It will be a long time before anything of note happens to Witton Lane.
Yep, think everything on the concourse inc toilets are original fit when the cheapskate would have purchased the cheapest of everything. Upper tier has 5 toilet cubicles for ladies before you even consider the men’s….hot drinks are decanted via a tea urn that when it runs out it runs out and the way they do soft drinks is crazy.
Somebody with half a brain in power or any inclination could improve that concourse experience in one summer easily but we know it won’t.
I've almost certainly mentioned this before ... but I've not bothered about whether I've already told an anecdote to someone before and I'm blowed if I'm going to start now.
I worked as a kitchen porter at the Villa for one summer (we won the Intertoto Cup on my watch, so that's something for me to be proud of). The Witton Lane kitchens were always an absolute nightmare to clean. For reasons I still can't work out, whereas in most of the kitchens they were relatively sane and sloped slightly down to the drains, in the Witton Lane the drains were slightly higher than the rest of the kitchen. You'd spend 2 or 3 times the amount of time mopping & scrubbing the floor in than as anywhere else just because it took so long to push the water uphill against it's general inclination.
The North Stand was also crap to work in, but that was more because the washing up section was way too small for the amount of food being served. Liked working in the Trinity Road Stand, the Holte End kitchen was alright, Corner Flag was comfortably my favourite though as it was the most chilled out one by a long way, and as long as it wasn't absolutely mental in there the chefs would knock up a meal to order (based on what they had) for the KPs.
