Tannadice Park is the home of Dundee United F C.

The ground sits between Tannadice and Sandeman Streets.

Main Stand from Tannadice Street (west):-

George Fox and Jim Mclean Fair Play Stands with west stand (lower in profile) between them. From Sandeman Street:-

The George Fox Stand from west:-

The George Fox Stand from east with Eddie Thompson Stand to left:-

Eddie Thompson Stand (and side of George Fox Stand,) from Arklay Street:-

Stadium from Tannadice Street east. Jerry Kerr Stand. Dens Park* in background. Art Deco roofline on Superstore and Ticket Centre to left:-

Jerry Kerr and Eddie Thompson Stands:-

Dens Park from Tannadice Park:-

*The two stadiums are the closest grounds to each other in senior British football. See some of my photos of Dens Park here.

Scottish Cup Fifth Round, The Rock, 6/2/16.

Well it’s another clean sheet and we’re in the hat for the quarter final draw. Plus there ought to be a good portion of gate money for the club from the replay.

Dens Park isn’t far away from Son of the Rock Acres so I’ll doubtless be attending.

Unfortunately St Mirren won today so we dropped a place in the league.

I just hope the Cup doesn’t distract us and detract from our league prospects. Two big away games against teams just above us are coming up.

The Bobby Cox Stand – at Provost Road end:-

Main Stand. Angled bend is quite prominent:-

Bob Shankly Stand. Tannadice Street end:-

Small stand opposite Main Stand. I believe this one is known as the Derry. Note Dundee Law in background on right:-

Sons fans crammed into end part of Main Stand, 3/5/14:-

End of game applause (and Dundee fans’ pitch invasion) 3/5/14:-

SPFL Tier 2, Dens Park, 28/12/13.

To be expected against the league leaders, I suppose – especially when we do not have a good record at Dens. I should have gone;* it’s very travellable for me but my son who lives nearby and would have made a great excuse for a Saturday afternoon trip to Dundee is away on holiday and I couldn’t face the thought of high winds (which were howling about Kirkcaldy this morning.)

Ah well. Given Cowden and Morton both lost not much harm done – except to the goal difference. Our next two games are against those two though and are big ones for us.

*Edited to add:-
Maybe it’s as well I didn’t. We seem to have had the ball over the line at 0-0 but neither the ref nor linesman gave it, even Dundee fans thought it was in apparently. If I’d been at the game I’d have been livid.

That’s the second game against Dundee this season the officials have maybe cost us.

SPFL Tier 2, Stark’s Park, 14/12/13

Not a good day for a game. High wind and driving rain for most of it.

Sons held their own in the first half yielding one chance which the guy blazed against the bar and over, while at the other end ours fell to Colin Nish (two headers wide and one shot right at the keeper) and another header – by whom it was too far away to see – that flashed past the post.

Second half we were on top and they broke away while sub Mitch Megginson and Mark Gilhaney were both on one side of the park and they exploited the space to score.

The sending off might have chaned the game but we got hopelessly out of shape (again!) and got caught three on one on the counter.

Late on Andy Graham played a great forward ball (he was our most incisive player all game – from centre half) to other sub Garry Fleming who swept it across for final sub Steven McDougall to score.

We should have got a draw from this but Raith had three real chances and took two of them. Pity most of ours fell to Colin Nish – whose name would make good rhyming slang. At one point he was unchalleged going for a high ball and still missed it.

Things everywhere did not go well for us. Jordan Kirkpatrick was our best player but was carried off injured in the first half and with all subs committed Chris Turner had to go off too meaning our midfield next week is probably going to look decidedly strange. Then Cowden go and win at Dens! You can’t trust anyone these days.

I’ve now got a very bad feeling about the season. Ian Murray’s going to be tested as a manager from here on in.

I see the Challenge Cup* has us taking on Queen of the South on July 28^th at The Rock. Probably yet another entry in our ignominious record in this competition. Especially so since they were just relegated and we’ve swanned up past them.

*I’m not using the sponsor’s name.

I’ve also perused the League fixture list for the new season on Dumbarton FC’s website.

From this distance, and given we’ve not been at this level for 16 years, it looks, well, intimidating.

We kick off against Dundee at Dens Park.

Well, unless they’re in the SPL by that time in which case we may be playing Govan Zombies. (But let’s not go there. In all senses of the phrase.)