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An utter dump - tiny ground, penned in on all sides, which could never have been converted to an all seater stadium.
I think that's the crux of the matter; a lot of these old grounds that people reminisce over were crumbling, decaying old stadia, that couldn't meet the standards laid out in the Taylor report. Many were in locations where there wasn't the space to expand the foot print of the stadium, so clubs had to move.