Grounds Worth The Bus Fare

Gareth Openshaw

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IT bloke by trade, Levenshulme lifer by choice, and I've dragged myself round most of Manchester's sporting venues at one point or another, usually in the rain. This is where I've actually bothered going back to, not just the big two everyone bangs on about. No ranking, no nonsense, just the places that earn the trip across town.

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Grounds Worth The Bus Fare — 4 items
Name	Venue	Sport	Address	City	My take
1Old Trafford	Old Trafford	Football	Sir Matt Busby Way, Old Trafford, Manchester, M16 0RA	Manchester	Theatre of Dreams, apparently. More like theatre of standing in a queue for a pie. Still worth it.
2Etihad Stadium	Etihad Stadium	Football	Etihad Campus, Ashton New Road, Manchester, M11 3FF	Manchester	Soulless concrete bowl that somehow grew a soul. Don't tell the away fans I said that.
3Emirates Old Trafford	Emirates Old Trafford	Cricket	Talbot Road, Stretford, Manchester, M16 0PX	Manchester	Take a cushion and a flask. Five days of cricket tests more than your patience, it tests your spine.
4National Speedway Stadium	National Speedway Stadium	Speedway	Kirkmanshulme Lane, Manchester, M12 4WB	Manchester	Loud, smells of two-stroke, and nobody under sixty seems to mind the noise. I love it.