The Tim Traveller has been travelling again, this time looking for “Football’s Oldest Stadium”. And the way he has phrased that (as he notes early on in the video below) is very important.
This offering appealed to me even more than most of his stuff, given that it was about football, there were honorary mentions for Beautiful Downtown Bramall Lane and Sandygate, and not least because of the repeated Channel Four Football Italia references throughout.
In case you don’t have time to watch (but please do find time), “Football’s Oldest Stadium” might well be the Arena Civica Gianni Brera in Milan, which was built for King Napoleon (yes, him. Watch the video.) and opened in 1807.
Whereas the oldest football stadium remains Sandygate.
And the oldest League football stadium remains Beautiful Downtown Bramall Lane.