The First Time Ever I Saw Your Ground: Shrewsbury Town, Gay Meadow and the New One - SAFC Blog

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• GAY MEADOW
• FOTTEN GROUNDS: GAY MEADOW, SHREWSBURY
• GOODBYE GAY MEADOW
• AS MAJOR BRANDS WAVER, GAY WATER AIMS FOR AUTHENTICY
• WHO IS JOSEPH ZIEGLER, THE GAY IRS WHISTLEBLOWER HUNTER BIN PROBE?
• JAGUARS ASSISTANT STRENGTH AND NDNG ACH KEV MAXEN OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY
• 1418 GAY MEADOW LN, GOLIAD, TX 77963
• THE FIRST TIME EVER I SAW YOUR GROUND: SHREWSBURY TOWN, GAY MEADOW AND THE NEW ONE
• GAY MEADOWS, AL HOM FOR SALE & REAL ESTATE
• GAY FURRY HACKERS ARE TARGETG US STAT FOR PASSG ANTI-TRANS LEGISLATN
• SHROPSHIRE STARHOMENEWSSPORTSERVICENTERTAMENTNOTIFITN SETTGSSUBSCRIBE TO ONE OR ALL NOTIFITN SOURC OM THIS ONE PLACE.NEWSLETTERSUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER TO GET THE DAY'S TOP STORI SENT DIRECTLY TO YOU.SIGN ME UPSPORTALL SPORT FOOTBALLGRASSROOTSTELFORD TIGERSRUGBYBOWLSCRICKETBOXGGOLFMORE UK & TERNATNAL SPORTSVIRAL SPORTS NEWSSHREWSBURY TOWN FCSHREWSBURY TOWN FCSHREWS VIEWSSQUADFIXTURDAVE EDWARDS: MUD GLOR MUD! HOW I LOVED SHREWSBURY TOWN'S GAY MEADOW THE WETBY LEWIS COXSHREWSBURY TOWN FCPUBLISHED: FEB 22, 2022LAST UPDATED: FEB 22, 2022COMMENTSA SHREWSBURY TOWN HOME GAME OFF FOR A WATERLOGGED PCH – THAT HAD ME THKG BACK!SUBSCRIBE TO OUR DAILY NEWSLETTER!SIGN UPFLOODG AT THE GAY MEADOW BACK 2000.IT GOT ME REMISCG ABOUT GAM OFF AT THE OLD GAY MEADOW AND JT WHAT THAT PCH WAS LIKE BETWEEN NOVEMBER THROUGH UNTIL FEBARY AND MARCH – WAS AWFUL!AND WOULD GET EVEN WORSE AFTER THAT, BEE HARNED UP AND THERE WAS NO GRASS LEFT ON ! AT THE END OF THE SEASON WOULD BE BARE, BOUNCY AND BOBBLY.I ED TO LOVE THE CHRISTMAS PERD TO JANUARY. I LOOK BACK AND WE’D PICK UP ALL OF OUR POTS THAT TIME. YOU’D SEE PLAYERS TURN UP, THEY’D E TO LOOK AT THE PCH – THOSE WHO DIDN’T WANT TO MS UP THEIR TRAERS – AND THEIR HEARTS WOULD SK.WE KNEW THEN WE HAD THEM, THEY DIDN’T WANT TO BE THERE. WE KNEW HOW TO PLAY THAT PCH AND PLAY PERCENTAG. IT WAS A HUGE, MASSIVE ADVANTAGE. WE MIGHT HAVE BEEN CUT ADRIFT BEFORE THAT PERD AND THEN BE FORTABLY MID-TABLE, WAS THAT MUCH OF A GAME-CHANGER FOR .I’M PRETTY SURE WE HAD CHTER AT HOME. EVERYONE THOUGHT THE GAME WOULD BE OFF, THE RIVER WAS UP. WE HADN’T HEARD ANYTHG SO WENT ALONG AT 1PM, WALKED DOWN THE TUNNEL AND THERE WAS GARY PETERS WH WHAT I N ONLY EXPLA AS THE WORLD’S BIGGT ROLLER – IMAGE ONE SURFACG AN ACTUAL ROAD – WH A HANDLE AND ATTACHED A HUGE PIECE OF SPONGE.GARY WAS ROLLG UP AND DOWN ON HIS OWN, MARCHG EHER WAY, HE’D GET TO THE END AND REMOVE THIS BIG SPONGE, SQUEEZE ALL OF THE NTENTS OUT, AND START AGA. IT WAS QUE A SIGHT. HE WAS THAT SPERATE TO GET THE GAME ON. I REMEMBER THE OFFICIALS SPECTG THE PCH. HE’D BE RIGHT NEXT TO THEM THE WHOLE TIME SAYG “NO, THAT’S FE” AS THEY’RE SQUELCHG THE MUD.WE WON THAT DAY, OBVLY, AND THE OPPOSN WEREN’T HAPPY ABOUT .I EVEN REMEMBER EXPERIENC AS A KID, YOU SEE THE RIVER E UP AND YOU’D WANT TO GO TO THE GROUND TO SEE HOW BAD WAS.IN MY YTS DAYS WE’D BE ON DUTY STACKG SANDBAGS TO KEEP THE DRSG ROOMS CLEAR.THERE WAS NOTHG BETTER THAN G OFF THAT PCH WH A W VERED HEAD TO TOE GAY MEADOW MUD. I ED TO ABSOLUTELY LOVE , WAS BRILLIANT. A DIFFERENT TYPE OF FOOTBALL TO NOW, BUT FANS STILL ENJOYED A TEAR-UP WTER.THERE WERE OTHER BAD PCH AND STADIUMS, DON’T GET ME WRONG, BUT FOR HOW SOFT AND MUDDY WAS THAT TIME OF YEAR, OUR PLACE WAS FORTABLY THE WORST. YOU’D NEED THE LONGT POSSIBLE STUDS, GARY PETERS WOULDN’T HAVE OTHERWISE.THERE WERE PATCH YOU WOULD SK THE MUD – AND I KNOW WAS EVEN WORSE IF YOU GO BACK ANOTHER GENERATN TO THE 70S AND 80S.ANY NEW SIGNGS WE HAD WOULD BE PREPARED FOR . BACK AT THE OLD SUNDORNE TRAG BASE WE’D BE SHUT OUT OF THERE OM OCTOBER OR NOVEMBER BEE THAT WAS WATERLOGGED, SO WE’D BE TRAG DOORS AT SCAT OR WHEREVER.IT WAS STRANGE BEE THE WORST GAM FOR ME PERSONALLY WERE AT THE END OF THE SEASON BEE THE GRASS ULDN’T REVER AS ALL DRIED OUT AND WAS SO HARD!THERE ARE THE CLASSIC PICTUR OF WHEN WOULD ACTUALLY PROPERLY FLOOD, THE GROUNDSMAN AND OTHERS THE RACLE. IT’D E OM THE FAR LEFT RNER AS YOU WALK OUT THE TUNNEL AND ’D CREEP ACROSS THE PCH. IT WAS MENTAL. THERE’D BE A LOT OF GAM OFF – BUT IF THERE WAS ANY CHANCE OF GETTG THEM ON, THEN THEY’D BE ON.ANYWAY, FOCG BACK ON THE HERE AND NOW – ’S A REALLY CCIAL PART OF THE SEASON FOR ALL TEAMS. THIS IS THE TIME WHEN YOU GA MOMENTUM OR SLI THE OTHER WAY.THERE’S EVERYTHG TO PLAY FOR, NO TEAM THE LEAGUE THAT HASN’T REALLY GOT ANYTHG ON THE LE.PORTSMOUTH VIS THE MEADOW TOMORROW AND THEY ARE VERY MUCH THAT TEGORY. I THK THEY’LL BE DISAPPOTED WH THEIR SEASON, BIG THGS WERE EXPECTED, BUT THEY’VE PICKED UP A UPLE OF WS.THEY’RE 11 POTS OUTSI THE PLAY-OFFS BUT WH A LOT OF GAM HAND. THEY WILL KNOW THEY NEED TO EXTEND THIS N AND ARRIVE TONIGHT KNOWG THEY HAVE A RIGHT CHANCE OF PUTTG SOMETHG TOGETHER.I REMEMBER LAST YEAR BEHD CLOSED DOORS, THEY PLAYED OFF THE PARK TO LEAD 2-0 AT HALF-TIME AND WERE VERY IMPRSIVE. THEY STILL HAVE A TOP SQUAD FULL OF QUALY. IT’S TOUGH, BUT TOWN N PICK UP BIG RULTS WHEN THEY NEED TO, HOPEFULLY THEY N GET A GOAL AND TAKE THE GAME TO POMPEY TO GET BACK TO WNG WAYS.SHREWSBURY TOWN FCFOOTBALLSPORTBY LEWIS COXMULTI-MEDIA SPORTS JOURNALISTWT BROMWICH ALBN CORRPONNTMOST READ
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GAY MEADOW

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FOTTEN GROUNDS: GAY MEADOW, SHREWSBURY

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Make your voice heard, click here to wre your own Meadow FactsNobody has add any facts about Gay an tertg fact about Gay Meadow? Subm hereGay Meadow LksNobody has add any Gay Meadow a good webse about Gay Meadow? An entreprenr lnched a nned cktail this week lled “Gay Water” that’s aimed at LGBTQ drkers — and said he’s lookg to palize on Bud Light’s mistak.

But “Gay Water” — which adopts a moniker the gay muny has long given to the simple vodka and soda cktail — has been spired by the dtup to bee even bolr about the dience ’s targetg, founr and CEO Spencer Hodson told The Post.

AS MAJOR BRANDS WAVER, GAY WATER AIMS FOR AUTHENTICY

Gay Water — a nned cktail brand that plays on the gay muny’s lloquialism for the vodka-and-soda mixed drk — lnched on Wednday and promis to unrstand s dience better than Bud Light.Spencer Hodson/Instagram.

WHO IS JOSEPH ZIEGLER, THE GAY IRS WHISTLEBLOWER HUNTER BIN PROBE?

The 30-year-old Hodson said he is g suggtive — albe playful — msagg and imagery Gay Water’s social media and webse, cludg a provotive nod to the 12-ounce n’s 6.1-ch height.

“Our missn is to -stigmatize the word ‘gay’ and start to create reprentatn spac that tradnally don’t have queer-owned products, let alone products wh the word ‘gay’ their tle,” Hodson told The Post. “When was the last time you saw the word gay at a rtrant, bar, liquor store, or grocery store? The word ‘gay’ origally was fed as happy, and we’re hopg to remd folks of that by beg prent,” he add.

Founr Spencer Hodson, a gay man, says the brand is about reclaimg the word “gay” as a word that “jt means happy.”Spencer Hodson/Instagram. Gay Water’s brandg is full of playful, suggtive msagg.

JAGUARS ASSISTANT STRENGTH AND NDNG ACH KEV MAXEN OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY

“Part of the pot of lnchg outsi of Pri month is to rerce the msage that Gay Water is here to make the LGBTQ+ muny more visible 365 days a year, not jt a sgle month,” he said.

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In 1910, after beg told they uld no longer e the army ground the club accepted an offer om Shrewsbury Corporatn to play at a field known as Gay Meadow which had recently bought. The reason for the field beg named Gay Meadow is not clear, wh theori beg was rived om the Welsh word Cae, meang a field, or Old English words galla, barren wet land, or gat, a goat.

After the war further Midland League champnships me 1945 and 1948 which year Gay Meadow staged an amatr ternatnal between England and Wal.

The first ever Football League game at Gay Meadow saw neighbours Wrexham beaten 2-1 on 21 Augt 1950. The attendance of 11, 019 was to rema the largt ever to see a match at Gay Meadow between the two clubs. No further ground improvements took place until the mid-1950s when tre lg the road to Gay Meadow, known as The Narrows, were felled to improve accs and the roof on the Riversi Terrace was extend to the north.

THE FIRST TIME EVER I SAW YOUR GROUND: SHREWSBURY TOWN, GAY MEADOW AND THE NEW ONE

The Imps’ relegatn after ne seasons Divisn Two rulted their send vis to Gay Meadow mid-April 1962 on their way to a further relegatn. In a memorable game agast a si wh the bt fensive rerd the divisn Cy went 2-0 up through wger Dick Krzywick and striker Peter Graham, prerved their lead wh a penalty save by Peter Grotier, then sealed an emphatic w wh late goals om midfielr Dave Smh and Graham’s fellow striker John Ward to rerd their biggt ever w at Gay Meadow.

But after a rerd-breakg 1975/76 season unr Graham Taylor Cy quickly renewed acquatance wh Shrewsbury back the Third Divisn wh a vis to Gay Meadow towards the end of January 1977.

Both clubs fished the 1976/77 season jt above mid-table so Cy were back at Gay Meadow January 1978. Lln eventually fished well clear of relegatn wh Shrewsbury aga mid-table, but when the two clubs met aga at Gay Meadow the followg September, the Imps had ma an even worse start to the season unr Bell than they had unr his precsor the year before.

GAY MEADOWS, AL HOM FOR SALE & REAL ESTATE

A move to a new ground began to be nsired the mid-1980s, when plans were drawn up for a new stadium to the north of the town wh a Sasbury supermarket to be built on the se of Gay Meadow.

GAY FURRY HACKERS ARE TARGETG US STAT FOR PASSG ANTI-TRANS LEGISLATN

Meanwhile, Lln Cy’s next game at Gay Meadow me the group stage of what was then known as the Autoglass Trophy November 1991. Fundg was to e om the sale of Gay Meadow to the uncil who proposed to replace wh a r park. Cy were back at Gay Meadow jt over a year later at the begng of March 1994 and after three feats on the ground were back to wng ways wh a 2-1 srele agast a send-placed Shrewsbury si who had gone 16 league match unbeaten.

SHROPSHIRE STARHOMENEWSSPORTSERVICENTERTAMENTNOTIFITN SETTGSSUBSCRIBE TO ONE OR ALL NOTIFITN SOURC OM THIS ONE PLACE.NEWSLETTERSUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER TO GET THE DAY'S TOP STORI SENT DIRECTLY TO YOU.SIGN ME UPSPORTALL SPORT FOOTBALLGRASSROOTSTELFORD TIGERSRUGBYBOWLSCRICKETBOXGGOLFMORE UK & TERNATNAL SPORTSVIRAL SPORTS NEWSSHREWSBURY TOWN FCSHREWSBURY TOWN FCSHREWS VIEWSSQUADFIXTURDAVE EDWARDS: MUD GLOR MUD! HOW I LOVED SHREWSBURY TOWN'S GAY MEADOW THE WETBY LEWIS COXSHREWSBURY TOWN FCPUBLISHED: FEB 22, 2022LAST UPDATED: FEB 22, 2022COMMENTSA SHREWSBURY TOWN HOME GAME OFF FOR A WATERLOGGED PCH – THAT HAD ME THKG BACK!SUBSCRIBE TO OUR DAILY NEWSLETTER!SIGN UPFLOODG AT THE GAY MEADOW BACK 2000.IT GOT ME REMISCG ABOUT GAM OFF AT THE OLD GAY MEADOW AND JT WHAT THAT PCH WAS LIKE BETWEEN NOVEMBER THROUGH UNTIL FEBARY AND MARCH – WAS AWFUL!AND WOULD GET EVEN WORSE AFTER THAT, BEE HARNED UP AND THERE WAS NO GRASS LEFT ON ! AT THE END OF THE SEASON WOULD BE BARE, BOUNCY AND BOBBLY.I ED TO LOVE THE CHRISTMAS PERD TO JANUARY. I LOOK BACK AND WE’D PICK UP ALL OF OUR POTS THAT TIME. YOU’D SEE PLAYERS TURN UP, THEY’D E TO LOOK AT THE PCH – THOSE WHO DIDN’T WANT TO MS UP THEIR TRAERS – AND THEIR HEARTS WOULD SK.WE KNEW THEN WE HAD THEM, THEY DIDN’T WANT TO BE THERE. WE KNEW HOW TO PLAY THAT PCH AND PLAY PERCENTAG. IT WAS A HUGE, MASSIVE ADVANTAGE. WE MIGHT HAVE BEEN CUT ADRIFT BEFORE THAT PERD AND THEN BE FORTABLY MID-TABLE, WAS THAT MUCH OF A GAME-CHANGER FOR .I’M PRETTY SURE WE HAD CHTER AT HOME. EVERYONE THOUGHT THE GAME WOULD BE OFF, THE RIVER WAS UP. WE HADN’T HEARD ANYTHG SO WENT ALONG AT 1PM, WALKED DOWN THE TUNNEL AND THERE WAS GARY PETERS WH WHAT I N ONLY EXPLA AS THE WORLD’S BIGGT ROLLER – IMAGE ONE SURFACG AN ACTUAL ROAD – WH A HANDLE AND ATTACHED A HUGE PIECE OF SPONGE.GARY WAS ROLLG UP AND DOWN ON HIS OWN, MARCHG EHER WAY, HE’D GET TO THE END AND REMOVE THIS BIG SPONGE, SQUEEZE ALL OF THE NTENTS OUT, AND START AGA. IT WAS QUE A SIGHT. HE WAS THAT SPERATE TO GET THE GAME ON. I REMEMBER THE OFFICIALS SPECTG THE PCH. HE’D BE RIGHT NEXT TO THEM THE WHOLE TIME SAYG “NO, THAT’S FE” AS THEY’RE SQUELCHG THE MUD.WE WON THAT DAY, OBVLY, AND THE OPPOSN WEREN’T HAPPY ABOUT .I EVEN REMEMBER EXPERIENC AS A KID, YOU SEE THE RIVER E UP AND YOU’D WANT TO GO TO THE GROUND TO SEE HOW BAD WAS.IN MY YTS DAYS WE’D BE ON DUTY STACKG SANDBAGS TO KEEP THE DRSG ROOMS CLEAR.THERE WAS NOTHG BETTER THAN G OFF THAT PCH WH A W VERED HEAD TO TOE GAY MEADOW MUD. I ED TO ABSOLUTELY LOVE , WAS BRILLIANT. A DIFFERENT TYPE OF FOOTBALL TO NOW, BUT FANS STILL ENJOYED A TEAR-UP WTER.THERE WERE OTHER BAD PCH AND STADIUMS, DON’T GET ME WRONG, BUT FOR HOW SOFT AND MUDDY WAS THAT TIME OF YEAR, OUR PLACE WAS FORTABLY THE WORST. YOU’D NEED THE LONGT POSSIBLE STUDS, GARY PETERS WOULDN’T HAVE OTHERWISE.THERE WERE PATCH YOU WOULD SK THE MUD – AND I KNOW WAS EVEN WORSE IF YOU GO BACK ANOTHER GENERATN TO THE 70S AND 80S.ANY NEW SIGNGS WE HAD WOULD BE PREPARED FOR . BACK AT THE OLD SUNDORNE TRAG BASE WE’D BE SHUT OUT OF THERE OM OCTOBER OR NOVEMBER BEE THAT WAS WATERLOGGED, SO WE’D BE TRAG DOORS AT SCAT OR WHEREVER.IT WAS STRANGE BEE THE WORST GAM FOR ME PERSONALLY WERE AT THE END OF THE SEASON BEE THE GRASS ULDN’T REVER AS ALL DRIED OUT AND WAS SO HARD!THERE ARE THE CLASSIC PICTUR OF WHEN WOULD ACTUALLY PROPERLY FLOOD, THE GROUNDSMAN AND OTHERS THE RACLE. IT’D E OM THE FAR LEFT RNER AS YOU WALK OUT THE TUNNEL AND ’D CREEP ACROSS THE PCH. IT WAS MENTAL. THERE’D BE A LOT OF GAM OFF – BUT IF THERE WAS ANY CHANCE OF GETTG THEM ON, THEN THEY’D BE ON.ANYWAY, FOCG BACK ON THE HERE AND NOW – ’S A REALLY CCIAL PART OF THE SEASON FOR ALL TEAMS. THIS IS THE TIME WHEN YOU GA MOMENTUM OR SLI THE OTHER WAY.THERE’S EVERYTHG TO PLAY FOR, NO TEAM THE LEAGUE THAT HASN’T REALLY GOT ANYTHG ON THE LE.PORTSMOUTH VIS THE MEADOW TOMORROW AND THEY ARE VERY MUCH THAT TEGORY. I THK THEY’LL BE DISAPPOTED WH THEIR SEASON, BIG THGS WERE EXPECTED, BUT THEY’VE PICKED UP A UPLE OF WS.THEY’RE 11 POTS OUTSI THE PLAY-OFFS BUT WH A LOT OF GAM HAND. THEY WILL KNOW THEY NEED TO EXTEND THIS N AND ARRIVE TONIGHT KNOWG THEY HAVE A RIGHT CHANCE OF PUTTG SOMETHG TOGETHER.I REMEMBER LAST YEAR BEHD CLOSED DOORS, THEY PLAYED OFF THE PARK TO LEAD 2-0 AT HALF-TIME AND WERE VERY IMPRSIVE. THEY STILL HAVE A TOP SQUAD FULL OF QUALY. IT’S TOUGH, BUT TOWN N PICK UP BIG RULTS WHEN THEY NEED TO, HOPEFULLY THEY N GET A GOAL AND TAKE THE GAME TO POMPEY TO GET BACK TO WNG WAYS.SHREWSBURY TOWN FCFOOTBALLSPORTBY LEWIS COXMULTI-MEDIA SPORTS JOURNALISTWT BROMWICH ALBN CORRPONNTMOST READ

Wh Shrewsbury back the third tier and no further proposals for a new ground, plans were ma to revelop Gay Meadow.

However, wh their stay the higher divisn beg the brieft possible the Imps were back at Gay Meadow aga two years later on April Fool’s Day 2000, wh this time a 2-1 victory thanks to another goal om Lee Thorpe and one om Gav Gordon.

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This would have 10, 000 seats wh spe for expansn to over four tim as many, wh the st of to be met by the sale of Gay Meadow to property velopers.

Cy were at Gay Meadow aga October 2000 for their send vis the lendar year wh former assistant Phil Stant now charge of the si. Wh Cy h by fancial troubl durg the summer they were now managed by Keh Alexanr aga and spe puttg somethg of a cut-price squad together almost om scratch they were seventh place, ahead of their hosts on goal difference, when they vised Gay Meadow on the last day of Augt. The two clubs therefore met aga at Gay Meadow on the first day of the 2004/05 season.