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Worst away destinations
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Selhurst Park... Rivalry aside it really is a shithole of an away end1
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MK Dons. Just a false football club.5
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I love Luton, one of a kind, old school ground. It's a dump but that's it's charm. Squeezed in behind the terrace houses.
I love the old grounds, they have all got their own uniqueness to them.
The modern flat pack stadiums are the worst, the cheaper versions are dreadful like The Den. Colchester play at a boring flat pack stadium surrounded by pig farms.
I know I will get laughed at but I went to the new Spurs ground and inside it felt like Heathrow ffs, glass elevators, non-descript burger places selling rip off food and a bunch of wanker tourists looking lost, tired and like they were simply passing through to get somewhere better (and, before you ask, I was in the Spurs end).
Give me Luton, Oldham, Barnsley, Wednesday etc any day of the week.11 -
Swindon is one depressing place. That shit section they give the away fans in the corner is worse than being in the open end.1
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Oxford's newish 3 stand ground is just wrong .2
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Was an old Division 3 South ground up until the old national Divisions three and four were created in the late 50’s and remained so with a poxy mud bank at the now Sainsbury’s end. It was still the same in the Jan 69 cup replay when we stood / slid on it to witness a Ray Tracey 25 yard thunderbolt just under the crossbar for 2-0 and goodnight Palarse 😈.Lordflashheart said:Selhurst Park
Close the thread2 -
With bottles coming over the terraced housing rooves to greet you upon arrival.Rob7Lee said:Ayresome park was something to behold, especially when it was snowing........0 -
Athletico Charlton said:I love Luton, one of a kind, old school ground. It's a dump but that's it's charm. Squeezed in behind the terrace houses.
I love the old grounds, they have all got their own uniqueness to them.
The modern flat pack stadiums are the worst, the cheaper versions are dreadful like The Den. Colchester play at a boring flat pack stadium surrounded by pig farms.
I know I will get laughed at but I went to the new Spurs ground and inside it felt like Heathrow ffs, glass elevators, non-descript burger places selling rip off food and a bunch of wanker tourists looking lost, tired and like they were simply passing through to get somewhere better (and, before you ask, I was in the Spurs end).
Give me Luton, Oldham, Barnsley, Wednesday etc any day of the week.
With you all the way about old school grounds having their own identities. These days you could be in a ground and not really be able to tell where you are such is the identikit nature of ‘progress’. I guess most of us on here have been fortunate to experience the old days when you knew you were at Filbert Street or Boothferry Park or Roker Park etc such were their uniqueness. Close to home I have the experience of York City moving to a new stadium. It’s out of town surrounded by retail parks where I guess you can get a coffee from Costa, some crisps from the M&S food hall but it appears soulless when you compare it to Bootham Crescent. Our memories of a day out at the football will be distinctly different to those of the younger generations that’s for sure.8 -
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Another vote for MK Dons. Soulless stadium in the middle of a retail park. Such a weird atmosphere.
Honorable mention goes to Millwall, for obvious reasons.1 -
Stevenage and Scunthorpe - awful grounds.
Millwall - plain depressing.2 -
I sadly missed most of the big old grounds as rarely went away until our first season down in L1 8 years or so ago. I suddenly went to about 15 away games that season and really enjoyed it. I hope I get to take my lad to a stadium with a terrace soon.AddickUpNorth said:Athletico Charlton said:I love Luton, one of a kind, old school ground. It's a dump but that's it's charm. Squeezed in behind the terrace houses.
I love the old grounds, they have all got their own uniqueness to them.
The modern flat pack stadiums are the worst, the cheaper versions are dreadful like The Den. Colchester play at a boring flat pack stadium surrounded by pig farms.
I know I will get laughed at but I went to the new Spurs ground and inside it felt like Heathrow ffs, glass elevators, non-descript burger places selling rip off food and a bunch of wanker tourists looking lost, tired and like they were simply passing through to get somewhere better (and, before you ask, I was in the Spurs end).
Give me Luton, Oldham, Barnsley, Wednesday etc any day of the week.
With you all the way about old school grounds having their own identities. These days you could be in a ground and not really be able to tell where you are such is the identikit nature of ‘progress’. I guess most of us on here have been fortunate to experience the old days when you knew you were at Filbert Street or Boothferry Park or Roker Park etc such were their uniqueness. Close to home I have the experience of York City moving to a new stadium. It’s out of town surrounded by retail parks where I guess you can get a coffee from Costa, some crisps from the M&S food hall but it appears soulless when you compare it to Bootham Crescent. Our memories of a day out at the football will be distinctly different to those of the younger generations that’s for sure.
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There are so many shit ones now with all the new grounds in bland locations.
Back in the day, I only really disliked Luton and when they put seats in there, it made a shit experience even shitter.0 -
For me,easily the worst to find is prenton park.
I remember on a Friday evening, way before Sat nav, after doing a lap of the Wirral, pulling into a bus stop to ask an old girl..similar to your granny,as to how I'd get to Tranmere....you the opposition she asked,yes..well FOOK OFF..
I thanked her and fooked off.6 -
Burnley, Middlesbrough, Blackburn, Stoke, Birmingham, Barnsley, Hull, Milton Keynes, Burton, Walsall, Oldham and Stevenage.3
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Agree with much of that! We did win there in 1984-85....3-1 Hales Flanagan Moore (I think)Viewfinder said:AFC Wimbledon at that tin-pot little ground in the middle of nowhere between Norbiton and New Malden. Just a load of tyre warehouses and dodgy council estates. When the wind was from the south you got a revolting stench wafting over from the sewage works next to the Hogsmill River. AND we always lost there. Shyte.1 -
Stevenage was pretty depressing. the fact we were in the same league as them was bad enough.1
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This is just making me want away days back.13
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Agree with all this.JohnnyH2 said:Yeovil for me. Train station that is neither near the ground or the town centre. Once you get to the town centre it has no decent pubs. Getting from the town centre to the ground is another hassle. Only open part of the ground is the away end
Dull is the best I can say about this place.4 -
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The locals are a friendly bunch though.Lordflashheart said:Vetch Field was a dump as well
And Ninian Park0 -
The Charlton fans in front of me at the game started fighting each other - about as entertaining as the game.Karim_myBagheri said:Stevenage was pretty depressing. the fact we were in the same league as them was bad enough.0 -
QPR - absolutely shyte hole. I’ve been in both away tiers and in the home area along the sides. Shit view in cramped seating.Only time it was okay was when we shared the terraces behind the goal.And selhurst. kharsi2
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Modelled on the Subbuteo table football game stadium. Their fans don’t like that quoted at them, well the one I regularly mention it to certainly doesn’t 😈.Solidgone said:QPR - absolutely shyte hole. I’ve been in both away tiers and in the home area along the sides. Shit view in cramped seating.Only time it was okay was when we shared the terraces behind the goal.And selhurst. kharsi7 -
Would kill for an away day in Middlesbrough beginning of December in me shortsroseandcrown said:This is just making me want away days back.5 -
I'm with those who like the older grounds, the ones with pointless PA systems, that smell of urine, fried onions and cigarette smoke mixed in with a twist of deep heat. Thats what football smells like to me
Hate the new out of town grounds, all about capturing 'consumers' as a captive audience to gorgeous themselves on shit food and overpriced shit beer sold inside the ground.
As much as I disliked being in the away end at Fratton Park without a roof, in the wind and rain I like the ground. Luton is the same, no doubt about it the place is a shithole but it will be sad when it goes. I loved Priestfields before they tore the old Rainham end down. I used to go there a lot as a kid when we were away, I remember one game in early January it being savagely cold so much so that the water in the only shitter had frozen solid. It was the unofficial ladies toilet for the singular weird female who would attend games there but that didn't stop someone doing a shit in it I guess in an effort to help melt the ice. Didt work it sat atop the second best ice rink in gillingham that day
Man Citys old ground was great, also liked layer Road, I love roots Hall, Griffin Park is one I'm not so keen on for the same reason I dont like Loftus Road, can't see fuck all and it feels very claustrophobic, not in a cosy way.3 -
The Old Den was an experience, for a variety of reasons.
They did a nice line in fencing you wouldn't see elsewhere.2 -
Ayresome Park
was about 16 and went on my own.Only time I got coach to an away game.Walkman run out of batteries before Dartford Tunnel.Drew 0-0 freezing cold and had golf balls thrown at us in the ground.7 -
@Simonsen - Are you sure Wimbledon weren't still at Plough Lane in 84-85? I'm talking about Kingstonian's old ground, at Kingsmeadow.Simonsen said:
Agree with much of that! We did win there in 1984-85....3-1 Hales Flanagan Moore (I think)Viewfinder said:AFC Wimbledon at that tin-pot little ground in the middle of nowhere between Norbiton and New Malden. Just a load of tyre warehouses and dodgy council estates. When the wind was from the south you got a revolting stench wafting over from the sewage works next to the Hogsmill River. AND we always lost there. Shyte.
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