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Post by Deleted on Sept 12, 2021 16:18:43 GMT
Not much happening at the moment on the pitch (thank God) so here goes...
Not fans so much, just the roughest place you have seen a Hereford team play. Ditto poshest.
Luton whilst not rough as such was a pretty mad place to have a ground.
I remember thinking that Rushden was smart, but that was just the ground I think. Nailsworth when FGR were regular opponents was a bit smart. You had that mad game (FA Trophy SF) when we took loads, there was zero chance of trouble, like an inland Torquay, but there was that mayhem with the Police outside that pub that was packed with Hereford fans.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 12, 2021 16:21:17 GMT
This is because we are playing Lymington (hopefully). A bit of an undercover Sandbanks.
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Post by colebridgebull on Sept 12, 2021 16:54:31 GMT
Highgate.
Both (on and off)
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Post by Deleted on Sept 12, 2021 17:02:36 GMT
Rotherham is certainly the roughest that I have been to though Bristol City was pretty intimidating. Sticking with HUFC, Tottenham would be smartest and most welcoming..
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Post by Deleted on Sept 12, 2021 17:02:54 GMT
Highgate. Both (on and off) Highgate is quite posh? I didn't know and didn't go. I am sure it is, but I remember it got mixed reviews on Away Trip Advisor.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 12, 2021 17:05:04 GMT
Rotherham is certainly the roughest that I have been to though Bristol City was pretty intimidating. Sticking with HUFC, Tottenham would be smartest and most welcoming.. Rotherham's old ground was in the middle of a scrap yard! Didn't Roman Abramovich first look at Spurs, but when he went down the nearby high street he thought it was a toilet so went for Chelsea instead?
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Post by dognamedboo on Sept 12, 2021 17:27:57 GMT
Rushden and Diamonds was a bit like visiting the rich relations. Their practice pitch, adjacent to the main ground was a better playing surface than anywhere else in that league. Newport County's old ground was a bit rough - anyone parking in nearby side streets was introduced to local custom of "Watch your car for sixpence, mister".
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Post by mikeunderpenyard on Sept 12, 2021 17:34:39 GMT
Walsall, our minibus stopped at a pub on a council estate for a pre arranged breakfast, the white horse i think, the scariest place I've ever been.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 12, 2021 17:36:16 GMT
I can remember a pre-season friendly in Leominster which is obviously a complete shithole.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 12, 2021 17:55:25 GMT
Bloody hell Newport's old ground/surrounding area. That must have made Highgate seem like Knightsbridge?
Walsall none too special. My missus worked for a Midlands building society in the 90s and there was a place not far from Bescot called Pleck. Near another beautiful part of the world called Darlaston. Anyway it was when bank branches started to be closed down tactically, but the one in Pleck had to be shut down for H&S purposes as it kept getting robbed. Pretty regularly. Prostitution was probably the biggest employer in the area. Awful place. I worked up there at one point and we went for a lunchtime pint. There was a chippie in there making some kind of contraption on a stage. It was for that evenings jelly wrestling.
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Post by Saul Goodman on Sept 12, 2021 17:58:38 GMT
Roughest: Bermondsey, Leeds, Burslem, Birkenhead, Accrington, Merthyr.
Poshest: Sutton Coldfield, Solihull, Boldmere, Wimborne, Dorchester, Poole, Bournemouth.
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Post by vorno on Sept 12, 2021 18:00:56 GMT
Ebbsfleet - just horrid
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Post by mikeunderpenyard on Sept 12, 2021 18:08:24 GMT
Roughest: Bermondsey, Leeds, Burslem, Birkenhead, Accrington, Merthyr. Poshest: Sutton Coldfield, Solihull, Boldmere, Wimborne, Dorchester, Poole, Bournemouth. Apart from being the coldest I've ever been at a football match, I've got quite fond memories of Accrington, the local police were even kind enough to give us an escort away from the ground after the game had finished, apparently for our own safety. A frustrating 0.0
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Post by Monkey Tennis on Sept 12, 2021 19:02:30 GMT
Isn't Lymington where that fantastic giggle-box programme "Howard's Way" was set? I recall the fictional name of the place was Tarrant, but wasn't it based on Lymington?
I liked some of the characters, but that Leo had a permanently confused expression etched on his boat, and that Abby Urquhart was a nightmare - she looked as though she was going to throw up any minute.
Ken Masters was a bit of a one and I can't remember whether he actually enjoyed a daliance with Jan Howard or not in the end - not that Tom would've cared I doubt - he was always more interested in his bloody Barracuda anyway.
That Charles Frere was a w@nker, mind. Not surprising with a name like that, the pompous business-suited smooth-talking smarmy git, and that Jack Rolfe was always there, p1ssed.
Never watched it. Utter sh1te.
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Post by sevenoaksbull on Sept 12, 2021 19:27:22 GMT
Northfleet, was probably the roughest place I’ve been to for an away game. Poshest…. tough one, maybe the Withdean Stadium in Brighton (with the added bonus of calling out RobbinSavage) or possibly Hartley Wintney, who really had no clue what to expect when we turned up. Let me park my car (ask Gresty what make) right by the entrance mind…..
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Post by Saul Goodman on Sept 12, 2021 19:30:25 GMT
Northfleet, was probably the roughest place I’ve been to for an away game. Poshest…. tough one, maybe the Withdean Stadium in Brighton (with the added bonus of calling out RobbinSavage) or possibly Hartley Wintney, who really had no clue what to expect when we turned up. Let me park my car (ask Gresty what make) right by the entrance mind….. You and that Range Rover. We had to park our supporters buses in a lay-by 3/4 of a mile away. 😀
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Post by mikeunderpenyard on Sept 12, 2021 19:34:03 GMT
Northfleet, was probably the roughest place I’ve been to for an away game. Poshest…. tough one, maybe the Withdean Stadium in Brighton (with the added bonus of calling out RobbinSavage) or possibly Hartley Wintney, who really had no clue what to expect when we turned up. Let me park my car (ask Gresty what make) right by the entrance mind….. I lived in Brighton for 5 years, moved there for uni in September 97, had my car broken into twice in the first 6 months, definitely robbin savages.
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Post by sevenoaksbull on Sept 12, 2021 19:43:42 GMT
Northfleet, was probably the roughest place I’ve been to for an away game. Poshest…. tough one, maybe the Withdean Stadium in Brighton (with the added bonus of calling out RobbinSavage) or possibly Hartley Wintney, who really had no clue what to expect when we turned up. Let me park my car (ask Gresty what make) right by the entrance mind….. You and that Range Rover. We had to park our supporters buses in a lay-by 3/4 of a mile away. 😀 Gresty, shall I see I can get parked up right next to the entrance to Lymington FC this Saturday? On a wider point folks, Lymington is of course in Hampshire, where the local plod don’t like us judging by the overkill presence at Hartley Wintney and Farnborough in recent years.
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Post by Saul Goodman on Sept 12, 2021 19:48:25 GMT
Roughest: Bermondsey, Leeds, Burslem, Birkenhead, Accrington, Merthyr. Poshest: Sutton Coldfield, Solihull, Boldmere, Wimborne, Dorchester, Poole, Bournemouth. Apart from being the coldest I've ever been at a football match, I've got quite fond memories of Accrington, the local police were even kind enough to give us an escort away from the ground after the game had finished, apparently for our own safety. A frustrating 0.0 HUISA coaches that I drove were escorted away 'for our own safety' from Burslem,* Leeds, Cheltenham, Barnet, Aldershot (that Beadle match) & Aston. We were supposed to have been escorted TO Millwall's ground but plod never showed up at the RVP and we were left to our own devices both getting to and from Bermondsey. *Got a bollocking from plod for not advising them I was near the Port Vale ground. When asked which route I had taken to get to Vale Park, I said 'through Burslem Town Centre' and the motorcycle Bobby looked at me as if I was mad. I really had no idea....
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Post by Deleted on Sept 12, 2021 19:53:39 GMT
Isn't Lymington where that fantastic giggle-box programme "Howard's Way" was set? I recall the fictional name of the place was Tarrant, but wasn't it based on Lymington? I liked some of the characters, but that Leo had a permanently confused expression etched on his boat, and that Abby Urquhart was a nightmare - she looked as though she was going to throw up any minute. Ken Masters was a bit of a one and I can't remember whether he actually enjoyed a daliance with Jan Howard or not in the end - not that Tom would've cared I doubt - he was always more interested in his bloody Barracuda anyway. That Charles Frere was a w@nker, mind. Not surprising with a name like that, the pompous business-suited smooth-talking smarmy git, and that Jack Rolfe was always there, p1ssed. Never watched it. Utter sh1te. During the exam period of my final year at college Howard's Way was being rerun at 2pm or something like that. We would have tutorials in the morning with the idea that you went off and built on that in the afternoon. There was a group of us that used to ensure that we all did crap by revising together. We would smash a load of dodgy food for lunch then would settle down and watch Howard's Way for an hour (which none of us had previously had any interest in as kids). We got well in to it. I can't remember anything about it now though, nor what I was meant to be learning. One time we were still going by the news at 10. I think we were a bit mashed by now. They had that humorous news item at the end. Now I already used to get a bit of grief for being a hillbilly, but this village which escapes me - Kington way I think, featured as someone daubed the word MUD on some plywood. Then someone wrote Shawodywaddy, then someone got an old car door and wrote The Doors, and so it went on. They let them get on with it for a bit. It became a bit of a tourist attraction according to the news report. Does anyone remember that?
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