Selhurst park review (Selhurst Park (Crystal Palace))

Member Name: daadr

Product:	Selhurst Park (Crystal Palace)
Date:	09/03/09 (56 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: One big nice stand behind one goal and a smaller nice stand behind the other

Disadvantages: Two rubbish stands on the other side with wooden seats in the away section

Firstly i am not a Crystal Palace fan but i have visited this ground on lots of occasions as an away fan seeing them play Ipswich Town. I have been to alot of grounds so ive seen some really nice ones, and some real stinkers. Selhurst park is a stinker. How this can be seen as a top half championship/ bottom half premiership football stadium beats me! It was built in 1924 which shows just how old it is and i think they have touched the away section since then. They have two modern stand behind each goal. One of them is a two tiered stand which is a big new modern stand named the holmesdale stand. Behind the other goal there is a Smaller new stand which is one tier high with executive boxes up high named the Croydon stand. The main stand looks older and tired with big supporting beams in places keeping the stand together. The Arthurt Waite stand is where the away fans get an allocation of about 2,500 in the corner. The facilities here are a disgrace! There is a decent size eating and drinking facility but the standing area is small and cramped and there is no security between the home and away fans in that stand. To get to the toilet you have to go down some of the steepest steps i have ever seen and these are in need of up grading. The worst thing about this stadium i feel is in the away section they have new coloured plastic seats at the front of the stand to make it look nice for the cameras but once you get past the first 10-20 rows the seats are wooden and not even anough leg room for a small child to sit in.
I have been to worse grounds than this but this is a stadium of a team which boasts they were in the Premiership a few seasons back and this is not a premiership ground!

Summary: A poor championship ground let alone a premiership ground a few seasons ago