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Title: Best Home & Away Fans Pubs...? Post by: away day travel on Monday, July 14, 2014, 13:51:09 Hi Guys,
I am compiling a new fans guide for the coming season and am after real fans views of which are the best pubs on match days for both home fans & visiting supporters. Which are the "main pubs" for home fans around the ground..? Can you let me know the best 5 or so around the ground please and any local establishments that particularly cater for and welcome visiting supporters - pubs, restaurants, parking facilities attractions etc. Also, any suggestions of pubs that you have visited at other away grounds which are good for away supporters on match days would be great. Many thanks Rob Title: Re: Best Home & Away Fans Pubs...? Post by: Reg Smeeton on Monday, July 14, 2014, 13:57:12 The Tap and Barrel is welcoming to away fans.
http://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/news/11323958.Seven_football_fans_arrested_during_dawn_raids/ Title: Re: Best Home & Away Fans Pubs...? Post by: kerry red on Monday, July 14, 2014, 13:59:53 Bit of strange reporting there.
It says the trouble started at 7pm straight after the game. The game finished at 5pm. Anyway, it was Brentford so it shouldnt count Title: Re: Post by: otanswell on Monday, July 14, 2014, 15:17:40 Merlin
Title: Re: Post by: Ardiles on Monday, July 14, 2014, 18:26:05 The Merlin is a bog standard football pub that fits the bill because it's no nonsense, friendly enough and one of the closest hostelries to the ground. Other than that, it won't win any prizes.
Plenty of other pubs within a 15 to 20 minute walk, particularly up the hill in Old Town, that serve a better pint in a nicer atmosphere...but not sure if that's what you're aiming at with your guide. If it's the most popular places on matchdays you're focussing on and proximity to the ground, it's the Merlin and the Grove on Drove Road, the Tap & Barrel on Manchester Road and the County Ground Hotel just outside the ground on County Road - although the latter two are really home fans' pubs these days. Title: Re: Post by: otanswell on Monday, July 14, 2014, 19:17:20 Don't think away fans are welcome in the tap soapy tit wank
Title: Re: Best Home & Away Fans Pubs...? Post by: Ardiles on Monday, July 14, 2014, 19:33:42 I did say that, though.
Title: Re: Best Home & Away Fans Pubs...? Post by: suttonred on Monday, July 14, 2014, 20:26:48 Depends who it is and how many, I've been in there when there have been away fans and its been fine. The problems are when you get other teams rowdier elements, trying to be the hard guys, that's when they lose their teeth!
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