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AFKABartram
AFKABartram Posts: 57,833
in General Charlton
from your years on the road following the Addicks.

Been in a few dives, one at Coventry particularly sticks out and an Irish bar over at Shepherds Bush for QPR.

any strong memories or particular tales?
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  • 1905
    1905 Posts: 2,752
    Some dreadful pubs in Fleetwood - cheap though!
  • goodbyehorse_
    goodbyehorse_ Posts: 90
    bradford spings to mind, shocking pub on route to the ground, everyone in there had 12 fingers
  • Jack_Charlton
    Jack_Charlton Posts: 338
    Every pub in Gillingham
  • roseandcrown
    roseandcrown Posts: 7,588
    one in bradford @ElfsborgAddick dragged a few of us to a couple of seasons back.

    Gone 12 not open see us outside so opened by the Addams family was really creepy. Walking to the toilet was like walking the green mile. 
  • roseandcrown
    roseandcrown Posts: 7,588
    AFKABartram said:
    from your years on the road following the Addicks.

    Been in a few dives, one at Coventry particularly sticks out and an Irish bar over at Shepherds Bush for QPR.

    any strong memories or particular tales?
    The Rocket by the station? 
  • se9addick
    se9addick Posts: 32,051
    There’s one called the Sportsman or the Cricketer near to Tranmere’s ground that must be up there.
  • palarsehater
    palarsehater Posts: 12,298
    Blackburn pub which was the headquarters of the local edl group, asked for a pint of strongbow and was given a can and then poured into a glass, we had booked an advance fair and it was pissing down and the train didnt go until 6.15pm so we had nothing to but stay there. 

    pompey 2 seasons ago ended up in havant in some dive called the six bells. 
  • Penfolds Perm
    Penfolds Perm Posts: 550
    edited September 2019
    One somewhere up near the old Baseball Ground stuck in between some houses. Pink and Green neon lighting everywhere inside. Definitely one for the more discerning Gentleman in the evenings. 
  • addick1965
    addick1965 Posts: 5,092
    The one at Coventry,i think was called the Rocket,one at Blackburn with a jukebox with all the songs spelt wrong "Wipout" instead of "Wipeout",Port Vale and Stoke had some ropey old boozers.
  • RedPanda
    RedPanda Posts: 4,989

    Huddersfield – I can’t remember the name, I thought The Swan but I can’t find it on Google. Really dark and dank, southerner tax on the beers and racist graffiti in the loos. Quickly finished our drinks and left.

     Yeovil – Royal Oak. @stewart and I kept missing our train home so every hour we were back in there amid stares, gawping and weirdo west country types. Didn’t help Stewart first bounded in there with a crate of beer on his shoulder (meant for the first train we missed).

     Gillingham – The Southern Belle. Total dive plus after a quiet Kent Cup game we were treated to the full-on inbred karaoke by drugged up Jeremy Kyle types, who kept pointing and staring at my mate because he was in a suit.



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  • Brendan_O_Connell
    Brendan_O_Connell Posts: 8,938
    The pub next to Wolverhampton station was about as bad as they get.  The floor is sticky, the lager was cloudy (and tasted metallic) and my mate nearly got his head torn off by the landlady for asking if they had Sky Sports (they didn't by the way)! 
  • roseandcrown
    roseandcrown Posts: 7,588
    To be fair that is one of the best things about an away day stumbling into some weird pub in the arse end of the country. 
  • se9addick
    se9addick Posts: 32,051
    Brendan_O_Connell said:
    The pub next to Wolverhampton station was about as bad as they get.  The floor is sticky, the lager was cloudy (and tasted metallic) and my mate nearly got his head torn off by the landlady for asking if they had Sky Sports (they didn't by the way)! 
    The Whetherspoons isn’t much better - bloke tried to nick my change after I bought a drink, when I wouldn’t let him he tried to fight me then and there. All this happened whilst he was holding his 6 year old sons hand. 
  • Cardinal Sin
    Cardinal Sin Posts: 5,233
    The Antigallican took some beating, although the Angerstein will try hard.
  • Carter
    Carter Posts: 14,252
    I quite liked the Rocket, it's gone now but I thought it was ok

    I know the one @roseandcrown is on about in Bradford and can confirm it is a proper creepy place 

    Gillingham's worst pub was the livingtone arms which has been gone for years but that was bad.

    It's hard to think of one I'd class as so bad I'd refuse to drink there, in fact the Oak pisses me off more than any away pub I can think of. Manchester city centre has some moody places you need to watch yourself in as does Liverpool but for me having to wait ages for a drink anywhere pisses me off at football, time, drinking time is crucial to the days enjoyment and I can handle beer in cans even expensive beer in cans as long as I'm not waiting in a queue for it 
  • MrLargo
    MrLargo Posts: 7,991
    Wolverhampton is the worst city I've ever visited for pubs. Only been up there once, arrived nice and early to check out the local hostelries - couldn't find a single place that I'd actually choose to drink in.

    And the locals are all backward, inbred simpletons.
  • ElfsborgAddick
    ElfsborgAddick Posts: 29,082
    roseandcrown said:
    one in bradford @ElfsborgAddick dragged a few of us to a couple of seasons back.

    Gone 12 not open see us outside so opened by the Addams family was really creepy. Walking to the toilet was like walking the green mile. 
    Any pub with @clb74 in it.
  • TalBHAndreBA
    TalBHAndreBA Posts: 380
    edited September 2019
    Samuel Smith's Corporation Inn in Rochdale. 
  • roseandcrown
    roseandcrown Posts: 7,588
    edited September 2019
    TalBHAndreBA said:
    Samuel's Smith's Corporation Inn in Rochdale. 
    is that the one close to the station? if so went in there after our game last season and it kicked off as I was leaving with a local threatening to burn the pub down. 
  • Alwaysneil
    Alwaysneil Posts: 13,815
    The Rocket in coventry was the closest pub to my school. Was shocked to find it wasn’t there any more. 

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  • TalBHAndreBA
    TalBHAndreBA Posts: 380
    roseandcrown said:
    TalBHAndreBA said:
    Samuel's Smith's Corporation Inn in Rochdale. 
    is that the one close to the station? if so went in there after our game last season and it kicked off as I was living with a local threatening to burn the pub down. 
    It is indeed.
  • Croydon
    Croydon Posts: 12,735
    The Gas Club in Huddersfield is one of the worst places I can remember drinking. Easily the most Northern feeling establishment I've ever been in and was surrounded by about 30-40 of their youth lot so spent the time speaking in whispers.
  • paulbaconsarnie
    paulbaconsarnie Posts: 9,424
    edited September 2019
    Don’t know the name but when we played Bury in the league cup early nineties, me, oohaah, threadkiller and mcs brother got up there early and found a hovel of a place. 
    We bought drinks, put some music on the juke box and started playing pool.
    that investment probably doubled the pubs takings for the week as it was full of local youths, none of who had drinks and they looked pretty pissed off at us cockneys “lording” it over them. 
    We didn’t stay long but must’ve found somewhere else to drink as mcs brother chundered over the seat and oohaahmortimer was so pissed he tried to leave at half time, convinced it was full time. Had a cracking curry in Whitefield after the game.

  • McBobbin
    McBobbin Posts: 12,051
    Not a footy pub, but I remember the going to a pub on the Scottish western Isle Islay. We were staying at a nice hotel, with a nice bar filled with lovely Islay whisky. Why on earth we went to the one next door... It was clearly where the locals were housed to keep them away from the tourists. It was like if the whicker man has been set in the bar in Star Wars. I know there have been a few jokes about inbreeding, but this wasn't funny. There was a bloke at the bar who was either the result of serious parent and/or sibling inbreeding... at best. At worst he was a chimera of several failed early attempts at bipedal ape, and another looked like his entire head had imploded. There was a TV in the corner showing hardcore pornography, and all the local underage kids were watching it with alcopops (though one kept shouting at me "I'm 19 years of age pal, 19 years of age". Someone else was unconscious had had words like "bawbag" written on him in marker pen.

    To be fair, at least they were friendly and we stayed for a couple, but by God!

    When we went back to the hotel bar and said we'd been there a hushed silence descended, like we'd taken a wrong turn at a dinner party and found the sex dungeon.

  • Rock Spectacle
    Rock Spectacle Posts: 1,442
    50p to get in though. The Market Tavern in Huddersfield is the worst yet funniest. Dog on a bit of string outside was a clue. Most in Coventry and Wolverhampton are horrid, Gotham Town in Newcastle awful. Hogan's in Darlington takes a bit of beating too. 
  • DaveMehmet
    DaveMehmet Posts: 21,603

    West Brom away one Boxing Day in the 80's. Absolute hovel of a pub a couple of miles away from the ground. We were having trouble getting a cab before the game when a driver popped his head in the door and shouted "taxi for Singh".

    4 fat, white, bald blokes got up, said yes, and jumped in it.

  • RodneyCharltonTrotta
    RodneyCharltonTrotta Posts: 14,828
    DaveMehmet said:

    West Brom away one Boxing Day in the 80's. Absolute hovel of a pub a couple of miles away from the ground. We were having trouble getting a cab before the game when a driver popped his head in the door and shouted "taxi for Singh".

    4 fat, white, bald blokes got up, said yes, and jumped in it.

    You're only Singh when you're winging (it)
  • Covered End
    Covered End Posts: 52,013
    A pub in Stockport. I can't remember the name, but if you had 2 legs you felt out of place.
  • swords_alive
    swords_alive Posts: 4,275
    Not sure about this, but house or pub in Coventry c.1986, that served beer in their hallway through a serving hatch. This could have been a dream I have mixed up with reality.


  • Chris_from_Sidcup
    Chris_from_Sidcup Posts: 36,033
    Rock Spectacle said:
    50p to get in though. The Market Tavern in Huddersfield is the worst yet funniest. Dog on a bit of string outside was a clue. Most in Coventry and Wolverhampton are horrid, Gotham Town in Newcastle awful. Hogan's in Darlington takes a bit of beating too. 
    I actually quite liked it there.

    It wasn't even that long ago and round of about 7 drinks was less than a tenner

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