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Worst away end you been on ?

The Swan said:
Barnsley, Cambridge, Oxford - all crap, all cold. The coldest was Derby but may be that was because I was only wearing a Pringle jumper and the second half got really cold.

Never went to Wigan but heard it was a mare. Pompey was okay in my view.

Spids - used to be strange because the end changed around a lot and even the OB would get confused.
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Changing ends  that Reminds me of darlington away at their feethams ground ,you be stood in the so called away end for the first half and if your head was not switched or you was in the loop away fans changed parts of ground for 2 nd half .

cant quite figure out how this worked and what part the Police played in this my memory is shot ,but this was during the 1980s when all and sundry were hell bent on knocking 7 bells out of each other .

 
ddrblue said:
Changing ends  that Reminds me of darlington away at their feethams ground ,you be stood in the so called away end for the first half and if your head was not switched or you was in the loop away fans changed parts of ground for 2 nd half .

cant quite figure out how this worked and what part the Police played in this my memory is shot ,but this was during the 1980s when all and sundry were hell bent on knocking 7 bells out of each other .
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Those were the days.

 
Millwall. The Old Den 

Decent view but too many distractions on the terraces and a constant state of alert and fear 

 
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The Rising Sun said:
Millwall. The Old Den 

Decent view but too many distractions on the terraces and a constant state of alert and fear 
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The Den also has some nasty looking yellow (I think) spiked railings around the away end - not to keep the visitors in but to stop the local loons getting at them.  The walk back to New Cross Gate station wasn’t much fun either.  I was there for our 1-3 win in 89-90 or thereabouts, King Kerry with a hat trick, left, right and a header - the locals were not amused.  After the final whistle we were escorted by plod to New Cross Gate, then on to a tube special that did not stop until Victoria.  Their ambush teams at the stations up to Whitechapel we well miffed when our train zoomed through the stations non-stop.

 
One of the last games played at the old Den in 83- I was working close but can’t remember exactly where on a Saturday morning- cut along story had nothing planned so decided to rock up there; wasn’t all ticket.

Got in the CBL end as the players were running out- plonked myself against a crash barrier reading the programme when everyone around me started singing that song “ Let em come, let em come, to the Den” Don’t know the lyrics now and didn’t then so didn’t join in. Geyser next to me says “ Your not Millwall “ Told him I was a neutral just out to watch a game and he was OK. Turned out weirdly we had mutual acquaintances. Tagged around with him briefly after the game- didn’t see anything happen but there was literally thousands of blokes milling around up for it.

 
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The Den also has some nasty looking yellow (I think) spiked railings around the away end - not to keep the visitors in but to stop the local loons getting at them.  The walk back to New Cross Gate station wasn’t much fun either.  I was there for our 1-3 win in 89-90 or thereabouts, King Kerry with a hat trick, left, right and a header - the locals were not amused.  After the final whistle we were escorted by plod to New Cross Gate, then on to a tube special that did not stop until Victoria.  Their ambush teams at the stations up to Whitechapel we well miffed when our train zoomed through the stations non-stop.
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I was at that. Arrived about 10 minutes after kick-off, having almost gone through to the home end along Cold Blow Lane. My mate, who drove us that day, was jumpy enough as it was, not helped by a guy who for some reason came running out of the bushes on that long track that lead up to the away end. "I thought that was it" muttered our driver!  

Bloody awful place to watch football. I think we had all 3 pens behind the goal and one thing I do remember was towards the end, Micky Greenaway giving the travelling Blues a chorus of 'Zigger Zagger' from the Millwall seats along the side. 

Needless to say, the locals weren't happy. Lots of bemused looks!

 
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Hope this works, us at Millwall in 1990, good view of our mob in the away end.  Enjoy.

 
Vicenza's away end in the 1998 CWC was absolute sh*te. Like something from the 1930's. The Italian police intercepted and searched the Chelsea coaches as they came off the motorway.

 
zinc alloy said:
Everton lower tier, too low to see anything.
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Was in there for FA Cup in 2009- stuck seats in but still sh*tty view. Was right in the corner next to Everton fan. Some gobsh*te kept going on about my Aquascutum raincoat- “ You got a string of Rolex watches in there have you cockney. Nylons, anyone need nylons...”

The bloke kept going for it...Me: Yeah alright mate. I’m just hear to watch the game..turn it in FFS..

He had an orientatal girlfriend next to him...he wouldn’t shut up “ At least I didn’t have to go to Thailand to get meself a f**king bird”

He went absolutely garrity. Stewards carted him off

 
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