On win days, pay days and bonus days, all the stable staff would go out on the sauce and monopolise certain pubs in the (small) centre of town. At chucking out time there would invariably be fighting, puking and all the other lovely side effects that usually come with living in a much larger...
My sister in law worked the stables at John Dunlops during their heady days of the 90s. There was subculture at night in the town which you never saw during the day and which has now, happily, disappeared.
Not sure I would want that revisited!
Live just outside Chi. And love it. Have a boat in the marina and play golf up at Goodwood most weekends.
The main reason my son is an Albion nut is because Albion made the effort to coach locally in the area and he got into the youth team - not sure I had much to do with it!
Crown and Anchor...