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oxpete
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Mar 27, 2016, 8:20 AM
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Still trying to catch you up, Sandhurstbee!
Last Wednesday I went to Petersfield Town 1 Northwood 0, my first return to Love Lane since attending Petersfield United 2 Portsmouth 2 at a pre-season friendly all the way back on Tuesday 5th August 1986.
I make that a gap of 29 years, 7 months and 18 days between visits.
Putting that into a bit of context, on that evening back in 1986, I got my teamsheet signed by the then-manager of Portsmouth, none other than Alan Ball, while he was stood on the steps outside the Love Lane clubhouse during the match. This would have been a mere 20 years and 6 days after he'd played for England in the World Cup Final on 30th July 1966!
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acmold
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Re: [oxpete] Longest time between Re Visits
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Went back to Devizes today just under 30 years ago since my last visit. The ground looked the same!
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Swindon Addick
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Mar 30, 2016, 11:01 PM
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Can't remember the exact dates, but 23 years and a few months between visits to Histon. I saw City win the county cup in April 1989 but had moved away from the area long before we next played there. My next visit was in the early part of 2013/14, for a City home game early in our ground-share there.
As I discovered when researching my answer for the thread on the first few grounds visited, most of my early visits are no longer available to revisit. Turns out the current longest without a revisit but still in use is Barking (early part of 89/90).
Cambridge City - on a tour of places we've never heard of and can't spell.
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oxpete
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Aug 18, 2016, 12:00 PM
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Tuesday night was my second (and unfortunately almost certainly my very last) visit to Griffin Park, for Brentford's 1-0 win over Nottingham Forest.
My previous visit to the away end was to see Portsmouth lose 1-4 on Tuesday 1st September 1992, a length between visits of 23 years, 11 months and 15 days.
Barry will be very pleased to know that that gives me a record of 100% home wins for Brentford!
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pokal02
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Aug 18, 2016, 2:52 PM
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The longest time since a last visit to any ground that still exists is Hastings, where I saw Barnet draw 0-0 in April 1979. Can't say its on the immediate list to re-visit, though I might one day.
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Henfield Bee
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Aug 18, 2016, 7:45 PM
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In my grounds list no's 1 to 27 I have either revisited or are now defunct. So ground no. 28 is the one that offers me my potential longest break between visits......
Lewes 5 Addlestone & Weybridge 3 @ The Dripping Pan in 1977 - It's all of 11 miles from my doorstep! Maybe I'll wait for 40 years to elapse and make a re-visit. I understand the ground is slightly changed since I went!
NB Bognor Regis Town is next a few weeks afterwards
nb: i will only post re new grounds when BurgessHill Bee doesn't..(since he's far better informed than I)
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leohoenig
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Aug 18, 2016, 10:24 PM
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My current post in Hampshire has mean several 30 year plus revisits, but Stafford Rangers remains my longest possibility if I were to revisit, as it has now been over 40 years
All the other 46 grounds visited more than 40 years ago have either been revisited, or are no longer available to revisit (or in many cases, both).
I have recently passed the 600th ground to be revisited.
I now have 21 grounds with more than 10 visits. Of these, there are 8 which cannot be visited again (9 if you count old and new Wembley as different venues). 19 of the 21 are in England, the other two in Malaysia.
30 of the first 50 grounds on my list cannot be revisited now. Plus of course, "Ground zero". I know I visited Barking's old ground as a child in the company of my grandfather, but it is not on my list as I do not know the game, and anyway I would have spent more time watching the trains behind the ground than the match
Fat AND Pompous.
The proof that you can have too much of a good thing
Now blogging at http://www.leohoenig.com
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Aug 19, 2016, 5:20 PM
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Bristol City remains my longest possibility - last there on 28 December 1965 when the new floodlights opened. After that there are a couple that I haven't been back and still exist that are over 40 years - Elland Road and Old Trafford [at the latter for Leeds United v Chelsea FA Cup Final Replay].
As regards non-league several in the 30 plus years category; Minehead being the longest at 38 years.
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yorkieexile
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Aug 22, 2016, 7:29 AM
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I have just checked my records and my one and only visit to Dundee, at Dens Park, was 5 September 1970 for only my second Scottish match.
That means almost 46 years, with no prospect of me ever going back.
In England, my longest time since my last visit is Workington. First saw them in March 1971 at home to Newport County, the bottom two in what was then Division 4
Saw them again when Halifax played there on 28 August 1976, when the game ended 1-1 in front of a crowd of over 2,000.
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dottirofhod
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Aug 26, 2016, 12:02 AM
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Last night visited the Marakana for the second time , only 43 years and 3 months after my first visit on May 30, 1973.
First occasion had 93,500 and last night 22,314.
July 1, 2019 to June 30,2020 = 127 / 107 / 20 / 5 x 0-0's. (You know my rules) @ 07 / 12 / 2019 . Belgium top 5 tiers 0-0-0-(0-1-0)-(0-1-1-2) / Holland top 4 tiers - 0-0-0-(0-0) / Lux top 2 tiers 0 -2. England top 10 tiers - 0. Now blogging at https://eccentricity.video.blog/
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Steveb
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Nov 14, 2018, 11:05 PM
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Halifax 1-2 Mansfield Div3 14th February 1976
Fc Halifax 0-1 Mansfield PSF 23rd July 2011
Both games at The Shay, 35 years, 5months, 9days.
Also found this one
Aston Villa 0-1 Mansfield div3. 31-8-1970
And Villa Park again
Aston Villa 0-0 Southampton 19-4-2014
43 years , 7 months, 20 days
Looks like I will be breaking my record next Tuesday when I should be visiting the Valley, Charlton Athletic
My last visit was to see a League Cup tie vs Mansfield was in Sept 1972, So over 46 years between revisits
They spent a year or two playing elsewhere so according to some you can count that as a new ground 
http://stevebthegroundhopper.blogspot.co.uk/
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NoGuruNoMethod
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Nov 15, 2018, 1:46 PM
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Very interesting thread was last at Croft Park Blyth in August 1974.(not a clue who opponents were).
Returned May 2016 Blyth Spartans v Workington play off semi final.
Personally it was quite emotional wondering where the years had gone.
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oxpete
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Dec 2, 2018, 6:49 PM
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I went along to Swindon Town’s County Ground today to watch the FA Cup giant-killing of Swindon Town 0 Woking 1. This was my first return since 29th April 1995, a length of...
23 years, 7 months and 3 days
...since me and TheWavendonian attended Swindon Town 0 Portsmouth 2 in the away end on the day that Swindon were relegated to the third division.
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Geofftheref
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Dec 2, 2018, 10:38 PM
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I love posts like this. How about these for my first few grounds: Feethams, Durham City (Old Ferens Pk), Roker Park, St James Park (could revisit that I suppose, some may say its a tick given none of the ground I first went to in 1975.
I too remember Feethams (Darlington). I think houses are built on the football pitch now. Whilst trying to get my Class 2 for football refereeing I ran the line there for a pre season friendly between Darlington and Rochdale.
But getting back to grounds that ?I have never been back to I went to watch Darlington away at Crewe’s Gresty road in the second round of the FA Cup in 1966/67. They lost 2-1 and we never saw the Darlington goal as when a steam engine went past the smoke drifted over the pitch. I make that just over 52 years.
They also got to the quarter finals of the league cup during my team supporting days. Read a book on football grounds once for the football league clubs which described the facade that you went through from Victoria Road as the twin towers....the only twin towers that Darlington would ever see........the author was wrong on that one. Went past the old ground just last week and the twin towers are still there.
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Bradshaw
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Dec 5, 2018, 5:35 PM
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I recall watching Chesterfield beat Halifax 2-0 on a wet and windy evening ( round about 68-69 I think) and last Sunday I saw the Spirites go down 2-0 to Grimsby ( a gap of about 50 years) but of course at the spanking new Proact stadium, Saltergate having long gone.
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