Floodlights

[Spurs quarter 69]

As ever Gary thank you for your time and also your knowledge. Perfect answers.

Up to the eighties every time I visited or went through a strange town I would look out for the floodlight pylons. One of the many ways Manchester was superior to Liverpool was we had two grounds with proper pylons while Lpools were on the stand roof. On my first visit to OT to watch Lancy I mistook White City's floodlights for niteds. It is a sadness to me that the pylons have gone from so many grounds and no longer a feature of so many towns and City's.

 

[Mad Eyed Screamer]

Up to the eighties every time I visited or went through a strange town I would look out for the floodlight pylons. One of the many ways Manchester was superior to Liverpool was we had two grounds with proper pylons while Lpools were on the stand roof. On my first visit to OT to watch Lancy I mistook White City's floodlights for niteds. It is a sadness to me that the pylons have gone from so many grounds and no longer a feature of so many towns and City's.

Agree and I used to do the same thing. I suppose the issue now is stands are so high that the floodlights would have to be on Blackpool Tower size structures to be able to light up the pitch.

On a funny note, when City played at Reading's Elm Park in a cup replay in 93, i was on a coach that got a little lost and up went the cry "there's the floodlights!"
And 10 mins later we were on a housing estate outside a youth centre with floodlights on their 5 a side pitch....