Facilities for away fans...........

[GTFCfish]

Looks fantastic. Rather go there than the new place!
I still have a hankering for some of the old grounds we visited in non league. Liked standing along the side at Woking. St Albans open terrace wasn't much fun in the rain though. Until we got an undeserved 94th minute winner...

That’s probably the only thing I miss about non league, getting to stand at away games.
I suppose one other thing i quite liked is that we actually used to win a few games too.

 

[Reremnart]

I'm going back some time now but the worst away ends I've ever experienced were Barnsley's Oakwell before it was developed, The away end was a big slagheap where the bogs were just a wall that you could look over and watch the game going on whilst you had a piss and Wigan's old Springfield Park ground where the away end was literally just a long grass bank. You can imagine what it was like if it had been pissing down.

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We played there in the late eighties in the Northern Semi Final of the, what was called at the time, DAF Leyland Cup and had about 1200 there. It had been throwing it down all day and that bank was more than a little slipply. One lad standing near the back lost his footing after we scored our second goal and slid down it on his backside taking another 3 guys down on the way to the bottom. At the time it was hilarious but looking back at it it was damn right dangerous.