Lawatan Stadium di England

Memandangkan hari ini saya mempunyai sedikit masa terluang, ingin saya berkongsi pengalaman dengan semua sahabat-sahabat yang membaca blog ini berkenaan dengan stadium-stadium yang sempat saya lawati sepanjang 4 tahun berada di England (2006-2010). Sememangnya pengalaman manis ini akan terus mekar dalam benak fikiran saya. Disebabkan minat yang mendalam dalam sukan bola sepak, semasa mula-mula menjejakkan kaki ke England saya bertekad untuk melawat ke semua stadium di England (untuk 5 divisyen teratas) yang merangkumi 116 stadium. Walaupun saya tak berjaya untuk melawat ke semua 116 stadium, namun alhamdulillah kerana saya berkesempatan untuk membuat lawatan ke 78 buah stadium di seluruh pelusuk England. Selain daripada stadium di England, saya juga berkesempatan untuk pergi ke stadium pasukan yang saya sanjungi iaitu Santiago Bernebau (Real Madrid) dan Nou Camp (Barcelona) semasa bercuti di Sepanyol. Dan semasa berada di Jerman, saya juga sempat melawat Allianz Arena (Bayern Munich) dan Mercedes Benz Arena (Stuttgart). Berikut adalah senarai stadium yang sempat saya lawati di seluruh pelusuk England:

No	Stadium	Capacity	Club
1	Wembley Stadium	90,000	England national
2	Old Trafford	75,811	Manchester United
3	Emirates Stadium	60,361	Arsenal
4	St James' Park	52,409	Newcastle United
5	Stadium of Light	48,707	Sunderland
6	City of Manchester	47,405	Manchester City
7	Anfield	45,276	Liverpool
8	Villa Park	42,786	Aston Villa
9	Stamford Bridge	42,449	Chelsea
10	Goodison Park	40,157	Everton
11	Hillsborough Stadium	39,812	Sheffield Wednesday
12	Elland Road	37,697	Leeds United
13	White Hart Lane	36,230	Tottenham Hotspur
14	The Boleyn Ground	35,303	West Ham United
15	Riverside Stadium	34,998	Middlesbrough
16	Pride Park Stadium	33,502	Derby County
17	St Mary's Stadium	32,689	Southampton
18	Bramall Lane	32,609	Sheffield United
19	Ricoh Arena	32,604	Coventry City
20	King Power Stadium	32,312	Leicester City
21	Ewood Park	31,154	Blackburn Rovers
22	City Ground	30,576	Nottingham Forest
23	Portman Road	30,311	Ipswich Town
24	St Andrew's	29,409	Birmingham City
25	Reebok Stadium	28,100	Bolton Wanderers
26	Molineux	27,828	Wolverhampton
27	Britannia Stadium	27,740	Stoke City
28	The Valley	27,111	Charlton Athletic
29	Carrow Road	27,010	Norwich City
30	The Hawthorns	26,360	West Bromwich Albion
31	Selhurst Park	26,225	Crystal Palace
32	KC Stadium	25,404	Hull City
33	Valley Parade	25,136	Bradford City
34	DW Stadium	25,133	Wigan Athletic
35	Craven Cottage	25,700	Fulham
36	Galpharm Stadium	24,554	Huddersfield Town
37	Madejski Stadium	24,169	Reading
38	Deepdale	23,408	Preston North End
39	Oakwell	23,287	Barnsley
40	Turf Moor	21,940	Burnley
41	Ashton Gate	21,804	Bristol City
42	Fratton Park	21,178	Portsmouth
43	Meadow Lane	20,280	Notts County
44	The Den	19,734	Millwall
45	Loftus Road	18,439	Queens Park Rangers
46	Vicarage Road	17,477	Watford
47	Prenton Park	16,151	Tranmere Rovers
48	Bloomfield Road	16,007	Blackpool
49	Keepmoat Stadium	15,231	Doncaster Rovers
50	County Ground	14,983	Swindon Town
51	London Road	14,793	Peterborough United
52	Memorial Stadium	11,626	Bristol Rovers
53	Priestfield Stadium	11,440	Gillingham
54	Gigg Lane	11,313	Bury
55	Bescot Stadium	10,989	Walsall
56	Boundary Park	10,850	Oldham Athletic
57	Edgeley Park	10,832	Stockport County
58	Kenilworth Road	10,226	Luton Town
59	Alexandra Stadium	10,109	Crewe Alexandra
60	Huish Park	9,665	Yeovil Town
61	Abbey Stadium	9,617	Cambridge United
62	Blundell Park	9,546	Grimsby Town
63	Brisbane Road	9,311	Leyton Orient
64	Field Mill	9,295	Mansfield Town
65	Glanford Park	9,144	Scunthorpe United
66	Bootham Crescent	7,872	York City
67	Victoria Park	7,749	Hartlepool United
68	Sixfields Stadium	7,300	Northampton Town
69	Whaddon Road	7,133	Cheltenham Town
70	Pirelli Stadium	6,912	Burton Albion
71	York Street	6,643	Boston United
72	Bob Lucas Stadium	6,600	Weymouth
73	The Shay	6,561	Halifax Town
74	Nene Park	6,441	Kettering Town
75	Globe Arena	6,400	Morecambe
76	Haig Avenue	6,008	Southport
77	Moss Rose	5,988	Macclesfield Town
78	Plainmoor	5,796	Torquay United

Berikut saya kongsi sebahagian daripada gambar koleksi lawatan stadium saya untuk tatapan sahabat-sahabat

Nou Camp (Barcelona)

Old Trafford (Manchester United)

Emirates (Arsenal)

Stamford Bridge (Chelsea)

 Kenangan indah ini akan terus bersemadi dalam diri saya sampai bila-bila. 

The Differences Between Men and Women

If you can list the top ten things that bug you the most about men or women, what would they be? Did you know that men and women speak in entirely dissimilar languages, so much so that we may feel we are speaking to someone from another planet? To start, men and women are thoroughly different. The differences in terms of emotional, physical and mental are so tremendous that without a concentrated effort to recognize them, it is almost unworkable to have a happy relationship. So the next time your girlfriend, boyfriend, wife, husband or parent starts telling you how you must have done somewhat in a different way, please refer back to these big differences between men’s and women’s brains.

1. Human interactions

Women tend to converse more efficiently than men, focusing on how to generate a solution that works for the group, talking through issues, and utilizes non-verbal cues such as tone, emotion, and empathy whereas men tend to be more task-oriented, less talkative, and more isolated.

2. Left brain vs both hemispheres

Men tend to process better in the left hemisphere of the brain while women tend to process equally well between the two hemispheres. This difference explains why men are generally stronger with left-brain activities and approach problem-solving from a task-oriented perspective while women typically solve problems more creatively and are more aware of feelings while communicating.

3. Reaction to stress

Men tend to have a "fight or flight" response to stress situations while women seem to approach these situations with a "tend and befriend" strategy.

4. Mathematical abilities.

An area of the brain called the inferior-parietal lobule is naturally extensively larger in men, particularly on the left side, than in women. This section of the brain is thought to control mental mathematical ability, and probably explains why men regularly perform higher in mathematical tasks than do women.

5. Language

Two sections of the brain responsible for language were found to be larger in women than in men, indicating one reason that women typically excel in language-based subjects and in language-associated thinking.

6. Emotions

Women typically have a larger deep limbic system than men, which allows them to be more in touch with their feelings and better able to express them, which promotes bonding with others. Because of this ability to connect, more women serve as caregivers for children.

7. Brain size

Normally, men’s brains are 11-12% bigger than women’s brains. This size difference has absolutely nothing to do with intelligence, but is explained by the difference in physical size between men and women. Men need more neurons to control their greater muscle mass and larger body size, thus generally have a larger brain.

8. Spatial ability

Men typically have stronger spatial abilities, or being able to mentally represent a shape and its dynamics, whereas women typically struggle in this area. Medical experts have discovered that women have a thicker parietal region of the brain, which hinders the ability to mentally rotate objects–an aspect of spatial ability.

9. Pain

Men and women perceive pain differently. Women are also more likely to vocalize their pain and to seek treatment for their pain than are men.