GROUND RULES-DON'T CHANGE THE NAME

I shall be off to the Memorial Ground, home to Penistone Church FC, a club presently ruling the roost in their North Eastern Counties League division looking for another step up the pyramid next season. Civilised name? yes this is acceptable but many new ground names have caused tittering or worse.

The home of BSC Young Boys, Bern is amusingly the Wankdorf Stadium and if you nip across to Denmark to Christian Eriksen's home town, you will be in Middelfart where the local club plays in the Danish Second Division.

Heaven knows what you can buy at the Dick's Sporting Goods Park in Colorado where the local chainstore has invested in the stadium since 1948. (it might be American Football I  might admit).

Bootham Crescent was the home of York City for 82 years, a club which has been through several financial trials over the decades but now maybe the club will be revitalised with investment from Rowntrees and then Nestle, naming their ground, KitKat Cresent.

In Livingston, Scotland the club plays at the Tony Macaroni Stadium, once known as Almondvale. You choose.

Benjamin Molineux a merchant from the Midlands in the 1740s left land for recreation which eventually was acquired by Wolverhampton Wanderers and modernised into a very acceptable venue.

Arnold Schwarzenegger inspired local Austrians in Sturm Graz to name their football ground after him. This has since been renamed the UPC-Arena, so a shorter postal address then.

Shrewsbury Town played at Gay Meadow for most of their history but moved to Greenhouse Meadow up the hill, to get away from the ball being booted into the River Severn, most games. The little man in the Coracle who retrieved the ball has been laid off.

The young lady below is exposing her Hunky Dorys and the "crisp firm" sponsors Drogheda United's Hunky Dorys' Park in Ireland once known as United Park.

And finally, my first senior club was Lewes FC for a few years in the early 1970s and I played in a natural "bowl" called the Dripping Pan. It is still known as that and the Pan was created by local monks who dug the bowl to create a salt plan as the local tide came in upstream. It has natural banking and it would take a huge "'ave it" to get the ball out of the ground.

The main changing rooms and bar are on the left in the "old" pavilion, there is a new stand behind the goal and to the right are beach huts for hire as hospitality...."oh I do like to be beside the seaside"...well tidal river estuary to be geographically correct.