{"id":2415,"date":"2012-11-08T12:00:53","date_gmt":"2012-11-08T11:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.archiefheesakker.nl\/?p=2415"},"modified":"2019-01-29T22:56:01","modified_gmt":"2019-01-29T21:56:01","slug":"fields-of-dreams-grounds-that-football-forgot-but-the-fans-never-will","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.archiefheesakker.nl\/?p=2415","title":{"rendered":"Fields of Dreams &#8211; Grounds That Football Forgot But the Fans Never Will"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail\" src=\"http:\/\/www.archiefheesakker.nl\/CMS\/images\/boeken\/Stadions\/ArnotFieldsOfDreams.jpg\" alt=\"Chris Arnot - Fields of dreams\" width=\"250\" height=\"344\" \/><\/p>\n<p>door Chris Arnot, 2012<\/p>\n<p>Football is big business. Everybody knows that. Football is also show business &#8211; increasingly so as the Premier League clubs offer big money to lure big-time players from around the globe. But the loyalty of long-term fans was nurtured on crumbling terraces and in rickety stands that reared up from red-brick streets. Fans put up with discomfort, questionable safety standards, verbal and sometimes physical threats, watery Bovril and primitive toilets. Why? For the camaraderie forged by a common cause; the moments of magic that transform a humdrum Saturday afternoon or a chilly, floodlit evening; the unlikely victories against seemingly impregnable opponents; the chance to say &#8220;I was there&#8221;.Fields of Dreams is a book that goes in search of those moments, those memories from Maine Road and Highbury, the Baseball Ground and the Goldstone Ground, the Dell and the Den and many more. Chris Arnot travels from the south coast to Wearside, from Cardiff Bay to the Humber Estuary to tease out the tales of 25 grounds that football forgot but the fans never have and never will.<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - http:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-small.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top:5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"small\";var hupso_twitter_via = \"archiefhees\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_twitter_via=\"archiefhees\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Fields of Dreams - Grounds That Football Forgot But the Fans Never Will\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>door Chris Arnot, 2012 Football is big business. Everybody knows that. Football is also show business &#8211; increasingly so as the Premier League clubs offer big money to lure big-time players from around the globe. But the loyalty of long-term fans was nurtured on crumbling terraces and in rickety stands that reared up from red-brick streets. Fans put up with discomfort, questionable safety standards, verbal and sometimes physical threats, watery Bovril and primitive toilets. Why? For the camaraderie forged by a common cause; the moments of magic that transform a humdrum Saturday afternoon or a chilly, floodlit evening; the unlikely&#8230;<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - http:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-small.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top:5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"small\";var hupso_twitter_via = \"archiefhees\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_twitter_via=\"archiefhees\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Fields of Dreams - Grounds That Football Forgot But the Fans Never Will\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1307,1462,1104],"tags":[1476,1483,1475,922],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.archiefheesakker.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2415"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.archiefheesakker.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.archiefheesakker.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.archiefheesakker.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.archiefheesakker.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2415"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.archiefheesakker.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2416,"href":"https:\/\/www.archiefheesakker.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2415\/revisions\/2416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.archiefheesakker.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.archiefheesakker.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.archiefheesakker.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}