Talk:Bramall Lane

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The article makes no reference to the fact Bramall Lane is now often referred to as "Beautiful downtown Bramall Lane" - I don't know who is responsible for that name (I think prematch announcer Gary Sinclair started calling it that), but it's become a common nickname.

Online, it tends to be abbreviated to BDTBL. It's a very Sheffield joke in many ways - there's nothing terribly beautiful about the lane, and "downtown" makes it sound like it's in some stylish quarter of Sheffield or something. 83.67.74.208 12:43, 17 April 2006 (UTC)

I've noticed that the official capacity seems to be shown as exactly 33,000 on most sites. I know that the Blades had official total sell outs against Man Utd (32,586) and Man City (32,591). Anyhow in the Shareholders financial report brochure that I saw in December 2006 it states that Bramall Lane currently possess 32,609 seats. So I think it would be more accurate to use this figure. LWeb 26 March 2007

• • The information regarding the capacity is incorrect. Ring SUFC and they will confirm the official capacity is 32,609. The information regarding the link to another web site has incorrect info LW13.3.09**

Added it to the infobox. L.J.Skinner_WOT?|^CONTRIBS 15:23, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

Building Work Photo/s

I removed the photo simply becuase the building work has now been completed, and so, the photo is now out of date, and no longer applicable to the article. Hawksworthm 19:10, 19 August 2006 (UTC)

Failed "good article" nomination

This article failed good article nomination. This is how the article, as of November 30, 2006, compares against the six good article criteria:

1. Well written?: This piece was fairly well written, but clearly a direct cut and paste from EnglishPremier.Net thus violating copyright rules.

2. Factually accurate?: I'm sure it's accurate... but a cut and paste

3. Broad in coverage?: Thorough enough... but a cut and paste

4. Neutral point of view?: A bit biased towards Sheffield United

5. Article stability? Looks stable

6. Images?: Great images

When these issues are addressed, the article can be resubmitted for consideration. Thanks for your work so far. --Jazznutuva 17:28, 30 November 2006 (UTC)

I think that EnglishPremier.Net have copied from Wikipedia, and not the other way round. The article on EP.net is dated 31 July 2006 — long after most of the identical content was in place here. —JeremyA 18:21, 30 November 2006 (UTC)

EP.net is in no way an official website, and it would not surprise me in the slightest if they had indeed X&V from wiki (since wiki is a well-known site). But for this, would the article warrant GA status? OK, maybe a rewrite so it less pro-united (it is difficult to keep NPOV since we are all essentially writing about what we're interested in! I'll have a go anyway). L.J.Skinner_WOT?|^CONTRIBS 21:28, 30 November 2006 (UTC)

I'm not against you resubmitting for someone else's review... it's just what I saw. It is no doubt a well structured article and I applaud you for that. Good luck in the future. Jazznutuva 22:29, 30 November 2006 (UTC)

It's an unattributed mirror which carries copies of several football articles from Wikipedia, and claims its own copyright. I've listed it at WP:MIRROR and emailed a Standard GFDL violation letter to the contact address given by a WHOIS. Oldelpaso 23:02, 30 November 2006 (UTC)

Hey, I submitted for review. see Wikipedia:Good articles/Review#Bramall Lane L.J.Skinner_WOT?|^CONTRIBS 02:11, 4 December 2006 (UTC)

Good Article re-Nomination, February 5th 2007

resubmitted. The only critisism last time was that is was a copy-paste from EnglishPremier.Net, when in fact the reverse is true. L.J.Skinner_WOT?|^CONTRIBS 14:11, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

GA Fail

• Whole sections and paragraphs remain unreferenced.
• References come after punctuation, [1], should be ,[1]
• Remove (sponsored XXX) from all the stands and incorporate it into the section
• Remove, merge or expand the one sentence paragraphs, the ones in Cricket at Bramall Lane can surely be merged together to create a paragraph.
• While additive terms like “also”, “in addition”, “additionally”, “moreover”, and “furthermore” may sometimes be useful, overusing them when they aren't necessary can instead detract from the brilliancy of the article. This article has 15 additive terms, a bit too much.
• The site was then away from the town's industrial site, and relatively free from smoke. 'away' smoke? from a cricket ground to this random sentence
• The word 'the' is overused
• 29 December 1862, this should be December 2, 1862, do this to all dates. All dates with moth, day and year should be wikilinked like above.
• Not GA requirement but categories look nicer in alphabetical order.

The article needs better flow - too much choppy confusing sentences

• The ground has been all seated since 1994, all seated?
• The oldest present stand, present stand?
• Don't wikilink solo years, [[1966]
• The whole The Bramall Lane Stand section is confusing
• Seated since 1991, Seated?
• most boisterous home fans sit WP:OR
• The facilities are of lower quality in the Kop because there is no indoor concourse but in spite of this it is still a firm favourite amongs the fans, and usually full on matchday. Spelling errors and original research

The article needs better wording - the south stand is on bob street on a hill which is connected to the east stand which is where the crazy fans sit. It's currently like this and also add more references. M3tal H3ad 10:40, 16 February 2007 (UTC)

This confused, confusing and ill-written criticism makes the article read like Shakespeare. roundhouse 09:00, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

Bramall Lane outline by df2k2

If anyone finds this useful, I can post it on the article.

File:Sheffield United-Bramall Lane DF2K2.png

Very nice, but I'm not sure it's any better than what we already have, see Image:Bramall Lane football ground - plan.png. Great work though, maybe you'd consider joining WP:SUFC? L.J.Skinner^{wot|I did} 12:44, 24 April 2007 (UTC)

Map

I've added Image:Sheffield outline map with UK.png to the article. Is this relevant? L.J.Skinner^{wot|I did} 21:38, 24 April 2007 (UTC)

Oldest international ground

The oldest international football ground in the world is in fact the Racecourse Ground in Wrexham, which hosted the first internation match outside Glasgow or London, Wales v Scotland, on 5th March 1877. The Racecourse Ground is still an international venue to this day, and will host it's 92nd international match, Wales v New Zealand, on 26th May 2007. 81.153.11.46 22:48, 27 April 2007 (UTC)

military use

i once read bramall lane was used as a training ground in world war oneBouse23 (talk) 20:38, 28 November 2007 (UTC)

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athletics

Sheffield Football Club hosted an annual athletics meeting on the Bramall Lane ground from 1858. from 1863 another club, Norfolk Football Club (named after Duke of Norfolk who owned the ground, not Norfolk the county) also hosted athletics at Bramall Lane. in 1870 these two events were held on the 4th and 11th of April, respectively. see, for example, Sheffield Daily Telegraph, Tue 29 Mar 1870 page 1 where you can find adverts for these two events.Cottonshirtτ 05:52, 23 March 2023 (UTC)