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.
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.
"You do get attached to it in a funny sort of a way."
Like many Reds' supporters, he has been through the gamut of emotions over the decades.
"When I started in the early 60s, we played the Carlisle United match that would draw 18,000 people here - it's difficult to comprehend now."
But there had been an even bigger draw. FA Cup 3rd round, 1958, the Busby Babes of Manchester United just a month before the horror of the Munich Disaster.
Borough Park welcomed 21,000 people that day - roughly the population of the entire town today and a far cry from the 800 average gate reached this season.
It took just five minutes for Clive Colbridge to put the Reds in front, the romance of the cup alive on the cold Irish Sea coast.
That lead lasted until 10 minutes into the second half when a quickfire Dennis Viollet hat-trick saw reality triumph, but what a day.
"And then there were the dark days after 1977," says Durham.
"We dropped out of the Football League, became non-league, semi-professional, and for nearly three decades we struggled."
Several publicity stunts were pulled to bring some money through the turnstiles in those difficult years.