My friend Drew won’t stand up. I’m like, stand drew, stand! But he won’t. This stadium was named after what I want him to do. Stand, drew! First-Hand Experience: More info about my personal experience at this stadium — I was shocked when I came to St. Andrews for the first time in 2011. It’s amazing! I was in the middle of a tour and had just played a really exciting concert in central Birmingham, and then I came here and it really put the cherry on a great day. What a fantastic, intense, perfectly situated stadium. Intense fans and a really great layout and nice updated facilities. A total palace for BCFC. I think it’s a much more welcoming and homey place than Villa Park, and better even than Hawthorns. It’s not far behind Molineux. The stewards here are really lovely too for that matter. I’ve been to most UK&US stadiums, due to lifelong obsessions with travel, sport & especially footy(soccer to Americans). Born & raised in England, I followed Oxford United(hometown team) to stadia all over the country at away games, and later Liverpool(fave team) around. Every stadium review — like all my reviews — are from first-hand personal experience, usually from several visits. In 2011, I was on music tour in the UK, and visited most stadiums for fun in my spare time. As recently as Fall 2014, when I was«stuck» in UK for 3 months, I went to hundreds yet again while travelling. I have pictures of me at most, which I’ll post later. Also, when back in UK I’ll take more pix, and add more stadia! *** return to regular review *** It’s one of the best stadiums in England actually, which is weird because I don’t really like the team that plays here much but I gave them a good rating as well. There are so many glowing reviews of this stadium but they’re incorrectly listed under the football club, hopefully Unilocal will move them over here at some point soon. Opened in 1906, it hosts 30k rabid fans in England’s second biggest city. By the way, go get a Chicken Madras at Akbar’s and a Mixed Kebab at Lahore on Ladypool Rd. 2 best things in Brum imo. The old St Andrews was pretty typical(like Villa Park is), there’s just one side of the stadium that needs to be properly modernized and made to look like the rest, and then I think it’ll increase to a 5 star stadium, but I’m going to give it 5 anyway. It’s steep and it’s loud and it’s awesome, and right in the heart of Birmingham, and gets full marks from me.
