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Re: Blackburn Away
« Reply #15 on: February 20, 2012, 08:00:32 PM »


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!!!

Is'nt the Red Robin one of those restuarant type pubs with a Wacky Warehouse in it?

There's a decent enough, if small pub a bit further up past the ground on a corner, which has got a dartboard and Sky Sports, can't i for the life of me think what it's called though.
 


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Re: Blackburn Away
« Reply #16 on: February 20, 2012, 08:23:52 PM »
The last time I went to Blackburn I took my dad, who's in his 60s. What joy the Fernhurst was on a cold February afternoon, drinking Aldi lager out of can in the car park because the pub was full. Watching the Villa fans getting more and more boisterous, tipping over the portable toilets, then someone punching a police horse... he hasn't been to an away since!

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Re: Blackburn Away
« Reply #17 on: February 20, 2012, 09:25:32 PM »


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!!!
There's a decent enough, if small pub a bit further up past the ground on a corner, which has got a dartboard and Sky Sports, can't i for the life of me think what it's called though.

Fox and Hounds?

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Re: Blackburn Away
« Reply #18 on: February 21, 2012, 08:48:22 PM »
The last time I went to Blackburn I took my dad, who's in his 60s. What joy the Fernhurst was on a cold February afternoon, drinking Aldi lager out of can in the car park because the pub was full. Watching the Villa fans getting more and more boisterous, tipping over the portable toilets, then someone punching a police horse... he hasn't been to an away since!

That brings back a vague memory, I think the lad who punched the horse might have been on our bus on the way there.

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Re: Blackburn Away
« Reply #19 on: February 21, 2012, 09:54:58 PM »
The last time I went to Blackburn I took my dad, who's in his 60s. What joy the Fernhurst was on a cold February afternoon, drinking Aldi lager out of can in the car park because the pub was full. Watching the Villa fans getting more and more boisterous, tipping over the portable toilets, then someone punching a police horse... he hasn't been to an away since!




That brings back a vague memory, I think the lad who punched the horse might have been on our bus on the way there.

But obviously not on the way back?

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Re: Blackburn Away
« Reply #20 on: February 21, 2012, 10:06:05 PM »
The last time I went to Blackburn I took my dad, who's in his 60s. What joy the Fernhurst was on a cold February afternoon, drinking Aldi lager out of can in the car park because the pub was full. Watching the Villa fans getting more and more boisterous, tipping over the portable toilets, then someone punching a police horse... he hasn't been to an away since!
Fuck me, that must've been a hard punch.

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Re: Blackburn Away
« Reply #21 on: February 22, 2012, 12:18:11 PM »
  then someone punching a police horse... he hasn't been to an away since!

What the chap or the horse?

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Re: Blackburn Away
« Reply #22 on: February 22, 2012, 12:20:06 PM »


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!!!
There's a decent enough, if small pub a bit further up past the ground on a corner, which has got a dartboard and Sky Sports, can't i for the life of me think what it's called though.

Fox and Hounds?

No, i don't think it was called that. Nice enough pub though. We stop enroute not a milion miles away from Wigan where the beer is ridiculously cheap. Could'nt possibly say where though.

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Re: Blackburn Away
« Reply #23 on: February 24, 2012, 06:48:49 PM »
Outside of Wigan, Billinge. Near the ground, The Anvil. Best pub? Where I will be tomorrow. Where is that? Get to fuck!

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Re: Blackburn Away
« Reply #24 on: February 24, 2012, 07:02:16 PM »
Outside of Wigan, Billinge. Near the ground, The Anvil. Best pub? Where I will be tomorrow. Where is that? Get to fuck!

You don't know where you're posting, you don't know where you're posting.

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Re: Blackburn Away
« Reply #25 on: February 24, 2012, 07:17:48 PM »
But it's a brilliant pub. Packed full of Villa.

Yeah, and they sing songs and throw their beer around.
And portacabin toilets...with people in them!

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Re: Blackburn Away
« Reply #26 on: February 24, 2012, 07:27:26 PM »
Outside of Wigan, Billinge. Near the ground, The Anvil. Best pub? Where I will be tomorrow. Where is that? Get to fuck!

Correct answer.

Offline cheltenhamlion

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Re: Blackburn Away
« Reply #27 on: February 24, 2012, 08:17:56 PM »
Are you going tomorrow cd?

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Re: Blackburn Away
« Reply #28 on: February 24, 2012, 08:26:23 PM »
Yep, meeting Frank in the pub, assume you'll be there? If you want will PM you details.

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Re: Blackburn Away
« Reply #29 on: February 24, 2012, 08:29:05 PM »
I am starting up the road an hour before that one opens!

 


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