East End Park, Dunfermline
Posted in Dumbarton FC, Dunfermline, Scottish Football Grounds at 12:00 on 16 March 2013
Dumbarton are due to play at East End Park, home of Dunfermline Athletic Football Club, on the 23rd, a week today. We last played there on Jan 5th when I took these photos.
The Pars, as they are known, are in financial trouble; so take a good look at these as they may become historical curios.
Yes, there’s a cemetery over the wall from the ground. This is a stitch of two photos to get the whole ground in.
From Halbeath Road.
East Stand. Not used, except for big matches. (Celtic and Rangers, then, or when the Pars play a decider against Raith Rovers. So not often.)
Norrie McCathie Stand (West Stand; at far end.) Named for a former player. Home support.
North Stand. Home support here too. (The cemetery is behind it.)
Main Stand. Away support in foreground, home support in bulk of stand.
Tags: Celtic, Dunfermline Athletic Football Club, East End Park, Raith Rovers, Rangers, the Pars
bigrab
17 March 2013 at 08:00
A testament of course to the complete madness that was/is the SPL. A vanity project gone horribly wrong. 10,000 seater stadia in Airdrie, Maryhill, Kirkcaldy, Livingston, Dunfermline etc which haven’t hosted a capacity crowd amongst them and which are regularly less than a third and typically less than a fifth, full.
I’m sorry for Dunfermline and their fans but they are just a less extreme version of Gretna. Paying too much to chase the impossible dream.
jackdeighton
17 March 2013 at 16:15
Indeed, Rab.
There are too many “bigger” clubs in a similar if not quite so perilous, position