I went to Twickenham for the first time and I was quite impressed…read more Ok, I was not impressed by the outside concrete look of the stadium. Inside however, the seats are comfy enough, there are plenty of people to help you find your seat on match day and the apparent security makes you feel rather safe. What really made the difference for me was what was outside the stadium so it was more than going to watch a rugby match. There was a few bars and a range of food stalls to cater for all your needs. Also there was a stage with bands playing and that made the ambience quite festive. I would have thought it was just for before the match but I was wrong - it kept on going post match which was great to manage the crowd so you don't have to all go and pile up at the nearest tube stations straight after the match. Pro tip: if you are a woman, you know that the queues to the toilets at half time and post match in the stadium are going to be long - so go to the outside toilets past the stage, no queue there, well worth the 1 minutes extra walk!

You would get 5 except your security was lax at best. Backpacks on peoples backs allowed with no…read morechecking? No one and I mean no one should have to endure this in 2021... The stadium is great, everything you want in a European Futbol stadium. The shape, the size and the massive crowds. Getting a drink was pretty easy and the sound in here was amazing. Again, did I feel safe? Not really! Hooligans abound and once off the train which was about a 10-15 minute walk through the neighborhood we were offered Cocaine and other drugs. Apparently this isn't the safest neighborhood either, that said massive crowds all walking the same place felt pretty safe. Oh and if you want to score coke of a plug in a foreign neighborhood I wish you and most likely your fetanly laced purchase well. :) Buy a shirt, support who you are seeing and if you want to catch a train leave early. We waited quite a long time to get back to the city (HydePark) area for a train once the event was over. London, I love you and will see you again very very soon....

An attic (UK) is like a loft (US), and this stadium is designed to look like a loft (US) hence the…read morename. First-Hand Experience: More info about my personal experience at this stadium - I've actually only ben to this stadium 3 times (or about 10 if you count visiting the outside of it). It's absolutely tiny inside! You'd never imagine it's a Premier League stadium. It is pretty modern and enjoyable on the inside though. The rich owners have jazzed it up and made it like a posh little box. The crowd is absolutely intense and right on top of the field and I always feel like part of the action when I'm in here. Definitely one of the better stadiums, but the prices and the small size are the reason it's a 4. I've been to every significant stadium in UK & US, due to a lifelong obsession 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 followed Liverpool (fave team) around. Every stadium review - like all my reviews - are based on first-hand personal experience, usually from multiple visits. In 2011, I was on music tour in the UK, visiting hundreds of stadiums for fun in my spare time. As recently as Fall 2014, when I was "stuck" in UK for 3 months, I went to most of them yet again while travelling. I have pictures of me at many of them, which I will post later. Also, when back in the UK I plan to take more pix, and add more stadia! So watch this space! *** return to regular review *** It's a little rich club with a little rabid stadium in West London. I can't give this stadium less than a 4 because it's so loud and intense and the crowd are right on top of the players, but there's no way such a tiny stadium can get a 5 for a club that should really have a bigger and grander stadium. It looks like they won't be in the Prem much longer anyway (they never usually are), but if the club won't be missed (too many London clubs, esp West London), then the stadium will and its atmosphere too. It's in White City, a great part of London that is maybe a little racially monotonous. It's just near Shepherd's Bush. I think maybe he should shave it off. It opened in 1904, and Fulham briefly played here in the 00s.

Queens Park Rangers are back in the Premier League this season after a lengthy spell in the lower…read moredivisions of English football. In the spring of 2002, when I was doing a semester abroad in London, I did a work study (internship) at QPR. At the time, they were in the Second Division (third tier). I had hear of QPR but didn't know much about the club. But my time there made me a fan and I'm proud to be a supporter of the R's. Now that they're back in the top flight, I had a perfect excuse to head back over the pond for a visit and to take in a Premiership match. Loftus Road Stadium is definitely a throw-back to the more modest days of the sport. Compared to Arsenal's new Emirates Stadium (review here: http://www.yelp.com/biz/the-emirates-stadium-london#hrid:nvZxRYSY_mKiQndnHx2iQw), Loftus Road is like a backyard shed. It's old, not at all modern, and for a Premier League ground, quite small. But it also has immense character, is very intimate, and incredibly approachable. One of the great things about the smaller clubs is how accessible the players are as well. If you get to Loftus Road early you can catch many of the players walking from the player parking lot into the stadium, and most of them are happy to stop to sign an autograph or snap a quick photo with you. Try doing that at Manchester United or Chelsea! QPR is a fantastic little club with an incredible history. Hopefully they'll be in the top flight for years to come. Which means I better start saving up now for what I hope can be an annual pilgrimage.

Teachers don't care about students, and do not teach students proper skills ,…read moreSpend 1,5 years for nothing

Courses are increasingly becoming more varied, teachers are there to support and help. Overall a…read moregreat school for anyone.

St Mary's University is located in Twickenham, but no, it is NOT a sports college. The college…read morespecialises in creative arts and mainly focuses on vocational courses. It has a great teaching course facility, which has its own building and library section devoted to students studying in that field. They offer a great number of unions for sports and have a large running track in the middle of the campus.

Really just a terrible experience even trying to get get tickets. Bought tickets at the club…read moreshop...they ran out of printer paper and couldn't print out my ticket. Ok fine. They took my email. Didn't hear from them for a couple days, and I had to reach out to them. Ok fine. Ticket given but game cancelled because of the Queens funeral. Ok fine. Asked for ticket to be refunded and was told they couldn't and I would have to call them or come to the stadium. Honestly..I've put more work into this than the actual ticket office. Hard pass. Keep the £36, I've learned my lesson with this club.

Queens Pork Strangers is a club named after the fact that female members of the royal family will…read moreoften engage in sexual relations with people they have never met. First-Hand Experience: Well I've seen QPR play live, in person, 3 times total. Once against Oxford United, once against Liverpool, and once in a pre-season game. They're a proud club with more money than they should have. I respect them and appreciate them but they're not my fave, and don't play amazing football either. It's a rich little club in West London that is a rival of Chelsea and Fulham, and just got a lot richer with the new owners. However despite their wealth and a litany of excellent well known overpaid players, they keep getting relegated, and will probably be again this season. Formed in 1882, they play in blue and white hoops, and my brother once played for them in his imagination. His fave player was Les Ferdinand. They were runners up in the Prem back in 1976, and FA Cup runners up in 1982, but the only thing they've ever won is the League Cup in 1967, as well as runners up in 86 (go Oxford!). I have no affinity with this team whatsoever although their stadium does create an excellent atmosphere.

Roehampton University is based in South West London, surrounded by Putney, Richmond and Wimbledon…read more To be fair, Roehampton is a total dump there's no getting past it, but the surrounding area makes it worthwhile. What I love about the location is the fact that it's a London University, it's in zone 3 and if you want to get into central you just have to hop onto a bus or tube and you're there quickly. However, you're just enough out of the hustle and bustle with places like Richmond Park on your doorstep. The university itself has a great campus. Froebel is the gem with its beautiful manor house and lake and is the base for teacher training and education, Whitelands is the sports college and Digby Stuart and Southlands are for those who study humanities. Though I do English Language and Linguistics I chose to be a Froebel student. There's something about the atmosphere at Froebel that you don't get anywhere else- everyone knows each other and it feels like one big family! The nightlife is great with something happening every day of the week whether it's a big themed night out at Fez Club or the Bop or just a quiz at one of the bars. Sports teams play a big part of life with men and women's football and rugby, tennis, rowing, lacrosse and ultimate frizbee to name but a few! I'd definitely recommend getting involved because you've got 20 friends instantly! If you're in the process of choosing a university give it a look- you get the fun of London and the beauty of Surrey all tied up in one neat little package.

There are a few problems with this university. ESPECIALLY if you are an international student…read more Roehampton is absolutely horrendous at making a schedule in a timely enough manner that you don't have to pay a fortune to get a flight home for breaks or end up having to change your flight which costs a pretty penny. For a uni with a lot of international students you would think they would be more considerate. They always release the year schedule about only 2 months before you actually have to be there and getting a plane ticket in that time frame is horrible. Also, along with that they take their sweet time releasing exam time tables. A week into break and we just got told when our exam would be even though they knew which classes were given an exam last spring and had an actual copy of the exam at the start of term. And the final thing is (at least for the history program) every staff member has a different way of the way you should do assignments. I have written 3 critical commentaries just this term. 2 for one teacher one for another. I wrote all three in the same style, I got a first and a 2:1 from one teacher and the other teacher completely failed me. Since staff don't have the same expectations, every assignment is you trying to figure out what they are wanting and has to be trial and error. Along with that they have no problem giving you one week to do 2 major assignments (one was a 2500 word essay) and 3 minor assignments. The positives of the uni is it's nicely located to travel all over London easy if they are not doing construction and the campus is very pretty. The night life and activities they put on are a lot of fun, just the academics need a lot of work.