I'd like to disagree with you, but you'll only cry and run away. So yes, absolutely. Ancient, fire-hazard, freezing-cold wooden benches are the way to go. I wish more modern stadia had them.
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[Albion] What’s the worst away day in the 92?
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Slum_Wolf
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I agree...
People keep mentioning Oldham, I've been there twice and not noticed it being especially cold. Now, Fellows Park was cold; I've never been so frozen as watching Walsall fluke a 1-0 win there about 30 years ago
Coldest I've been at any sporting event was at Northampton.
I wouldn't mind, but I was there for a cricket match.
I was going to ask what the Ricoh is like as an away game. I've only ever been twice (once to go in the home end for a Cup replay against Portsmouth during Uni days when they were basically giving the tickets away and once for the Olympics) and on both occasions it was a complete pain in the arse. I understand they've since opened a station which they don't open on match days as it'll get too crowded.
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Stoke is grim, West Ham is a bit of a ballache, but can't help harking back to Barnet and that tiddly little away end behind that goal. Very odd. I guess that doesn't exist anymore?
Burnley is the worst town I have ever been to but I do like the old style Northern town stadiums.
Burnley is the worst town I have ever been to but I do like the old style Northern town stadiums.
I can only assume you've never had to change trains at Basingstoke.
Arthur
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I'm sure I heard something along the lines of the rail line they installed wasn't electrified and the rail operator only had one diesel train.
It's an odd ground, I don't dislike it as it is something different to the just add water bowl types that have shot up over the years but as you say PITA to get to and Coventry isn't really a great city for a beer either....at least I've never found it to be.
southstandandy
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Cambridge United has to be up there.
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Worst I’ve been to was the Priestfield or Belle Vue - I went to our final game at Doncaster and it was crumbling and falling down. And we lost 2-0.
stewart12
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I was also there. We were absolutely awful and that carthorse Mark McCammon scored for Doncaster
Iggle Piggle
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As someone who lives down the road from Cov, it's a bloody awful place for beer and there is next to nothing around the Ricoh {Sorry "CBS arena")
I think, however, that they have recently opened the station on match day albeit no additional trains on match days. In transportation terms for fans, it's Anne Frank's drumkit
Brian Fantana
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A bit of a pain to get to from the city centre, and the old away terrace used to be a bit grim. The new stand they built in its place about 20 years ago isn't too bad.
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And Tommy Fraser missed a sitter, got abuse from one twat amongst the couple of hundred of us behind the goal in the decrepit terrace (in the rain) - and proceeded to stick two fingers up to us at full time.
Really grim times.
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mind you, in the top picture, in the sunshine, that looks very relaxing!!
Brian Fantana
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Hartlepool is a bit of a grim one (in terms of getting to, the ground being freezing and there being no decent away pubs), but Bas Savage scoring a very, very late winner after pinballing the ball off seemingly their entire team was hugely enjoyable.
What wasn't SO enjoyable was that he then proceeded to do a moonwalk right in front of their main stand, where the atmosphere was a little sombre because there'd been a minute's silence before the game for one of their players who'd recently died in a car crash.
What wasn't SO enjoyable was that he then proceeded to do a moonwalk right in front of their main stand, where the atmosphere was a little sombre because there'd been a minute's silence before the game for one of their players who'd recently died in a car crash.
stewart12
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Tommy Elphick also ripped off his black armband after the goal and threw it on the floor. Dean Wilkins got a cup of tea thrown at him in the aftermath.
The main stand was tiny meaning Bas was moonwalking about 5 metres away from the grieving relatives
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I quite liked Cambridge too.
Having not been before I was envisaging a quaint old ground near a college or library with people floating past in punts.
Instead we took a seemingly never ending walk through a council estate. The pub we stopped off at halfway for much needed refreshment was notable for two things. Everyone in the pub turning to look at us as we walked in and for everyone having, cumulatively, three teeth and three hundred and forty tattoos, some of which were spelled correctly.
It was certainly educational but not, perhaps, in the way I expected.