home leg 5-0. Unfortunately for me they gave up the ghost at 4-0

[Third rate Leszno]

We came out shaking our heads as to how we'd lost 3-0, so felt confident we'd win at home but didn't see us turning the tie round.

[Greenlander]

I love that picture from the Shay. It looks like it's in the middle of nowhere.

And on that line, great to see a couple of my favourite pictures from there reprinted in WSC400. The joy of the young lad in that picture says everything about lower division football back then to me.

[Southport Zeb]

I love that picture from the Shay. It looks like it's in the middle of nowhere.

And on that line, great to see a couple of my favourite pictures from there reprinted in WSC400. The joy of the young lad in that picture says everything about lower division football back then to me.

Having first visited the Shay in 2003, I could have looked at the photo for hours without realising where it was.

[Logan Mountstuart]

De Kuip really is a great football stadium.

[Billy Casper]

I always find it interesting how a grounds reputation doesn't match up with my own personal memories of it.

Feethams on the previous page for example. Tree lined, next to a cricket ground, quaint stands from a bygone era, lower division football as it should be, hotbed of football, etc. Basically Field of Dreams set in the North East.

I only went once (1978/79) and experienced a nil nil draw on a Tuesday night (John Peachey missed a one on one in the last five minutes), we arrived ten minutes late, and there was constant bother in the barely segregated away end.

Any other grounds for anyone else?

[Jumbo McGinnis]

Uros’ pictures are something I look out for all the time. The best compliment I can give him though is it makes me want to buy an expensive camera (as I think that’s probably what it used) and to start taking pictures myself. Imitation the highest form of flattery and all that.

[jameswba]

I always find it interesting how a grounds reputation doesn't match up with my own personal memories of it.

Feethams on the previous page for example. Tree lined, next to a cricket ground, quaint stands from a bygone era, lower division football as it should be, hotbed of football, etc. Basically Field of Dreams set in the North East.

I only went once (1978/79) and experienced a nil nil draw on a Tuesday night (John Peachey missed a one on one in the last five minutes), we arrived ten minutes late, and there was constant bother in the barely segregated away end.

Any other grounds for anyone else?

I wonder if Gay Meadow might have been like that for some away fans in the 1980s. For some games there, I believe police used to escort people arriving by train down a little used flight of steps into the car-park behind the away end. They never got to walk down the winding streets of Wyle Cop, cross the English Bridge or take a stroll in Abbey Foregate. They just got a car-park and a cramped, half-covered terrace.

[Third rate Leszno]

Uros’ pictures are something I look out for all the time. The best compliment I can give him though is it makes me want to buy an expensive camera (as I think that’s probably what it used) and to start taking pictures myself. Imitation the highest form of flattery and all that.

I'm pretty sure they're taken on a mobile phone, which makes them even better.

[Jumbo McGinnis]

I'm pretty sure they're taken on a mobile phone, which makes them even better.

If so, they’re even more phenomenal. I take it it’s not just your standard Instagram filters and there’s a specific app used to make them look as striking as they do.

[Giggler]

I wonder if Gay Meadow might have been like that for some away fans in the 1980s. For some games there, I believe police used to escort people arriving by train down a little used flight of steps into the car-park behind the away end. They never got to walk down the winding streets of Wyle Cop, cross the English Bridge or take a stroll in Abbey Foregate. They just got a car-park and a cramped, half-covered terrace.

Patrick Thistle sent me a load of Shrewsbury programmes last week, some featuring my uncle from his spell there from 1987-91. The pangs I got for Gay Meadow were very real.

[Uros Predic]

If so, they’re even more phenomenal. I take it it’s not just your standard Instagram filters and there’s a specific app used to make them look as striking as they do.

No, just a mobile phone (iphone 8 this season) and Instagram. I've always wanted to master using a digital camera, but have never managed it. Plus, when using a phone I can get pictures of crowds, or photos with spectators in them, a bit more subtly.

Thank you, by the way, that's very kind.

[jameswba]

Patrick Thistle sent me a load of Shrewsbury programmes last week, some featuring my uncle from his spell there from 1987-91. The pangs I got for Gay Meadow were very real.

For reasons I can't account for now, I was at both Shrewsbury vs Bury games in 89/90. Both good games as I recall, though it was 0-0 at Gigg Lane. Gay Meadow was gorgeous, though a big part of its delight was the approach from any direction other than down those steps from the station.

[Billy Casper]

Gay Meadow?

I went there with three friends in the mid eighties. The car broke down on the return journey and I didn't get back home until 12:30 Sunday afternoon. Apparently hitch hiking from Shrewsbury to Barnsley isn't a popular route.

The match itself? We lost 3-0.

[Giggler]

For reasons I can't account for now, I was at both Shrewsbury vs Bury games in 89/90. Both good games as I recall, though it was 0-0 at Gigg Lane. Gay Meadow was gorgeous, though a big part of its delight was the approach from any direction other than down those steps from the station.

I don't think I was at that. Crowd anxiety - yes, even at Bury - meant my early years and my wilderness years were pretty much the same. I attended a mixture of games from 1988-93 but mainly followed via Granada Goals Extra/Soccer Night, but the first day of 1993/94 is where it all starts for real. Lost 3-2 at home to Shrewsbury that season after being 2-0 up and 1-0 at Gay Meadow, conceding within ten seconds of kick-off.

[Greenlander]

Gay Meadow?

I went there with three friends in the mid eighties. The car broke down on the return journey and I didn't get back home until 12:30 Sunday afternoon. Apparently hitch hiking from Shrewsbury to Barnsley isn't a popular route.

The match itself? We lost 3-0.

Vehicle issues in Shropshire you say?

super furry dice has a good story about that if I can entice him in to tell it. I wasn't with him on that one and can't remember the exact details.

[Third rate Leszno]

Celebrating a win in two finals, 14 years apart.

[Third rate Leszno]

Formby v Bacup Borough, December 2006

[Third rate Leszno]

Vauxhall Motors v Boston United, Conference North, September 2013.

[Third rate Leszno]

Runcorn Town v Abbey Hey, October 2015.

[Third rate Leszno]

Bootle v Norton United, November 2013

[Third rate Leszno]

Southport v Aldershot, April 2006

[Third rate Leszno]

Marine v Eastwood Town, August 2012

[super furry dice]

Vehicle issues in Shropshire you say?

super furry dice has a good story about that if I can entice him in to tell it. I wasn't with him on that one and can't remember the exact details.

Yes we had a breakdown there after a midweek match. A League Cup Round 1 First leg, no less but luckily for us we did get a 90th minute equaliser to celebrate and make the hassle kind of worthwhile (lost the 2nd leg though!). Anyway we didn't have full breakdown cover on the car so they would only tow us to a garage in Telford where we had to sleep in the car overnight so it vould be fixed when they opened in the morning. No massive problem it seemed and we slept in the car. Around 4am in the morning, we got a tap on the car window and lo and behold there was a policeman there, with 3 or so back-up vans, asking what we were doing. He was nervy as he asked and his relief and laughter when we told him what had happened is still still visible to me! Unbeknown to us, the garage was next to a MOD establishment and they thought we were staking the joint out and worse... this being in the days when the IRA were still active in England. of course the green and white flag in the back of the car probably didn't help... anyway, we got back to Plymouth around 2pm on the afternoon after the game.

[Third rate Leszno]

I may have posted these some time ago, but a few shots showing the redevelopment of the east side of Brunton Park during 1995/6.

The roofless 'Scatching Shed' has its last hurrah as we lifted the fourth division title in May 1995.



By the time of the new season in August, there's nowt left.



Come September, and the footings for the East Stand are going in.


Early November, and there's substantial progress.



Late November, and you can really get a feel for what it will look like.



And by February, it's almost finished, in all its lopsided glory.