More Than a Match Programme
A few days ago, my dad gave me a football programme that he had kept for nearly forty years. It was the souvenir programme from Scunthorpe United's match against Exeter City on 2nd May 1988. We both knew it wasn't an ordinary programme. Produced to commemorate the closing of the Old Showground, it captured a moment of enormous significance in the history of Scunthorpe United and the town itself. As I began turning the pages, I realised I wasn't simply looking at a football programme. I was holding a carefully preserved piece of local history. Saying Goodbye to the Old Showground For generations of Scunthorpe supporters, the Old Showground was more than a football ground. It was where first matches were attended, where lifelong memories were created, and where families gathered week after week to support their team. Football grounds become woven into the stories of people's lives. When they disappear, something more than bricks and concrete is lost. The contributors to t...