Plough Lane
Floodlights
tionary check for canine activity
my companion and I scrambled
inside.
We emerged at the back of the
Covered End Terrace, which has
retained its crush barriers and is
in reasonable condition aside
from the waist-high weeds everywhere. A gate in the perimeter
fence leads onto the overgrown
pitch, which lacks focus without
a set of goalposts. Plough Lane
is, in fact, much as it appeared in
1991, when Wimbledon left to
share at Selhurst Park, although
the crush barriers on the East
Terrace have been removed. In
this respect, the ground is a useful benchmark for the progress
in top flight facilities made over the last decade.
We never felt comfortable inside the empty, decaying ground and were as relieved to return to the
busy roads outside as we had been to find the ground still there in the first place. If we'd been
expecting a Secret Garden behind the barriers, it felt more like a Secret Graveyard.
Photographs courtesy of Adrian
Brown and Colin Peel
Groundtastic
page 42
Issue 2