Match attended: Manchester City 2 Leicester City 0…read more
The King Power Stadium is the 20th largest football stadium in England, and is home to Leicester City FC, the stadium has a capacity just over 32,000 and was built in 2002.
The stadium overall doesn't feel too modern, especially when compared to the Etihad Stadium which was built at around the same time, some of the concourse areas felt quite old, and some of the entrances seemed to go straight into the ground from the outside, bypassing the concourse which was quite strange, and felt like something I've only seen before at lower division clubs who aren't in the Premier League or recently promoted Huddersfield Town.
On a more personal milestone, this is my 1800th Yelp review, obviously this is quite a cool choice to mark that milestone, and is the third time a "100 review milestone" has been met by a football stadium, with Hull City's KCOM Stadium (1200th) and Barcelona's Camp Nou (1400th) also meeting that honour, as it, of course, involves football.
Back to my regular review - The stadium its-self is okay after you enter the ground through the concourse area, the stadium seating and pitch did seem quite modern, one thing that interested me was the capacity of the ground being so large with this stadium being a single tier all around the ground.
The stewards, disability staff and everyone on the ground seemed quite friendly.
Wheelchair bays are located in the away supporter end for away fans, with some also being located in the home supporters, in my opinion, this is disgraceful and all away wheelchair bays should be with the away supporters, but this was in a sense better than my last visit to Anfield, who had all away supporters in wheelchairs in with the home fans, and it was the same situation as clubs such as Hull City and Sunderland who have a mix of the two.
The view wasn't great, slightly obstructed by the stewards walking up and down and the camera man, who was obviously taking pictures or recording the game for some source, with it being a Saturday 3pm kick-off it wasn't going to be on Sky Sports. Apart from the blockages at times, the view was Okay, but once again with the platform not being raised, I felt too low down to even see the lining of the pitch, and I struggled to see the other end, sadly it was hard to tell if Gabriel Jesus' goal had gone in, until I saw the players celebrating and heard the City fans cheering.
The overall atmosphere around the ground was decent for the City fans, as we kept singing all the way through the match, the atmosphere overall from Leicester wasn't great.
Another cool thing was the amount of support for away fans, the stewards seemed to come over making sure I was okay and felt welcome, one even joked "how many are you going to score past us today", with him, of course, being a Leicester supporter.
The entrance into the ground was also quite weird, which had a shutter which must open to get into the "box" to get into the ground, and then must be fully shut before you enter your ticket, which was a frustrating inconvenient time-wasting thing, I couldn't understand the need for.
It was nice to see City fans recognised for travelling 110 miles, as you walked into the ground, there was a nice message with our club logo, recognising the travel of our fans.
Overall, this is quite a new stadium, despite being 15 years old now, but in some areas it just doesn't feel like it, the view wasn't great and their was some issues with the viewing of wheelchair access, but I still think this stadium deserves a medium two-star rating, as even the bus links and transport from the train station isn't too well sign-posted, making transportation difficult for away supporters, I even struggled having to use Google Maps to make the 1 and a half mile walk between the train station and stadium.
