Hague Ave is a stadium in The Hague, which is where they hold human rights trials and have a sort of world court, and stuff. You know what they say. Haigers gonna haig. Players gonna play.
First-Hand Experience: More info about my personal experience at this stadium - I've seen only one game here in 2007 and it was a wonderful experience. These fans are so intense.
I've been to most UK & US stadiums, due to lifelong obsessions with travel, sport & especially footy (soccer to Americans). Born & raised in England, I followed Oxford United (hometown team) to stadia all over the country at away games, and later Liverpool (fave team) around. Every stadium review - like all my reviews - are from first-hand personal experience, usually from several visits. In 2011, I was on music tour in the UK, and visited most stadiums for fun in my spare time. As recently as Fall 2014, when I was "stuck" in UK for 3 months, I went to hundreds yet again while travelling. I have pictures of me at most, which I'll post later. Also, when back in UK I'll take more pix, and add more stadia!
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Players certainly do play at this 6k seat stadium which is in Southport, a lovely seaside resort just north of Liverpool which is filled with Liverpudlians, aka Scousers. It has a beach just south of it named Ainsdale which is where you can drive cars right on the sand, and lots of kids learn to drive (and is where I learned to drive in my Dad's old worn out used brown (ew, brown) BMW).
Southport play in yellow and were founded in 1881. I always support seaside teams because well, it's by the seaside, especially if they play in nice colors like Southport do. They're one of very few teams in Merseyside (or rather on Merseyside), the others being Runcorn, Everton, and um, the best team in the universe. LFC.
It's a nice stadium right next to people's houses (always the best way) and it has yellow in the stands to complement the sexy kits of the players.
Liverpool girls are up there with the prettiest in the UK so you can usually see a few of them with their unfortunate-looking boyfriends in the stands. I think most boys look unfortunate, but then that's my opinion.
One of the stands is called "Blowick" but is affectionately known as "Blowquick" because of what usually happens there when the football is boring. The wind whips off the Irish sea and batters Southport and this stadium too. Hence the name "Blowick" as in "the wind is Blowick in from Ireland." It used to be known as Ash Lane and opened in 1905.
If the stadium were right by the sea it would score a 5. read more