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It’s rare you step out a football ground to be afforded a fine view of tonight’s dirty dishes in someone’s kitchen sink, but that’s what away fans at Kenilworth Road, Luton, get as they embark down a steep (and rather slippy) staircase.

This is the view out the back of the away end, behind one goal (pitch view here). The tiny, ramshackle ground must be one of the tightest fits in the Football League.

Terraced houses butt up against three of the four sides, as you can see in this Google overhead. The away stand is the one at the top of the ground in that view – if it looks impossible to even enter, it’s because you actually come through a living room-sized tunnel in the ground floor of that terrace of houses, under someone’s first floor.

Last night completed a personal double-header of tiny grounds – last week was Barnet’s Underhill.

And yes, Swindon Town won 1-0, thanks, the first away win I’ve seen in three years. No penalties this week, which was a relief.


COMMENTS / 3 COMMENTS

I’ve actually been to kenilworth road. Its not a pretty stadium.

JohnofScribbleSheet thought this on Feb 01 08 at 10:16 am

What’s up with the pitch markings on the Google Maps link? Does Kenilworth Road have somewhat drunken caretakers?

minifig thought this on Feb 04 08 at 8:17 am

@minifig – lol. I think that shot was taken during the close season, and those are hoses for sprinklers. I live near Selhurst Park in south London, and the shot of that stadium shows the pitch in a similar state of unpreparedness. Wonder if it’s the same batch of shots; the whole of SE England done in one go?

Neil Mc thought this on Feb 04 08 at 1:42 pm

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