Britain's BEST STADIUM you've NEVER seen!
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- čas přidán 25. 10. 2022
- I visited the home of Cefn Druids in northern Wales! "The Rock" as their football stadium is known has to be the most unique stadium within Britain!!!
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What's cooler... Cefn Druids or Braga???
Braga, Portugal?
Dumbarton!
@@Sandwich13455 what other Braga’s are there?
Both but I choose Cefn Druids,good friend Sam!!!🏋♂️
I’ve been to Cefn Druids
Brilliant shoutout to sgorio, they’re unbelievably underrated for coverage of the welsh game, they’re wonderful and need all the praise possible
Lovely to see you covering Welsh football! Hope you enjoy our beautiful country! 🏴
@@M____1878 Wdym?
Soon be called Pakistan,they are taking over the south , Cardiff,Swansea .
Come on Wales,you Welsh need to start shouting out loud about how great Wales is.I'm English(Manchester) but admire how you punch well above your weight.lets just mention Gareth Bale for starters...love from England.
I was on the Llangollen canal in September! ! Turned around in Trevor, the village just west of Cefn-mawr. I could have walked there! I live in California so doubt I’ll get back. But thanks for showing me something else outstanding about that wonderful area of Wales. Long live lower league football!
Llangollen is my hometown...hope you enjoyed your time here
Played there as a teen just after it was created from an old scrap yard that was cleared. the old iron bridge was a route to school. They built a tesco store on the old Cefn druids pitch,
That is not only a great looking ground , but so clean too, a lot of pride with the man taking you around , you can see he loved showing you the ground.. love the brick dug outs too ...
This guy can't stop giving us W vids
W comment right there. Thank you!!!
Played here with the Irish U18s v Wales 4 years back. The hospitality from the club was second to none. Serious playing service and the surrounds create a banging atmosphere
What a lovely setting for a stadium! Up until the 1930s Norwich City's ground was an old quarry known as the Nest. The club had to move to Carrow Road because the Nest was deemed unsafe. I really enjoy these videos because they show there's far more to football than the PL, Champions League etc.
I will always remember when they were sponsored by NEWI ( a local college I think ) - Saturday evenings the booming voice of James Alexander Gordon on the radio saying " NEWI Cefn Druids 2 Airbus nilllll " - great memories
We played a Rugby League game there 5 or 6 years ago against North Wales Crusaders. It's a cracking little ground - and that rock-face is a great feature.
Great video, and a great ground. Might try and get over from Dublin for a game. If I climb up Howth Head on a clear day, I can see Wales, so no excuses for not going. If the Welsh FA followed the Irish model and switched to a Feb/ Oct season, crowds would increase considerably, and European results would see Welsh clubs knocking on the door of the European group stages because most of their European opponents would still be in pre-season. A quarter of a million, give or take, for getting through every qualifying round, and Shamrock Rovers over here will be getting the best part of five mill for qualifying for the Europa Conference. Good luck to Wales in the World Cup, Ireland has officially adopted you :)
@The Hanging Torch of Darkness sure can from different parts 😁
,,,,,,,,and you can see the Wicklow Mountains from Holyhead Mountain on your way back from the Rock!
@@eileannach4350 You can see Wicklow Mountains from top of Wyddfa/Snowdon on a clear day.
Have a strange urge to go to North Wales 🤣. Superb video as usual Sam
@@matboyd2444 The bloke didn't even know what a druid is
I had a workshop here a few years ago it was one of the nicest places I've ever worked. Proper local people doing what they love best. I hope they can get back into the Welsh premium again
Wonderful countryside. Brilliant name for a football club!👏And a really good looking ground.
I have seen it many times. I am an Ipswich fan living near Chester but l have a soft spot for the Druids notwithstanding last years dreadful season. When l go l get the feeling l am the only person who doesn’t know everyone else. But it’s really friendly and a pleasure to visit
loved that you’re starting to cover Welsh teams. I went to an Aberystwyth Town game while on holiday there and it was lovely and welcoming there I’ve followed them ever since
This channel continues to raise the bar, what a video to watch on my lunch break 😂😂😂💪🏻💪🏻
What a great little club, seems to be really well run by a passionate man and i'm sure his staff share that passion, next time i'm able i'll be coming up to watch a game
Watched them last year, not very good on pitch atm
Thanks Sam your videos get better and better. What a nice well run little club. It’s nice to see some Welsh grounds as we don’t tend to hear about the teams in the Welsh leagues.
can't lie druids are the complete opposite of a well run club
@@BakedPenguin77 you obviously know more than me so I can’t really comment properly, but the Chairman talked it up and it looked a tidy little ground. These videos are so good seeing less popular clubs with long histories.
@@matboyd2444 ummm.... nice paragraph 😂
Excellent video and the enthusiasm from both you and the club is refreshing. Definitely worth a visit.
Stumbled across one of your videos a couple months ago, absolutely love your channel mate. Greetings from the Netherlands (Feyenoord fan)!
Another great video and I love ur historical take on these stadiums.
Been to watch AFC Liverpool in a pre season friendly game here, I remember seeing graffiti on the rock face and thinking how have they got there to do it!!.
Enjoyed my trip there and they are a very welcoming club, well worth a visit.
Wow!!!This is an extremely so fantastic stadium to visit and they are one of my favourite respective footballing clubs daily and ever in this world and other planets,good friends!!!:-D
Thank you for showing this beautiful stadium in Wales 🏴 warm regards from Ukraine 🇺🇦 🤝 🇬🇧
Russia owns all of the place once known as ookraine.
@@robertjarman4261 if you look at a live map of Ukraine Russia isn’t doing too well
@@robertjarman4261 what is your point?
@@idontknow8935 really 😂
@@robertjarman4261 Are you russian?
Great little video, for which many thanks. The channel Sgorio is pronounced with short 'o's, like the o on of, not the o in only. The accent, it being a Welsh word, is on the first o. The place where you are, Cefn, is pronounced as if the f was a v, and literally means The Back or the rear side, presumably referring to the village's inferior geographic position or historic status in comparison with a more important place nearby. Football in Welsh is pêl droed (ball for the foot) btw.
Brilliant video as always Sam! Should definitely try get over and get to the Glentoran vs Larne top of the table clash on Friday night if you can, Get to see the mighty Inver Reds maintain their undefeated start to the league 😉🔴⚪️
Wow what a fantastic video and awesome scenery!! Well done mate, I might have to pay that a visit ⚽️
Love your videos. Right up my street. So well put together. Thank you.
Thank you 🙌🏼🙌🏼
Great video, how does this channel not have waaay more subs, yet... very enjoyable. Thank you
Class video as always
Thanks James x2!
Your content just gets better & better Sam 👏👏👏👏👏👏
Been this stadium with my lad loads when he’s playing football but this stadium 🏟 is amazing when you shout and your voice reflects off the rock face 💙
Great vid as always, should’ve asked him about Cefn Albion 😁
Love these small clubs and small stadiums. Great work.
Glad this snuck into my recommended. Awesome video
Great stadium.Great video as always.
Chairman seems amazing, nice to have someone running a club who cares for the club, place, fans and community
Great video as always. You should check out Cardiff City Stadium and the old ninian gates with the Jock Stein memorial and the penalty spot in the housing estate opposite. Or the millenium stadium with the old Cardiff Arms Park still part of the stadium
Loved the map, visual help for us 🇨🇦. Great video, helps make a map of my own and places to go and visit.
Check out Merthyr Town FC, welsh club playing in the 7th tier of English football, rivalry with Hereford and European history with a win against Atalanta in the European cup in the 80s
You're a natural on camera pal, such a nice, friendly & enthusiastic persona - a major TV company should sign you up #SkySports maybe?? Great informative channel (subbed) Cheers
Thanks for another great video Sam
Thanks for the video's I live between Wrexham and Cefn hope you enjoyed your visit 👍
great video as always I really enjoy them big fan from Denmark.
Great vid! Lovely little ground with a great heritage. They are also great at developing talented local kids!
For info, in Welsh the letter V doesn't exist. The letter F is pronounced as a V and the FF is pronounced as an F.
I’m loving all this content, their is so much interesting stuff out there that you don’t here about
My parents live about ½ mile away and I never knew this stadium existed, thank you for the video 😄
Great content, wasn't aware of this stadium before.
A great video, really well made.
My lad played a friendly there about 4/5 years back. Thought it was a remarkable place then. Thanks for the reminder. It didn't have a 4g pitch back then..
You are great mate👍🏻 love from denmark🇩🇰
Love this! Very different.
Another brilliant video
What you are doing is amazing and even my dream. Keep going
Thanks so much for the support. Got loads more to come!!!
Been planning to go here groundhopping for ages. Can't wait to go
Liverpool council used the stone from the quarry in cefn druids to build the city hall
Me a Welsh was dying when you tried to pronounce sgorio but we'll done for trying 🤣👍
Fabulous my brother 💙👌🏻⚽
I am a true Motherwell supporter and I am truly sorry about the reception that you got at Motherwell , I love your videos and the fans at fir park who gave you shit are not true Motherwell fans , thanks for all your great vlogs , good luck and keep your vlogs coming 👍🙏🏼.
Great video
Well done 👏
Funny timings as my best friend just got a job as head off at Cefn Druids new head off coaching. I'll probably get to see the Stadium in person soon enough
What a lovely setting.
what a tidy ground, loving the rock garden 😉 😜 . . 👍
Off to north wales next Friday, will definitely be giving cefn druids a visit
Very cool mate,Wrexham video coming soon?(edit) just seen u have a Wrexham video love it keep it up mate ❤
Hi Sam, you should check HNK Rijeka in Croatia if you love these type of stadium
Never been despite living nearby, will check it out sometime.
Have you considered Canvey Island's below sea level ground for a visit?
Have you been to Nanpean Rovers ground in Cornwall. Also very quirky and in a hollow. I went there a couple of times in the 1960s
You should go to Merthyr Town FC: the unknown 5th welsh team that play in the English pyramid
The analytics room looked cool!
Wasn’t the reason that druids left no written accounts that their culture was one based around an oral tradition, singing and poems?
Woow amazing Stadium, i love this stadium 😍😍😍
The club is bankrupt
always weird being a local to these areas and seeing places you take your dog for a walk regularly. start of the video is about 2 minutes down the union canal from pentre heading towards fron. would've parked next to the guy who lives in a ford transit by the water edge
Great watching these weird and wonderful football grounds mate be nice if you can get back and see them play keep the videos coming there fantastic
Also to add, only cymru premier (welsh top flight) highlights are shown, sometimes but very rarely that tier 2 and women's (including Cardiff, Swansea and wrexham) sides highlights are shown but even then its only 1 match
If I remember right, the Celts never left records because their culture and historical stories were spoken, not written.
Beautiful stadium
Cefn is Welsh for back, so the club's name literally translates to "Druids back".
No idea what relevance that may or may not have to how the club got that name.
A simpler one along the same lines is a team based in a town near Blackwood in South Wales, called Cefn Fforest, which translates to "Back (of) Forest" because the village is situated (you'll never guess this)..... Behind a forest 😂.
Cefn Mawr translates to Big Ridge.
Another welsh club you could cover is Ammanford, Lee Trundle plays for them and they’re in second tier of welsh football
that stadium looks fantastic
Love it.
He should be on a major network channel good job👍
Heaton Stannington, was a quarry back in the day it was filled in and the pitch/ground is now on top of it.
This was pretty cool.
The bridge you went under. To leave the stadium. Leads to a big playing field and my house :)
You should go to Iodine Park, Millhead, Lancs to complete the set!!
That's a cracking clubhouse
Bangor City be worth visiting. Biggest non league club in North Wales. Once played Atletico Madrid in European competition after winning the Welsh Cup.
They've had financial problems,but they are the biggest of all Welsh non league clubs support wise. Big derby rivals with Caernarfon Town.
@Gareth Davies Bangor 1876 are the breakaway club they are seen really now as Bangor City by many.
Fideo ffantastig!
Why don't you come to Saltaire, West Yorkshire. We have a stadium here that is ranked among the annuals of footballing history.
It was here at Salts Sports Association ground (aka The Sewage Works Ground) that the mighty Barnstoneworth United played. Made lagendary by Michael Palin and Terry Jones in their 1979 sports documentary Golden Gordon. The ground is still there, the stand is still there.
A citadel to football.
Love the videos, if you get a chance give Merthyr Town a try, supporters run club, amazing history, ex football league and played Atalanta in Europe.
Braga, my team, my city, our stadium ❤️🇵🇹
Been there watching Celtic crusaders, a great little stadium.
Go to the Hollingsworth group stadium at airbus uk Broughton where the runway is just beg the pitch
Is that Des Williams who used to play for and manage Club 81 and Hartwell in Northants? Made me run through brick walls as a player, great if so!
No team plays there anymore but you have to visit. Fochriw Welfare Ground. Absolute belter of a ground