Residents who live alongside Grimsby’s Blundell Park Stadium reveal the media why it is always a nightmare for them.
The 125-year-old stadium, one of the oldest in the football League, brings a lively community spirit with it, but also apparently brings considerable headache for some.
Members of the public who live in the area of the soil report on loud fans, parkchaos and anti -social behavior such as garbage and public urination, especially on match days.
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The 47 -year -old John Findlay, 47, a teacher who has only removed a few meters from the hub for 22 years said that he bought his home when he heard rumors that the second division’s club wanted to move.
According to the Daily Mail, he said: ‘At that time you talked about the construction of a new soil.
“I thought they would sag the ground into a dead end with houses. I thought it was a good investment – but two decades later the stadium was still here.
‘It is a small stadium packed by houses. There is no space for cars, no space for crowds and no space for the police to control what’s going on. They bring people on the street and beat bottles.
‘On a Tuesday evening – a car drove into a group of fans – and others began to piling up and smashed his windows.
“It has always been quite bad, but when they went back the leagues, it got worse.
‘Parking is a pain. Even more on a matchday, but the ground is also used as an event location during the week. So when an event takes place, the club employees try to monopolize the entire street as a parking lot. ‘
Julie Edwards, 72, who has lived next to the ground for half a century: “People say I’m crazy to live next to a football stadium.
“We come a lot of footballs. One even broke my greenhouse, but the club repaired it to be fair.
The language of the players, when they come to the parking lot after a match, can be pretty colorful. In the past, they kept things clean, but not that much anymore.
‘Cigarettes end in the alley, which is not pleasant, and the parking lot is currently a chaos.
‘Matchdays are still difficult if you want to go out in the car – you have to plan it carefully, or it’s a nightmare. We are lucky enough to have an entrance, but parking is still a problem. If people want to visit, we tell them that they shouldn’t come when football is involved.
“You can hear the cheering and for Christmas it is nice because you can hear them sing. The season ended now, so it will be peaceful for a few months. ‘
A nameless resident told how the club’s parking lot is a refuge for anti -social behavior long after the final pipe was blown, and claimed that he had seen drug dealers, prostitutes and young people who had loud music in the parking lot of the players from hours.
He said: “I have no problem with match visitors. It is the people who use the stadium’s parking lot after hours. The club will not set a goal up to prevent people from misusing the parking lot.
“I complained so often in the club, but she just fobs me off. It feels like taking the mick – they spend thousands for the players ‘wages, but will not install a goal.’
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Justine Cox, 54, is now doing it and says and says : ‘This road has about 28 houses. On a match day, scraped people for rooms. It’s a nightmare. But my mother lives on the other side of the street and she loves the hustle and bustle. She is 78 years old and is still happy about it.
»If you can put up with the parking lot every second Saturday and the strange Tuesday evening, it is okay.
“We grew up on these streets, so we got used to it. At that time the club was good and played some big teams.
“I remember when Vinnie Jones knocked on our door and tried to find the owner of a van who blocked the team bus. I was sorry for the Van owner – he was not someone with whom they wanted to put on.
“You don’t have a lot of trouble now, but there were regular battles back then. It is much more civilized these days.
“When my daughter got seven, the fans saw the birthday balloons outside and 70 guys sang her on the street. It was nice. ‘
However, there were some residents who love the Matchday -ATMopsher in the area, with Theresa Malviya, 48, said: “You can sit in the garden and hear all the cheering and mockery. If you score, sometimes the Windows rattles.
“My husband is a season ticket, so let’s just go with it.
“Sometimes people use our trash cans for their garbage, but I would rather see it on the street. And McDonald’s and the Council usually send people to clean up. After a game, there are probably more problems in the city than here.
“It is a community club – people don’t come here to cause problems.”
And Jim Crooks, 82, who has a home, is right next to the Blundell Park, said: “It is no problem to live here. You can occasionally hear the fans through double glazing when you score – but that doesn’t seem to be very often!
“I don’t like football myself, so it’s strange to live next to a stadium. People say I’m crazy, but it doesn’t really bother me, except for the parking lot.
“They didn’t move their car on a match day because they may not find a place if they come back. My solution is simply not going out if a game continues. ‘
What does the club have to say?
A spokesman for Grimsby Town FC announced the Daily Mail: “If possible, the association endeavors to take into account and alleviate the effects of a matchday event on the residents.
‘In view of the logistics of the stadium and the proximity of the living space to the Footprint stadium, this can be difficult.
‘Parking and matchday access is the biggest challenge and as such is regularly increased at the board level in order to discuss the possibilities of alleviating this.
“We work closely with the police and the local authority and recently participated with NELC parking spaces to reduce the number of non -authorized vehicles on the matchdays.
In addition, we have committed matchday employees who delete the trash from the stadium’s external footprint after the game to reduce the flight of the game day.
“We regularly deal with our surrounding residents and, if possible, look for ways to reduce the effects of what we have on them.
“We have a CCTV cover on all of our external parking spaces in which you are accessible to the police if you request it. However, the club has not observed illegal activities in these areas.”
