Underhill Stadium

Das Underhill Stadium ist ein englisches Oldschool Stadion und somit typisch für den alten englischen Fußball.
Heute weitgehend untypisch und vor allem die Stehplätze sind im englischen Profifußball ja leider sehr rar. Hier gibt es glücklicherweise noch welche.
Das Stadion ist zwar ziemlich klein, aber es gibt durchaus einen Reiz mal vorbeizuschauen.

The home of the famous sloping pitch. Barnet, who host an annual friendly against Arsenal who trash them, are a 2^nd division football side who draw about 3,000 and play their home games here. It is a unique stadium, close to High Barnet tube station and with a few shops around it you will find yourself standing, singing and pie eating with true footie fans. Facilities including seating and standing areas some under cover fromt he rain, some not last time I went.
Despite my trips to Underhill were as an away fan supporting Fulham, back in the days when we used to play Barnet I have no beef with the bees and their ground which I would encourage anyone to visit to watch a ‘real’ game of football.

The terraces are a plus feature; it’s so hard to find somewhere offering terracing these days. The atmosphere can be really good because of this. Food outlets are alright, and value there is good. The toilets are cold and can be damp when it’s cold as they’re all old-​fashioned outdoors toilets like you find at country houses. The stewards there are a bit inefficient though and problems are not dealt with so well.

For Premiership football fans this offers a real step back into the past: an opportunity to stand on the terraces will give you a totally different kind of atmosphere to the overpriced all seater stadiums of today. Great banta amongst fans and chants sung louder by 1000 hardcore fans than I’ve heard at many a premiership ground. Tony Cottee is a wanker? I think I’ll need to go a few more times before I understand this one! On the pitch it may be a little like watching two teams managed by Sam Allardyce but at least you feel like you’re watching 22 ordinary blokes giving it there all and earning every penny. Between 13 — 20 pounds for a ticket, you can sit down if you like but I would reccommend mucking it on the terraces and getting a pie, join in with any song you can make out and have a great day!