brixtonA23
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- Aug 5, 2011
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I really wasn't going to write this post, but couldn't help myself as it really makes no sense of a train journey.
I absolutely love the away days and as I'm sure a lot of you do, have rituals of the same breakfast place and we always pretend to be rich by ordering wine at the Betjemen Bar at St Pancras.
It is usually only three who travel away so we always feel for the poor person whose genteel table alone becomes 12 cans and hell awaits them. But after years of travelling away, every time the stranger smiles and before we know it we chat and joke and a great time. And always on the way home you meet fans from different clubs and everybody has a common bond.
So Barnsley away. For the first time we didn't have to apologise or explain why we drink at such an early time. And why two out of three are wearing matching shirts. Because the guy on our table and the table next to us were Orient.
They didn't say a word to us and when they asked themselves who Brighton were playing, without irony, you leave the train at Sheffield just gobsmacked. Although a bad game the fans of Sheffield United, Rotherham and Doncaster meant we travelled home happy.
So as much as we don't like the people from Croydon, I have to make Leyton Orient a very close second.
I absolutely love the away days and as I'm sure a lot of you do, have rituals of the same breakfast place and we always pretend to be rich by ordering wine at the Betjemen Bar at St Pancras.
It is usually only three who travel away so we always feel for the poor person whose genteel table alone becomes 12 cans and hell awaits them. But after years of travelling away, every time the stranger smiles and before we know it we chat and joke and a great time. And always on the way home you meet fans from different clubs and everybody has a common bond.
So Barnsley away. For the first time we didn't have to apologise or explain why we drink at such an early time. And why two out of three are wearing matching shirts. Because the guy on our table and the table next to us were Orient.
They didn't say a word to us and when they asked themselves who Brighton were playing, without irony, you leave the train at Sheffield just gobsmacked. Although a bad game the fans of Sheffield United, Rotherham and Doncaster meant we travelled home happy.
So as much as we don't like the people from Croydon, I have to make Leyton Orient a very close second.
