Bootham Crescent
Bootham Crescent is not just a football ground - it is a monument to some of the greatest moments of our lives. Where else houses such emotion : anger, joy, hope, despair ? In every corner of the ground a memory better than any photograph can evoke.
AllModCons, posting on yorkcityfc.com, 7 Nov 2002
AllModCons, posting on yorkcityfc.com, 7 Nov 2002
Bootham Crescent has been the home ground of York City for over 70 years. It's a small, friendly football ground in the middle of streets of Victorian terraced houses. In 1996 there were fabulous plans for its development, and an assertion by the club's board of their "decision to re-develop and improve the ground at Bootham Crescent". Moving to another stadium on a greenfield site was "not financially viable".
Financial viability is, of course, a driving force. This is perhaps why Bootham Crescent Holdings formed in 1999, to split the club from the ground it played in.
