By Nathan Jackson
July 4 2010

Hull City moved out of Boothferry Park in 2002 and to say it was a bit old-school, would be like describing the Mahut vs Isner tennis match was as "a bit long". It's a ground that I actually quite liked, even though I only ever got the chance to visit the stadium once.

Please note that the pictures in this review were taking in 2007, five years after Hull City had moved out of the stadium, hence why the grass appears to be slightly overgrown.

I really wish I had given a damn about going to more away games sooner because it would have meant I could go to Boothferry Park a bit more. Now, I know that first sentence would have confused some people due to it not being the best of grounds, but I liked it despite giving it a relatively low score. I found it very nostalgic. Unfortunately though, they were due to move to the KC Stadium the next season, so this turned out to be the only visit to this famous ground that I'll ever make.

Now, I'm not going to lie, a lot of Hull fans have a deserved reputation for violence and this trip into the City was no different as loads of little chavs and general other scum kept throwing stuff at the coaches, although pleasently, outside the ground where the fans could easily reach each other, no violence was present which was a very nice suprise.

Getting to the ground, you'd see the away end that famously had a Spar shop built into the back of it. Slightly to the left of those are two sets of stairs, one leading to a gate for home fans and one leading to the gate for away fans. I remember thinking that this could be potentially very dangerous. Anyway, getting into the ground, it's was like a throwback really. The ground reminded me a bit of Stamford Bridge before redevelopment.

The away end is a fairly large terracing although the view of the action is quite poor and it's hard to create atmosphere due to their being no roof. The stand to the left of us was the main Hull stand, the infamous, Kempton Stand. A stand that can apparantly scare the pants off the Terminator with it's atmosphere. This stand was alright but no particully thrilling. The stand next to this was a massive stand and resemble's Walsall's end. It is a very large terrace area with a large section of seating above it. Again, not great but could have been worse. The final stand was a dodgy seated area.

Overall the ground was quite good but was definitely starting to show it's age and it's a good thing Hull moved, although I would have loved to have gone to the Boothferry Park ground for more matches.

Due to these photos being taken in 2007, I am unsure whether the ground still stands, or whether it was finally knocked down several years ago, but if it is still there and you want to take a look, there was a hole in the fence just behind the Kempton Stand (the terrace pictured above). Although the grass height does restrict movement to some extent, you can still move around the ground.

Hull City's Boothferry Park

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sammyimp
05/07/2010 17:41

i have wonderful memories of boothferry park... ive been a few times, my dad went to nearly every home game from when he was 7yrs old until he was about 14yrs old, he went with his dad (my grandad) and his grandad (my great grandad) so many generations go back to that ground... Now my younger cousins go to the new ground & the tradition continues
Hopefully my son will have the same traditions, only this time with the Imps

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Aryan_imp
05/07/2010 18:54

Many a pleasant along with the odd unpleasant visit to BP.

One of the first was the day C&A opened down by the High Bridge, and they were giving loads of paper hats away! Loads of us wore them that afternoon circa 84', but I reckon we lost 0-2 that day .... one of the few defeats I witnessed watching City over the Humber swamp!

I do miss the Imps/Hull derby .... but then again I miss the Donny & Scu^ts ones as well!

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