Joining the 92 Club
- 14 Dec 07, 05:16 PM
I'm in Shropshire for my in-laws' diamond wedding celebrations this weekend, and while I'm there I'll reach a somewhat less auspicious landmark of my own. Saturday afternoon at The New Meadow for Shrewsbury v Dagenham and Redbridge will mean I've seen games at all 92 current league grounds.
It's taken me almost half a diamond wedding term to get there - Ayresome Park, Middlesbrough was the only ground I went to from age six until my mid-teens when I was first allowed to go further afield (Feethams, Darlington) without adult supervision. That was 1979 and it was only when John Motson was completing his 92 grounds a few years ago that I worked out I'd been to 70 odd myself, mostly watching Boro on away trips up and down the divisions, with a few others collected on various work trips.
Continue reading "Joining the 92 Club"