Over the Christmas holidays Alessio and I went back to Scotland, the only big trip we did was to go to Glasgow. There we went on a tour of Hampden Park Stadium and then onto the Scottish Football Museum.
Hampden Park is home to Queen´s Park Football club and to the Scottish National football team. It has a capacity of 52,000, it used to hold many, many more people. In fact in 1937 it recorded it´s highest attendance at 149,415 for an international match between Scotland and England. Wow! It is hard to imagine a stadium with such capacity.
It has also held some big matches in 1960 it hosted the European Cup final between Real Madrid and Eintracht Frankfurt (7-3), 130,000 attendance. It also held in 1962 the first ever Cup Winners´ Cup between Atletico Madrid and Fiorentina (1-1), then again in 1966 with Borussia Dortmund and Liverpool.
The museum has many objects on display and traces the history of Scottish football from the 19th century up to present day. It holds the original Scottish Cup made in 1873, the world´s oldest national trophy. There is film footage of some the memorable games and players.
We all enjoyed the whole experience, not only was it me and Alessio, my father, sister and her son Jamie came along too. The whole family is football mad!
I really enjoy going on stadium tours, so far I have been to Bernabeu(Real Madrid) and Allianz Arena (Bayern Munich). I have not been on a stadium tour of Camp Nou, as we usually go see to FC Barcelona play!
Hope you are all holding out in the lockdown!
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