County Ground

Don’t remove the first «o» from County Ground otherwise it’ll be quite a rude name. Quite appropriate though.
First-​Hand Experience: More info about my personal experience at this stadium — As an Oxford United fan, I’ve been to the County Ground too many times. They are our main rivals. Each time, I was subjected to horrible abuse because I was wearing yellow. I actually — not kidding — had a condom full of piss thrown at me right outside the ground. These fans take their rivalry to an ugly level and even if I loved the team, this stadium is not a particularly great one… a little run down, with unfriendly stewards.
I was most recently here in 2011, and things have not changed a bit.
I’ve been to most UK & US stadiums, due to lifelong obsessions with travel, sport & especially footy (soccer to Americans). Born & raised in England, I followed Oxford United (hometown team) to stadia all over the country at away games, and later Liverpool (fave team) around. Every stadium review — like all my reviews — are from first-​hand personal experience, usually from several visits. In 2011, I was on music tour in the UK, and visited most stadiums for fun in my spare time. As recently as Fall 2014, when I was «stuck» in UK for 3 months, I went to hundreds yet again while travelling. I have pictures of me at most, which I’ll post later. Also, when back in UK I’ll take more pix, and add more stadia!
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It’s not a great stadium at all, with wide open corners and only 15k spots for people. It’s hard to believe it was once a Premier League stadium with Glenn Hoddle as manager.
It just looks like a typical old stadium but you’d think that Swindon could do a lot better than this, to be honest. But what can you expect from a city that puts a ton of roundabouts within roundabouts.
One good thing is that it’s in the middle of houses, which I do like.