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Post by DudeLebowski on Jun 18, 2015 17:23:50 GMT
Visited The New Den late last year for a game vs Forest, got off the tube & took the residential/railway track route round the back. Kind of wish I hadn't, even 1pm on a Saturday it had that 'something bad could happen here' feel about it. Walking through the two sets of railway arches had me watching my back even though we were surround by home supporting families.
Me and my fellow dude kept our traps shut until we got in the ground, but the place & people really have to be seen to be believed.
Real nasty, hate filled atmosphere with everyone screaming & shouting abuse non stop for 90mins. C**t being the more favoured word of the day. Anyway it ended 0-0 and the Forest right winger copped a missile to the mush when chasing a ball down in injury time.
Unpleasant experience to say the least.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 18, 2015 17:47:15 GMT
Visited The New Den late last year for a game vs Forest, got off the tube & took the residential/railway track route round the back. Kind of wish I hadn't, even 1pm on a Saturday it had that 'something bad could happen here' feel about it. Walking through the two sets of railway arches had me watching my back even though we were surround by home supporting families. Me and my fellow dude kept our traps shut until we got in the ground, but the place & people really have to be seen to be believed. Real nasty, hate filled atmosphere with everyone screaming & shouting abuse non stop for 90mins. C**t being the more favoured word of the day. Anyway it ended 0-0 and the Forest right winger copped a missile to the mush when chasing a ball down in injury time. Unpleasant experience to say the least. You should have been to the Den,the New Den is a much sanitised version.
Areas around the ground the OP said,mine would be Old Den Vetch Eastville Anfield Baseball Ground
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Post by Nobbygas on Jun 18, 2015 17:51:31 GMT
The sh1t Pit and the surrounding swamp. Ghastly.
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Post by hillfieldsboy55 on Jun 18, 2015 18:18:26 GMT
Millwall in the seventies was a terrible place I stayed in Bermondsey early eighties for a couple of months and it wasn't much better then but for the absolute pits went on a football tour to Berlin with hillfields old boys we played a friendly in old East Berlin my god what a s*** hole made hillfields look like Clifton nothing wrong with hillfields Ash proper Gas
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Post by ricardo on Jun 18, 2015 18:36:59 GMT
Vetch and ninian were both bad, for balance my memories of the new den are mainly the really nice helpful club employees I encountered on both trips.
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Post by Feeling The Blues on Jun 18, 2015 18:47:59 GMT
Luton Town, Burslam is also as rough as...... Burslem,is a really desolate place,the home of PV who were offered to share the Brittania when it was built but it would be a bit like us sharing a new stadium at Ashton Gate being the wrong side of town.Burslem is part of the run down Stoke on Trent area but Stoke City have a very rich chairman and the council provided the stadium.P.S Seen us win twice at the Brittania including a 4-1 victory featuring a Cureton hat-trick.Loads of empty shops in Burslem with even the Robbie Williams connection failing to illuminate the gloom there. I wouldn't class Burslem as rough it certainly isn't pretty but is friendly enough just as is most of the Potteries. You can get into trouble if you go around strutting your stuff but you would anywhere. Generally the people of Stoke on Trent are naturally warm and friendly.
Stoke City didn't get their ground provided by the council. The council donated a land locked site that was part of the old Hem Heath colliery in exchange for a third share in the developed site alongside the football club and a developer who also bought the old Victoria Ground. It made commercial sense, opened up other land that they owned for development. They then shared in the income from the new stadium with rent from the FC and all other corporate events and concerts and also made a profit in any case when Stoke City bought out their share. Happy days for everyone. If only we had such proactive and business like councils down here eh?
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Post by Igitur on Jun 18, 2015 18:49:45 GMT
Luton Town, Burslam is also as rough as...... Burslem,is a really desolate place,the home of PV who were offered to share the Brittania when it was built but it would be a bit like us sharing a new stadium at Ashton Gate being the wrong side of town.Burslem is part of the run down Stoke on Trent area but Stoke City have a very rich chairman and the council provided the stadium.P.S Seen us win twice at the Brittania including a 4-1 victory featuring a Cureton hat-trick.Loads of empty shops in Burslem with even the Robbie Williams connection failing to illuminate the gloom there. Walking to the Britannia was no fun with Stoke fans either ambushing us from the churchyard or straight from the pub opposite; mind you some gasheads were looking for it.
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Post by alloutofgas on Jun 18, 2015 19:08:18 GMT
Thought Gillingham and nearby Rochester were the absolute arsehole of the universe.
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Post by Westcountry Gas on Jun 18, 2015 19:26:16 GMT
the surroundings of nene park rushden & diamonds reminded me how characterless the area around the UWE stadium would be if it was built.
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Post by willy on Jun 18, 2015 19:46:28 GMT
The 3 mile walk through moss side side wasn't very nice on the way to the old main road ground to see us play man city!! The bullet holes in the pub wall were an eye opener!
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Post by clockendgas on Jun 18, 2015 20:00:48 GMT
Not including Trashton....worst surroundings of a league ground you've been to? Not the stadium itself. Mine....Ayresome Park circa 1987. Little kids (5 or 6 years old) giving the v's on way in. Was on supporters coach. When stuck in traffic after match, two older fella's (60 ish year old)came out a social club that looked run down, one of them had plaster across his nose and black eye! Both were drunk! No offence to anyone up there, but whole place warranted the 'i wanna go home' song! Only been to boro once, with arsenal facup 3rd round 1984, and yes never forgotten it. Bloody cold january day, hostile atmosphere awaiting us cockney so and sos. A nervous afternoon, we kindly let them win 3-2 so the walk back to the station wasnt to bad, but very happy to have old bills escort until train left, one of them days you wished you had stayed in bed. Anywhere north of watford was grim back in 70s and 80s for what i remember, always nervous trips up north
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Post by blueginger on Jun 18, 2015 20:05:52 GMT
The Vetch, The Old Den, Luton and any where north of Birmingham.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 18, 2015 20:09:39 GMT
Burslem,is a really desolate place,the home of PV who were offered to share the Brittania when it was built but it would be a bit like us sharing a new stadium at Ashton Gate being the wrong side of town.Burslem is part of the run down Stoke on Trent area but Stoke City have a very rich chairman and the council provided the stadium.P.S Seen us win twice at the Brittania including a 4-1 victory featuring a Cureton hat-trick.Loads of empty shops in Burslem with even the Robbie Williams connection failing to illuminate the gloom there. I wouldn't class Burslem as rough it certainly isn't pretty but is friendly enough just as is most of the Potteries. You can get into trouble if you go around strutting your stuff but you would anywhere. Generally the people of Stoke on Trent are naturally warm and friendly.
Stoke City didn't get their ground provided by the council. The council donated a land locked site that was part of the old Hem Heath colliery in exchange for a third share in the developed site alongside the football club and a developer who also bought the old Victoria Ground. It made commercial sense, opened up other land that they owned for development. They then shared in the income from the new stadium with rent from the FC and all other corporate events and concerts and also made a profit in any case when Stoke City bought out their share. Happy days for everyone. If only we had such proactive and business like councils down here eh?
You weren't in Burslem on the evening after we lost the second leg of the play off final there. We nearly got killed and even the police who saved our lives were s**tting themselves. Took me three days to pick the broken bottles out of my head.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 18, 2015 20:36:53 GMT
the surroundings of nene park rushden & diamonds reminded me how characterless the area around the UWE stadium would be if it was built. Have you been there recently?
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Post by Deleted on Jun 18, 2015 20:53:16 GMT
the surroundings of nene park rushden & diamonds reminded me how characterless the area around the UWE stadium would be if it was built. Have you been there recently? Did we ever get a result there?
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Post by GasPanic! on Jun 18, 2015 20:54:16 GMT
Grimsby was horrendous.
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Post by Westcountry Gas on Jun 18, 2015 21:16:10 GMT
the surroundings of nene park rushden & diamonds reminded me how characterless the area around the UWE stadium would be if it was built. Have you been there recently? The last time i went there we got beat 3-1 i think, it was a cold miserable day back in 2001. We were awful in the first half, Onandi Lowe tore us apart, and i think something was going on with Gerry Francis at the time, he might have failed to show up for the game or left at half time, it was all quite mysterious. Lovely little ground, a shame it's no longer used.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 18, 2015 21:31:05 GMT
Have you been there recently? The last time i went there we got beat 3-1 i think, it was a cold miserable day back in 2001. We were awful in the first half, Onandi Lowe tore us apart, and i think something was going on with Gerry Francis at the time, he might have failed to show up for the game or left at half time, it was all quite mysterious. Lovely little ground, a shame it's no longer used. I hated it. Fake plastic Lego ground, it was mouldy last time I went there (years ago). Its likely to be knocked down soon, I don't imagine it'll be mourned.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 18, 2015 21:32:28 GMT
Pretty sure we won 3-2 that last time. A late Forrester goal, perhaps?
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Post by Colyton Gas. on Jun 18, 2015 21:47:52 GMT
Pretty sure we won 3-2 that last time. A late Forrester goal, perhaps? Jamie Forrester.Now there's a player I was excited we signed but her never got much of a look in for some reason.scored a vital winner at Cheltenham. Attachments:
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