Ground
Hyde play their home games at Ewen Fields, which has a capacity of 4,073 across covered five stands: the Main Stand, the Scrattin' Shed, the Tinker's Passage end, the Leigh Street stand and the Walker Lane end. All provide standing spectator accommodation apart from the Main Stand which has seating for 530. The pitch was relaid as Baspograss, then in 1995 reverted back to grass.
The ground held the last non-qualifying FA Cup game on an artificial surface when Hyde faced Darlington in the 1st Round Proper of the 1994–95 FA Cup. Ewen Fields has hosted many sporting teams in the past, with Manchester United Reserves and Stockport County Reserves amongst former users. Ewen Fields has also held fixtures for Oldham Curzon Ladies Football Team.
After Hyde United changed their name and strip in 2010, the colour of the ground was changed from red to blue in 2010, in a change funded by Manchester City Football Club. This came about as a result of the two club's partnership whereby Ewen Fields would also be used by Manchester City's Reserve Team.
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Famous quotes containing the word ground:
“As the farmer casts into the ground the finest ears of his grain, the time will come when we too shall hold nothing back, but shall eagerly convert more than we now possess into means and powers, when we shall be willing to sow the sun and the moon for seeds.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“When the ground was partially bare of snow, and a few warm days had dried its surface somewhat, it was pleasant to compare the first tender signs of the infant year just peeping forth with the stately beauty of the withered vegetation which had withstood the winter ... decent weeds, at least, which widowed Nature wears.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)