latest holker street (the progression solicitors stadium) visits
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mbeeby visited
ashleybarnsley95 visited
Fincham visited
ollylowe10 visited
thompsoncarlisle visited
Ftodg visited
Game watched: Barrow 2-0 AFC Wimbledon
Afcwpete visited
Colsey visited
johnstonellie200 visited
matthew.fleckney visited on 25/10/2022
Game watched: Barrow AFC 1-0 Grimsby Town
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jordavfc visited
Game watched: Barrow 0-5 Villa
Lanney visited
joshperrin visited
Buzza visited
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Markleadon visited
KimboWFC visited
craigburn27 visited on 23/08/2022
Game watched: Barrow 2-2 Lincoln
Another epic journey, this time midweek! Lincoln got a win on Penalties which was nice!
The area needs a lot of investment but what I can say about Barrow is their people are very proud.
The ground is a typical NL/L2 level which makes it different!
Barnacle1977 visited on 20/11/2021
Game watched: Barrow AFC 0-1 Crawley Town
Ph95 visited
JohnH visited
PomPommesei visited on 02/01/2023
Game watched: Barrow Afc 0-0 Rochdale
Maverick617 visited
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Matthewburrell40 visited
chrisjonas visited
dazchap visited
Ziggy visited on 06/08/2022
Game watched: Barrow 3-2 Bradford City
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nmoroney91 visited
andybelf visited on 24/09/2022
Game watched: Barrow 0-2 Leyton Orient
Sherriff18 visited on 16/08/2022
Game watched: Barrow 2-1 Walsall
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Oldgregg86 visited on 06/07/2019
Game watched: Barrow 1-2 Rovers
Ryanyoung visited on 23/04/2022
Game watched: Barrow 1-0 Sutton United
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MostlyMag visited on 15/04/2022
Game watched: Barrow 4-0 Forest Green Rovers
There's no need for the deafening PA, making conversation impossible, in the away seating before the game. Better atmosphere fron the Holker Street terrace now its been roofed.
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RyCUFC visited
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Katiemcfc visited on 09/10/2021
Game watched: Barrow 1-1 Leyton Orient
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speechie visited on 05/03/2022
Game watched: Barrow AFC 1-1 Wallsal
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bluebird1901 visited on 15/12/2021
Game watched: Barrow 2-0 Ipswich
Just one of many games I've seen at Holker street over the course of the last year. Since moving to Barrow, I've fallen in love with this club, it's supporters and its ground. Standing in the Holker Street end is a phenomenal experience, when the crowd get behind the team the atmosphere is electric. A good old-fashioned football ground with bags of character, a little rough around the edges, but so much charm you'll fall in love after your first bite of that steak pie.
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Jarrow Lad visited on 15/08/2009
Game watched: BARROW 0-0 STEVENAGE BOROUGH
Serowka11 visited on 06/07/2019
Game watched: AFC Barrow 1-2 Blackburn Rovers
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Game watched: Barrow 1-2 Bradford City
Wouldn't look out of place in the North West Counties league
Tjross visited on 01/01/2022
Game watched: Barrow 1-2 Bradford
sjbonsor visited on 01/01/2022
Game watched: Barrow AFC 1-2 Bradford City
The most friendly club visited yet, everyone was so kind and welcoming.
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YorkshireIrish visited on 09/10/2021
Game watched: Barrow 1-1 Leyton Orient
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Johnhy visited on 11/12/2021
Game watched: Barrow 2-0 Swindon Town
Raymondo visited on 09/10/2021
Game watched: Barrow 1-1 Leyton orient
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blythe visited on 09/10/2021
Game watched: Barrow 1-1 Orient
Rave visited on 09/10/2021
Game watched: BARROW 1-1 LEYTON ORIENT
thecapt visited on 09/10/2021
Game watched: Barrow 1-1 Leyton Orient
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Steve1959 visited on 24/09/2021
Game watched: Barrow 2-1 Newport County
A game of two halves. Newport certainly had the better of the first half especially the first 20 mins and should have taken their chances and scored more than just a solitary goal. Barrow came into the game towards the end of the half and this continued in the second half where they were by far the dominant team. Barrow scored two goals but could have had more. The match was most entertaining and as mentioned above the score could have been different if Newport had taken their earlier opportunities.
Colin Podge visited on 24/09/2021
Game watched: Barrow 2-1 Newport County
Geordie boy visited on 24/09/2021
Game watched: Barrow 2-1 Newport County
It was a classic game of two half's. With Newport County starting the better of the two teams and it no real surprise when Newport took the lead, this was partly due to a goalkeeping error when the Barrow keeper played the wrong ball at the wrong time and it ended up in the back of his net.
However it was a different story in the second half with Barrow taking the game back to Newport, they in turn made it 1-1 and once Barrow broke even it seemed as if there was to be a winner it would be Barow. Sure enough with about 12 mins to go they made it 2 - 1 on the night and that's how it ended. There was some good play by both teams in spells during the game & some good saves as well. The ref seemed to let one or two fouls slip by unpunished, don't think that would happen in the Premiership.
Dudge visited on 24/09/2021
Game watched: Barrow 2-1 Newport County
KATEMTRUCKER visited on 24/09/2021
Game watched: Barrow 2-1 Newport county
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pb1uk10 visited on 10/09/2021
Game watched: Barrow 2-3 Colchester
Nice little ground with plenty of terracing.
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chaoli13020 visited on 24/08/2021
Game watched: Barrow 0-6 Aston Villa
eborsaint visited on 23/02/2019
Game watched: Barrow 0-0 Ebbsfleet United
NodgeOUFC visited on 10/08/2021
Game watched: Barrow 1-0 Scunthorpe United
davidwatkins visited on 28/08/2021
Game watched: Barrow 1-1 Bristol ROvers
I’d forgotten how good a day out doing a 92 ground could be! I completed the 92 a few years ago but, what with one thing and another (Covid mainly!) I’d let mine slip to 88. The four grounds I needed to add were the new Spurs Stadium, the new Brentford Stadium, Wimbledon’s new Plough Lane and, the one I was tackling today, Barrow.
I was on the train for this one and it didn’t get off to a great start! I was dropped off at Crewe Station and the first thing I saw on the board was “Glasgow 10:51 cancelled”. Terrific! Fortunately the nice lady in the ticket office assured me I could catch the Edinburgh train instead just twenty minutes later and that too stopped at Lancaster where I needed to change for the little Carlisle train that went through Barrow. What a scenic journey that one was!
It took forever as it stopped every few miles at loads of places many of which I’d never heard of. Places like Arnside, Grange over Sands, Kent’s Bank, Kark in Cartmel and Roose. I did think the young lads struggling along with boxes of beers were heading for the football but as they all piled off at Grange over Sands I realised it was the scantily clad girls who also piled off in their dozens that were the pull for them today. There was a lovely looking walkway all around the bay and I made a mental note to come back and explore the area again sometime although I guess it looks better in the sunshine than it will in the dead of winter!
Exiting from the little Barrow railway station it was a right turn onto and down Holker Street, the name most folk know the Barrow ground as and not its current sponsor name; The Dunes Hotel Stadium. A twenty minute walk down between the brick terraced houses of Holker Street, from where you can catch glimpses of the cranes on the waterfront, and soon I could see the little stadium on the left; it looked very old school indeed.
I was on the Ray Wilkie Terracing along one touchline, opposite the main stand, The Brian Arrowsmith Stand. It seemed to me that I was amongst the older fans while the majority of the youngsters were away to my right on the Holker Street Terracing behind the one goal. Between the main stand opposite and the Holker Street End were the away fans and there were plenty of them today.
The pitch was in fantastic shape of course this early in the season and on such a fine sunny day but I did wonder what it was like in the depths of winter up here with a gale blowing across the pitch and the wind and probably snow.
The game was a real helter-skelter affair, a feisty battle between two very physical sides and for half an hour it seemed in the balance. Both sides had one good header apiece well saved by the respective keepers while Rovers probably edged the other half chances. Then, on the half hour all hell broke loose as Barrow skipper Mark Ellis was sent off for an off the ball incident while a full scale brawl involving all twenty outfield players took place in the Barrow area. Referee Ross Joyce didn’t seem strong enough to me to control them but eventually it all calmed down and inevitably Rovers took control.
Rovers took the lead in the 44th minute with a stonking shot from Sam Nicholson that was just too hot to handle for Barrow keeper Paul Farman and it just looped off him over the line. I thought Rovers would then run away with it but incredibly, against the run of play and slightly luckily, Barrow levelled. Substitute George Williams fired goalwards and midfielder Ollie Banks helped the ball past James Belshaw much to the surprise of everyone including himself.
Even more surprisingly Barrow were the more positive side in the second half and were unlucky not to win it but it remained 1 – 1 to the end.
It was an entertaining game though played in a feisty manner between two teams looking to improve on a poor start to their League Two seasons. Bristol are managed these days by Joey Barton while son of former Leeds legend Terry Cooper, Mark, is the boss of Barrow.
All in all this was a great football trip in a lovely part of the country. It was an old school game in an old school stadium and I thoroughly enjoyed it. 89 down, just three to go and they should all get completed this season other things being equal. I should be able to knock Brentford and Spurs off with Leeds while I ought to find a free weekend for a trip to Plough Lane. Here’s to some more like today!
orling visited on 28/08/2021
Game watched: Barrow 1-1 Bristol Rovers
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Magz visited on 14/08/2021
Game watched: barrow afc 3-2 hartlepool united
Webb59 visited on 14/08/2021
Game watched: AFC Barrow 3-2 Hartlepool
League 2
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chrisjwatson visited on 10/08/2021
Game watched: Barrow 1-0 Scunthorpe United