League Cup 2021-22: Round 4 draw.

[Footy-Vill]

So I don't even know what or who this Barrow are obviously in the North. No idea.
Must be league 2?

Very far North. They were in the league for years before spending decades in non-league. Promoted back to the bottom tier the year before last.

We really should be winning.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holker_Street

Holker Street has remained unchanged since the redevelopment of the main stand in the mid-1990s. Described as having "a traditional, old fashioned feel", the ground has three sides of terracing and one all-seater Main Stand, the latter with a capacity of around 1,000. The Main Stand, backing onto Wilkie Road is raised above the central portion of the pitch, with flat standing on either side. The Popular Side now has the only covered terracing, opposite the Main Stand. This end is dominated by the CrossBar which houses the club's offices, and which somewhat damages the aesthetics of the ground. Between 1963 and 2017, the ground had large floodlighting structures in its four corners. Three of those were replaced by smaller floodlights; one was kept because it also functions as a mobile phone mast.

The stadium also has basic catering facilities on match days.

The roof of the Main Stand suffered minor damage on 16 October 2017, as a result of Hurricane Ophelia. In 2020, a roof was built on the Holker Street End of the ground after the club had won promotion back to the Football League.

Wow thats a good sounding and good tie in all fairness.
Outside of anyone having to get up there.
Thanks

[dave shelley]

So I don't even know what or who this Barrow are obviously in the North. No idea.
Must be league 2?

North West England Footy, look up Barrow-in-Furness Cumbria.  Formerly a large ship building town.

Here you go Footy

[Demitri_C]

The stadium capacity is only 5k??

[Brazilian Villain]

The stadium also has basic catering facilities on match days.

I bet their cheesy fries are still better than those at the Sty.

[Footy-Vill]

Balckoool

This effort !   

[Andy_Lochhead_in_the_air]

So I don't even know what or who this Barrow are obviously in the North. No idea.
Must be league 2?

It's in Furness.

[Footy-Vill]

So I don't even know what or who this Barrow are obviously in the North. No idea.
Must be league 2?

North West England Footy, look up Barrow-in-Furness Cumbria.  Formerly a large ship building town.

Here you go Footy

Wow that's Really interesting.  Thanks! Bet it's very cold up there!

[AV82EC]

Long midweek trip for the committed that one!

[Footy-Vill]

So I don't even know what or who this Barrow are obviously in the North. No idea.
Must be league 2?

It's in Furness.

And that is.
Furness is a peninsula and region of Cumbria in northwestern England. Together with the Cartmel Peninsula it forms North Lonsdale, historically an exclave of Lancashire!
The Internet  helped!

[Toronto Villa]

[SoccerHQ]

Was actually going to visit the place one but gave up when they cancelled the train from Oxenholme Lake District and spent a very pleasant afternoon in Kendal instead.

Far worse away trips out there if you do an overnight stay around that part of the world.

[Villa Lew]

Their manager is Mark Cooper ex Blues player and son of Terry, who passed away recently.

[Jon Crofts]

May have to arrange a work trip to visit our

So I don't even know what or who this Barrow are obviously in the North. No idea.
Must be league 2?

North West England Footy, look up Barrow-in-Furness Cumbria.  Formerly a large ship building town.

Here you go Footy

Formerly a ship building town?

9000 men and women still build submarines there Dave.

[Andy_Lochhead_in_the_air]

There are many pubs and working men's clubs in Barrow. Barrow has fourteen of the latter, one of the highest number per capita of any British town. There are also many bars and clubs found primarily in Barrow town centre on Duke Street and Cornwallis Street. Popular venues on Duke Street include the following bars: Jefferson's, the Buddha Bar, Bar Cairo and the Drawing Room. They did have a Yates's but the building was deemed unsafe and has since been demolished.

A traditional favourite food in Barrow is the pie, and particularly the meat and potato pie. Pie shops are common, and Green's of Jarrow Street is noted as a favourite of Barrow-born celebrity chef Dave Myers and journalist Martin Tarbuck, who declared them to be Britain's best pies in a book dedicated to the subject.

Barrow was also the home of soft-drink company Marsh's, which produced a distinctive sarsaparilla-flavoured fizzy drink known as Sass. Marsh's was purchased by Purity Soft Drinks of Birmingham in 1993, and the company stopped producing Sass in 1999. Remaining bottles have subsequently sold for high prices as a collector's item. A new product, labelled "Barrow Sass", was launched in 2014 in a bid to replicate traditional Sass.

[SaddVillan]

 172 miles from Villa Park. 4 hr drive - assuming the M6 is clear all the way north.

Last train out of there leaves at quarter to ten, but takes until  early morning to get you back to Brum with a couple of changes thrown in.