[Football] A difficult place to go

Barry Izbak · Nov 10, 2021

Next for us is Villa Park.
You're almost bound to hear GP say its a difficult place to go.
All managers say that wherever they are playing is a "difficult place to go".
I know it's a cliché like "take every game as it comes" , but can you think of anywhere that we go which is actually an easy place to go?
Or indeed a particularly difficult place to go?

Southampton for example. Easy to get to. Reasonable record there. I'd say that's not a difficult place to go.

Chelsea though, easy to get to, but terrible record there = difficult place to go.

Guinness Boy · Nov 10, 2021

Barry Izbak said:
which is actually an easy place to go?

The Amex.

It's "nice".

el punal · Nov 10, 2021

Yeovil is a difficult place to go. The station is miles from the town. The ground is on the outskirts of the town on some poxy housing estate. The local pub is a maze of streets and footpaths away from said ground. It didn’t help that I was drunk, so there, shit happens.

Harry Wilson's tackle · Nov 10, 2021

Easy for me is Brisbane Road and P'filled.

Difficult, Carlisle.

Titanic · Nov 10, 2021

el punal said:
Yeovil is a difficult place to go. The station is miles from the town. The ground is on the outskirts of the town on some poxy housing estate. The local pub is a maze of streets and footpaths away from said ground. It didn’t help that I was drunk, so there, shit happens.

and to cap it off... one of our worst performances in living memory against the bottom side in the league!

Cheeky Monkey · Nov 10, 2021

As long as it’s not that vastly overrated Emily Blunt crap ‘A Quiet Place’ I don’t overly care. :moo:

Thunder Bolt · Nov 10, 2021

Are we talking geographically and travel ease, or the history of results against the particular clubs?

Raleigh Chopper · Nov 10, 2021

I have been on the toilet for the past 15 minutes and still nothing.
My toilet is therefore also a difficult place to go.

el punal · Nov 10, 2021

Raleigh Chopper said:
I have been on the toilet for the past 15 minutes and still nothing.
My toilet is therefore also a difficult place to go.

Shit doesn’t happen.

Taybha · Nov 10, 2021

It's been a while but Swindon always meant trouble for my powers of map reading, folk lore has it that Swindon was actually never meant to be a place at all just so many people got lost there they decided to stay and live out the rest of their lives concocting wicked spells to make themselves all look the same.

Washie · Nov 10, 2021

Cheeky Monkey said:
As long as it’s not that vastly overrated Emily Blunt crap ‘A Quiet Place’ I don’t overly care.

No, we're away from home.

Stat Brother · Nov 10, 2021

Barry Izbak said:
Southampton for example. Easy to get to. Reasonable record there. I'd say that's not a difficult place to go.

and considerably nicer than Brighton.

A1X · Nov 10, 2021

Depends what you're after. As a ground there are lots, if you're looking for an away win that takes an awful lot of them straight out of the mix.

EDIT - Just thought Hove is probably a good place to go for a First Class cricket team. Lovely ground to spend a few days at and, let's be honest, not tough to get a result right now.

SAC · Nov 10, 2021

I could be wrong but Fulham and West Ham have been pretty good in terms of away points.

Fulham is nice an easy to get to with lots of decent pubs, West Ham is a pain with no decent local pubs.

maltaseagull · Nov 10, 2021

Taybha said:
It's been a while but Swindon always meant trouble for my powers of map reading, folk lore has it that Swindon was actually never meant to be a place at all just so many people got lost there they decided to stay and live out the rest of their lives concocting wicked spells to make themselves all look the same.

I used to think the same about East Grinstead.

It seemed to be on almost every signpost in Sussex but actually getting there was not so easy.

PeterT · Nov 10, 2021

maltaseagull said:
I used to think the same about East Grinstead.

It seemed to be on almost every signpost in Sussex but actually getting there was not so easy.

I was on one of 2 coaches in 1989 away to Bradford. Even the local traffic cop who came on to escort the coaches in said it was a difficult place to go.

Comrade Sam · Nov 10, 2021

I can walk to Spurs, West Ham and Leyton Orient from here. But getting a ticket to watch the Albion at the first 2 is not going to happen. Would be easier places to go if I could accumulate enough points at home games, like every middle class numtees sibling that says to me 'Oh you're a Brighton fan, my brother moved there a couple of years ago, has season tickets at the Amex for him and his kids Theo and Flopsie!'

Comrade Sam · Nov 10, 2021

I had always thought Swindon's road layout was based on the following:

Swansman · Nov 10, 2021

They all appear to be difficult places to go to.

essbee1 · Nov 10, 2021

Comrade Sam said:
I can walk to Spurs, West Ham and Leyton Orient from here. But getting a ticket to watch the Albion at the first 2 is not going to happen. Would be easier places to go if I could accumulate enough points at home games, like every middle class numtees sibling that says to me 'Oh you're a Brighton fan, my brother moved there a couple of years ago, has season tickets at the Amex for him and his kids Theo and Flopsie!'

Thing is Sam, there are plenty of London-based Albion supporters who are season ticket holders as well (e.g, me) and we spend most
of the day for home games getting to that bloody Amex and back home again, so while we live in London, it's horses for courses
as far as getting tickets is concerned. I am within easy access of West Ham, Spurs, Arsenal and Chelsea, but the price we pay for tickets
for those matches is the slog down to Brighton every other bleeding week for 19 homes games.

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