Can you name stadia in which football has shared with greyhound racing, speedway or show jumping, for example?
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Central Park in Cowdenbeath hosts lower league football and stock car racing.
Shawfield used to host Clyde FC and greyhound racing.
Both Cologne and Hoffenheim have hosted the DEL winter game in their football stadiums during the Bundesliga christmas break. A temporary ice surface was set up on the pitch.
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- England, Chelsea and Tooting and Mitcham. And Surrey CCC. And Wimbledon Dons Speedway (RIP)
- Nairn's Cheese Oatcake
Stamford Bridge has had loads. Greyhound racing, speedway, American football, cricket and baseball all spring to mind. Before being developed for football it was an athletics ground.
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Originally posted by Nocturnal Submission View PostStamford Bridge has had loads. Greyhound racing, speedway, American football, cricket and baseball all spring to mind. Before being developed for football it was an athletics ground.
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Looking it up, none where. Just the Athletics in the Olympics and Paralympics, plus the opening and closing ceremonies of both games were in the Stadium itself. Lots of others were held on the wider Olympic Park, but all in other buildings. Since the games, the Olympic Stadium has continued to host Athletics, and Football of course, plus Rugby League, Rugby Union, Baseball and Motorsport. Which is more than many, but still not all that much.
Beaten to the punch. Repeatedly.
It's not many more than the KC Stadium in Hull has hosted. Which is Rugby League, Football, Cricket and Squash. Yes, you did read that last one right - the Allam's have been the main sponsors of the British Open Squash for a number of years now, and have been holding the event in Hull. The first year of the sponsorship deal they tried to play it in the actual stadium, which didn't go so well - it turns out that Squash doesn't really work as an outdoor sport in Northern England. Cairo is more suitable for doing such things.
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Originally posted by ursus arctos View PostSquash has been exploring some exotic venues.
Grand Central Terminal, for instance
* - as in watched Squash there, rather than got to play it!
The pro courts are essentially flat-packs, and can be set up in any building with a sufficiently big floor area and high enough roof. Which does allow for some iconic locations. But also the KC Stadium Hull, and the Galleria Shopping Centre, which sits on top of a tunnel that takes the A1(M) through Hatfield. [I'm intrigued by who wrote that blog entry - I almost certainly know them!).
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- Mar 2008
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- Revelling In The Hole
- England, Chelsea and Tooting and Mitcham. And Surrey CCC. And Wimbledon Dons Speedway (RIP)
- Nairn's Cheese Oatcake
Originally posted by Walt Flanagans Dog View Post
Rugby League way way back in the day (on the historic NZ All Golds tour), and also in the 80s Fulham RL played at least one game there (the night before a Challenge Cup final). RL will turn up a lot for grounds in England and Wales, our (collective) lot will play anywhere that will have them, not always successfully.
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The 1994 Lacrosse World Cup, held at Gigg Lane that summer.
When you look at the state of the pitch before the 1994/95 season has even kicked off, it’s no wonder it looked like this in the 1995 Third Division play-offs after a full season of Bury games, a full season of Manchester United reserve games and a full season of Swinton Lions RLFC games.
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