Had an absolute cracker of a day today today, visited Old Trafford, the home ground of Manchester United. The stadium is absolutely amazing. Id say it would be really intimidating for any team to play there as of the total capacity of 70,000 or so, just over 3,000 tickets are sold to away fans.
The tour makes it way into the Director's Chairs in the main stand, around to the away supporters corner, out to the back of the staduim where they have a memorial set up to honour the players who were killed in an air crash in 1958. Half of their team and their coach were killed and remarkably, still found great success in the years that followed.
The museum at the stadium was great too, their trophy room was very impressive, they also had a separate room which was dedicated to their Treble which they attained in 1998/99. All three trophies as a centre piece stood very proudly surrounded by players shirts, commentators notes, photos and other memorabilia.
One of the coolest things was seeing the 2010/11 Premiership trophy.
After taking loads of photos, we went down to one of the sports bars in town grabbed a feed and watched the Manchester City game against Bolton, it was a very exciting game, i was hoping Bolton would somehow grab the draw, but time beat them in the end.
Seeing the stadium empty today was an incredible sight, i can't wait until next Sunday and i can see it at capacity during the Manchester United and Arsenal match, will be one of the highlights of my whole trip!
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