Ground Field Mill, Quarry Lane, Mansfield, Nottingham NG18 5DA

Telephone 0870 756 3160

Club Colours Yellow and Blue
Nickname The Stags

Official Club Website www.mansfieldtown.net

Brief Directions By Road
A straightforward route for this one. Exit the M1 at its junction 28 and follow the A38 signposted Sutton in Ashfield and Mansfield. Basically just stay on this A38 road (it is named Sutton Road), turning right at a crossroads at one point, until you meet the Sir John Cockle pub on your left at another crossroads. Do not be put off by the inordinate amount of traffic lights you encounter en route, be patient! Turn right into Sheepbridge Lane (ground signposted at this point). Pass under the railway line and look out for a left turn into Quarry Lane with the Lord Byron pub beckoning you! The ground is a short drive/walk down this road.

Car Parking
There is a car park at the ground for approx. 300 cars which charges £2.00 per car but this gets full very early. There are numerous pay and display parks locally but I am asked to warn you that the retail park beside the ground does not allow football parking and you are likely to be clamped!

Directions By Train
A journey of around two and half hours on a mid morning train from Kings Cross St Pancras will incorporate a change at Nottingham. The floodlights are clearly visible when you leave the station and the ground is a ten-minute walk away.

Supporters Coaches
Coach travel to away fixtures this season is being organised by the Barnet Football Club Supporters Association. For further details about Supporters coach travel and how to book check out the BFCSA website at www.bfcsa.co.uk.

Eating And Drinking Locally
The Early Doors pub across from the ground is allegedly away friendly and serves good food too. The Famous Talbot is about 50 yards past the ground and is also away fan friendly and also serves food. The Bold Forester on the Sutton Road A38 is highly recommended personally but is a good 15 minutes walk away from the stadium. It was the site a couple of seasons ago of my birthday celebration, Well I think it was anyway! I actually had more shots that day than the Barnet team. Unfortunately the ground is heavily infested by fast food take-a-ways all within a few minutes walk in the local retail parks. If you like a pie during t'match or at half time then you will not be disappointed inside the ground.

The Social Club
Club Quote:Official away travel supporters are most welcome in the SSA supporter's bar located at the bottom of the main stand. Beer prices are £2 a pint, there is a £1 guest charge as this is a members bar. Stag TV and a family friendly welcome awaits you. I read that as no problem!

The Ground Description
The ground has only retained one stand from the last century and that is the quaint Bishop Street Stand built in 1938 seating 600. Its design will be very familiar to the more senior supporters from our Southern League days as it resembles the original main stand at Plough Lane Wimbledon albeit on a slightly larger scale. Wealdstone's Lower Mead had another example of this design except that it sat on a raised base that held changing rooms and offices. It too will soon sadly be a relic of the past but for now it looks smart with its deep roof fascia and coloured seats. The two tiered new main or West Stand was completed in 2001 replacing the fine old West Stand which from the pitch bore a similarity to the old East and West Stands at Highbury with a large open terrace in front - oh well another gem of a football stand has bitten the dust. The new structure has room for around 6,000. At either end the stands are identical (apart from the seat colouring) single tiered constructions with the away fans are housed in the North Stand which is to the left of the main stand - it holds 1,800.

Rivals
Chesterfield, both Nottingham clubs and from slightly further afield Doncaster Rovers.

Admission Prices & Programme
Adults £18.00 Concessions, OAP and Students £10.00 Under 16's £7.00

Our Last Meetings& Memories
This section doesn't make great reading, you have been warned. The last visit to Mansfield in April 2007 finished 2-1 to the Stags our goal courtesy of their old boy Adam Birchall. I seem to recall that the 0-5 defeat at Field Mill in November 1998 in Division 3 was the first game I ever witnessed watching the then horrible new fangled yellow ball, but I might be wrong. The Bees were again soundly beaten 1-4 at Field Mill in February 2001 - Ben Strevens with the goal - but were to play their part in a highly entertaining game at Underhill in August 2000. 3-3 it finished featuring goals from Scott McGleish, Sam Stockley (now that was rare) and Mark Arber. Barnet's first ever victory as a Football League club came at Field Mill in August 1991 Mark Carter and Gary Bull scored in a 2-1 win.

Overnight Stay Factor
Mansfield is literally the furthest football ground from any section of English coastline and it is one of the last games of a frankly long season so that reduces the OSF somewhat. OSF 1/10.

Celebrity Watch
If you spot a 60 plus old man in a leather cat suit it is probably 1970's Glam Rock star Alvin Stardust - certain supporters I could mention remember him as Shane Fenton in the 1960's. If a lady runs up to you with a microphone dressed in Khaki it could be TV reporter Kate Adie. Very attractive morning TV presenter Penny Smith hails from here as doesthat ex Blue Peter presenter who very stupidly prepared something earlier!!! - Richard Bacon.