A couple of their fans chatted to me, and it was a very friendly welcome. Although not really an inner London borough, it has an inner London feel, the ground hemmed in on two sides by terraced houses, and-a bit more unusual-allotments on another side!
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No turnstiles, just a chap selling programmes at the entrance. A nice effort, considering it was a pre-season game against a side from the local Cypriot Sunday League.
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The entrance is in this corner of the ground. From here we can see the open hard standing behind the goal, but we're heading clockwise, in the other direction.
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Open hard standing along this side, apart from the tall stand.
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As we get closer to the stand you can see it's in need of a fair bit of 'TLC'.
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Covered in cracks, but still structurally sound, otherwise it wouldn't be open, presumably.
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Fenced, and bricked, along the front, parts of it either unsafe, or blocked off due to old outbreaks of vandalism, maybe?
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Ugly, but neccessary, breeze block.
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A club sign on the back of the stand, old fire damage clear, which is why it's boarded up?
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Now up in the stand we see the bucket seats, in the club colour.
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From the back row, where I sat & watched a lot of the match, we look over the seats, toward the far end.
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In the other direction we look toward the other goal, with a plenty of car parking space.
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And over the pitch, to the dugouts, across the centre circle.
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Moving along the seats, we see over to the goal, view partly obscured by roof supports & a floodlight pylon.
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Set back behind the stand is the club bar, which is more of a cafeteria really.
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Now down pitchside, we see over to the dugouts.
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And glance back at the stand, from the other side.
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Moving onwards, it's simple hard standing to the corner.
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With more of the same behind the goal.
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A corner flag shot, across the pitch.
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As we're now behind the goal we look back to the stand.
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Behind the goal, from the other corner.
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And down the far side. There's plenty of empty space, as if the ground is surrounded by a big car park. In fact one of their main revenue streams is a large Sunday morning car boot sale.
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From the dugout side we look over to the main stand, as the teams are about to kick off.
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Past the dugouts now, it's the same concrete hard standing.
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Looking back down the touchline.
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A bit of goalmouth action, with the stand as a backdrop.
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Behind the goal, heading toward the entrance where we came in, and there is a small grass bank between car park & pitch. The only raised standing vantage point in the ground.
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Behind this goal we look back down the dugout side.
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As well as a corner flag shot, this time toward the main stand.
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No spectators standing behind the goal, so the keeper gets the ball himself!
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One last look at the stand, from right behind the goal, and we finish our tour of Haringey Borough FC.
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I take my seat up in the stand, as the lights come on, & settle down for the rest of the game.
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This is an easy ground to get to, a very short bus ride from Wood Green tube station. I don't know how much life there is left in the old stand, but I'd suspect not much. Get here before it goes!
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