'For two hours on a Saturday it was your home' - north west football fans reminisce on Riverside Stadium Institute_FC ⚽
After exhausting a series of options, the club hierarchy reluctantly approached the council to move for demolition.Trevor Porter, a former player, manager and chairman at Institute, told BBC News NI that "it would bring a tear to your eye" to see what is left of the stadium.
"Over the years we put new stands in, we put changing rooms in - all these great facilities and made it a real home.Trevor vividly remembers fans gathering along the bridge on the fateful day when the floods hit, watching their beloved stadium being ravaged by floodwater. Geoff Graham, who is originally from Yorkshire, moved to Northern Ireland 22 years ago and said he fell in love with a "brilliant little club".
"We would usually be in the stand closest to the river so on those hot days you would have to put up with the occasional wasp or two but we didn't care. "The match was brilliant - it was 1-0, there was such a great atmosphere and it's always nice to get a result over Linfield," he said.
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