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Okay, here it is: my nemesis: the Abbey Stadium. This is the one which I'm least confident in being ...
Okay, here it is: my nemesis: the Abbey Stadium. This is the one which I'm least confident in being able to touch. From what I've seen, it's completely surrounded by a fence except for possibly on the South side, where to reach it would require wading across a stream and then through some private allotments.

The first game here was in 1932. The capacity is 8127. Unusually, the record attendance, 14000, was for a friendly match: a game against Chelsea in 1970 to show off the new floodlights.

I actually ended up watching a match from here on the television a few months ago, when fourth division Cambridge United got to play against top division Manchester United in an FA Cup match.


UTC Time: 18:38, Wednesday 26 August 2015
Local Time: 19:38, Wednesday 26 August 2015
Estimate of longitude: 0° 9' 15.44" E = 0.154290°
Estimate of latitude: 52° 12' 48.49" N = 52.213470°
Possible error on position estimate: 50 metres