Some of us went to Qatar. Others went to Swansea…read more Swansea.com Stadium (as Liberty Stadium is known these days) is home to Wales Premier League Football (aka Soccer) team, the Swansea Swans. They were good enough to compete in Qatar, albeit not for long, but earlier, on a random night in Wales, they lost in the last minutes of a regular season game. With all the hoopla over Qatar's "no alcohol" policy for World Cup games I was pleased that the stadium sells alcohol even if they don't allow it into the stands. The result? Hundreds of men - almost 100% men - file into the bar at halftime, no Covid-era masks in sight. The stadium itself is immaculate, with comfortable enough seating, and reasonable prices when compared to pro baseball in the US. Mid-field front row seats, mere feet away from the playing field, ran me £32.50 per person. A few other things to know: * Food is permitted inside and I can vouch for the fact that the fries with nacho sauce are quite a junk food delight; * There's on-site parking and probably public transit as well however, there were no taxi stands. It was suggested I walk to a nearby pub and summon a cab from there; and * The stadium entrances are the oddest, narrowest I've ever experienced and some may be unable to make their way through. I imagine there's different access points for those folks but if you think it might be a problem, some advance recon may be useful. Bottom line? Swansea.com Stadium is a swell place to see a live soccer match.

If you are Anthony Hannibal Hopkins and like to extract livers from your victims and then make tea…read moreout of it, then you'd be better off at the Livertea Stadium. However if you want to see the prettiest sexiest football in Wales, you've found your home. First-Hand Experience: More info about my personal experience at this stadium - my first visit here was in 2011 when I was on tour in the UK. I was very impressed by how shiny and new and modern it was. The fans are absolutely rabid and create a great atmosphere. I was most recently here in 2014 and it looks as shiny and new and impressive as ever, a real highlight of the Swansea landscape. I've been to virtually every significant stadium in the UK & US, due to a lifelong obsession with travel, sport & especially footy (soccer to Americans). Born and raised in England, I followed Oxford United (my hometown team) to many stadiums all over the country at away games, and later followed Liverpool (my fave team) around. Every stadium review - like all my reviews - are from personal experience at these stadiums from multiple visits. In 2011, I was on music tour in the UK, and visited these stadiums then, also. As recently as Fall 2014, when I was "stuck" in the UK for 3 months, I visited all of the stadiums as I travelled around the country. I have pictures of many of them which I will post in future. Also, when I'm back in the UK I plan to take more pictures, and add more stadiums too! So watch this space! *** return to regular review *** It's the second smallest Prem stadium (sometimes the smallest, depends which teams are up here), located in the beautiful hills just North of Swansea, and it's very new and a fantastic stadium with a rabid support for this team. When the stadium was built the fortunes of the club took a massive upturn and they are now an established Prem team, playing to 20k people. It was known as the White Rock Stadium, which basically means that it's not in Black Rock, Buffalo. It cost 27 mil and opened in 2003. It has held Wales games here, including a Euro qualifier in which they beat the Swiss, and a World Cup qualifier in which they lost to the Croats. The Who, Elton John, Pink, Rod Stewart and Kings Of Leon have all played here too.

If your Clan includes a girl named Ellie, then this is your team. Or, was your team…read more First-Hand Experience: a good friend in South Wales took me to watch this team play a few years back. I enjoyed it a lot. It added to the long list of teams I've watched during my days as a massive soccer fan. I think I saw them in 2010 - nobody realized they would only exist for 3 more years. Hopefully they are resurrected soon. Tragically this great semi pro team which were around since 1896 (way older than Swansea themselves), have now been destroyed by bad financial management, and the courts. As of 2013, they ceased to exist. They played in the Europa League and had many heady days... but no more. They played in red at Stebonheath and will be very sorely missed by the locals.