Stadium
The club play at the Camrose, named after their late benefactor, Lord Camrose. The ground did have a capacity of 6,000 (however due to Health and safety regulations the current capacity is somewhere in the region of 3,000) Basingstoke boast a 650-seat main stand. The Camrose record attendance was set In 1997 for a game versus Wycombe Wanderers in the first round of the FA Cup in November 1997. The attendance that night was 5,085.
The club currently has possible plans of building a new stadium but talks are on going
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Famous quotes containing the word stadium:
“In their eyes I have seen
the pin men of madness in marathon trim
race round the track of the stadium pupil.”
—Patricia K. Page (b. 1916)
“It’s no accident that of all the monuments left of the Greco- Roman culture the biggest is the ballpark, the Colosseum, the Yankee Stadium of ancient times.”
—Walter Wellesley (Red)
“The final upshot of thinking is the exercise of volition, and of this thought no longer forms a part; but belief is only a stadium of mental action, an effect upon our nature due to thought, which will influence future thinking.”
—Charles Sanders Peirce (1839–1914)