... before @RTB comes on here throwing his weight about and calling the odds.
The Bolton ground, for away fans, is pretty good.
It has a good covered away end where we get around 5,000 and decent facilities for the lads who enjoy singing about Gary Rowell and hoying beer over each other. We usually create a great atmosphere and have a laugh at the bunch of local 'mental cases', in the right hand corner next to us, who spend 90 minutes shaking fists and making throat cutty gestures ...
... then vanish, without trace, once you get back outside.
The numbers we take are enough to shoo them away and the coppers aren't bad tbh. Burnden Park was always a bit wild and we had a few escapades down there. We came out once and our car had been nicked so we nicked one to get home with
We went one Easter and took over their pub near the ground which was absolutely rammed with gangs from Seaburn, Peterlee, the Vauxies, etc ... some absolute lunatics. The toilets were bloacked and the piss came up to your ankles, thank heavens we all wore boots in those days.
Sadly, the ground is in a vast swathe of wasteland, retail park, with few pubs so not worth showing up early., the town isn't much better. If you're on the train it's probably best to have a drink at Manchester Piccadilly and come in from there, about 30 minutes and the last train for kick off is 2pm.
We usually go the Beehive for some scran and a drink then walk the 20 minutes down to the ground.
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/Bee Hive - Pub & Carvery/@53.5844569,-2.52254,3a,75y,90t/data=!3m8!1e2!3m6!1sAF1QipN5OFVseh8rdAeraXjXV1wQLyfyHpzJuceVyX6I!2e10!3e12!6shttps://lh5.googleusercontent.com/p/AF1QipN5OFVseh8rdAeraXjXV1wQLyfyHpzJuceVyX6I=w129-h86-k-no!7i3600!8i2400!4m22!1m16!4m15!1m6!1m2!1s0x487b09aab37003ad:0x4ea3dea69347d31c!2sUniversity of Bolton Stadium, Burnden Way, Bolton!2m2!1d-2.5369749!2d53.5813723!1m6!1m2!1s0x487b09b2498cf557:0xecd97ee404882715!2sBee Hive - Pub & Carvery, 991 Chorley New Rd, Lostock, Horwich, Bolton BL6 4BA!2m2!1d-2.5224312!2d53.5845648!3e2!3m4!1s0x487b09b2498cf557:0xecd97ee404882715!8m2!3d53.5845648!4d-2.5224312
I'll probably have a few tickets, left over, if anyone is stuck.
Haway the Lads!!!
The Bolton ground, for away fans, is pretty good.
It has a good covered away end where we get around 5,000 and decent facilities for the lads who enjoy singing about Gary Rowell and hoying beer over each other. We usually create a great atmosphere and have a laugh at the bunch of local 'mental cases', in the right hand corner next to us, who spend 90 minutes shaking fists and making throat cutty gestures ...
... then vanish, without trace, once you get back outside.
The numbers we take are enough to shoo them away and the coppers aren't bad tbh. Burnden Park was always a bit wild and we had a few escapades down there. We came out once and our car had been nicked so we nicked one to get home with
We went one Easter and took over their pub near the ground which was absolutely rammed with gangs from Seaburn, Peterlee, the Vauxies, etc ... some absolute lunatics. The toilets were bloacked and the piss came up to your ankles, thank heavens we all wore boots in those days.
Sadly, the ground is in a vast swathe of wasteland, retail park, with few pubs so not worth showing up early., the town isn't much better. If you're on the train it's probably best to have a drink at Manchester Piccadilly and come in from there, about 30 minutes and the last train for kick off is 2pm.
We usually go the Beehive for some scran and a drink then walk the 20 minutes down to the ground.
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/Bee Hive - Pub & Carvery/@53.5844569,-2.52254,3a,75y,90t/data=!3m8!1e2!3m6!1sAF1QipN5OFVseh8rdAeraXjXV1wQLyfyHpzJuceVyX6I!2e10!3e12!6shttps://lh5.googleusercontent.com/p/AF1QipN5OFVseh8rdAeraXjXV1wQLyfyHpzJuceVyX6I=w129-h86-k-no!7i3600!8i2400!4m22!1m16!4m15!1m6!1m2!1s0x487b09aab37003ad:0x4ea3dea69347d31c!2sUniversity of Bolton Stadium, Burnden Way, Bolton!2m2!1d-2.5369749!2d53.5813723!1m6!1m2!1s0x487b09b2498cf557:0xecd97ee404882715!2sBee Hive - Pub & Carvery, 991 Chorley New Rd, Lostock, Horwich, Bolton BL6 4BA!2m2!1d-2.5224312!2d53.5845648!3e2!3m4!1s0x487b09b2498cf557:0xecd97ee404882715!8m2!3d53.5845648!4d-2.5224312
I'll probably have a few tickets, left over, if anyone is stuck.
Haway the Lads!!!
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