Shittest pub you've ever been in - Championship Edition

[The Southbank]

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Fire away - what is the worst pub you've ever been in on a matchday?

 

[Another Walkley Owl]

Ball in Hillsborough, used to be THE BEST IN ENGLAND, a terrible waste it is now such a shithole. Can't remember name of pub, but one very close to St Andrews looked a shit hole but wasn't to bad once in it. Worst ones are where you have to que for half an hour for a drink, been in plenty of these whilst watching Wednesday.

 

[big mean bunny]

Whats the pub opposite Bramall lane? Cricketers or something? Always looks derelict or like it's abandoned until match day.

 

[Nook Terrier]

The shithole at the top of Cleethorpes train station where you get carted into when you play Grimsby away.

Then half of the inbred population turn up trying to kick ten lumps out of you with no coppers to be seen in sight..

 

[Another Walkley Owl]

Whats the pub opposite Bramall lane? Cricketers or something? Always looks derelict or like it's abandoned until match day.

It is called cricketers, great "fun" outside it whenever we play there. Expect it to be a shithole near that place.

 

[PrestonCha]

The shithole at the top of Cleethorpes train station where you get carted into when you play Grimsby away.

Then half of the inbred population turn up trying to kick ten lumps out of you with no coppers to be seen in sight..

Shithole pub (the best kind) with a chance of getting your face danced on.

Sounds like fun, to me. Proper Footy.

Been Grimsby a few times so I'm aware of what you're on about regarding the locals. Played them one dark, wet, foggy November about 2002. Went on the coach on this occasion, and on the way out, not far from the ground, we passed what looked like a retail park/industrial area place.....

Looking out of the wet window into the fog, you could just about make out a large mob, carrying all sorts of weaponry, jogging after our snails paced coach. Looked like the Baseball Furies on The Warriors.

 

[Ciderup]

Went in a boozer called the Sheaf (?) just down the road from the Hawthorns, years ago. Ordered a Cider and was served what I can only describe as the crap in the bottom of my water tank. I have never seen so much shite in the glass! I was ill for days after a couple of pints in there!

 

[Walkley_Owl]

Ball in Hillsborough, used to be THE BEST IN ENGLAND, a terrible waste it is now such a shithole. Can't remember name of pub, but one very close to St Andrews looked a shit hole but wasn't to bad once in it. Worst ones are where you have to que for half an hour for a drink, been in plenty of these whilst watching Wednesday.

It was the biggest taking Stones pub in the North at one point, my nan used to call in every time we went shopping down Hillsborough "just for one" then she'd walk me back home and have me hold her "can for later" she got upset once when 3 year old me worked out how to open the old style ring pull. Was a lovely pub until about 2002.

As for shit pubs, give me the spit and saw dust, locals look like they'll eat your eyes out over a coffee selling chain boozer with their non descript menus and nearly out of date ale or Harvesters.

 

[big mean bunny]

Looking out of the wet window into the fog, you could just about make out a large mob, carrying all sorts of weaponry, jogging after our snails paced coach. Looked like the Baseball Furies on The Warriors.

I'm sick of running from these faggots.

 

[ag8]

the farriers in deptford, half mile from millwall, proper wipe your feet on the way out shithole, that looked like it was dying on its feet, and easier to buy dope than a pint.
0 from 5 stars

 

[SF_]

The designated away fan pub in Bradford, quite close to the ground was a proper hole. Bradford Arms maybe?

Luckily it was nice weather when we last went so we just brought cans from the off license and drank in the beer garden.

In fairness to Bradford though, despite its shit reputation, the centre is pretty good for boozing and its a good away day.

 

[AFCB_Mark]

Been to Hillsborough a couple times and found it crap for away drinking, there's a pub a fair hike away up a hill which is fine once you get there mind.

Wolves has to be up there as the worst, the designated pub is a walkabout style sports bar where you stick to the floors and they serve pints of piss. It's a proper dive. And to get in you have to walk through an airport style metal detector to make sure you haven't got a knife FFS. Anywhere that has to check you for knifes upon entry can't be good. But then the Wolverhampton town centre has lots of other drinking establishments that are much better... if you can get in them.

On the whole I think the Championship is brilliant for drinking, the best league out of the four in my away experiences.

 

[Walkley_Owl]

Been to Hillsborough a couple times and found it crap for away drinking, there's a pub a fair hike away up a hill which is fine once you get there mind.

Wolves has to be up there as the worst, the designated pub is a walkabout style sports bar where you stick to the floors and they serve pints of piss. It's a proper dive. And to get in you have to walk through an airport style metal detector to make sure you haven't got a knife FFS. Anywhere that has to check you for knifes upon entry can't be good. But then the Wolverhampton town centre has lots of other drinking establishments that are much better... if you can get in them.

On the whole I think the Championship is brilliant for drinking, the best league out of the four in my away experiences.

For the life of me I don't get why away fans would try and booze near ours, we've seen a lot of pubs around the stadium disappear over the last decade.

If I was a visitor to Sheffield I'd head up town and stay there until 2:15 and get a tram to Leppings Lane, there's plenty of decent pubs and real ale places.

 

[The Southbank]

The designated away fan pub in Bradford, quite close to the ground was a proper hole. Bradford Arms maybe?

Luckily it was nice weather when we last went so we just brought cans from the off license and drank in the beer garden.

In fairness to Bradford though, despite its shit reputation, the centre is pretty good for boozing and its a good away day.

The Bradford Arms is a smashing little joint - been there twice. Was there at 8am last year when we played them in the cup and it was rammed. Terrific day - though they ran out of beer early on.

 

[tiltontrev]

We used to drink in a pub in Nottingham a few years back (the Phoenix rings a bell?) it was literally in a housing estate, surrounded on all four sides by houses no roads aside from a small service bit across a path. They done a few normal (shit) beers then a few "specials" which were like 30p a pint but not marked up on the taps or anything. It was fucking horrendous but we used to head there every year regardless, was as rough as fuck and always an air of "try it on and we lock the doors and destroy you" type atmosphere. Went there two years ago to find it boarded up, gutted, I miss pubs like that.

 

[SF_]

The Bradford Arms is a smashing little joint - been there twice. Was there at 8am last year when we played them in the cup and it was rammed. Terrific day - though they ran out of beer early on.

Not 100% sure we're on about the same place but I remember it being proper grotty inside and the regulars being a very odd bunch.

 

[Braindead]

When you come to Burton try the Hanbury arms in Sydney street 5 mins from ground,proper Burton boozer plenty of punters in with there tongues hanging out.
You will all love the ambiance of drinking in a proper Burton shit hole.

 

[The Southbank]

Not 100% sure we're on about the same place but I remember it being proper grotty inside and the regulars being a very odd bunch.

Aye, it was very grotty, but still certainly beats your shitty replica Weatherspoons.

 

[SF_]

Aye, it was very grotty, but still certainly beats your shitty replica Weatherspoons.

Replica Wetherspoons?

No idea where you mean, nor did I know I owned it.

 

[Indian Dan]

Early 90s went to see us play Birmingham. Hadn't been before so the minibus pulled up in a pub car park but were told to fuck off quick cos it was a Zulus pub. Got directions to an away fans pub which was the dingiest, dirtiest, foulest cesspit of a pub I've ever been in.

Nice 'escort' to the old St. Andrews ground by a milling throng of Asian youths all tooled up. Won 6-4, though!

 

[Laker]

I know we're a long way from this level but I have to add the Blue Anchor in Lincoln. Walked in at 1pm then locked in til kick off. No seats in case fans used them as amunition, landlady looked like she'd done 10 rounds with Mike Tyson, hairspray on cistern and window ledges in toilets to stop people doing coke.

But worst of all, there was shit in the beer garden that I couldn't work out whether it came from a dog or human.

Horrendous place.

 

[Kim Mitten]

any Wetherspoons in any city/town.