Away Games

[not3bad]

Stoke has to be one of the worst aways, ground on a godforsaken windswept hill, no pubs anywhere nearby and we never win there.

Shit when I went there.  Shit match, freezing wind, ignorant staff, crap food, no beer.

[Percy McCarthy]

Stoke's firm reminded me of the Pathetic Sharks last time I went. There were about 20 of them by our mini-bus as we got back to it after the match (lost 3-2), ten of us and a little kid. So they outnumbered us 2 to 1, yet they still got on their phones for back-up. God knows how many they thought they needed. Perhaps there is an agreement that all the Naughty Forty have to be there before anyone throws a punch. We drove off laughing at them while they awaited reinforcements.

[silhillvilla]

The old stoke ground was equally bad. More character though.
Anyone get on the Alamo in 81?

[Vancouver]

A vote for Spurs being the worst. Shit area and shit fans. Tube station ages away.

I've always enjoyed Southampton. Most of the fans are great but you get little pockets of peats that you brush off. Seem to remember a few years ago villa fans in fancy dress fighting outside a pub. Also enjoyed Pompey.

[Breezeblock]

Stoke is the shittest for me too. Stuck in the middle of an industrial estate surrounded by car showrooms, one pub which is obviously heaving, surly staff, no free parking anywhere nearby, nasty fans, soulless and freezing cold ground no matter what the weather is doing outside (I'm sure that it doubles as Azkaban and the Stoke stewards are really Dementors), shit excuse for football played by the home team on the narrowest pitch imaginable and I've never seen us win there.  Horrible place.

[Dave Clark Five]

Spurs midweek is bad in the sense the walk back to 7 sisters tube can be intimidating.

Get the train to Seven Sisters from White Hart Lane or walk to Tottenham Hale.
If you aren't bedecked in away colours, there is no trouble apart from the usual gobbing off when you first come out of the away end.

[Nev]

I used to hate Selhurst, it seemed to take hours to get there.

Stoke represent everything I hate about the modern game, the location, the fukin' Harvester or whatever it is, the drab souless design. That's before you come to the football itself and the fact that playing limited, basic football and winning fuck all year, year out represents success in the Premier League. Soul destroying.

Everton is one of the last great grounds, give me a stadium that reeks of history and atmosphere rather than a great view at that Arsenal corporate-hole.

[Ads]

Southampton is a favourite of mine. Even the Dell was a good trip, despite us getting turned over a lot there in the early 90's.

I remember a few years back when we played them as the last away game and there was the Mario Brothers and Batman & Robin etc kicking off with the locals. Very surreal.

Tottenahms a shithole, they set it on fire. Shit ground, arsehole fans, the wankiest area this side of B9 and its never on a bleeding Saturday.

[silhillvilla]

Spurs midweek is bad in the sense the walk back to 7 sisters tube can be intimidating.

Get the train to Seven Sisters from White Hart Lane or walk to Tottenham Hale.
If you aren't bedecked in away colours, there is no trouble apart from the usual gobbing off when you first come out of the away end.

It's not the spurs fans that trouble me, moreover the local residents.
Rougher area for me than around west ham.

[eastie]

The old stoke ground was equally bad. More character though.
Anyone get on the Alamo in 81?

The Victoria ground was a dreadful place , so pleased to see it long gone, selhurst park is a long trek and not been there since dalians goal in the early 90s.

[Witton Warrior]

The old stoke ground was equally bad. More character though.
Anyone get on the Alamo in 81?

1981? Was that the 1-1 on Easter Monday? We had fans in all parts of the ground and sang "win the league" throughout - seem to remember you could get a drink and watch the match through the bar - or maybe too lubricated...

With the old venues like the Baseball Ground and Coventry set in the middle of terraced housing it was always "fun" when you came out the ground. Leicetser was a leery walk I recall...

[Rudy Can't Fail]

The old stoke ground was equally bad. More character though.
Anyone get on the Alamo in 81?

1981? Was that the 1-1 on Easter Monday? We had fans in all parts of the ground and sang "win the league" throughout - seem to remember you could get a drink and watch the match through the bar - or maybe too lubricated...

With the old venues like the Baseball Ground and Coventry set in the middle of terraced housing it was always "fun" when you came out the ground. Leicetser was a leery walk I recall...

Ayresome Park makes those three look like Disney World.

Goodison, Anfield, the Hawthorns and the Cottage are always a good day out.

[Andy_Lochhead_in_the_air]

Outside Old Trafford in the 1970s could be tricky.
Home fans asking you the time to spot your accent.
You trying to sound like you were from South Wales or Devon.

[Pete3206]

I miss The Dell.

[Chris Jameson]

Ayresome Park makes those three look like Disney World.

Goodison, Anfield, the Hawthorns and the Cottage are always a good day out.

Ayresome Park was pwopa naughty, so glad they demolished that place. The walk to the railway station bloody terrifying. I can remember coming out of the ground with a girl I took and we got attacked, we were 15 years old, they were a group of blokes. Hope they all had miserable lives, if they lived in Middlesbrough they will have.