You gotta love this council, went to Graves Park and there's these football pitches marked out on steep hills!! I Love it - only in Sheffield.

Like this? (http://www.shipmentoffail.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/soccer-field-fail.jpg) :D

Ha! That photo reminds me of the pitch I used to play on at Hallam School back in the early 70's, before it was turned into new housing. No such thing as left and right wing, just top and bottom wing :D

Having to defend the shallow end.

I have memories of the pitch and putt course at Bingham Park. Putt uphill towards the hole. Miss. The ball comes to a halt, then rolls back, past where you putted from.

Haha i have great memories of playin football on pitches like this. You prayed you won the Toss so you could shoot downhill in the second half and the other side were too knackered to make it to the top!

These the ones?

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You gotta love this council, went to Graves Park and there's these football pitches marked out on steep hills!! I Love it - only in Sheffield.

our u11's played here the other sunday , we had a uphill stuggle to say the least , but they won !!:hihi:

Some of you must have played on those sloping pitches on Wadsley Common on a cold winters day with the wind blowing.
What about the pitch that used to stand at the side of the Parkway, LHS travelling into town and from memory a pitch situated somewhere near where Crystal Peaks now stands.
Playing on the pitches at Concord Park, the one farthest away from the old changing rooms. When you had finished the game, it was almost dark by the time you had walked back to the changing rooms.

Longley Park had some classics, one in particular with a big dip in the midfield, it was closer to shoot from your own goal line than halfway !!!!:hihi::hihi:

Our school football Pitches were at Castle Dyke-not just the slope but the gales as well. Remember one afternoon we couldn't play-we had to look for some kids contact lens. As if!

Some of you must have played on those sloping pitches on Wadsley Common on a cold winters day with the wind blowing.


Is that the one where the "changing rooms" were kind of allotment sheds, the only water was rainwater in a barrell outside and sheep used to graze at the side of the pitch?

Back to the OP - there isn't exactly a lot of flat land in Sheffield and what there was had largely been built on before football came along. The Wednesday pitch slopes a few feet from Leppings Lane down to Penistone Road.

What about the pitch that used to stand at the side of the Parkway, LHS travelling into town and from memory a pitch situated somewhere near where Crystal Peaks now stands.


Was that the ones in the grounds of Richmond College?

Hagg Lane at Crosspool, slope across the pitch.

Graves Park - school pitch
Castle Dyke - Played there all season at home one year. Unbeaten nobody wanted to play us
Concord Park - There was a pitch which had a mound in the middle, when i was in goal I had to keep jumping up to see if we had scored at the other end.
Stocksbridge & Oughtibridge some slopey ones there
Occupation lane - Dreadful

My own personal favourite Sky Edge, if the ball went behind the goal it took 15 minutes to get it back. It was so windy once that the opposition goalie took several goal kicks in the first five minutes all of which ballooned up and back over for a corner. Our corners then went for goal kicks and the process repeated itself for a few more minutes until the ref abandoned it.

I've seen similar at Bole Hills - kicking up hill in to a gale teams would do a lap of honour if they crossed the halfway line.

Been to and seen quite a few bad pitches and apart from some of those on Concord I played on a pitch(s) which were bad on Wadsley common above where Sheffield Rangers use to have there pitches (Now grown over). The one on the left had a dirty great boulder for the centre spot about a yarddiameter. The other was like playing on the slopes of Snowden. If you kicked up hill you hardley got out of your own penalty area the second it wasa down hill all the way. Hence football is a game of two halves.

Another was a bad one at Dalton (Rotherham) that was on a slope and the bottom side has a culvert behind the goal. Hence if it rained the culvert flooded and the tide laped up behind the goal up to the goal line.

I've seen similar at Bole Hills - kicking up hill in to a gale teams would do a lap of honour if they crossed the halfway line.

Yes, going back to the 60s, the top pitch kicked down sharply from the half-way line and by the bottom goal there was a gulley near the penalty spot. All the grass was worn away and the surface was dust/earth. The bottom goal was about 10ft high (not 8ft) because the ground had become eroded because of the action at the bottom end of the field. I fancy Alonso could easily have scored from half-way from that vantage point!

LoL most of my Sunday football was spent running up and down Graves Park pitch no. 2. It sloped from end to end.
It was blooming horrible, whenever ball went out of play at the top end, it ended up down in the woods, sometimes on to Cobnar road.

I also remember a pitch in Longley park, If you stood on one touch line you couldn't see the goal at the other end of the pitch.



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sheff ield wednesdays pitch actually slopes down towards the Kop, only slightly but its a fact!

sheff ield wednesdays pitch actually slopes down towards the Kop, only slightly but its a fact!

You just beat me to it! Stand on the half-way line and there is a pronounced slope as ANDY says, towards the Kop. A further indication is to follow the concrete at the base of the North Stand and see how it climbs towards the Leppings Lane end.

One of the best 'level' playing pitches was the one belonging to Sheffield Waterworks on Crookes Road - now a part of SUFC. This was often used for S&H semi-finals etc. at the end of a season. This was where Blackpool's Tony Parks (from Frecheville) and his brother once played. Prior to that, it had been a dam but it was levelled off to make a wonderful pitch and other sporting areas.

Is that the one where the "changing rooms" were kind of allotment sheds, the only water was rainwater in a barrell outside and sheep used to graze at the side of the pitch?

Back to the OP - there isn't exactly a lot of flat land in Sheffield and what there was had largely been built on before football came along. The Wednesday pitch slopes a few feet from Leppings Lane down to Penistone Road.

most know that Sheff's hilly but and you wouldn't make a ski slope where its flat, so why mark out football poitches where its hilly? and there's loads flat undevleoped land in Darnall / Attercliffe / Tinsley / Sharrow / Broomhall, there's even a flat football filed in Shirecliffe which is hilly! and they managed a flat airport runway in Tinsley!

most know that Sheff's hilly but and you wouldn't make a ski slope where its flat, so why mark out football poitches where its hilly? and there's loads flat undevleoped land in Darnall / Attercliffe / Tinsley / Sharrow / Broomhall, there's even a flat football filed in Shirecliffe which is hilly! and they managed a flat airport runway in Tinsley!

Yes - but like my post said when the parks, where most footy pitches are, were opened, Darnall / Cliffe etc were either housing or steelworks.