IT IS the only football venue in England with a bobsleigh track, the only ground where Steph Cook has won a World Cup modern pentathlon gold medal and the only soccer club entrance showing Roger Bannister breaking the four-minute mile. Players of Mansfield Town had better be careful today not to get lost at the home of Team Bath. One wrong turn and, instead of the FA Cup, they might find themselves appearing in a national water polo tournament.
“Two tickets for the game? Of course, sir,” Rob Whalley, a British international athlete, said. As sales assistant, he was imagining the teases that he might try on football fans phoning to book. “Where would you like to sit? Down the home straight, behind the high