Ground
The Reds have played at Eden Park Avenue since they moved from the council-owned Stanhope Recreation Ground in the 1980. The ground has excellent floodlighting, and improvements to the ground are currently ongoing, with a new car park having recently been opened.
Groundsman Ian Muir won the Football Association's Groundsman of the Year award for the season 2004–05, having produced a pitch which the experts deemed "top class". In 2003 Beckenham were awarded £100,000 by the Football Foundation for ground improvements. In the summer of 2004 a new pitch with improved drainage was laid along with hard standing all round. It was also decided to invest in perimeter fencing around the ground to deter vandals. There are plans in the pipe-line for further improvements. Beckenham's' best home crowd is 1,562, against a Celebrity XI in June 2009.
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Famous quotes containing the word ground:
“The high that proved too high, the heroic for earth too hard,
The passion that left the ground to lose itself in the sky,
Are music sent up to God by the lover and the bard;
Enough that he heard it once; we shall hear it by and by.”
—Robert Browning (1812–1889)
“The thing that made me more and more afraid
Was that we’d ground it sharp and hadn’t known,
And now were only wasting precious blade.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
“Imagine spending four billion years stocking the oceans with seafood, filling the ground with fossil fuels, and drilling the bees in honey production—only to produce a race of bed-wetters!”
—Barbara Ehrenreich (b. 1941)