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# Why the north stand has no roof
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- Published: 2026-10-08T17:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-08T17:00:00.000Z
- Description: A storm in 1979, a council vote in 1980, and forty-six years of getting wet.
- Author: Jana Kessling
- Tags: Archive, #justified, #Import 2026-11-11 09:36

The north stand had a roof until the night of 14 January 1979.

That night a storm lifted it off in one piece and put it down in the allotments behind the Talstadion. Nobody was hurt. One shed was lost, along with a season’s worth of runner beans.

The club asked the council for money to put it back. The council said yes in principle and no in practice, which in 1980 meant a vote that ended eleven to eleven and a chairman who abstained because his brother-in-law had the allotment.

So the north stand stayed open. The main stand got a new roof in 1994, the south end got one in 2008, and every few years somebody brings it up at the members’ meeting. Every few years the north stand votes against it. Getting wet is part of it now, and the ones who mind sit in the main stand.

The old roof is still there, by the way. It is the shelter over the allotment society’s barbecue, and the society has never once lent it back.