Farewell to much more than Best, Charlton and Shankly

Borough Park, home to a treasure trove of memories, will be replaced by the 5,000-capacity Cumberland Sports Village [BBC] Players, fans, a whole town. For them, Saturday sees the last game at a proper old school football ground - one that has witnessed the kinds of highs and lows which put the modern "crisis" of a bad 20 minutes in the Premier League into perspective. Borough Park has been the home of Workington Reds for 89 years.

That nine decades peaked in Division Three (now League One), but the club has suffered and celebrated in a way familiar to so many non-league stalwarts. This is a home of English football in all its raw beauty. A place where legends honed their skills, celebrities paid return visits and, most of all, life and football just got on with it.

George Best had the honour of playing for Workington at Borough Park [Workington AFC] About 2,000 fans are expected to gather to say their goodbyes to the old ground. Workington rose to and fell out of the Football League there, while Bill Shankly and Keith Birkenshaw cut their managerial teeth in the Borough Park dugout. And, occasionally, fancy dans from the top flight got to tread the hallowed (or hollowed) turf.

Club historian Steve Durham, 72, first became interested in the Reds in 1963 and has a lifetime worth of experiences here. "It's very mixed emotions," he says ahead of the final match. "Obviously, you can take the history and the memories with you but it's been home for so long.