Burnden Park

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• Bolton Wanderers

• FA Cup Final 1901

The Burnden Park was an English football stadium that served as the home ground of Bolton Wanderers during the period 1895-1997.

The about three kilometers away from the city center and Boltoner located in the district of Burden stadium was for a period of 102 years, the sporting home of the football team of Bolton Wanderers. There, the replay in the FA Cup final was in 1901 also held, in which the Tottenham Hotspur won 3-1 against Sheffield United.

On March 9, 1946, there came before kick-off of the return match against Stoke City in the sixth round of the FA Cup to a disaster, see Bolton disaster.

In its heyday, the stadium took up to 70,000 spectators. This number was reduced dramatically in the last 20 years of its persistence, involving in particular the stringent safety regulations were responsible, which turned more and more English football game sites in pure -seater stadiums. In addition, in 1986 parts of the stadium to the supermarket chain normid were sold until 1997 carried on its business there. The followings are mostly found in the areas of Manchester ( Manny ) Road and the Burnden Terrace again. To the right of the Burnden Tribune, the already mentioned supermarket and the ranks found there were so divided that about 75 % of domestic supporters and 25% of respective visiting fans took place, which turned out to be an ideal location for the stimmgewaltigsten Bolton - trailers, could place their chants in close proximity to the counterparty. The club, however, had already decided in 1992 against a reconstruction of the Burnden Park into a seat stadium, so that a quick end to the historic venue was foreseeable.

The last completed in Burnden Park football match took place between Bolton Wanderers and Charlton Athletic in April 1997. After a 0-1 half-time of the already identified as second division champions host the game still turned into a 4-1 win. Here John McGinlay scored the last goal at the stadium, which eventually adopted their own fans with the song " Auld Lang Syne ".

The move decided towards Horwich in a multi-million expensive pure -seater stadium for 28,723 spectators - the Reebok Stadium - took place in 1997, despite major concerns of large parts of followers instead. The Burnden park itself then suffered considerably on its reduced importance, increasingly neglected and had to be reorganized. Today, there is a branch of the supermarket chain ASDA, who had opened there in 2005, a Subway fast food restaurant and a JJB fitness center.

The Burnden Park in the media

The Burnden Park formed part of the backdrop to the film " A Kind of Bliss ", which came in 1962 with the main actors Alan Bates and June Ritchie in the cinemas.