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When the stadium was being built in the 1960s, Clint Eastwood's Spaghetti Westerns were very popular in Greece, and the stadium's nickname is a reference to Eastwood's 1965 film For a Few Dollars More ( which had the Greek title Duel in El Paso ), as the stadium's backdrop reminded people of the scenery in the movie.
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When he rejected an offer from businessman Gus Mears to move Fulham to land where the present-day Chelsea stadium Stamford Bridge is situated, Mears decided to create his own team to occupy the ground.
When faced by an exceptionally loud stadium, players may be unable to hear the snap count, and are forced to concentrate more on visual cues ( silent snap count or a hard count ), or risk false start penalties.
When the Jets joined the Giants at the stadium, many Jets fans hoped the name, Giants Stadium, would be changed.
When the Raiders moved back from Los Angeles in 1995, the city of Oakland and the Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum Authority agreed to sell Personal Seat Licenses ( PSLs ) to help pay for the renovations to their stadium.
When he came into view, waves of sound began to build throughout the stadium, rising to a roar, then to a thunder.
When the stadium was renovated in the 1970s, 10 rows were added to the top of upper deck, and the support columns were removed.
When English Football League Two side Burton Albion Football Club built their new stadium in 2005, Pirelli became the title sponsor the new ground.
When Spiridon Louis, a water carrier from Maroussi, arrived in the stadium he was accompanied by the Greek Crown Prince on his final lap.
When football in the country resumed in 1939, Oviedo were relegated to the second division, as their pitch was deemed unplayable – Francisco Franco's troops had used the stadium as an ammunition dump.
When the school built a new stadium in 2004, it was named Sidney Memorial Stadium at 30 & O Field.
When the stadium underwent renovations in the mid 1970s, it became necessary to move the plaque from the directors ' entrance to allow the necessary changes.
When the Cornhuskers play at home in Memorial Stadium, the stadium holds more people than Bellevue ( the third-largest city in Nebraska ).
When Molde qualified for the 1999 – 2000 UEFA Champions League group stage the stadium was converted to an all-seater, with seats being installed on the lower sections of the short end stands.
When there are stands all the way around, the stadium takes on an oval shape.
When one end is open, the stadium has a horseshoe shape.
When the team traveled to California, the stadium used was Pro Player Stadium, which is located in Miami Gardens.
When Aalesund opened their new stadium in April 2005, businessman Olav Nils Sunde donated a statue to the club, which was erected in front of the stadium.
When Florentino Pérez became the president of Real Madrid, he launched a " master plan " with one goal: to improve the comfort of the Santiago Bernabéu and the quality of its facilities, and maximise revenue for the stadium.
When they performed at Ullevi stadium in Gothenburg on August 7, 2004 during the GT25, 58, 984 fans watched the concert live, breaking the record set by Bruce Springsteen, and the performance was later broadcast on TV4.
When the stadium reopened, it attracted substantial attention from the Toronto media.
When the modern Olympics came to Athens in 2004, the men's and women's shot put competition was held at the restored Olympia stadium.
When a football game was played at the stadium, an auxiliary press box, located near the first base side, was used.
When the stadium was originally built, Kansas City was the westernmost major league city other than those along the Pacific Coast ( 1, 600 miles away ), which was a major reason why the Royals initially decided to use a faster-draining AstroTurf surface.
When the ballpark was brought to the ballot box in the Fall of 1996 for voter approval, the stadium was 15 degrees clockwise from its current position.
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When they were closer and he saw that one was a woman, he was more puzzled than ever.
When the meal was ready, he told Jones to wash up, and going into the front room, woke the girl.
When they reached their neighbor's house, Pamela said a few polite words to Grace and kissed Melissa lightly on the forehead, the impulse prompted by a stray thought -- of the type to which she was frequently subject these days -- that they might never see one another again.
When he regained consciousness he was in Lord's house, in the office of Doctor Lord, the deputy's deceased father.
When it was followed by a second, whining even closer, Cobb swerved sharply aside into a depression.
When the sea was visible ahead of them, the relief was as great as if the sun had come out.
When she appeared at the store to help out for a few hours even my looking at her was surreptitious lest my Uncle notice it.
When our eyes met the air was filled with an unuttered message of `` Me, too ''.
`` When I was in college '', I grinned, `` I remember a poem I had to read in my lit class.
When they got to Shillong, in Assam, he was happy.
`` When I came up, damnit, I thought I was going down.
When he awoke in the mornings, she was in his mind and he could hardly wait to get to school to be near her in the flesh.
When he came back to the schoolhouse, his mind was made up.
When he finally left the sinister mansion on Perdido Street, he was carried out in a coroner's basket.
When he was eight he began violin lessons.
When the possibility that he had not given reconsideration to so weighty a decision seemed to disconcert his questioners, Mr. Eisenhower was known to make his characteristic statement to the press that he was not going to talk about the matter any more.
When he was stripped, deloused and numbered by his guards, his much-thumbed sketchbook was seized and thrown on a pile of prisoners' goods to be confiscated.
When her right hand was incapacitated by the rheumatism, Sadie learned to write with her left hand.
When Harold Arlen returned to California in the winter of 1944, it was to take up again a collaboration with Johnny Mercer, begun some years before.
When he was fifteen John H. Mercer turned out his first song, a jazzy little thing he called `` Sister Susie, Strut Your Stuff ''.
When he heard that Paul Whiteman was looking for singers to replace the Rhythm Boys, Mercer applied and got the job, `` not for my voice, I'm sure, but because I could write songs and material generally ''.
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