W/C 13th March 2023

For many years the stadium announcer at Bramall Lane used to open match-day proceedings by welcoming the crowd to the 'oldest professional football stadium' in the world. As it turns out this isn't entirely true, because although professional football has been played there since 1862, they were already kicking a ball about at Field Mill in Mansfield a few months earlier in 1861.

It remains though a very special place though, the only place outside of the Oval to have hosted an FA cup final and the England team for both competitive football and cricket. It welcomed the Women's Euros in 2022, the evangelist Billy Graham in 1985 it became a backdrop to a Bruce Springsteen video when he played live in 1988.

It's the place I saw the Housemartins, met Joe Elliott of Def Leppard and got to see George Best play football.

And if there was ever a building I would wanted to see from a hospital window, to lift my spirits and speed my recovery, then Beautiful Downtown Bramall Lane (#BDBL) would be the one

Stay safe.

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