The return of the grounds quiz.

Posted on December 28, 2020 by The other Bob Wilson

I had to admit defeat in my efforts to come up with a seven decades quiz for Wycombe Wanderers, so, instead, I’ve put together a picture quiz about grounds where City have played over the Christmas holiday period. Invariably, the matches I’ve based questions on took place in the early years of our time as a Football League club, so to help you along a bit, I’ll say in what decade the game was played. Where possible, the pictures are of the grounds at the time when the games were played, but this has not always been possible and so there are some where the grounds look more modern than they would have done at the time of the match. I’ll indicate whether the clubs concerned still play at the pictured grounds and I should say that there is one where the team concerned are playing an away match, but I just had to include what is a brilliant photo! There are twenty questions and I’ll post the answers on here in a few days time.

1. The match was played in the thirties. This is the team’s current ground.
2. The team no longer play here, having moved from there within the last ten years – this photo was taken at an FA Cup match against the Corinthians in 1929 around the time of the game in question.

. (Photo by Edward G. Malindine/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)
3. The team still play here – this picture was taken in the 1980s and the game in question was played in the forties..
4. The team still play here, but the nearby greyhound track has long since disappeared – the date of the photo isn’t known. The match was played in the twenties.
5. The club still play here. The photo was taken in the sixties and it may be that someone who was a prolific scorer against us for another club during this decade was still on the books when the picture was taken. The game took place in the thirties.
6. An easy one I reckon, the club still play here – the picture was taken sometime between the wars and the game was played in the twenties..
7. The club still play at this ground, but it’s been over a decade since we played there in a competitive game. This picture was taken in 1932 which was close to the date of the game in question.
8. This picture was taken during the first game at this ground in 1905. The club still play there (we’ll be paying them a visit later this season and will be looking to complete a double). The game took place in the thirties.
9. The club still play here. The match was played in the twenties and this picture was taken in 1958 – although it’s not true, it feels like we’ve not won up there since then!
10. The club have moved away from this ground in the recent past. This photo was taken in the sixties and the match in question was played in the forties.
11. Another dead easy one I reckon, this picture was taken in the seventies, the club still play here and the game took place in the twenties.
12. This is the photo I mentioned about it being an away match for the team concerned. There is a clue in the lit being worn by one of the sides. This game was played in 1904 in Rio, but the one the question is based on was from the thirties.
13. The match took place in the fifties when this ground was already a fair old age, but the club still play there. This photo was taken in the seventies.
14. This ground is no longer in use and this photo was taken in 1913 before it had a “facelift” which totally transformed it. The game was played in the twenties – we hold a record concerning this ground which will never be broken.
15. Another painting of what a ground looks like today. The club still play there and we have visited the ground within the past five years. The match the question is based on was played in the thirties.
16. The club concerned still play here, but the ground has changed an awful lot since this photo was taken in the twenties, which is the decade when the match in question was played – we lost the last time we played there, but recent visits there have had a habit of finishing all square.
17. The club in question only used this stadium for one season in the thirties and it so happens City were the Christmas visitors that year – we last faced this team in the noughties, but it does seem longer ago than that to me.
18. This photo is pre Second World War and so it may have been taken around the time of our Christmas visit there in the twenties. The team still play there and we’ll be looking to repeat last year’s result when we visit there later in the season.
19. The move from this ground has not worked out well for this club. This photo was taken in 1912 and many of the people in the foreground could have been thrown in one of the stadium’s later guises. City played up there one Christmas in the thirties.

20. This photo was taken in the decade we were Christmas opponents – the fifties. The club concerned still play there.


Answers
1.       Priestfield Stadium, Gillingham – modern day picture. A 1-1 draw on 27/12/32.
2.       Upton Park/Boleyn Ground – picture from an FA Cup tie against the Corinthians in 1929. Lost 3-2 on 25/12/24. (Photo by Edward G. Malindine/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)
3.       Brisbane Road, Leyton Orient – 1980s. A 1-0 win on 25/12/46
4.       Elland Road, Leeds – date of picture not known. A 3-0 loss on 25/12/28.
5.       Field Mill, Mansfield – 1960s. A 4-1 beating on 25/12/37.
6.       Bramall Lane, Sheffield United – picture from 1920 to 1939. A 1-1 draw on 25/12/23.
7.       Home Park, Plymouth – 1932. A 5-1 loss on 26/12/30.
8.       Kenilworth Road, Luton – Photo from the first game at the ground in 1905. A 2-1 loss on 25/12/31.
9.       St  James’ Park, Newcastle – picture from 1958. A 5-0 defeat on 25/12/26.
10.   Griffin Park, Brentford – 1960s. A 1-1 draw on 25/12/48.
11.   The Hawthorns West Brom – picture from the 70s. A 3-0 defeat on 27/12/22.
12.   St James Park, Exeter – picture of a game Exeter played in Rio in 1904. A 1-1 draw on 24/12/38.
13.   Meadow Lane, Notts County – 1980. A 2-1 win on 23/12/50.
14.   Highbury Arsenal – picture taken in 1913. A 0-0 draw on 26/12/21 – we played in the last ever FA Cup tie at the ground when Arsenal beat us 2-1 in 2006 with Cameron Jerome getting the last goal in that competition there.
15.   Plainmoor, Torquay United – modern day. A 1-0 loss on Christmas Day 1936.
16.   Turf Moor, Burnley – picture from the 20s. A 2-1 defeat on 24/12/27
17.   Southend Greyhound Stadium – unknown. City were beaten 2-1 on 26/12/34 during the short period when Southend United played at the local dog track.
18.   Ashton Gate, Bristol City – pre Second World War. A 2-0 defeat on 25/12/29.
19.   Highfield Road, Coventry – 1912. A 4-1 beating on 25/12/33.
20.   Stamford Bridge, Chelsea – 1950s. A 2-0 loss on 26/12/53.
 
 
 
 
 
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