Cardiff Arms Park
The Arms Park is a sports complex, located at Cardiff with the Wales. It includes or included various sports equipment:
- Old the Arms Park , where sporting events take place since the middle of the XIXe century. It is the historical stage of the club of Rugby of the Cardiff RFC (in the past Cardiff Athletic Club ), which always plays there, and of the Cardiff Blues, the professional frankness which is aligned in Coupe of Europe. The team of cricket of the county of Glamorgan played there between 1921 and 1963.
- New the Arms Park (which with the wire of time reached the capacity of 52.000 places), built just at side in 1967-69 and destroyed in 1997. This stage is known to have been heart of Welsh Rugby as a national stage of the team of Wales between 1910 and 1997. He is regarded by certain as the stage of Rugby having offered best environment to the world, in particular because of the enthusiasm of the spectators and the famous songs which rose platforms.
- The Millennium Stadium , inaugurated in 1999 in the place of new the Arms Park .
See hereafter for the detailed history of the site.
History
The site draws its name from a inn-relay of station, the Red House , built in the middle of the XVIIe century, renamed Cardiff Arms Hotel in 1792, then Cardiff Arms while becoming simple a pub .The first sporting confrontation, a match of cricket, takes place on its site in 1848 and the first match of Rugby in 1874.
In 1877, the Cardiff RFC, founded in 1876, plays its first match there, against Swansea.
The first platform (300 places) there is high in 1880.
In 1883, the stage accommodates its first international meeting: Wales beats Ireland.
In December 1905, Arms Park is the theater of the only defeat of the legendary team of the All Blacks at the time of its some two years round throughout the world (3-0). It was the first confrontation between the two teams and the newspapers crown the Welsh “world champions” semi-official. The Néo-Zélandais maintain still today that the referee their refused a valid test which would have given them the tie.
In 1908, Wales beats there the Australia in round for the first time.
In 1928, races of greyhounds are organized there for the first time. The last will take place in 1977.
1941: the stage undergoes the German bombardments.
In 1963, a development project of the site is committed and a new stage is built for the national team of Rugby as from 1967. Cardiff RFC recovers the stage of cricket then (the team of cricket of Glamorgan is rehoused on the site of Sophia Gardens).
New Arms Park is inaugurated in 1970.
In 1980, new Arms Park accommodates its first match of Rugby to XIII (Wales-England).
In 1984, after restoration, it becomes the National Stadium, Cardiff Arms Park .
In 1987, it accommodates its first concert (David Bowie). The Rolling Stones occur there in 1990 and Tina Turner in 1996.
In 1993, Lennox Lewis demolishes there Frank Bruno at the time of the championship of world WBC of the heavy ones.
In 1996 and 1997, Arms Park accommodates the first two finales of the Coupe of Europe.
In 1997, the National Stadium is destroyed and replaced by the Millennium Stadium, inaugurated in 1999, and which is next to old Arms Park, which is, him, always upright.
External bonds
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Seen '' National Stadium '' on www.gtj.org.uk
- humanité.fr the good-bye in Arms Park 1999
- humanité.fr Arms Park house of Rugby 1996
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