Me and Nieve have been mates for 8 years. The comments on this are a little weird. Can this be less weird going forward please? I don’t really think we’re a channel that does humour like this and it’s a little disappointing to read some of the comments on a video of us just watching a football match
People think they’re your friends and can do that banter but it is extremely parasocial and odd. Hope this doesn’t stop you guys from collaborating in future because you two together are fun to watch as a duo :)
@@BroadPNG Why have you replied to so many comments calling Ellis a naughty little flirt boy Nothing in this video is like that, it's just a couple friends enjoying a shite time together ya fruitcake
It's easily the worst I have been in. The tunnel/cage is like something out of eastern europe. The home end isn't much better either. Been that side for a few semi-finals.
As a student I lived next to the old ground. It was magnificent. A sloping pitch and standing so close to the pitch that if a player took a throw in you could have easily taken the ball off them. The Kassam is OK - it just drains any atmosphere. Even a higher fence with a mural of a stand would be better than an open end. If you ever drive there and park in the car park where there are a load of spaces free, just beware. A poor shot at goal can easily fly into the car park and do damage!
Thank you for publishing this. Livelong OUFC here. We utterly hate the Kassam Stadium and the way our beloved club has been treated by the landlord is downright disgraceful. We need a new home before our lease runs out. Thankfully a new stadium is on the horizon and we can forget this three sided nightmare.
2:25 I'm from Romania and I think that is Dinamo Bucharest not Zagreb but yeah, it's funny that an random Dinamo Bucharest sticker is on the Oxford stadium 😂😂
I recognised the stadium in the first second from Nieve's video! The comment made in her video about putting a giant ant farm in the empty car park stand still lives rent free in my head.
In reality, it's both an ox AND a bull. The term "bull" can be applied to uncastrated males of various bovine species, and "ox" is not really a specific species either, but rather a term for any kind of bovine that has been domesticated as a draft animal. Overall, the majority of oxen are castrated, and are therefore not bulls (which does make the inclusion of the balls on the statue a bit odd and unnecessary). However, there are indeed some parts of the world where at least some of the oxen are bulls. This is not common overall because bulls are significantly more difficult to control due to their much higher testosterone levels, but it's not impossible, especially depending on the specific job. It's a bull-ox with bollocks!
There was a time, not so long ago where clubs were owned by people who had their hearts set for said club. Now it’s become an investment thing, an endless moneymaking pit (at least, that’s what they hope). If it goes sour, or for whatever crooked reason, they just bail. Sad. On a lighter note, another entertaining vid, pigeons included.
Thank You, Ellis, you travel to many sorts of places worldwide and make the best videos possible, although this was in Oxford, You make the best of it, Up the AwayDays!
The Kassam seems to have acquired "character". My nominations for bad stadiums are from the 80s: Colchester United's ground at Layer Road had an away section enclosed with chicken wire; the ball regularly ended up in someone's back garden and parts of the terracing were fenced off for safety reasons. Northampton Town used to ground share with the county cricket club, and had open air urinals. This video was very entertaining; I think you should treat Nieve to a game at Dereham Town.
It stinks because of the sewage works next door. Also there used to be a pub just opposite called The Priory, Kassam evicted the tenants and then left it to rot despite it being a listed building. We pay a service charge that supposedly means the stadium will be upkept, but it's consistently dirty and the toilets are minging. There's no hot water and the reception is non existent. The sooner we leave this dump the better.
It has a similar feel to Twerton Park in Bath, two beautiful cities in which the council neglect their football clubs and the areas they are located because they are more interested in keeping the city centres prestine. I understand why but feel bad for the fans.
I travel from Seattle,Washington USA to watch oxford yearly and I have to the Ka$$am has a special place in my heart. Love both you guys. Keep up the good work
Echoing the thoughts of the fans you spoke to Ellis, I don't dislike Grenoble Road, I hate it. The sheet metal sides, cold concrete, lack of much to make it feel like our home. It's Awful. I'm gutted I couldn't experience our old home The Manor Ground, it was a proper British stadium, had a slopped pitch and everything. To expand on what Nieve said about how cold it can get, from late October to mid April every season, standing in the East stand (the one behind the goal) is like arctic level freezing. If the inability to clear the pigeons weren't enough, until a few years ago, every penny from concourse sales went to Firoz as well as the Hollywood Bowl complex. It's believed when we eventually leave, the whole thing will get torn down and replaced with houses. I can't wait to leave Grenoble Road. But, cos the approval to build a new ground is taking a while, it looks like the solution will be to extend our license to play there until our new stadium is build.
You should try Broadwood Stadium in Cumbernauld. The Scottish version of the Kassam, just colder! Three sides, neglected and ran into the ground by the owners.
@CopperHTID Broomhill are now playing at Dumbarton. Clyde are playing at Hamilton Accies. The only team left there are Cumbernauld Colts in the Lowland League
To be fair us as Bolton Wanderers fans can go to Hollywood bowl for a pre-match pint there's a bar in there and it's always packed. But we do also have a harvester and a couple other bars dotted around the place.
This was my local when it was built, I saw the very first match there against Palace. I was actually down the Palace end as a long time sufferer of Palace (before they became premier league quality). Palace lost on penalties. But I remember the ball going over the fence and hitting cars in the car park. The place has never felt nice and felt rundown from the very start. Also, rumours were that Kassam couldn't afford the 4th stand but built the entertainment complex to pay for it and have a longterm income. He managed the second one. The new ground about to be built will be far easier to get to as well.
Taunton is dangerous for away fans, advertised capacity of 1,000 in the away end, safe capacity, about 600 at most. 3 Porta Potties for all the away fans, Pitch constantly Flooded, No proper food only pastries, no room before the pitch meaning fans are dangerously crammed in together, and meanwhile the home end gets way more room only to bring less fans than the away. Overall the Club is very nice but the Stadium is almost dangerous.
Sounds a lot like Nantwich Town’s ground I had to steward at for a cup game involving Chester, my team. That place is barely a bloody stadium! I refuse to go there again.
I visited this stadium like 10 years ago, when London Welsh (rugby) called this place home, I vividly remember the lack of fourth stand and view of the carpark
Why is everybody dissing it having three stands. I think that stadiums with three stands are brilliant and I'm definitely not biased or a partick thistle fan and their home ground definitely does not have three stands or anything.
Rip off prices in the food stand outside, the awful smell in the away end (smells like sewage), you have to stand in the road to catch the buses back to the city/station. Absolutely dire stadium. I feel sorry for the fans having to put up with it.
Oxford fan here. We ALL despise the stadium, every Oxford fan hates it. We are trying to build a new one that we will own, and will hopefully complete it in a couple of years.
I can never understand why people buy a ticket for a match which is generally not cheap and then leave before the match is over. Surely if their team is losing, then that is when they need most support
As a Canadian, it boggles my mind how close everything is in the UK. When you credited the Peterborough fans for making the trip, I googled the distance. It's a 2-hour drive. For me, the CLOSEST away day is a 6-hour drive.
For a weekend game you would think nothing of it, but this was a Tuesday night game in a meaningless competition. Those fans wouldn't have got home until after midnight, so fair play to them for bothering.
@@bobbyt8547this is true, but they only dress like that for public appearances like parades or press conferences. A normal officer on shift looks more like an American officer.
I live in metro vancouver and it takes me 2 hours just to get to a whitecaps home game. That’s why I end up going to more cpl games. But away days are brutal cuz the closest one is a 2 hour ferry ride and a 3 hour drive away
In Peru, this would be considered a pretty good stadium Also you should really go to the highest stadium in the world. It’s in Cerro de Pasco in Peru and is the home ground of Union Minas.
As a fan who’s been going to that stadium for almost 20 years, it’s an absolute hole. Never cleaned, no character, everything done on the cheap (hence why it’s so unbearably ugly), grim interior, and the weird gaps and 3 stands mean that atmosphere is very difficult to create inside the stadium. Even if our new stadium plans were fully accepted and construction started immediately, there’s no way it would be finished in time and ground sharing is inevitable. Various owners of the club have tried to buy the stadium from Kassam but he won’t budge. Not only do we not own the stadium, the club has to pay hundreds of thousands of pounds every season to play there. So yeah, not great.
"There's no pub here" There's literally a aports bar above the Hollywood Bowl, and the worst pub in England is five minutes walk away, just behind the houses at the end of the ground with a stand.
As a oxford fan our staduim is just utterly shit, glad you see the problems we do. Hopefully in the next couple of years we will get it all sorted! Btw the smell you talk about is the sewage place in Sandford (the next estate over).... its especially lovely on a sunny afternoon 😂
One small comment - you said that this is the "worst competition" for Oxford United, however it really can't be, seeing as they won it in 1986 - credit where it's due. The ground just looks unfinished, and badly so - the stands are so disconnected, at least Shrewsbury's look like they're on speaking terms. On a more serious note, the pigeon situation is a serious Health and Safety violation, that looks disgusting and really unhealthy.
This is the best pigeon documentary I have ever seen, could you do an in depth study of the blue footed booby bird when next at Colchester Utd? cheers.
The "Argentina" shirt is a remake of one of our Umbro shirts from the 70s. It was produced by a fans group in order to raise money for a statue in honour of Posh legend Tommy Robson who died a few years ago.
Kassam all day. While ya Maxwell tried to merge us with one of our local rivals, his money took us from division 3 to division 1 and lifting the EFL Cup. Though, the fact all that money came from cash he'd nicked meant we were screwed when he died. Under Kassam, the Merchant of Misery as he was know before he bought us, we went from Championship to National League in 7 years.
I went back to Upton Park to be an extra in a movie a few months after the last ever game. There was pigeon crap everywhere and the toilets hadn't been cleaned. I think this ground is similar.
I see your Kassam Stadium and raise you Central Park (Cowdenbeath). A football pitch in the middle of a stock car track. Almost every single view is obstructed by safety fencing. Let’s not forget the fact it has an Indian/Nepalese buffet in the car park as well. It’s for sure a stadium from a bygone era and has a rather unique charm despite being an absolute dump of a place.
I've just looked that up, that's crazy 😂 Despite the football being older than the racing it somehow looks like the pitch was added as an afterthought.
Should've gone upstairs to J's Sports Bar instead of the Bowl. Much more atmosphere in there, loads of TV's and they usually allow away fans in. Can get very busy though for league games so arrive early.
It's an interesting and unique game day experience. A friend and I took a day trip to Oxford a few years back when we were traveling around the UK from Australia and went to an Oxford United game at this stadium. Public transport to the stadium was a bit sketchy, the fact there are no pubs around seemed strange to us. But the fans were fantastic during the match. I still remember a kid after the game getting all excited that my mate had an Adelaide United kit on haha. We enjoyed the experience, but it was 100% different to any other game we attended that trip up and down the pyramid. Though public transport to venues was a reoccurring issue to a lot of stadiums and grounds we went to in the UK.
For a while there was a pub, next to the car park, called the Priory - and it was a great place, a proper friendly, traditional pub in a medieval building, an oasis of history and character in a desert of dull concrete-and-steel modernity - but, guess what, Kassam made sure it was impossible for the owner to make a living. It's now boarded up and neglected (despite being a Grade II* listed building). Kassam is a soulless money-grabbing creep.
If you think a Dinamo Zagreb sticker on a wall at Oxford is bad, we've got a Hansa Rostock sticker on the urinal cistern at Dunkirk from when we had some German guys came to watch (Notts kicked off at 12:30, so they went to us after).
Whether platonic or something more, you and Nieve have amazing chemistry. I'd be fine if your two channels just merged and the two of you spent your life ground hopping around the world. lol
My mates and I went to Oxford United's old Manor Ground a couple of times, as it was so easy for us to get to...just hop off the bus at Headington Shops! Great atmosphere for such a small place. Never managed to get to the Kassam as it wasn't on a bus route, and they put the prices up wayyy too much!
I'm Everton Fan 60 years. The View Ellis and Nieve have is Spectacular compared to some at Goodison. EG Back of Bullens Road. If you duck down you can see the cross Bar of the goal.
A fair review, the ground is stuck owned by a guy that doesn't care (you just have to look at the state of the hotels he runs to see that) and a club that wants to move forward - and moving forward means away from that ground. For the privilege of being able to play there (and besides the ticket office, the club are not allowed into the ground much otherwise - for example on a matchday on a 3pm kickoff, apart from pitch maintenance (and although we actually pay for that as part of our payments to Kassam, we actually provide our own staff and pay for machinery and upkeep so the pitch is acceptable) and ticket office club staff are not allowed in before 12pm) we are paying all told (rent and maintenance) around £1m/year, and with that we have no money making ability besides tickets and pitchside advertising. As another example of the club paying for things that should be fabric of the stadium, the new scoreboard (and indeed the previous scoreboard) were paid for by club owners not stadium. A final example of the stadium co not caring and wanting to save money - there is no hot water in the public parts of the stands, hand washing in the toilets is firmly cold water. The smell in the general area is from the nearby Thames Water treatment works - and there is another example of a company that doesn't care. When you say it smells s**t it really is. come 2026/2027 (fingers crossed) when we finally get a new stadium that is well designed, and well maintained, the club can finally truly move on. Hopefully Ellis is still making content then and returns for a revisit.
Ellis, you should go to Gillingham. I was an ST holder there for 3 years for my sins. The Kassam looks positively luxurious by comparison. At least the Gills now have an owner who cares. Feel really sorry for the Oxford fans as they deserve more. If the club could buy the land and stadium from Firoz Kassam (who would never sell it, or put a extortionate price on it), there is real potential for it to be developed into a good stadium.
I've seen worse. My hometown club, during a period when they won two titles and two cups, had tribunes made of concrete with hardly any seating. Fortunately, the new club owner, along with local authorities and government, funded new tribunes. So now we have beautiful new tribunes but miserable players.
The bad smell is cause there is a sewage works less than half a mile from the ground (at the fence end) it’s even worse on a hot day when the winds blowing towards the ground. Kassam brought the club for £1 and took on the debt as said in the video. Then he sold the site of the old ground which is now a hospital, the issue with him and all owners since is that he won’t sell the ground without the leisure park which obviously would cost a lot more than any owner would be willing to pay for a stadium. Only renting the ground causes all sorts of issues there’s been times before that club staff have been unable to get in in match days, the pictures on the stand behind the goal have only been there 6-7 years at most before then there was nothing connecting the ground to the club. The home fans hate it, away fans hate it, even the players complain cause it’s so hard to get atmosphere in there but there’s a new fan group set up with flags and banners before games which helps but we just want out and hope the council see sense and approve planning sooner rather than later as we could be homeless. COYY
I do have a suggestion for the worst stadium in europe, Top Oss here in the Dutch 2nd division have a horrible stadium. Would not even call it a stadium They also have a horrible goaltune in my opinion, But thats for you to potentially find out
the placement of this stadium feels very American, especially without the trains being immediately accessible. I'm sure there's a worse stadium but it can't be by much. thank you for suffering with the Oxford fans for the video, football is back, so is AwayDays! Gettin!!
It's obviously fit and up to standard to play 2nd tier football-and quite likely PL-but it was still one of the worst grounds to go to when the club was in the Conference.
Manor Ground was an ok stadium. Oxfords old ground, proper old school tin pot stadium but loads were back then. It had a few open terraces for away fans which is how it still should be.
You should go travel to the USA and play on the roughest soccer pitches. There’s one near me where it’s a small sand layer under the grass and it’s rough af on the ankles.
Me and Nieve have been mates for 8 years. The comments on this are a little weird. Can this be less weird going forward please?
I don’t really think we’re a channel that does humour like this and it’s a little disappointing to read some of the comments on a video of us just watching a football match
It's also very disrespectful of your clearly non-platonic relationship with Alfie IMO
People think they’re your friends and can do that banter but it is extremely parasocial and odd. Hope this doesn’t stop you guys from collaborating in future because you two together are fun to watch as a duo :)
@@jasminappleby779 I agree w/ this ^^^ you guys are good to wat. h together
Also to be clear when I say some I mean SOME. A lot of them are hilarious so as long as you’re not being gross I’m fine with it
when will people understand that a man and a woman can be platonic friends
Ellis making eye contact with a woman. It’s a miracle.
But he hasn’t talked to one in ages so he could have forgotten. Now it looks like a relationship with Alfie is on the cards
@@BroadPNG Why have you replied to so many comments calling Ellis a naughty little flirt boy
Nothing in this video is like that, it's just a couple friends enjoying a shite time together ya fruitcake
@@BroadPNG”flirty naughty boy” 😭
its amazing what deepfakes can do these days
NIEVE IS THE GOAT
The way she made StatmanDave look like he knew nothing on Sky Sports was legendary.
@@sirprintalotI need to see that
why her voice so relaxing lel
The throat goat
As an Oxford fan I have to say having this as a home stadium is beyond depressing
I’m from Oxfordshire but I’m a Bournemouth fan, I knew that the kassam had 3 stands but I didn’t realise it was that shit
Manor Ground was paradise in comparison
Your shirts are decent though 🤜
Goto Gillingham worst away stand in the UK
hopefully we get the triangle
Ellis, your skins looking great my man!
These guys are one step away from PL. Three stands and a car park, you’ll never sing that!
It could happen
Actually, it really sounds like a chant!
You’ll never sing that!
You’ll never sing that!
Three stands and a car park -
You’ll never sing that!
@@kristaskrastina2863 they can have it
Nieve always elevates any video she appears in 🙌
The Oval in Belfast is an absolute sh*tehole. The toilets are a wall you piss against. The terrace is crumbling to bits and an absolute deathtrap.
It's easily the worst I have been in. The tunnel/cage is like something out of eastern europe. The home end isn't much better either. Been that side for a few semi-finals.
I hope Ellis goes!!
Wonderful old skool ground!
@Cal900 Wouldn't be bad if they done something with it and spent a few million on it.
I think I know where the next @awaydaysfootball needs to be
Loved to see Ellis and Nieve on a collab again. Support them (and other good football content creators) and don't be weird about it. Good on ya!
Awesome....love Nieve's videos. Love seeing her on here. Glad the season is back and we'll be seeing lots of cool videos from the both of you!!!!!
You didn’t go to old Trafford this is clickbait
Theres no way ur older then 12
Having 4 big stands is no where near the worst.
Having none at all is way worse
It's literally Hell on Earth
@@bradywren7955 It uh... was a joke..
@@bradywren7955lol your so salty 😂 the four biggest waterfall in the uk is a football stadium
From what I've heard the barbed wire isn't to stop fans getting in. Its to stop them leaving before the game ends.
As a student I lived next to the old ground. It was magnificent. A sloping pitch and standing so close to the pitch that if a player took a throw in you could have easily taken the ball off them.
The Kassam is OK - it just drains any atmosphere. Even a higher fence with a mural of a stand would be better than an open end. If you ever drive there and park in the car park where there are a load of spaces free, just beware. A poor shot at goal can easily fly into the car park and do damage!
There is a pub mate, it’s upstairs in the shopping centre, it’s a decent little boozer too, been a couple of times on Morecambe away days!
Nieve is great, love seeing the two of you do content together.
Great to see AwayDays and Jodie Whittaker collab on another video
Jodie Whittaker's from Yorkshire!! Wars have been fought over less
Thank you for publishing this.
Livelong OUFC here. We utterly hate the Kassam Stadium and the way our beloved club has been treated by the landlord is downright disgraceful. We need a new home before our lease runs out.
Thankfully a new stadium is on the horizon and we can forget this three sided nightmare.
2:25 I'm from Romania and I think that is Dinamo Bucharest not Zagreb but yeah, it's funny that an random Dinamo Bucharest sticker is on the Oxford stadium 😂😂
Can confirm it's not the Bad BLUE Boys from Zagreb!
Nah it's dynamo Dresden
@@kevin_hat_erdbeeren2750 hence the n*zi totenkopf then
@@kevin_hat_erdbeeren2750 Probably Dresden with a Nazi symbol in it
@@kevin_hat_erdbeeren2750 its dinamo not dYnamo
I recognised the stadium in the first second from Nieve's video! The comment made in her video about putting a giant ant farm in the empty car park stand still lives rent free in my head.
As an Oxford fan, don’t think there’s anything worse than when you called the ox a bull. ITS AN OX
Oh yeah I’m embarrassed I didn’t realise that 😂
The one in the statue was still very much a bull! :D
In reality, it's both an ox AND a bull. The term "bull" can be applied to uncastrated males of various bovine species, and "ox" is not really a specific species either, but rather a term for any kind of bovine that has been domesticated as a draft animal.
Overall, the majority of oxen are castrated, and are therefore not bulls (which does make the inclusion of the balls on the statue a bit odd and unnecessary). However, there are indeed some parts of the world where at least some of the oxen are bulls. This is not common overall because bulls are significantly more difficult to control due to their much higher testosterone levels, but it's not impossible, especially depending on the specific job.
It's a bull-ox with bollocks!
It’s not called Bullford is it?
yeah im not even an oxford fan but hearing people call it a bull pisses me off
Fans stood on cars in the parking lot to try to see in when Oxford were playing arsenal in the FA cup a few years back
Car park !!!
I love the Circuit de Catalunya Shirt that Nieves is wearing.
There was a time, not so long ago where clubs were owned by people who had their hearts set for said club. Now it’s become an investment thing, an endless moneymaking pit (at least, that’s what they hope). If it goes sour, or for whatever crooked reason, they just bail. Sad.
On a lighter note, another entertaining vid, pigeons included.
You and Nieve should do more videos together! :D
I am not a football fan in anyway but yet i still watch your video 😂 its just interesting to see the different stadiums 😅
Thank You, Ellis, you travel to many sorts of places worldwide and make the best videos possible, although this was in Oxford, You make the best of it, Up the AwayDays!
The Kassam seems to have acquired "character". My nominations for bad stadiums are from the 80s: Colchester United's ground at Layer Road had an away section enclosed with chicken wire; the ball regularly ended up in someone's back garden and parts of the terracing were fenced off for safety reasons. Northampton Town used to ground share with the county cricket club, and had open air urinals. This video was very entertaining; I think you should treat Nieve to a game at Dereham Town.
It stinks because of the sewage works next door. Also there used to be a pub just opposite called The Priory, Kassam evicted the tenants and then left it to rot despite it being a listed building.
We pay a service charge that supposedly means the stadium will be upkept, but it's consistently dirty and the toilets are minging. There's no hot water and the reception is non existent.
The sooner we leave this dump the better.
It has a similar feel to Twerton Park in Bath, two beautiful cities in which the council neglect their football clubs and the areas they are located because they are more interested in keeping the city centres prestine. I understand why but feel bad for the fans.
I've always found it interesting that the most internationally "prestigious" city is home to the most un-prestigious stadium.
The way you both looked at each other 🥰
3 STANDS AND A GARDEN FENCE !
Did you see the way they looked at each other 😂
Just wanna say away from the football content mate, your skin looks like it's getting so clear and healthier. Big up yourself ❤
Best duo on RUclips ever. More please!! Mr. Carlin a close second.
16:05 "GET IN!..." 😂🤣
That must have been Nieve's worst first date ever Ellis 😂😂😂
Isn’t this their second date?
They’re dating?
If he’s hanging out the back of Nieve he’s a very lucky man🎉🎉
@@BoothToHighanything for Ellis counte
@@Rickster316 Did you see how they look at each other?
I travel from Seattle,Washington USA to watch oxford yearly and I have to the Ka$$am has a special place in my heart. Love both you guys. Keep up the good work
Echoing the thoughts of the fans you spoke to Ellis, I don't dislike Grenoble Road, I hate it. The sheet metal sides, cold concrete, lack of much to make it feel like our home. It's Awful.
I'm gutted I couldn't experience our old home The Manor Ground, it was a proper British stadium, had a slopped pitch and everything.
To expand on what Nieve said about how cold it can get, from late October to mid April every season, standing in the East stand (the one behind the goal) is like arctic level freezing.
If the inability to clear the pigeons weren't enough, until a few years ago, every penny from concourse sales went to Firoz as well as the Hollywood Bowl complex. It's believed when we eventually leave, the whole thing will get torn down and replaced with houses.
I can't wait to leave Grenoble Road. But, cos the approval to build a new ground is taking a while, it looks like the solution will be to extend our license to play there until our new stadium is build.
You should try Broadwood Stadium in Cumbernauld. The Scottish version of the Kassam, just colder! Three sides, neglected and ran into the ground by the owners.
Does any team even play there now I know broomhill took over after Clyde but heard they moved too
@CopperHTID Broomhill are now playing at Dumbarton. Clyde are playing at Hamilton Accies. The only team left there are Cumbernauld Colts in the Lowland League
Cumbernauld Colts, and sometimes Ranger women I think. @@CopperHTID
It's such a pit, which is a shame because it's a decent size ground and it's not a bad place to watch a game
Rangers ladies home games are there. But as it's such a shit hole I ain't going to the games there @@joshmore7175
To be fair us as Bolton Wanderers fans can go to Hollywood bowl for a pre-match pint there's a bar in there and it's always packed. But we do also have a harvester and a couple other bars dotted around the place.
This was my local when it was built, I saw the very first match there against Palace. I was actually down the Palace end as a long time sufferer of Palace (before they became premier league quality). Palace lost on penalties.
But I remember the ball going over the fence and hitting cars in the car park.
The place has never felt nice and felt rundown from the very start.
Also, rumours were that Kassam couldn't afford the 4th stand but built the entertainment complex to pay for it and have a longterm income. He managed the second one.
The new ground about to be built will be far easier to get to as well.
Taunton is dangerous for away fans, advertised capacity of 1,000 in the away end, safe capacity, about 600 at most. 3 Porta Potties for all the away fans, Pitch constantly Flooded, No proper food only pastries, no room before the pitch meaning fans are dangerously crammed in together, and meanwhile the home end gets way more room only to bring less fans than the away. Overall the Club is very nice but the Stadium is almost dangerous.
Sounds a lot like Nantwich Town’s ground I had to steward at for a cup game involving Chester, my team. That place is barely a bloody stadium! I refuse to go there again.
i had to walk on the grass to get to the far end when we went there last year, granted that was with no segregation
If Scunthorpe was a stadium...
I was the guy in the orange Lacoste shirt the reason why it smells is because there is a waste disposal nearby ?
I visited this stadium like 10 years ago, when London Welsh (rugby) called this place home, I vividly remember the lack of fourth stand and view of the carpark
Video idea - Visit one ground from every level of english football and rank them so from as low down as Penydarren Park in Merthyr to Anfield
"You don't need to kill them though, I heard what you said." you two are so funny
AwayDays, where football comes second to pigeons. Love it
You should come to us at Gillingham... probably have the worlds oldest "temporary" scaffolding stand which was put up in 2004 😂
Been using Unik clothing for a while, the Vice 84 brand on it is my favourite, good to see you collabing with UNIK, copped the trophy tee.
Why is everybody dissing it having three stands. I think that stadiums with three stands are brilliant and I'm definitely not biased or a partick thistle fan and their home ground definitely does not have three stands or anything.
Better than Dumbarton or East fife which only have one side open to fans.
Fair point
Rip off prices in the food stand outside, the awful smell in the away end (smells like sewage), you have to stand in the road to catch the buses back to the city/station.
Absolutely dire stadium. I feel sorry for the fans having to put up with it.
Fully agree with Nieve on the pigeon comment 🔥🔥 such an underrated animal especially for the vital role they played
YT had unsub me from your channel. Crazy that this is a thing.
Great video! Roll on the 24/25 season!
Oxford fan here. We ALL despise the stadium, every Oxford fan hates it. We are trying to build a new one that we will own, and will hopefully complete it in a couple of years.
I can never understand why people buy a ticket for a match which is generally not cheap and then leave before the match is over. Surely if their team is losing, then that is when they need most support
As a Canadian, it boggles my mind how close everything is in the UK.
When you credited the Peterborough fans for making the trip, I googled the distance. It's a 2-hour drive. For me, the CLOSEST away day is a 6-hour drive.
For a weekend game you would think nothing of it, but this was a Tuesday night game in a meaningless competition. Those fans wouldn't have got home until after midnight, so fair play to them for bothering.
And your police have silly uniforms
@@bobbyt8547this is true, but they only dress like that for public appearances like parades or press conferences. A normal officer on shift looks more like an American officer.
I live in metro vancouver and it takes me 2 hours just to get to a whitecaps home game. That’s why I end up going to more cpl games. But away days are brutal cuz the closest one is a 2 hour ferry ride and a 3 hour drive away
In Peru, this would be considered a pretty good stadium
Also you should really go to the highest stadium in the world. It’s in Cerro de Pasco in Peru and is the home ground of Union Minas.
We want more Nieve
6:33 Foreshadowing the Tango Ice Blast Posh Kit with a Tango Ice Blast
As a fan who’s been going to that stadium for almost 20 years, it’s an absolute hole. Never cleaned, no character, everything done on the cheap (hence why it’s so unbearably ugly), grim interior, and the weird gaps and 3 stands mean that atmosphere is very difficult to create inside the stadium. Even if our new stadium plans were fully accepted and construction started immediately, there’s no way it would be finished in time and ground sharing is inevitable. Various owners of the club have tried to buy the stadium from Kassam but he won’t budge. Not only do we not own the stadium, the club has to pay hundreds of thousands of pounds every season to play there. So yeah, not great.
"There's no pub here"
There's literally a aports bar above the Hollywood Bowl, and the worst pub in England is five minutes walk away, just behind the houses at the end of the ground with a stand.
try Falkirk's stadium in winter when its raining! No pub near by the and ground is inside the blast radius of the INEOS plant
Thank you for the Kenilworth Road love
And oxfords ground is fun because of the car park. One I want to visit this season
Try Sixfields 40 miles down the road. Now that is a depressing stadium and still not been fully completed since the Cardoza's left.
As a oxford fan our staduim is just utterly shit, glad you see the problems we do. Hopefully in the next couple of years we will get it all sorted! Btw the smell you talk about is the sewage place in Sandford (the next estate over).... its especially lovely on a sunny afternoon 😂
One small comment - you said that this is the "worst competition" for Oxford United, however it really can't be, seeing as they won it in 1986 - credit where it's due.
The ground just looks unfinished, and badly so - the stands are so disconnected, at least Shrewsbury's look like they're on speaking terms. On a more serious note, the pigeon situation is a serious Health and Safety violation, that looks disgusting and really unhealthy.
This is the best pigeon documentary I have ever seen, could you do an in depth study of the blue footed booby bird when next at Colchester Utd? cheers.
Babe wake up new awayday dropped
Imagine being a communist
@@Forestgravy90 LOL You don't even know what that means.
The "Argentina" shirt is a remake of one of our Umbro shirts from the 70s. It was produced by a fans group in order to raise money for a statue in honour of Posh legend Tommy Robson who died a few years ago.
I don't know who was the worst owner, Kassam or Robert Maxwell? Oxford have been very unlucky.
Kassam all day. While ya Maxwell tried to merge us with one of our local rivals, his money took us from division 3 to division 1 and lifting the EFL Cup. Though, the fact all that money came from cash he'd nicked meant we were screwed when he died.
Under Kassam, the Merchant of Misery as he was know before he bought us, we went from Championship to National League in 7 years.
Kassam all day long.
Not sure if you’ve checked out Meadowbank in Edinburgh yet, might not top Oxford but definitely pushing them in a title challenge
I went back to Upton Park to be an extra in a movie a few months after the last ever game. There was pigeon crap everywhere and the toilets hadn't been cleaned. I think this ground is similar.
I see your Kassam Stadium and raise you Central Park (Cowdenbeath). A football pitch in the middle of a stock car track. Almost every single view is obstructed by safety fencing.
Let’s not forget the fact it has an Indian/Nepalese buffet in the car park as well.
It’s for sure a stadium from a bygone era and has a rather unique charm despite being an absolute dump of a place.
I've just looked that up, that's crazy 😂 Despite the football being older than the racing it somehow looks like the pitch was added as an afterthought.
Yous two are nuts
😂luv the vids
The best is for sure the ethihad, its so quite and empty, very relaxing
A fine stadium, particularly enjoyed the Ghislaine Maxwell Suite, The Julian Allsop Banana Bar, and for the kids the Graham Rix Crèche .
Should've gone upstairs to J's Sports Bar instead of the Bowl. Much more atmosphere in there, loads of TV's and they usually allow away fans in. Can get very busy though for league games so arrive early.
It's an interesting and unique game day experience. A friend and I took a day trip to Oxford a few years back when we were traveling around the UK from Australia and went to an Oxford United game at this stadium.
Public transport to the stadium was a bit sketchy, the fact there are no pubs around seemed strange to us. But the fans were fantastic during the match. I still remember a kid after the game getting all excited that my mate had an Adelaide United kit on haha.
We enjoyed the experience, but it was 100% different to any other game we attended that trip up and down the pyramid.
Though public transport to venues was a reoccurring issue to a lot of stadiums and grounds we went to in the UK.
For a while there was a pub, next to the car park, called the Priory - and it was a great place, a proper friendly, traditional pub in a medieval building, an oasis of history and character in a desert of dull concrete-and-steel modernity - but, guess what, Kassam made sure it was impossible for the owner to make a living. It's now boarded up and neglected (despite being a Grade II* listed building). Kassam is a soulless money-grabbing creep.
@@DaveDunford Sad that this happened to them and the club. Hopefully a new ground is on the horizon.
If you think a Dinamo Zagreb sticker on a wall at Oxford is bad, we've got a Hansa Rostock sticker on the urinal cistern at Dunkirk from when we had some German guys came to watch (Notts kicked off at 12:30, so they went to us after).
Whether platonic or something more, you and Nieve have amazing chemistry. I'd be fine if your two channels just merged and the two of you spent your life ground hopping around the world. lol
Seem to forget about Northern Ireland, wales and Scotland
My mates and I went to Oxford United's old Manor Ground a couple of times, as it was so easy for us to get to...just hop off the bus at Headington Shops!
Great atmosphere for such a small place.
Never managed to get to the Kassam as it wasn't on a bus route, and they put the prices up wayyy too much!
I'm Everton Fan 60 years. The View Ellis and Nieve have is Spectacular compared to some at Goodison. EG Back of Bullens Road. If you duck down you can see the cross Bar of the goal.
A fair review, the ground is stuck owned by a guy that doesn't care (you just have to look at the state of the hotels he runs to see that) and a club that wants to move forward - and moving forward means away from that ground. For the privilege of being able to play there (and besides the ticket office, the club are not allowed into the ground much otherwise - for example on a matchday on a 3pm kickoff, apart from pitch maintenance (and although we actually pay for that as part of our payments to Kassam, we actually provide our own staff and pay for machinery and upkeep so the pitch is acceptable) and ticket office club staff are not allowed in before 12pm) we are paying all told (rent and maintenance) around £1m/year, and with that we have no money making ability besides tickets and pitchside advertising. As another example of the club paying for things that should be fabric of the stadium, the new scoreboard (and indeed the previous scoreboard) were paid for by club owners not stadium. A final example of the stadium co not caring and wanting to save money - there is no hot water in the public parts of the stands, hand washing in the toilets is firmly cold water.
The smell in the general area is from the nearby Thames Water treatment works - and there is another example of a company that doesn't care. When you say it smells s**t it really is.
come 2026/2027 (fingers crossed) when we finally get a new stadium that is well designed, and well maintained, the club can finally truly move on. Hopefully Ellis is still making content then and returns for a revisit.
Ellis, you should go to Gillingham. I was an ST holder there for 3 years for my sins. The Kassam looks positively luxurious by comparison. At least the Gills now have an owner who cares. Feel really sorry for the Oxford fans as they deserve more.
If the club could buy the land and stadium from Firoz Kassam (who would never sell it, or put a extortionate price on it), there is real potential for it to be developed into a good stadium.
Would argue Gillingham have a tidy stadium, it’s worst stadium he’s reviewing. However worst town, Gillingham would be up there.
A good duo. She’s funny too.
I've seen worse. My hometown club, during a period when they won two titles and two cups, had tribunes made of concrete with hardly any seating. Fortunately, the new club owner, along with local authorities and government, funded new tribunes. So now we have beautiful new tribunes but miserable players.
The bad smell is cause there is a sewage works less than half a mile from the ground (at the fence end) it’s even worse on a hot day when the winds blowing towards the ground. Kassam brought the club for £1 and took on the debt as said in the video. Then he sold the site of the old ground which is now a hospital, the issue with him and all owners since is that he won’t sell the ground without the leisure park which obviously would cost a lot more than any owner would be willing to pay for a stadium. Only renting the ground causes all sorts of issues there’s been times before that club staff have been unable to get in in match days, the pictures on the stand behind the goal have only been there 6-7 years at most before then there was nothing connecting the ground to the club. The home fans hate it, away fans hate it, even the players complain cause it’s so hard to get atmosphere in there but there’s a new fan group set up with flags and banners before games which helps but we just want out and hope the council see sense and approve planning sooner rather than later as we could be homeless. COYY
Also-both my kids were given Oxford Utd give when they were born, as the club donated them for all the kids that were born in the hospital.
I still remember when Stamford Bridge had 3 stands and a carpark behind a goal
Stamford Bridge was a real shithole in the eighties
I do have a suggestion for the worst stadium in europe, Top Oss here in the Dutch 2nd division have a horrible stadium. Would not even call it a stadium
They also have a horrible goaltune in my opinion, But thats for you to potentially find out
Just checked it out on Google Maps. you weren't lying...it is horrible!
Real talk 😂
the placement of this stadium feels very American, especially without the trains being immediately accessible. I'm sure there's a worse stadium but it can't be by much. thank you for suffering with the Oxford fans for the video, football is back, so is AwayDays! Gettin!!
I can't believe you was at the Kassam and i didn't know also love how you say how are fans are great
It's obviously fit and up to standard to play 2nd tier football-and quite likely PL-but it was still one of the worst grounds to go to when the club was in the Conference.
Went to Southend United’s ground Roots Hall last year for a FA Cup match and it was so bad we left at half time.
Manor Ground was an ok stadium. Oxfords old ground, proper old school tin pot stadium but loads were back then. It had a few open terraces for away fans which is how it still should be.
The chicken curry pies in the ground on match day are lovely 🤤🤤
This is the crossover content we came for!!
You should go travel to the USA and play on the roughest soccer pitches. There’s one near me where it’s a small sand layer under the grass and it’s rough af on the ankles.