EXPLORING AN ABANDONED FOOTBALL STADIUM!

[@FootyAdventures]

There's two abandoned stadiums I've been to in Scotland now! This one and Cathkin Park. Are there any others?

[@RossParker1877]

Great video as always buddy. I believe Muirkirk Juniors old park is still there abandoned. May be worth an investigate. nonleaguescotland.org.uk/Historic/muirkirk.htm

[@thomasseery7570]

Another great video.There is St Mirren’s old ground, Love Street. I played a schools cup final when Alex Ferguson was manager. Not sure if the ground’s been redeveloped but it was a stadium that used to hold 50000.

[@bazzad6108]

Ballingry Rovers. That's in Fife , too. Just a few miles away from Rosyth. A really lovely little stadium that had a fair amount of money lavished on it a few years ago, when Ballingry had a very generous investor. He then went bankrupt and the club became unsustainable and folded.

[@FootyAdventures]

@@bazzad6108 Thanks, I'll check that out!

[@burkehare01]

FIRS PARK. HOME OF EAST STIRLING. IT HAS SFA DOCUMENTS ECT STILL IN THE GROUND LOL

[@lewis1627]

I love how you show stuff like this Otherwise it would be lost

[@FootyAdventures]

Cheers!

[@lloydbell8918]

The ‘Bald and Bankrupt’ of Scottish football!

[@FootyAdventures]

🤩 thanks! He's a legend!

[@beatlegreg07]

When I see an Abandoned stadium I think about the final whistle going in the final game, the last time the groundskeeper mowed the grass and the last pint pulled in the bar.

[@Chateaulait]

Great video, theres something sad about abandoned football grounds.

[@FootyAdventures]

Very true!

[@benvansittart2325]

Its sad but oddly beautiful seeing the crush barriers and plastic seats still in place

[@FootyAdventures]

Agree!

[@frasergibson72]

Had to start isolating the day and can already tell this and rangers games is what’s goi g to get me through it Keep up the good work

[@FootyAdventures]

Thanks so much mate! Hope you're OK in isolation!

[@clivegrenville9685]

another good one sam keep it going

[@FootyAdventures]

Cheers Clive!

[@jimmycburfield5997]

I love this channel. Real passion for football! Truly keeping it real!!!! Great stuff.

[@WithGodAllThingsArePossible982]

Brilliant video mate!! Godspeed ❤

[@FootyAdventures]

Legend, thank you

[@bobsteele9581]

Very interesting vid mate. Recreation Park rung a bell for me though, and then I realised I was thinking of Alloa Athletic's ground. Different place, same name.

[@FootyAdventures]

Oh cool it must be quite a common name!

[@stevenwallace9223]

I have played on this park many times as a player and it has to be the best park I have played on ! Also being from rosyth I have seen rosyth fc play many times at this park ! The seats in the ground actually arnt ment to be there that is the old Dugout seats ! Was happy to see a video of my local park up here and a pitch I loved to play on ! Keep up the work and any questions on the park or rosyth let me know 👍

[@globaltraveller]

Informative and awesome 👍 Great job you deserve a cigar!

[@FootyAdventures]

Glad you liked it! I'll treat myself to one for Christmas haha!

[@kennyguitarallen5662]

another great vid bro,your living the dream

[@FootyAdventures]

Thank you! I love doing what I do!

[@ryanoconnor5612]

Top work as usual 👍🏼

[@FootyAdventures]

Legend!

[@kyotocoversjimanderson782]

Great to see what's left of that stadium before the developers move in. I'd still rather watch a match on that grass pitch in its current state than on astroturf!

[@FootyAdventures]

Fair enough!

[@bobthesnobscotland2821]

Cheers dude 🥃 Sad to see places like this

[@FootyAdventures]

Thanks for watching again, much appreciated as ever!

[@derektaylor6425]

If you can you should go to Scourie FC. The most isolated football club in the UK along with Fort William and probably the most scenic setting. But you should visit all the North Caledonian League grounds mate. The most beautiful football grounds and settings in the country. You could also probably cover most of the grounds in 1 day which isn't bad for a whole league.

[@FootyAdventures]

I'll probably have to do those really northern grounds in Spring now, but will add to the list so I dont forget! Cheers for the tips!

[@patricialockhart2135]

Not the only Fife club displaced to make way for a super market in Cowdenbeath there was Hearts of Beath who played on North End Park. It had been the original ground of Cowdenbeath FC. In 2013 the council gave permission to Tesco to build a store there. Ultimately Tesco pulled out but by then it was too late. However, as part of the planning permission the owners of the ground had to build a new facility in Lumphinans . The council ensured that part of the deal was upheld and the facility was built. Eventually the land was acquired by Lidl and B&M and that's what stands on the ground now.

[@jasonwales6502]

Love old stadium's...seen your bit when you were at Annan and QOS and yeah you are right so much more interesting and cool than the Bayern Arena, Emirates etc...i live in germany and yeah these big stadiums look pretty cool but you dont feel the heart like you do in the little grounds.. You got a sub..😁

[@FootyAdventures]

Couldn't agree more. Thanks for subbing! Much appreciated!

[@JGormley67]

Try visit firs park in Falkirk former home of east Stirlingshire it just a wasteground now but I went a few years back and the terraceing was still there

[@FootyAdventures]

I'll check it out mate cheers!

[@JGormley67]

@@FootyAdventures u should it got a really good story behind it

[@JGormley67]

@@FootyAdventures I went in 2017 but I don’t know what it’s like now

[@FootyAdventures]

@@JGormley67 I'll try and do some research

[@grantrolland9693]

I'm sure Firs Park was completely demolished and replaced with a housing development IIRC.

[@benodlin110]

Keep em coming mate #notificationsquad

[@FootyAdventures]

Legend cheers! New vid tomorrow!

[@stephenpickering8909]

Petershill juniors FC in the north of Glasgow have an abandoned ground literally joined to new one.petershill hold the record attendance for a junior cup final at Hampden 77,000 in 1957

[@bazzad6108]

I think the old seats you almost literally stumbled across came originally from Dunfermline's East End Park, specifically from the Main Stand. Rosyth is practically a suburb of Dunfermline. The old Recreation Park used to generate a decent atmosphere when there were a few hundred punters inside it. The new venue is a travesty.

[@FootyAdventures]

Thanks for letting me know!

[@1broonie]

I got red carded playing there quite a few years back

[@scottd1885]

I live 5 mins from their and grew up sneaking in to play football, sad seeing its current state

[@richardlewis7498]

just seen this clip. many years ago wen i was looking for the footie results on the teleprinter i was fascinated by the scottish team called third lanark where did they go and whereabouts in scotland did they play

[@FootyAdventures]

Check out my Cathkin Park, Third Lanark video! Should explain a thing or two :) kzbin.info/www/bejne/iobVnYaXqMSLaac

[@richardlewis7498]

@@FootyAdventures wow thanks for the clip amazing but sad at the same time

[@FootyAdventures]

@@richardlewis7498 yeah its definitely sad but very interesting all the same

[@RichardTaylor1980]

rosyth had a 100 year lease with fife council which in turn cancelled the lease because a lidl was to be built as to this day nothing has been done.

[@neilgibson9678]

You should go to Firs Park in Falkirk, the old home of East Stirling FC. It's at the bottom of Firs Street at the back of the Central Retail Park. They were sold down the river by bad owners. Used to be a tidy wee ground.

[@FootyAdventures]

Will do! Is some of it still standing?

[@neilgibson9678]

@@FootyAdventures I'm not sure now. The big wall that was at the back of one of the goals is. If I get a chance in the next week or so I will go have a look and get back to you as my works not far from there.

[@FootyAdventures]

@@neilgibson9678 perfect much appreciated mate!

[@dannyf8198]

@@FootyAdventures The only part thats still there is the retaining wall that ran along two sides of the ground and a bit of rubble where the main stand stood. Grass is overgrown. Once a nice ground to visit before it closed. The last time i passed the turnstile block was still there, not sure if it still is. Cheers.

[@neilgibson9678]

@@FootyAdventures went and had a look today and you would be wasting your time. Couldn't believe the state it's in, you wouldn't even know it had been a football ground. Wasteland surrounded by the walls. Sad to see it like that and to think Sir Alex Ferguson started his management career there 😪

[@mikepar2]

Their current ground is at the Fleet Grounds which is still on Wilson Way where you were so you could have visited where they currently play

[@DarrenPhillthomson]

Great video

[@FootyAdventures]

Cheers dazza!

[@DarrenPhillthomson]

@@FootyAdventures welcome

[@GingerManWithACam]

Nice video dude, that's where I stay,Rosyth. There's another one like this in ballingry/lochore. Let's check it out together!

[@darrensommerville687]

You would not know that was an auld football stadium, standing there in time just abandoned just like that and also They club left Recreation Park in 2018 to move to the nearby Fleet Grounds and former Scotland international Stevie Crawford started his career at Rosyth fc then in 1992 he joined Raith Rovers

[@FootyAdventures]

Ah cool cheers for the facts mate!

[@jaymarshall6433]

I actually used to play on that pitch when I was younger

[@FootyAdventures]

Oh cool! Shame to see it how it is today!

[@Gamefeedvids]

The advert has lasted well as dunfermline ceased to exist around 2009 /2010 so at least 10 years old

[@RichardTaylor1980]

i live in the houses behind behind the once was rec park where rosyth juniors used to play which i used to love supporting them with friends in back garden at weekends and weekday evenings and in the summer the pars would train kids during summer holidays. rosyth juniors had a 100 year lease with fife council. then fife council decided to sell the land to Lidl to build a supermarket without any info for residents to this day their still hasn't been any progress in building supermarket the land has just been left and neglected. only good thing is at present their is a lot of wildlife.

[@alanhorne3338]

Technically sold to developers not lidl would have been done and dusted if I had been lidl direct

[@jasonwales6502]

Very cool..😁

[@FootyAdventures]

Thanks 😁

[@ruairidhmcphate4879]

Love it

[@FootyAdventures]

Thank you!

[@delanodegenie6970]

Great video as usual Sam... Not sure how far you're going to go with the visits but Largs Thistle who play in the West of Scotland Premier League might be worth a visit. Despite being a London boy born and bred my Uncle played for them in the 80s and my Granny & Papa lived in Largs for 30 years up until they both passed so the place holds special memories. Largs is famous for the couple who won £161 million on the Euromillions in 2011 and Nardinis ice cream which you've got to try out if you do visit!! Keep up the good work! 👍

[@FootyAdventures]

Largs is on the list, hoping to get there in some capacity before the end of the year :) Thanks for watching!

[@adamg94]

I spoke to a Peterhead player hopefully someone will get in contact from them and cove

[@FootyAdventures]

You absolute legend, thank you!

[@adamg94]

@@FootyAdventures an upside in working in a big supermarket 🙃 some players from different clubs in the aberdeen and surrounding areas come in

[@SmallChurch]

orig. from 60's Dollytown flat-roofs... been in nippon for 25 yrs. plus - guid tae see ma' auld toon

[@timosmath]

very interesting

[@FootyAdventures]

Thanks!

[@davidoconnor2651]

It was a decent pitch to play on once upon a time

[@Bryer1994]

I played a school cup final here a few years back crazy

[@FootyAdventures]

Haha cool! Yeah how mad

[@pablotupone4190]

The team still playing , right?

[@MARTINA-gc3tq]

Have you done the Arsenal Stadium?

[@FootyAdventures]

I've been a few times, but pre-KZbin. In 2021 I've got plans to make videos all around England!

[@MARTINA-gc3tq]

@@FootyAdventures Even on a match day is sounds like an abandoned building

[@jimmillar5908]

Rosyth as a town has been royaly shafted over the years by local council and goverment...Contributed hugely in two World Wars as a world renowned naval base, nowa shadow of itself, promises of miracle developments by charlatans.....Rosyth FC bring so much to the community but were hung out to dry...Back in the day, a couple of pints in the club, watch decent game of fitba...Those at Fife council with their noses in the trough do not know what community means.

[@GenialHarryGrout]

With junior football slowly dying I'm not surprised the council aren't to bothered about Rosyth FC

[@FootyAdventures]

Such a shame though! I love non league clubs!

[@chipperp1803]

I love don the road from there drive past it every day.

[@FootyAdventures]

Oh cool!

[@andrewmcgeorge7820]

This should be good. Plenty of lower league grounds you need to get to before the supermarkets buy them up.

[@diamond1897]

What's been your favourite park you've been to so far mate?

[@burkehare01]

Next time I am up at head office for a meeting I will pop by to see the ground

[@FootyAdventures]

You should!

[@williamwallacedebruce9221]

Almost the same story as the Rabs. Nothing more sad that an abandoned football park.....

[@maynardglam]

Go to Bradford Park Ave

[@adamwilson1790]

this is a 2 minute walk from my house

[@ryangriffin3028]

My friends dad is the manager of rosyth

[@FootyAdventures]

Oh cool!

[@bazzad6108]

Big Bad Bud? Or has he parted company after one touch line altercation too many?

[@ryangriffin3028]

@@bazzad6108 when was this

[@bazzad6108]

@@ryangriffin3028 Maybe a couple of seasons ago.

[@bazzad6108]

Brian " Bud " Muirhead - www.dunfermlinepress.com/sport/16128287.brian-muirhead-starts-win-new-rosyth-boss/

[@davecook9770]

10 years in the future this is what park head will look like and the old rotting banners will be barley visible reading sack the board Lennon out

[@Wall1885]

Disgusting that this happens to smaller football clubs because some greedy so and so gets involved pretending to be the messiah when deep down their intentions are firmly fixed on making a huge sum based on their initial outlay. Drag the fans along on a fantasy ride of promises and promotions then along comes a developer and the dream or just the simple pleasure of watching your side no matter which league they were in, is gone. A covenant should be in place to protect places like these from day one and keep these charlatans at bay.

[@Wall1885]

I've played on worse.

[@jonwalts2763]

looks like a bald and bankrupt video exploring abandoned places

[@FootyAdventures]

What a compliment! Thank you!

[@danielstone9404]

Yeah, Ibrox stadium, oh wait, a new club took their place 😁

[@stephenpickering8909]

photos.app.goo.gl/iKWFJeWFsM8VMqA77 Old ground circled red

[@diddleysquat6644]

It’s hardly a stadium😂