The Black Country; Aston Villa, Birmingham City, Walsall, West Bromich Albion and Wolverhampton Wanders.

In the Black Country you wouldn't have thought that there is a massive football following, enough to warrant at least five stadiums to be in a close proximity. Whenever I have gone to the Black Country I have always just seen the working side, the factories and small businesses and family atmosphere, so therefore going for the day I didn't realise that in the middle of all these little businesses is the giant stadiums that clearly help the businesses to stay afloat.
For my dissertation I have started to look at the political and economics of the stadium buildings. For instance in this certain area the political stance of a stadium doesn't mean anything but then when you look at it from an economical sense you can see that people come along and watch the sports and then support smaller businesses (which is always good thing)

The five stadiums I visited all have different structures and layouts, like a fingerprint.  I began the day with a trip to the home of the Wolves. Then onto Bank's Stadium which houses Walsall then back onto the M6 to West Bromwich Albion that then lead to Villa Park (which has a glorious looking stand) and I then ended the day in the rain at Birmingham City's St Andrew's Stadium. (bad accent done in my head whilst typing Birmingham, ha).

I've been sat on these images for a few weeks now and I can finally go through and edit them and draw from them. The next trip I have planned is a trip to see the Millennium Stadium, Cardiff and then the Bluebirds themselves at Cardiff City Stadium and that will be next week along with another blog post on something else.