Blackburn Away

[sideshow]

Apparently The Fernhurst is under new management, and do not accept football supporters on match days.

New pub(s) needed for the majority by the looks of it.........

The Golden Cup by the overhead bridge does outstanding pies over the bar, but its tiny inside, and doubt if the usually mixed crowd in there would appreciate the Fernhurst crowd turning up!

[dave.woodhall]

Apparently The Fernhurst is under new management, and do not accept football supporters on match days.

Who the hell else are they going to get?

[sideshow]

Exactly what i thought, must be losing them a fortune in takings if true.

[dave.woodhall]

Tweet from WMP:

Fans travelling to Blackburn by car/coach the Anchor Pub on Bolton Road, Darwin, are happy to accept away fans

[Chipsticks]

Absolutely stupid decision by management surely, I cannot comprehend why they would do that, unless perhaps their target market is old Northern ladies who still think that we're in the third division and that Gordon Banks is the England Goalkeeper.

[Pete3206]

The Fernhurst - Ugh!

[Lambert and Payne]

I think it maybe more to do with Villa fans actions over the years?

[dave.woodhall]

It's been turned into a restaurant. In Blackburn.

[villajk]

http://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/news/blackburn/9419460.The_Fernhurst_pub_and_hotel_in_Blackburn_sold_by_Thwaites/

Bit out of date article.

[TopDeck113]

Awful place.  Can't think why anyone would ever have wanted to drink in there. 

[villajk]

Awful place.  Can't think why anyone would ever have wanted to drink in there. 

I quite agree, but while those who want to be I there are in there they're not in the pubs we want to be in.

[dave.woodhall]

But it's a brilliant pub. Packed full of Villa.

[villajk]

But it's a brilliant pub. Packed full of Villa.

Yeah, and they sing songs and throw their beer around.

[sideshow]

It is (was) the perfect away pub, massive, full to the rafters with villa fans, and you only had to cross the road at 2.55pm to enter the away end.

I cant think of many others like that except maybe the Witton Arms for the away fans at VP, and the Red Robin at Wigan.  They better not turn that into a bloody restaurant before Saturday!!!

[Andy_Lochhead_in_the_air]

Absolutely stupid decision by management surely, I cannot comprehend why they would do that, unless perhaps their target market is old Northern ladies who still think that we're in the third division and that Gordon Banks is the England Goalkeeper.