Posts Tagged ‘Stadiums’

Potato field to world-renowned atmosphere – celebrating Portmouth’s Fratton Park

The Pompey pub club offices and matching clubhouse, with its mock-Tudor frontage, at Fratton Park. Colin McPherson/WSC Photos

For 125 years, opposition players and managers have left the Archibald Leitch-designed south coast stadium with the Pompey Chimes ringing in their ears

Fixture boards and rink-a-tink Tannoys – a day with the Dolly Blues at Giant Axe

Illustration by Matt Littler

Returning to non-League after 2020’s enforced absence heightened the senses of matchday, as told in this extract from the new book The Silence of the Stands