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Floodlights. When i was a kid, it was the huge floodlight stands that were the iconic parts of any ground I visited or glimpsed from a speeding train. The stadium could have been non league tat or Division 1 champs but it was these tall beacons of hopes and dreams that sent shivers down the spine for me.

anyone been to thailand lately??

Gert Loinz wrote:

Floodlights. When i was a kid, it was the huge floodlight stands that were the iconic parts of any ground I visited or glimpsed from a speeding train. The stadium could have been non league tat or Division 1 champs but it was these tall beacons of hopes and dreams that sent shivers down the spine for me.

Ye I agree, it always made away matches more exciting when you spotted the lights miles from the ground.

Gert Loinz wrote:

Floodlights. When i was a kid, it was the huge floodlight stands that were the iconic parts of any ground I visited or glimpsed from a speeding train. The stadium could have been non league tat or Division 1 champs but it was these tall beacons of hopes and dreams that sent shivers down the spine for me.

Agree with that.I remember that going through the Midlands motorway system on the way to some god forsaken shit hole to watch Argyle lose,you could see West Brom's,Walsall's and Aston Villa's floodlights from the coach-twas quite an excitement to see them,even though you weren't actually going to those grounds.Used to love stepping inside those vast old cavernous grounds with the huge kops and stands and hostile,raw,sometimes ear splitting atmospheres,must have been the equivalent of a religious person stepping into a cathedral.Happy days.

I wonder what club had the tallest floodlights?

Oops - wrong thread.

Pompey must be one of the few grounds to still have floodlights in each corner

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notts still have 4 too. but check out the lights at trent bridge, classy round affairs that look like big ali lollypops

Millmoor has them and the my are ridiculously high

Mapperley, darling wrote:

notts still have 4 too. but check out the lights at trent bridge, classy round affairs that look like big ali lollypops

They also have a great system for thawing out their pitch if it's icy. They've got loads of growing lights confiscated by the plod.