The Lobe Arena is such a loud venue, you can really ear the crowd when they get going, they can drum up a real noise. It has long queues, but if you use my Q-tips you can avoid the lines. Me and my ear buds go there all the time. But this review is not about that.
First-Hand Experience: More info about my personal experience at this stadium - I've been to see Morecambe play here as recently as 2011 and I enjoyed it a lot. They're a seaside town and I appreciate them. However their stadium is in need of some help, the noise escapes and it's bitterly cold. It's nice and modern but a little soulless too. I was hoping for a better facility since it's brand new. It's not bad though - just okay.
I plan to come back here and see another game in the next few years. This is one of the few stadiums I don't think I got pictures of. I'll sort that out in future.
I've been to most UK & US stadiums, due to lifelong obsessions with travel, sport & especially footy (soccer to Americans). Born & raised in England, I followed Oxford United (hometown team) to stadia all over the country at away games, and later Liverpool (fave team) around. Every stadium review - like all my reviews - are from first-hand personal experience, usually from several visits. In 2011, I was on music tour in the UK, and visited most stadiums for fun in my spare time. As recently as Fall 2014, when I was "stuck" in UK for 3 months, I went to hundreds yet again while travelling. I have pictures of me at most, which I'll post later. Also, when back in UK I'll take more pix, and add more stadia!
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The Globe Arena is a new stadium with open corners (so it doesn't really preserve the noise) and one beautiuful big grand stand and then three unimpressive ones. It is a bit imbalanced and for this reason isn't really my fave stadium. It's also nowhere near the beach, and seaside stadiums should be as near the beach as possible.
Still it's a good effort and a nice new stadium for the team.
The record attendance is only a little over 5k too which isn't great. The team that plays here is, of course, Morecambe. I know that because I am Wise. read more
