Hull City's Boothferry Park

Boothferry Park was Hull City's home until 2002, being replaced by the KC Stadium. Despite still standing, the ground has been allowed to rot away and the pictures on this page were taken in May 2007, four years and five months after it's final game.

DATES VISITED THIS GROUND

20/4/2002 - Hull 1 Lincoln City 1

I really wish I had given a damn about going to more away games sooner because it would have meant I could go to Boothferry Park a bit more. Now, I know that first sentence would have confused some people due to it not being the best of grounds, but I liked it despite giving it a relatively low score. I found it very nostalgic. Unfortunatly though, they were due to move to the KC Stadium the next season, so this turned out to be the only visit to this famous ground that I'll ever make.

Now, I'm not going to lie, a lot of Hull fans have a deserved reputation for violence and this trip into the City was no different as loads of little chavs and general other scum kept throwing stuff at the coaches, although pleasently, outside the ground where the fans could easily reach each other, no violence was present which was a very nice suprise. 

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Getting to the ground, you see the away end that famously has a Spar shop built into the back of it. Unsurprisingly that Spar shop shut down after the football club left. Slightly to the left of those are two sets of stairs, one leading to a gate for home fans and one leading to the gate for away fans. I remember thinking that this could be potentially very dangerous. Anyway, getting into the ground, it's was like a throwback really. The ground reminded me a bit of Stamford Bridge before redevelopment.

Infact, at the time I would have recommended you get your food and drink from Spar because the catering within the ground was so incredibly slow. Me and the guys I'd met on the coaches got in the ten person queue at about 2:20, eventually getting served at 3:05....one of the few services that makes Double M catering's efforts at Sincil Bank look efficient.

The away end was a fairly large terracing although the view of the action is quite poor and it's hard to create atmosphere due to their being no roof.

The stand to the left of us was the main Hull stand, the infamous Kempton Stand. A stand that could apparantly scare the pants off the Terminator with it's atmosphere. This stand was alright but no overly thrilling. The stand next to this was a massive stand and resemble's Walsall's end. It is a very large terrace area with a large section of seating above it. Again, not great but could have been worse. The final stand was a dodgy seated area.

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Overall the ground was quite good but was definitely starting to show it's age and it's a good thing Hull moved, although I would have loved to have gone there for more matches.