Hi guys welcome to another episode of Ultimate Bucket List and on today's show
I'm here at Hampden Park the home of Scottish football. Hampden Park the
Wembley of the north is home to the Scottish national team the Dark Blues
the Tartan Army and it's also home to the Scottish Cup and Scottish League Cup
finals but what's the stadium actually like to go around so this is Hampden
Park and this is home to the Scottish national team but that's not strictly
true because Glasgow is actually home to four other football clubs you've got
Rangers in the West you've got Celtic who play in the East
parsec thistle who play up in the north and you've got a club called Queen's
Park not to be confused with Queens Park Rangers who play in London and they're
at Division two site that averages about 400 per game but they play here at the
national stadium that holds 50,000 people what what am I missing here why
as it turns out Queen's Park actually owned the damn stadium not the Scottish
national team something that I actually didn't know about and the Scottish
Football Association have literally just reached an agreement to buy Hampden Park
from Queens Park so by this time next year Queen's Park will have moved into a
different stadium and this will be the sole home of Scottish football but
what's Hampden Park actually like to go around let's find out
so whilst recording that bit outside the stadium
I was actually late for my tour by about five minutes but fortunately this
current chap decided to let me in anyway and whisk me through the stadium to
catch up with the rest of the tour group so I missed about the first five minutes
we ended up finding the tour group in the away teams dressing room which was
actually not too bad it was actually quite spacious one of the better away
teams dressing rooms that I've ever been to and it's got pretty modern amenities
maaan lockers modern showers and all decked out in Scottish dark blue you
then get to go into the warm-up area now both teams actually use this indoor
warm-up area that's kind of lined with grass and here at Hampden Park you
actually get this weird speed shooting contest thing where you get to shoot the
ball as fast you can into a goal so I can beat this guy surely
holy cow did I just missed in three yards out cut that's pathetic and I've
just been embarrassed by a child yay but anyway this warm parrot is pretty
sizable we then go into the Scottish dressing room and to be honest it looks
exactly the same as the away teams dressing room and that's actually not by
accident. Hampden Park has to be a neutral venue so both teams dressing
rooms have to be pretty much exactly the same
so same showers same amenities same walkers same color it's all pretty much
the same as the other dressing room and barring a few little other bits they're
pretty much identical but once you've gone into the dressing room it's time to
go into the tunnel area where you get a very interesting talk about what happens
just before a match and then they let you out onto the field to the sound of
the Hampden Roar!
so to be honest Hampden Park is pretty much exactly as I expected it to be it's
a single tier stadium and on first glance you will realize that this holds
50,000 people given that the stadium is only one tier but it does it's mainly
because it's used also as an athletics track so this is actually quite a
sizable stadium it's actually pretty cool I do like the Scottish flag
emblazoned in both sides of the stadium in the seats and once you get your talk
at pitch side you then go up the fighter stairs and go to the Scottish Cup
presentation area this is where the victors of the Scottish Cup and the
Scottish League Cup get their trophy up here afford to eat the best view of the
stadium so I highly recommend that you take plenty of pictures here
unfortunately you don't get an actual cook you get this cardboard cutout so if
you do want photo opportunities well you get to do it with this piece of
cardboard yay but after that that's pretty much the end of the guided tour
they let you out in their restaurant area and there's a little shop where you
can buy Scottish football souvenirs if you want to they also show lots of
famous people who have been to this stadium now your ticket also Council for
the Scottish Football Museum and I gotta say it's probably one of the better
football museums that I've been to you get to learn a lot about Scottish
football and you get to see some pretty cool things like the silver Claret Jug
and the actual Scottish Cup yes this is the actual one not a replica there's
some pretty cool artifacts and some quality merchandise this being one of
them obviously if you kids get bored they can always sit down and play a game
of FIFA if they want to but it's pretty interesting to learn all about Scottish
football and pretty much every team is represented here I also like the fact
that they honor that women here something that I think doesn't happen
enough the museum is actually pretty cool pretty expansive as well they've
even got this section for Kilmarnock for some reason for not entirely sure why
and there's some pretty cool historical artifacts that you can
play around with you also get access to the Scottish Football Hall of Fame this
is a collection of some of the best Scotsman to have ever graced the game
including this man right here oh wait here yes yes he was probably the best
Scotsman to have ever lived and this guy he wasn't too bad apparently you can
also find out more about your favorite Scottish heroes by using the computer
terminals on the side but other than that that's pretty much it it's up the
stairs you go and that's the end of your tour here at the home of queen's park
and scottish football. So Ninh, how was Hampden Park it was actually ok it
actually wasn't too bad the tour itself was actually kind of a little short even
though it lasted an hour and I think the reason is because you didn't really see
all that much and we spent a lot of time in these individual sections however one
of the plus points is that Hampton Park unlike Wembley actually has history and
charm it also has significantly nicer tour
guides so that definitely helps in the grander scheme of things but if you all
go to Hampden park I highly recommend coming for the museum not necessarily
the stadium tour I actually learned a lot about Scottish football just from
walking around the exhibits and if you are driving past I highly recommend that
you come to the museum and if a tour is happening at the same time great go to
that as well okay nin I'm salt what do I do
well you need to come here to Glasgow it's linked by motorways trains and it
has an International Airport so it's not too difficult to get here but getting to
these stadiums can be a little bit more tricky you're
going to have to negotiate public transport or Drive there I'll leave the
details on the side of the screen how much does it cost
well I'll leave the prices on that side of the screen there but suffice to say
that no tool was overtly expensive and it generally got what you paid for so
yeah honestly not bad would you recommend to
have the park well as I mentioned earlier if you've got time to do the
tour and the museum great but in all honesty if you've only got time to do
once or I highly recommend that you either go to
Ibrox or Celtic park first before you contaminant park obviously if you're
dying to see this place then ya come into Hampden Park but to be honest the
other two Glasgow for book clubs offer much better tours check out my other
videos to see what that's like so where does this rank in the hierarchy of your
stadium tours well kind of like that well it was
better than wembley i can say that even though wembley has the newer facilities
Hampden Park it had a lot more interesting history and the tour guides
were significantly nicer if you've enjoyed this episode please be sure to
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next episode what's over all guys
but overall guys if you are hit you know what yeah actually give it a go you just
hold that for us yeah call about it no yet frame then yeah okay Nick I'm sold
what do I do
people I know I'm stood in the middle of the road but people can't just like
drive around it's apart and I'm literally driving around I've no idea
where the hell I am in fact where am i oh wait that's handy
Ninh Ly - www.ninh.co.uk - @NinhLyUK