[blackburnblue]

Club & Ground Name: Manchester USA , old trafford
What the match been played: Manchester usa v Blackburn Rovers
Date of the Match: 24/09/05

How Easy Was It To Find?
if you have knowledge of manchester then yes, its only a tram ride from the city centre

7/10

Car Parking. Was It near? Was It Free? N/A

/10

Comfort (seating, leg room, does it have a roof etc)?
yes, seats are very tightly together. Not good
4/10

Catering (Quality, price, queues) beer was budweiser, very slow

6/10

Pubs, Things To Do Nearby. Is There Much To Do For The Early Arriver At The Site Of The Ground?
drank in city centre N/A
/10

Would you go again to this stadium? To watch my team yes, and i`m going to watch england there in 2 weeks so yes i am going again

10/10

Overall. Out Of 10, What Do You Feel The Ground Deserves? dodgy atmosphere, strict policing , stewarding

not good getting kicked out for nothing

-204/10

[CC Is Klaas]

-204/10

No Bias there then. :coffee:

[Ricketts]

Club & Ground Name: Manchester United , Old Trafford
What the match been played: Manchester United v Arsenal
Date of the Match: Two seasons ago

How Easy Was It To Find?
Easy as I have been many times but this is the most memorable, but the stadium is right on the Bus route.

8/10

Car Parking. Was It near? Was It Free?

You can park for free (of you buy something) on the Lowry Centre car park a 15 minute walk away, I suggest go there, park up, get a Burger King or McDonalds then go to the match

8/10

Comfort (seating, leg room, does it have a roof etc)?
Comfortable, maybe a little close together yes but tremendous view.
7/10

Catering (Quality, price, queues)

Quality was good, prices were high and queues were enormous)

4/10

Pubs, Things To Do Nearby. Is There Much To Do For The Early Arriver At The Site Of The Ground?

Lots to do like touring of the ground, lots to do in the centre, excellent
9/10

Would you go again to this stadium?

Yes I would, but the prices are steep.

8/10

Overall. Out Of 10, What Do You Feel The Ground Deserves?

9 for the ground apart from the prices, but the atmosphere was tremendous.

Score 0-0

This post has been edited by tompickup: 27 September 2005 - 05:08 PM

[blackburnblue]

-204/10

No Bias there then. :coffee:

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well i`m not going to be happy with overzealous policing and stewarding, which wrecked one of rovers finest days in years

[StepoverMaster]

-204/10

No Bias there then. :coffee:

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

well i`m not going to be happy with overzealous policing and stewarding, which wrecked one of rovers finest days in years

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Shouldn't have got involved in hooliganism then

[Baggie_Girl]

Club & Ground Name:

Manchester United, Old Trafford.

How Easy Was It To Find?

Um, went on the club coaches the two times I have been there.

Comfort (seating, leg room, does it have a roof etc)?

Last season it was $hit, we were sat on the bottom tier. This season (Tier 2) wasn't that bad, but still uncomfortable. It has a roof yes, still cold though.

Catering (Quality, price, queues)

The catering is $hit. They ran out of hotdogs, the food is expensive. And the girl overcharged me. Last season it was crap, too. The queues are horrendous.

Pubs, Things To Do Nearby. Is There Much To Do For The Early Arriver At The Site Of The Ground?

The Club Shop will keep you occupied for ages.

Would you go again to this stadium?

Yes. Only cos I always go to away games.

Overall. Out Of 10, What Do You Feel The Ground Deserves?

6/10

[Beatle]

Manchester United - Old Trafford

How Easy Was It To Find?
I got the metro and could see it. Easy.
10/10

Car Parking. Was It near? Was It Free? Was It Well Policed/lit?
Don't know, only saw one car park and from the show of cars that were there, it looked like it was for people with money.
I do know there is one somewhere which we got in for free last time.
4/10

View. Pillar In The Way?
Great view, two rows from the back.

Comfort (seating, leg room, does it have a roof etc)
Very poor. When we sat down, my knees were crushed, we stood for most of the time.
4/10

Toilets.
Usual urinals.

Catering (Quality, price, queues)
Takes a long time for them to pour beer out of cans.

Atmosphere From Home Fans, How Condusive Was The Away End To Creating A Good Atmosphere?
Very, very quiet. A mate of mine who's a United fan said we were fairly noisy.
5/10

Stewards/Old BillComplete joke.
Stewards were fine, Police weren't. A large group across the back were all standing. 5 minutes into the game, plenty of Police from all exits came up and stood at the back with us.
Chucked me out for having a USA flag and chucked quite a few out come 90 minutes.
0/10

Pubs, Things To Do Nearby. Is There Much To Do For The Early Arriver At The Site Of The Ground?
No away pubs really. But there is a lot to see for United fans, being their first game for them all.
0/10

Overall. Out Of 10, What Do You Feel The Ground Deserves?
8/10

[Beatle]

Manchester United - Old Trafford

How Easy Was It To Find?
Same, got off at Old Trafford metro.
10/10

Car Parking. Was It near? Was It Free? Was It Well Policed/lit?
No idea.

View. Pillar In The Way?
Nothing.
10/10

Comfort (seating, leg room, does it have a roof etc)
Stood all game.
N/A

Toilets
Usual p*ss pots.
5/10

Catering (Quality, price, queues)
Was very busy. Couldn't be a*sed queueing up.

Atmosphere From Home Fans, How Condusive Was The Away End To Creating A Good Atmosphere
Fantastic atmosphere from us, could hardly hear United fans as usual.
7/10

Stewards/Old Bill
Seemed ok, didn't see many stewards in the stand, plenty of Police in the stand and outside.

Pubs, Things To Do Nearby. Is There Much To Do For The Early Arriver At The Site Of The Ground?
No away pubs, drink in places like Deansgate which is five mins off OldTrafford on the metro, lot of burger places outside, got a bacon roll for £3 rip off.
Mind you, they've got to put lots of home fans things on to keep the day trippers happy.
5/10

Overall. Out Of 10, What Do You Feel The Ground Deserves?
8/10

[Nath]

Club & Ground Name: Manchester UNITED , old trafford
What the match been played: Manchester UNITED V NEWCASTLE UNITED
Date of the Match: 2006 sometime

How Easy Was It To Find?

Dodgy for away fans, nearly got into a little bit of bother as Man United fans were a little bit cheeky, with comments about our Shearer.


Car Parking. Was It near? Was It Free?

Coach n/a


Comfort (seating, leg room, does it have a roof etc)?
Very steep steps, not reccomended for old people, or people with walking difficulties, seats were alright, very close together.



Catering (Quality, price, queues)
N/A £3 for a PROG


Pubs, Things To Do Nearby. Is There Much To Do For The Early Arriver At The Site Of The Ground?
WE bought a Program, looked for our turnstile.



Would you go again to this stadium?

with a bigger group, yes, only 2 of wa went to this one, which was dodgy.

Overall. Out Of 10, What Do You Feel The Ground Deserves? Dodgy coppers, we got beat 2-0 as we left man united fans were there aswell some saying where the support geordie boys?

mate started shouted 'who the f*ck are man utd!' repeatedly, before i interfeered..
Police are MUFC fans just with yellow coats on, Manchester United fans are just pure pricks in my opinion, they don't sign just sit and watch like apes.

[majorca]

Club & Ground Name: Manchester , old trafford
What the match been played: England v Hungary
Date of the Match: 30/5/06

How Easy Was It To Find?

From a few dodgey directions off of the shite to say the least police, yeah it was pretty easy when you get to know the tram lines.

7/10

Car Parking. Was It near? Was It Free?

N/A Went on Train.

0/10

Comfort (seating, leg room, does it have a roof etc)?

Terrible leg room, Not good at all! Yeah has a roof all teh way around. Seats tightly packed together.

4/10

Catering (Quality, price, queues)

Programme £5! Bottle of water £1.30 not bad.

7/10

Pubs, Things To Do Nearby. Is There Much To Do For The Early Arriver At The Site Of The Ground?

Looks like there are plenty of pubs around the city but only 1 or 2 around OT.

7/10

Would you go again to this stadium?

Yes , enjoyed it very much so!

9/10

Overall. Out Of 10, What Do You Feel The Ground Deserves?

Was a good day out for me n the guys so...

8/10

See you in august OT!

[swanseajack]

some biast views....

Old traffords exellent I've been about 40 times, lots of things to do, lots of stalls outside.
Atmopshere is rocking but not so much for the little games odviously.

don't reccomend any pubs near the ground to away fans, one about 1-2 minutes from the ground with united fans singing inside.

Lots of places to get food from, clubshop is right at the front of the stadium litereally about 15 seconds walk from the away end.

Very busy after the game.....don't expect to get out fast If you've come on a coach or in a car.

[Man Utd #1 Fan]

hey there from australia
my life dream is to go to Old Trafford
if anyone has been there can you please let me know what its like

thankyou very much to the people who reply :beer:

[blackburnblue]

very quiet

only has a decent atmosphere in the england games that are played there.

and for man utd games its full of irish/foreigners so quite surreal

[Il Capitano]

I saw them play Liverpool years back. Great atmosphere but I suppose that was to do with them playing Liverpool and being 4-0 up

Forza Roma.

[FreeFall]

hey there from australia
my life dream is to go to Old Trafford
if anyone has been there can you please let me know what its like

thankyou very much to the people who reply :beer:

You a Jets supporter in the A-League?

[Who let the Doug out?]

I went their to watch Palace play once. The atmosphere was fantastic, everybody was singing. But that may have been down to the fact that it was a brilliant match and I'm not used to seeing more than 19,000 fans singing their heart out every minute of the game.

[CC Is Klaas]

Knower days it's only the bigger games against big teams (Chelsea, Liverpool, Arsenal and City for example) which creates the best atmostphere. Any other game it fluctuates between a good atmostphere and, not a good atmostphere. But when everyones in full voice, there's little to compare to it. I just hope we get planning permission to bring the attendance closer to the 100,000 mark.

[atmosfear]

Old Trafford is now adays only a really good atmosphere when we play the bigger games. Liverpool this season for one was brilliant, stephen Gerrard and Peter Crouch must of wanted to curl up and die because them two guys got so much stick. It is better travelling away with United, Atmosphere is much better, and no matter where we play away we allways sing. Mates who are Celtic fans have even said that when watching United away on the tele, they only mainly here the away fans.

[Brett]

United have turned their back on true fans. Atmosphere is rubbish and there are empty seats 20 minutes before the game is over. They still get the ticket sales, they just sell them to the wrong people.

[red army 1999]

personally as a united fan, i think there is no better place to be than to be sitting in the 2nd tier of the stretford end at old trafford. which staduim and which stand do you think can match this????