Feethams, a few months ago:
It's currently being dug over, so the housing estate won't be long in coming.
There were a whole load of other problems with Darlo, but the stadium was the main one, built against the local residents' wishes, so it didn't have license to do anything other than host football matches, and the chairman's expressed desire to host "pop concerts" never materialised.
Reynolds was a self-publicising arsehole (previously jailed for safe-cracking, amongst other things, and later jailed for tax evasion), who used the club as his personal toy, then left when things went pear-shaped. I don't remember us ever having a decent chairman, but at least most of them left the club no worse than when they arrived. He left us with an unusable stadium and a shite team (no change there).
My old man and a few of his mates still admire Reynolds - my dad has an excuse, as he used to go drinking with the bloke, but I think the rest just liked his take-no-shit attitude. There's a story about an agent demanding a £10,000 fee for Darlo signing his goalkeeper, and Reynolds replying with an offer of £100,000 on the condition that the agent paid the club £10,000 every time his keeper let in a goal...
But that cut both ways - Reynolds fired my mate Chevs early in his Darlo career. Chevs was the assistant groundskeeper, and Reynolds walked out to meet him in the middle of the pitch and asked him what his job was. When he replied "assistant groundskeeper", Reynolds apparently said "we only need one groundskeeper - you're fired". That season, Feethams was a quagmire, with loads of games cancelled, and one cup tie had to be played in Middlesbrough.
It's a shite stadium, too. Out-of ground places are usually vile (Hull's KC stadium is something of an exception, but that has a whole sports complex around it, and the fans to fill it), and it smacked of putting the cart before the horse, especially in Reynolds' second season, when he started paying the players a pittance and put all the money into a useless stadium.
There is talk of Darlo getting the use of the stadium back, but in the division they're in now, they might as well play at South Park or the R.A.
Anyway, to happier times - Peter, is this what you're thinking of?
My dad was there, to watch his favourite team (Chelsea).
http://youtu.be/U5q9YhjWjOU