![](http://lh6.ggpht.com/_4Tuyez2ROzA/SnMfkoBonxI/AAAAAAAAD9A/SmlX0ARG5Os/s400/PIC_0874.jpg)
As I entered the stadium, having circuited the perimeter from the other side, I wandered through a car park type barrier & was behind the main stand. There was this results board on display.
![](http://lh3.ggpht.com/_4Tuyez2ROzA/SnMk3ObPmJI/AAAAAAAAD_w/EUZMdR-7UXA/s400/PICT0870.jpg)
The obligatory map of the ground, that all major clubs seem to have.
![](http://lh6.ggpht.com/_4Tuyez2ROzA/SnMk88yjjFI/AAAAAAAAD_0/76st3BIJsJM/s400/PICT0871.jpg)
And the sign of naughty things not to bring inside!
![](http://lh5.ggpht.com/_4Tuyez2ROzA/SnMfV2w-KVI/AAAAAAAAD84/A2bwTc9WbJ4/s400/PIC_0872.jpg)
Please don't ask...I have no idea who the players is!
![](http://lh5.ggpht.com/_4Tuyez2ROzA/SnMksHXJRBI/AAAAAAAAD_s/nuL6XDMCPPE/s400/PICT0869.jpg)
Hanging up in the entrance was this team photo, but I didn't see much else, as the security guard looked a bit mean, & was quick in shooing me away!
![](http://lh6.ggpht.com/_4Tuyez2ROzA/SnMfePmOETI/AAAAAAAAD88/hBN_64PUN_o/s400/PIC_0873.jpg)
With crowds of less than a thousand I really can't see the 'H Side' putting much fear into anyone.
![](http://lh6.ggpht.com/_4Tuyez2ROzA/SnMfsLDufII/AAAAAAAAD9E/AJljHQ03wz4/s400/PIC_0875.jpg)
This is the open area behind one of the goals, with a large open car park behind. I wasn't supposed to be withing the hanging perimiter fence, but I dived in one corner, & set off taking pictures, before I could be kicked out.
![](http://lh6.ggpht.com/_4Tuyez2ROzA/SnMfy_NHK1I/AAAAAAAAD9I/koUYjrLni2g/s400/PICT0824.jpg)
I'm going to go in a clockwise 'circle' from this corner & head round. The first stand we see is this one, which appears to be the main one, as the entrance is behind it.
![](http://lh6.ggpht.com/_4Tuyez2ROzA/SnMf7afNBwI/AAAAAAAAD9M/wqTOG6aEoJc/s400/PICT0825.jpg)
It stretches the full length, the weird building down the end is a large indoor sports hall facility. We also see the players tunnel, & also the stand on the other side of the pitch that stretches round from behind the goal & then the full length of the pitch.
![](http://lh4.ggpht.com/_4Tuyez2ROzA/SnMgAFaQquI/AAAAAAAAD9Q/0CLAbBRcMtA/s400/PICT0826.jpg)
Here we get a view of it.
![](http://lh4.ggpht.com/_4Tuyez2ROzA/SnMgEjV2DII/AAAAAAAAD9U/FIDi3pJ08Z8/s400/PICT0827.jpg)
And as it continues along to the end.
![](http://lh5.ggpht.com/_4Tuyez2ROzA/SnMgKbU8pgI/AAAAAAAAD9Y/UZ0vzBhQf5M/s400/PICT0828.jpg)
Now that I've got main photos of all sides I can take my time, & walk round properly, not worried about geting 'caught' and ejected! So I'm back in the corner of the stand where we started, & right by it is this pile of seats & scaffolding from some previous temporary construction. Maybe the empty space behind the goal, who knows?
![](http://lh3.ggpht.com/_4Tuyez2ROzA/SnMgW3n4DsI/AAAAAAAAD9c/dgJbfTm1f4Y/s400/PICT0829.jpg)
Now I'm up in the seats, and we're looking across the stand, toward the sport hall.
![](http://lh5.ggpht.com/_4Tuyez2ROzA/SnMggvzvXWI/AAAAAAAAD9g/VjZi9XVgK2w/s400/PICT0830.jpg)
And from the centre we look over to the other seating.
![](http://lh6.ggpht.com/_4Tuyez2ROzA/SnMgmT71fXI/AAAAAAAAD9o/S2xSIgEkH-Q/s400/PICT0831.jpg)
These are the press seats.
![](http://lh4.ggpht.com/_4Tuyez2ROzA/SnMg2VETgII/AAAAAAAAD9s/-tIe3FNLggg/s400/PICT0832.jpg)
We're now looking down to the dugouts.
![](http://lh5.ggpht.com/_4Tuyez2ROzA/SnMhQSvI1gI/AAAAAAAAD9w/rDOkwk6YQIM/s400/PICT0833.jpg)
Presumably some of these seats, at the back railed off, are for the executive types.
![](http://lh6.ggpht.com/_4Tuyez2ROzA/SnMhY8i_51I/AAAAAAAAD90/WKcDCSJt3gw/s400/PICT0834.jpg)
The dugout just goes on & on!
![](http://lh5.ggpht.com/_4Tuyez2ROzA/SnMhhsLLp7I/AAAAAAAAD94/HV4nm0Vktas/s400/PICT0835.jpg)
Just past it are 'reserved' seats, in the ordinary seats, for the overspill of big international squads, I presume.
![](http://lh6.ggpht.com/_4Tuyez2ROzA/SnMhoFUOPEI/AAAAAAAAD98/-hNVMqp3JEg/s400/PICT0837.jpg)
Through here, sitting to the left, who can't see me, is the intimidating security guard!
![](http://lh6.ggpht.com/_4Tuyez2ROzA/SnMhvp0EbEI/AAAAAAAAD-A/11RvZV__7Zo/s400/PICT0838.jpg)
I have no idea what this organisation is, but as they've left their website on the hoarding, we all do now.
![](http://lh4.ggpht.com/_4Tuyez2ROzA/SnMh2i2OAaI/AAAAAAAAD-E/auAumJy4CQ4/s400/PICT0839.jpg)
Behind the goal, in the corner, on the wall of the sportshall, is the electronic scoreboard.
![](http://lh4.ggpht.com/_4Tuyez2ROzA/SnMiBUz3-mI/AAAAAAAAD-I/GEm9lkogCOo/s400/PICT0840.jpg)
The Skonto website is also advertised.
![](http://lh5.ggpht.com/_4Tuyez2ROzA/SnMiJqrTyeI/AAAAAAAAD-M/0t3zKMVYM0s/s400/PICT0841.jpg)
From this corner we look back down the stand we've just walked along.
![](http://lh5.ggpht.com/_4Tuyez2ROzA/SnMiSaaUxmI/AAAAAAAAD-Q/5yUrlugkD6Y/s400/PICT0842.jpg)
Before we're behind the goal & at the tunnel.
![](http://lh5.ggpht.com/_4Tuyez2ROzA/SnMi5K8JboI/AAAAAAAAD-o/2PYEBHY4jn8/s400/PICT0850.jpg)
The hall really was huge, but in total darkness, so I couldn't get any snaps, but one adjacent room was open, which appeared to be the press room.
![](http://lh5.ggpht.com/_4Tuyez2ROzA/SnMiY1l2I9I/AAAAAAAAD-U/uPk0URCDIpY/s400/PICT0843.jpg)
From up here I could look through the window & across the pitch.
![](http://lh5.ggpht.com/_4Tuyez2ROzA/SnMijMH9NyI/AAAAAAAAD-c/cK_ZTA6fvyA/s400/PICT0846.jpg)
As well as a higher angle along the seats.
![](http://lh3.ggpht.com/_4Tuyez2ROzA/SnMisKJvciI/AAAAAAAAD-g/C62080dPHOE/s400/PICT0847.jpg)
Not the poshest of chairs for the international managers, or have they hidden away comfy leather ones for World Cup ones? ;-)
![](http://lh6.ggpht.com/_4Tuyez2ROzA/SnMixVlBPQI/AAAAAAAAD-k/ZS45SVNPKGg/s400/PICT0848.jpg)
We're now back out of the tunnel, & turning left. This is the section of seating behind the goal.
![](http://lh6.ggpht.com/_4Tuyez2ROzA/SnMjBtrgFHI/AAAAAAAAD-s/egYSMsD9yo0/s400/PICT0851.jpg)
From right behind the goal we look at the stand down the far side.
![](http://lh6.ggpht.com/_4Tuyez2ROzA/SnMjJdz1OLI/AAAAAAAAD-w/Q1ANzhHOdZU/s400/PICT0852.jpg)
And the other one...
![](http://lh6.ggpht.com/_4Tuyez2ROzA/SnMjSwITl5I/AAAAAAAAD-0/IQlvGi8hrsg/s400/PICT0853.jpg)
In this corner are these balconies. I have no idea what they are for.
![](http://lh5.ggpht.com/_4Tuyez2ROzA/SnMjaJRFERI/AAAAAAAAD-4/pZANQwKm2YY/s400/PICT0854.jpg)
Now we're looking down the full length of this stand.
![](http://lh5.ggpht.com/_4Tuyez2ROzA/SnMjiHw1JDI/AAAAAAAAD-8/ydN12aAz_vo/s400/PICT0855.jpg)
Once more, over to the other side.
![](http://lh5.ggpht.com/_4Tuyez2ROzA/SnMjnJ2xzAI/AAAAAAAAD_A/oy1eT2PXtXA/s400/PICT0857.jpg)
Here we look back behind the goal.
![](http://lh4.ggpht.com/_4Tuyez2ROzA/SnMjvlCKVvI/AAAAAAAAD_E/Znrbl6MFnP4/s400/PICT0858.jpg)
Before another similar shot, looking along this stand.
![](http://lh6.ggpht.com/_4Tuyez2ROzA/SnMj3Lz65kI/AAAAAAAAD_I/HGtjtDB6ekM/s400/PICT0859.jpg)
Across the pitch once more...
![](http://lh5.ggpht.com/_4Tuyez2ROzA/SnMj8GctSHI/AAAAAAAAD_M/KjD8KJAQKoI/s400/PICT0860.jpg)
This hoarding caught my eye, for it tells us where Skonto comes from.
![](http://lh5.ggpht.com/_4Tuyez2ROzA/SnMkDSqQ_3I/AAAAAAAAD_Q/jplu-TZb_9w/s400/PICT0861.jpg)
Now at the end of this stand, I climbed up to the back rows, & took a shot back along it...
![](http://lh6.ggpht.com/_4Tuyez2ROzA/SnMkMty4_3I/AAAAAAAAD_Y/XaHGRvf38Wo/s400/PICT0862.jpg)
Opposite....
![](http://lh3.ggpht.com/_4Tuyez2ROzA/SnMkTKJ31BI/AAAAAAAAD_c/Dbkhcm0sJjs/s400/PICT0863.jpg)
And down behind the open goal where we started.
![](http://lh6.ggpht.com/_4Tuyez2ROzA/SnMkZ4wbYuI/AAAAAAAAD_g/DUzgZr0beCw/s400/PICT0866.jpg)
As I was completing my tour a young security guard came over, & after I explained I was English, he tried to explain that I must leave now, as it was private. I has happy to do so & I'd finished our tour of the Skonto Stadium!
![](http://lh4.ggpht.com/_4Tuyez2ROzA/SnMkgjGusoI/AAAAAAAAD_k/RwNqX0yzqHo/s400/PICT0867.jpg)
One last picture, on my way out.
![](http://lh6.ggpht.com/_4Tuyez2ROzA/SnMkmsjMz6I/AAAAAAAAD_o/JKyybRYVkmc/s400/PICT0868.jpg)
![](http://lh6.ggpht.com/_4Tuyez2ROzA/SnMidtFQJjI/AAAAAAAAD-Y/5VLHg85dgkI/s400/PICT0845.jpg)