12noon 3 January 2026 Sheffield and Hallamshire County Senior League, Division Two Youdan 1 Elsecar Main 4 (att 12) Sometimes it can be hard to decide whether or not a 'new' football ground really is a new ground. There are groundhoppers who count redeveloped stadiums, such as Wembley, AFC Bournemouth or Gloucester City, as new 'ticks', but I tend not to. On the other hand the Cardiff City Stadium overlaps part of what was the playing area of the demolished Leckwith Stadium, and Spurs' new home may cover a tiny fraction of the former White Hart Lane pitch, and I counted both of those as new. I'd been undecided about the Steel City Stadium in Sheffield, built as part of the Olympic Legacy Park on the site of what was the Don Valley Stadium. I visited Don Valley just once, for a Sheffield FC home game in 1991 when a crowd of less than 200 was lost among 25,000 seats. The stadium was built for that year's World Student Games, but became something of a white e...
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