[Football] You're Welsh- And You Know You Are...

[Robdinho]

Not sure that annexing Chester will go down to well with the local residents.

Don't think many of the residents would consider Chester to be in Wales

 

[Neville's Breakfast]

Why not? There's like 3 buildings that fall on the Welsh side, one of which is the football stadium.
Why not just redraw the border slightly so that all of Chester is in England? It's an arbitrary, man-made line in the first place, after all.

Maybe send that suggestion in to Vladimir Putin ? All he has to do is build some football grounds on the wrong side of the border and it’s job done

 

[Cheshire Cat]

https://www.northstandchat.com/showthread.php?392380-You-re-Welsh-And-You-Know-You-Are

There's always one.......

 

[Lower West Stander]

What a tool Drakeford is.

It must be so frustrating living close to the border and watching the English freedom. Being in the middle of nonsensical nationalist politics must be driving them bonkers as well. Seriously you have pubs across the road from each other with different COVID rules.

This is all so ridiculous you would laugh if the threat over Chester wasn’t so serious.


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[Normal Rob]

Maybe send that suggestion in to Vladimir Putin ? All he has to do is build some football grounds on the wrong side of the border and it’s job done

Just as an aside on that point, aren't embassys deigned as being sovereign ground? i.e. the Russian embassy in London is technically Russian land? Is that is the case (it may well not be, it may well be something I've made up in my head) then don't tell Putin.

 

[VAL1850]

Bit of the same as for Groombridge in Lockdown. Sussex sde was free and Kent side was locked down. Think the pubs unfortunately were on the Kent side...

 

[jessiejames]

The car park is in England

 

[Sirnormangall]

Not a ground I've been to, but having had a quick gander at Google maps it does appear that you can only actually get into the stadium site from the English side of the border, so I'd be surprised if a bit of common sense doesn't break out in the near future.

Hmmm - politics and common sense don’t usually make good bed fellows!

 

[DavidinSouthampton]

Why not? There's like 3 buildings that fall on the Welsh side, one of which is the football stadium.
Why not just redraw the border slightly so that all of Chester is in England? It's an arbitrary, man-made line in the first place, after all.

It’s probably a bit more complicated than that and lots and lots of different groups and institutions would have to agree it, I would imagine.

 

[Curious Orange]

Turns out that I was right about the stadium only being accessible from the English side of the border.

Not only that but the whole of the site comes under the auspices of the local Cheshire West and Chester Council (a bit like there are parts of Sussex in the Kent administrative area) who actually own the land, and games are policed by the Cheshire Constabulary.

This is a farce, frankly, and the Welsh Assembly should be embarrassed.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-59920281

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

Why not just redraw the border?

Wouldn’t happen in Germany.

 

[Grassman]

Bit of the same as for Groombridge in Lockdown. Sussex sde was free and Kent side was locked down. Think the pubs unfortunately were on the Kent side...

There are 2 pubs in Groombridge, one, The Junction, is in Sussex, the other, The Crown, in Kent.