Hampden Park Glasgow 1980

[@TheBeeseven]

It's fantastic to see the old terraces banking so high up. Great to see the old stadium it had a beauty all of it's own it just oozes atmosphere and history even when empty. And I'm an Englishman who supports Aston Villa.

[@DavidUKesb]

The most incredible football ground ever built. And I'm English. Lucky enough to have seen a Scotland v England game there before they pulled it down and replaced it with the bland and dull medium sized effort of today.

[@stephenturner6075]

I'm Scottish and agree with you. I loved the old Hampden Park, the atmosphere was amazing. The thing they replaced it with is garbage.

[@DavidUKesb]

@@stephenturner6075 The authorities ruined Wembley as well but not as bad as Hampden.

[@stephenturner6075]

@@DavidUKesb I agree. Wembley is clearly better than Hampden but there's far too many corporate fans at international games and cup finals at Wembley.

[@shunter6147]

Agreed. It's hallowed ground. I live 3 miles from it and when growing up I was always fascinated by its awesome size. Nothing compared. Someone in authority needs to show a bit of imagination and increase the capacity. The north "stand" could be converted into a 2 tier structure like the new south stand. Combine that with safe standing on each end terrace and that could raise the capacity to over 70,000 I think.

[@DavidUKesb]

@@shunter6147 It upsets me the old ground is no more and I'm English, so goodness knows what the Scots think about it. Mind you, Wembley was ruined too.

[@DA-dw5zn]

My dad went up twice in the 60's for the England games. Both crowds over 130000. He bumped into someone from the street he lived on. It must have been eerie watching Queens Park there.

[@DCHurlford1]

Think it's capacity was stilll about 90,000 then (before it got redeveloped in the early 90s.) It still holds the record for the biggest attendance at a European game (Celtic v Leeds European Cup semi-final 1970 bout 130,000) and used to hold the world record for an international game Scotland v England years before until Brazil's Maracana stadium was built.

[@spodge1233]

Just immense !!

[@suffern63]

The best ground ever

[@robertbaglin3973]

Visited old Hamden Park many times in the late 70’s early 80’s as an Ingerlund fan and stood alongside over 120’000 mad jocks before most away fans would dare to travel up.Never had any bother with them probably because never refused a whisky which was offered from the bottle on the terraces.Great days and a nice story for the grandkids . . Not.

[@stanmonzon5788]

Robert Baglin it wouldn’t have been 120,000 at that point, it would have been about 70,000. The 100,000+ crowds stopped in the early 70’s.

[@2271graham]

Used to love watching games from the North Stand which was demolished FAR too soon.

[@MacMacPherson]

pre-season training: i used to run up and down the terraces at hampden as a queens park player in the early 80s... mad eddie hunter was our coach, made us the fittest team in our division

[@mathewdoesstuff]

What position did you play

[@MacMacPherson]

centre half@@mathewdoesstuff (centre backs didn't exist in those days)

[@smithofsmiths1872]

And they still had the square goal posts even then!

[@terrywhitfield2702]

My dream Champions League Final: Liverpool v Celtic at Hampden Park. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. YNWA.

[@terrywhitfield2702]

Anfield. Celtic Park. Hampden Park. The three greatest stadiums in the world.

[@owenthackeray4195]

Bramall lane

[@terrywhitfield2702]

I would love Scotland to start producing great players like Dalglish, Souness and Hansen again.

[@jayohhyeahfuker]

We’ve got super Scott mctominay now

[@ThefightingCelt]

Did you know that the "Celtic End " of the famous old stadium held 10,000 more fans than the sheltered " Rangers end . "

[@sandymcmillan5905]

Always figured that's why the built the cover over the Rangers end

[@georgebutterworth662]

It was over 20,000 more! Held about 66000 with Rangers end approx 44000

[@georgegreig8054]

@@georgebutterworth662 there was never 66.000 in it. There was never over 60.000 in it.

[@MultiJoe84]

Probably a good thing that those days are gone now. I think the Celtic end was officially known as the jock Stein terracing and rangers end the mount Florida terracing

[@terrywhitfield2702]

Liverpool. Glasgow. Dublin. The three greatest cities in the world.

[@tonybroderick4808]

The three scummiest!

[@peterdavis943]

I went in 1976 Scotland v England in the Celtic open end and the terraces were shale because there we no toilets!

[@zagozago9893]

Hampden Park didn't have concrete terracing until the 1980s. It was massive back in the 1940s.

[@jptey289]

Ah ces putains de poteaux carrés

[@terrywhitfield2702]

King Kenny.

[@EM-jo5hp]

+180 000

[@terrywhitfield2702]

Liverpool. Celtic. YNWA.

[@owenthackeray4195]

Huge ground.But those terraces r so steep and dangerous.Glad those days are in the past.

[@RubyMarkLindMilly]

Your joking atmosphere on terracing was electric

[@ihateyoumother-fucker3204]

I'm not being funny, but this looks like old Ibrox and NOT Hampden Park.

[@DuncanAdams]

I think the QPFC lettering seen on one shot on the front of the stand confirms its Hampden.

[@robertelliott2216]

Nothing like Ibrox.

[@tdonovan4735]

Definitely Hampden. Look at the tower blocks outside and that "questionably unsafe" press box

[@MacMacPherson]

i can confirm its hampden, i played for queens park early 80s

[@danbreen6946]

@@MacMacPherson Naw Ye Didnae