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Tuesday, November 27, 2012

Portman Road A Year Round Sports And Live Show Location

By Rob Atherton


Since 1884, Portman Road has always been the home stadium for Ipswich Town F.C. Who at present compete in the Championship in England. It's an all-seater stadium that has a capacity of 30,031 and lies in the center of Ipswich, simply 2 or 3 hundred metres from the train line station which is on the mainline to London.

The stands at either end of this arena were reconstructed lately and there are actually a considerable number of executive boxes as well as other apartments engineered to have company events in.

Before the mid-eighties, Portman Road was essentially a football locale while there had been instances when cricket was played here during the summer and throughout World War I, the stadium was also utilized by the English Military for a coaching camp. Nevertheless, a significant number of supporters only knew Portman Road being a soccer ground.

In March 1985, the American Evangelist, Billy Graham including Portman Road as an element of his tour of the UK and close to 8,000 folk came to hear him speak. With cash becoming an increasing number of crucial to clubs, options were looked at to make use of the stadium in the course of the summer months because there was no soccer.

In the summertime of 1991, Established Order become the very first of many huge music super stars and groups to play at Portman Road. Nonetheless it was more than a decade prior to the next enormous music act visited Ipswich as Elton John performed at the stadium. Since then, momentum has picked up with masses of top rated music stars performing including Tina Turner, Red Hot Chilli Peppers, REM, Dire Straits, Neil Diamond, Rod Stewart and more recently, Pink.

The summertime live shows at Portman Road are set to continue as they are of benefit of the soccer club along with the area.




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