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Journalist who has visited all 92 football league grounds names the five WORST of the lot
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Published 15:13 1 Apr 2025 GMT+1

Journalist who has visited all 92 football league grounds names the five WORST of the lot

The journalist didn't hold back when assessing the worst grounds in English football.

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A top journalist who has visited every football league ground has brutally revealed the five that he would happily never step foot in again.

Every week, hundreds of thousands of people travel to their football team's home ground to support their side in their latest match.

While some of luckily enough to spend their weekends shouting for a Premier League side playing in a state-of-the-art stadium, others show true commitment by braving the British weather and supporting a team in League Two.

But now, one journalist who has been to every single stadium across the English football leagues has spoken out to reveal the bottom five grounds across the 92.

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In a series of articles for the Daily Mail, Oliver Holt will breakdown each of the 92 football stadiums from the English leagues, and in his first article looking at the very bottom of the list he hasn't held back.

So, here are the five lowest-ranked grounds according to Holt, starting with the best of the worst.

5 - Hillsborough, Sheffield Wednesday

In 88th out of the 92 grounds, Holt listed Hillsborough, as he claimed that the tragic events of the disaster in 1989 that saw 97 Liverpool fans lose their lives casts a shadow over the ground.

He wrote: "It is hard to get past its association with so much death and despair and heartbreak and betrayal of supporters.

"Part of me thinks it should have been demolished and that the club should have moved elsewhere.

"I’ll never feel the same about the stadium as I once did. Visiting it now feels like an intrusion."

4- London Stadium, West Ham United

West Ham United's London Stadium have the misfortune of being the only Premier League ground to make it into the bottom five in 89th.

Holt referred to it as 'a dog’s dinner of a football ground,' and 'a monument to much that is wrong with the top flight of the English game.'

He claimed that the old stadium at Upton Park held much more value to fans and that the club's owners should never have moved.

London Stadium was the only Premier League ground on the list. (Image: Getty)
London Stadium was the only Premier League ground on the list. (Image: Getty)

3- Kassam Stadium, Oxford United

Next on the list was Holt's local ground, the Kassam Stadium, home to Oxford United.

Detailing his experience there, Holt wrote: "The best experience I’ve had at the Kassam Stadium was getting my Covid jab there during the pandemic."

As was the case with West Ham, he criticised the decision to move from the club's previous stadium, but added that the upcoming move to a new stadium in the couple of years time will be a welcome change.

2 - Stadium MK, MK Dons

Perhaps unsurprisingly, Stadium MK found itself in the bottom two of Holt's list.

Brutally, the Mail journalist wrote: "The stadium fits the club. It is a soulless, faceless, gloomy place. More than that, there is something rather forbidding about it.

"Apart from the joys of the local KFC and McDonald’s, there is little to recommend its immediate surrounds."

Stadium MK finished second from bottom on Holt's list. (Image: Getty)
Stadium MK finished second from bottom on Holt's list. (Image: Getty)

1 - The Den, Millwall

Right at the bottom of the list, Holt put Millwall's home, The Den, a ground that he admits he has been banned from following Millwall goalkeeper Liam Roberts' challenge on Crystal Palace’s Jean-Philippe Mateta during the FA Cup.

Holt recalled his experience as a fan 15 years ago as his reasoning for putting The Den right at the bottom, claiming that he felt unsafe at the ground and that he had issues with some of the fans of the club.

Featured Image Credit: Getty

Topics: Football, Millwall, West Ham, Sheffield Wednesday

Ben McCrum
Ben McCrum

Ben is a sports journalist who specialises in football, Formula One and MMA. He has written for publications such as Manchester Evening News, WiganToday, Manchester World and beIN Sports. Throughout his career, he has interviewed top athletes including Gareth Southgate, Luke Littler, Tom Aspinall and Jenson Button.

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