Lysaght's bought a disused ironworks in Wolverhampton and later transferred people and machinery to Newport. The works football team was the foundation of Newport County. Later on, Lysaght's opened its first steelworks at Scunthorpe and Scunthorpe steel was shipped to the rolling mills in...
As for the other stadiums, I agree with those who think it is a subjective matter. These types of lists are mostly crap, which BTW aptly describes our ground. However, we do own it 100% with the surrounding land.
I'm an Old Show Ground supporter and never got use to playing at Glanford Park or...
Only been to Newport's old ground (Somerton Park), so cannot comment. For those of you interested in football history, the link between Scunny (The Iron) and Newport County (The Ironsides) is the Lysaght's company, who had Orb works in Newport before opening their steel works in Scunthorpe. In...
Decent first half performance from us and 3 well taken goals. Second half was back to our normal state, very poor. Cobblers'defence was awful.
Red card looked harsh, but then it was Trevor Kettle reffing.
We showed some effort and fight and probably deserved a point. In the first half Vaughan and Donaldson should have scored, particularly the latter. His headed miss was spectacular. Ward could have scored a second for us, but chances were few. Lund's challenge was ridiculous and a definite red...