31st December 2005
Falkirk 1-2 Dunfermline Athletic
This was Falkirk FC’s second season in their new home, the rather unimaginatively named Falkirk Stadium. There were only two proper stands (plus a wee one behind the goal) back in 2005, although a third has since been added in 2009.
Dunfermline went into this match looking up at the rest of the Premier League clubs from the vantage point of the foot of the table, facing a Falkirk side still squirming following a 5-0 whupping at Hearts the previous week.
Falkirk’s leading scorer Darryl Duffy, a real thorn in the visitors’ flesh for the full 90 minutes, rattled the crossbar early on but it was Dunfermline ’s Mark BURCHILL who opened the scoring seconds before the break. Noel HUNT’s headed effort increased the Pars’ lead in the 58th minute, before DUFFY pulled one back 10 minutes later. Falkirk pretty much camped out in the Dunfermline half for the final 20 minutes, but were unable to scratch out a leveller, although the woodwork (OK, I know they are made of metal these days) twice thwarted Bairns’ sub Alan Gow.
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| The approach to the Falkirk Stadium from the north along (perhaps predictably) the Falkirk Road. |
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| Two policemen and one steward - who do you think is paid more to keep an eye on the crowd? |
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| Panorama of the Falkirk Stadium. |
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Falkirk 0-2 Cove Rangers
Milne 54.60
9th April 2022
Is there any truth, as far as you know, in the rumour that the reason one side is left without a stand, is because the area in which it would stand falls within the "blast zone" for the Grangemouth site i.e. no buildings within the radius of the site...whilst the rest of the ground just falls on the other side of the line?
ReplyDeleteHi.
ReplyDeleteAs regards the "blast-zone" theory, I have heard this one before, but it does not really make much sense. For there are hundreds (if not a thousand) residential houses between the refinery and Falkirk FC stadium. Indeed, Grangemouth Stadium itself sits just outside the refinery, and there is a stand there.
I rather think the prime reason for there only being 3 stands, is that old favourite: Finance.
Falkirk's ave. attendance is around half of the current capacity of the ground.
Why build a stand to sit empty.