Laithwaite Community Stadium

The name on the paperwork changed in August 2015; the name in the stands did not. A sponsorship deal with Laithwaite Financial Services Ltd, the local firm run by Andrew Laithwaite, put Laithwaite Community Stadium on the signage for two years with an option to extend. Supporters kept saying Kingfield, which is what the ground had been called since it opened.

That continuity runs deeper than a name. The ground opened on 5 June 1922, with construction having begun the year before, and it has stayed on the same plot off Kingfield Road ever since. What it has not stayed is unchanged. The main stand, the Leslie Gosden Stand, went up in 1995 and holds 2,500 — a substantial share of the ground's total, and the piece that gives Kingfield its shape from the road.

The money for that stand came from Woking Borough Council, which also owns the stadium. That ownership is the fact that explains most of the others: a municipal landlord rather than a club-owned freehold, and a ground that has been developed in stages as the council has been willing to fund them rather than all at once to a single plan.

The pitch is natural grass with no undersoil heating, so a hard January is a live question here in a way it is not at grounds fitted out for it. Cup football has its own rules, but frost does not read the fixture list.