England’s lost grounds

A youngster could once recite all of England’s football grounds without listing a mix of international and obscure commercial brands.

But many of those old stadia disappeared in the move towards modernity and greater capacities around the turn of the millennium. With West Ham’s Upton Park soon to follow, the BBC paid a visit to some of the game’s iconic old landmarks to see what stands on the sites of old glories. We fill in a few blanks to paint a fuller picture of the grounds loved and lost.

Arsenal and Highbury