The New Lawn

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Post by Pe├▒a Oxford United »

I understand from the match report, which refers to &quotthe sandy and uneven pitch&quot, that this claim is not borne out by the facts. Would other posters care to amuse themselves by pointing out similarly inappropriate stadium names?
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&quotPeña Oxford United&quot wrote:I understand from the match report, which refers to &quotthe sandy and uneven pitch&quot, that this claim is not borne out by the facts. Would other posters care to amuse themselves by pointing out similarly inappropriate stadium names?
Now gone and completely non-PC but it always makes me smile anyway - Gay Meadow was hardly Hampstead Heath!
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The Manor was hardly an imposing and architecturally interesting edifice.
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Can I suggest Butthole Lane?

Home of the splendid Shepshed Dynamo .... where .... on

13th July 2004: Oxford United (from): Clarke, Tweed, Martin, Garner, Tweed (J), Alexis, Burton, Brooks (J), Morgan, Mackay, Winters, Brooks, Harris, McCoy, Keeble, Molyneaux.

Manager: Graham Rix

Morgan was quality that night - wonder what happened to him?
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&quotx586&quot wrote:Morgan was quality that night - wonder what happened to him?
Billericay Town according to Rage Online.
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&quotx586&quot wrote:Can I suggest Butthole Lane?

Home of the splendid Shepshed Dynamo .... where .... on

13th July 2004: Oxford United (from): Clarke, Tweed, Martin, Garner, Tweed (J), Alexis, Burton, Brooks (J), Morgan, Mackay, Winters, Brooks, Harris, McCoy, Keeble, Molyneaux.

Manager: Graham Rix

Morgan was quality that night - wonder what happened to him?
Bradie Clarke - last seen selling his Oxford kit on Ebay
Tweed brothers - left during their scholarships
Martin - ? (was this guy on loan to us - Lee was it?)
Adam Garner - FGR, Chippenham, Bedford (although owned by the Championship Manager company Eidos in a Tevez style deal), but left in the summer and has not surfaced since.
Alexis - was at Slough for a while, now Abingdon Utd (and injured)
Paul Burton - regular at Ware
Brooks brothers - also both at Abingdon
Danny Morgan - ??
Angus Mckay - went to Uni in Yorkshire, wrote to local clubs, spent good couple of seasons at Ossett Albion, but then got serious injury and is now in the US for a year
Tom Winters - holding Brackley's promotion challenge together,
Darryl Harris - ??
Kyle Mccoy - ??
James Keeble - ??
Lee Molyneaux - ??

Graham Rix - prison for three counts (two in England, one in Scotland) of fraudulently posing as a football manager

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Butchers Arms - not a decent pint of Pride in sight...or that red-haired bar manager that ran the place while the owners took on the Victoria Arms
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moss rose?

a dump by any other name...
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As far as I can tell, Danny Morgan is still on the books of St Albans, who he joined from Billericay last summer. According to the St Albans website though, he hasn't played for them since November.
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&quotboris&quot wrote:The Manor was hardly an imposing and architecturally interesting edifice.
Well I found the Manor architecturally interesting (at least 8 stands for a football pitch!) and many opposition players, and a few Oxford ones, found it imposing.
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&quotMooro&quot wrote:Bradie Clarke - last seen selling his Oxford kit on Ebay
How much did he get for it?
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I've never found Meadow Lane particularly bucolic. Nor Vetch Field for that matter.
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Post by Myles Francis »

Not a stadium name, but a club. As a young 'un I'd always imagined Port Vale as a place of green hills rolling down towards a picturesque harbour.
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&quotMyles Francis&quot wrote:Not a stadium name, but a club. As a young 'un I'd always imagined Port Vale as a place of green hills rolling down towards a picturesque harbour.
Just like Blackbird Leys.
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Post by Pe├▒a Oxford United »

As in &quotwhat can you not find on Strawberry Path&quot?

I seem to remember some development off the ring road (a bit north of Horspath Road) having a particularly stupid name even by the standards of the field. Anybody know where I mean?
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&quotPeña Oxford United&quot wrote:As in &quotwhat can you not find on Strawberry Path&quot?

I seem to remember some development off the ring road (a bit north of Horspath Road) having a particularly stupid name even by the standards of the field. Anybody know where I mean?
Horspath Driftway ?
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