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Blackburn Rovers FC
Ewood Park
The Ground
The ground is quite impressive, having had three new
large stands built during the 90's. These stands are at both ends and at one
side of the ground. They are of the same height and of roughly similar design, being two
tiered, having a row of executive boxes and similar roofs. The ends are particularly
impressive, both having large lower tiers. The only downside is the
open corners, although there is a superb Sony Jumbotron screen at one corner by the
away end, which shows an excellent pre-match programme and the teams emerging from
dressing rooms and onto the pitch. There is also an electric scoreboard at the Darwen
End of the ground.
The Riverside is the only undeveloped stand,
running down one side of the pitch. This is a
smaller single tiered stand and is
not as pleasing to the eye as its modern counterparts. It also contains a fair number of
supporting pillars and is partly covered (to the rear). Just to highlight how much the
ground has changed, this was at one time the 'best' stand at Ewood Park. One other interesting feature of the ground, is
the fact that the pitch is raised. This means that players have to run up a small incline,
whilst taking throw-ins and corners. Outside the stadium
behind the Blackburn End there is a statue of former club owner Jack Walker.
Future
Developments
There are plans
to re-develop the Riverside Stand, but there are no firm time scales as
to when this is likely to take place. The proposed new stand will increase
the
capacity at Ewood park to around 40,000.
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