JJB Stadium
Two records for one ground: the programme entered the Wigan stadium twice, once under each sponsor name, and copied the same club description into both. This is the earlier of the pair, and it is kept at its own address because that is the address the links use.
A renamed stadium is a problem for an archive, not just for a letterhead. The building, the two clubs that share it and the seating are unchanged; only the name on the contract moved, and a database that keys its venues by name ends up holding the same ground twice with no way to say which entry is current. The later record is at DW Stadium, with the duplicated description left exactly as the programme wrote it there. What follows below is this entry’s own copy, the clubs’ own promotional wording from the season it was collected, ticket prices and all. Why a capacity figure or a naming-rights line is worth reading closely is taken up in Grounds and venues, and the money side of a stadium name in Sport business.
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Capacity and access details are quoted from the source named in the piece; grounds are rebuilt and relicensed.