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Mansfield Floodlights Field Mill in the 21st Century A pictorial report on the modernisation of Mansfield At the start of the 2000-01 season Mansfield Town had the dubious honour of having the lowest capacity in the Football League - just 4,500. In fact they didn’t play their first home games at Field Mill, instead utilising Notts. County’s Meadow Lane and re-arranging matches to their opponents grounds. Since then work has progressed steadily on the rebuilding of one of the few remaining ‘old grounds’ in the League. Here we take a look at the old and the new of Field Mill. The 1930’s West Stand (above) has been replaced with a modern two-tier stand featuring (eventually) Executive Boxes and other club facilities. Groundtastic page 44 Issue 23