I’ll start. In an American airbase in Iceland at 2am. Tourist coach 4 full of drunken brits v Tourist Bus 6 full of drunken brits. supposed to be checking out the northern lights but someone had a ball….
At Welling United when they were Bexley United. Up a tree in Danson Park. Someone got me down after a while.
You mean the one that was laughingly the national athletics stadium? My PE teacher asked me Amd the rest of the athletic kids to attend there once. I was thinking I was gonna have a day using the facilities Amd the bugger made me give out water in a 50k walking race
I had one of those old 'boys own stories' annuals as a kid. Ripping yarns type stuff. One of the cartoon strips involved a grudge football match on the flight deck of an aircraft carrier. That would be fun. My footballing career ended in our factory car park (concrete). Twisted my ankle good and proper. Ouch! The boss - who was not playing at the time - was less than impressed. I was limping for about three months.
I vaguely remember Andy Townsend at Welling. Although he spent most of his time at the snooker hall in Eltham playing all comers for money. Nice bloke never understood why we never picked him up
Bexley United Football Club was a football club based in Welling. Bexley United Full name Bexley United Football Club Founded c. 1952 Dissolved 1976 Ground Park View Road, Welling League Southern League Div One South 1975–76 7th A club of the same name played in the Kent League before the war, before merging with Bexley.[1] It was resurrected as Bexleyheath and Welling in about 1952 following a local campaign,[2] and joined the Kent League. In 1959, the club was elected to the Southern Football League Division One. It gained promotion to the Southern League Premier Division in 1961 and also won the Kent Senior Cup for the only time. In 1963, the team changed its name to Bexley United. Four seasons after promotion into the Premier Division, Bexley found itself relegated back into Division One, staying there for the rest of the club's life, except for a move into the Division One South when the league structure was altered. At that point, the club got into financial trouble and never truly recovered. Bexley played its final game in April 1976 in front of 222 spectators.[2]
They weren’t. Welling started playing their games in Danson Park. They took over Park View Road when Bexley United folded.
A slight deviation, but the oddest football match I ever went to was Kettering v Gillingham in the FA Cup around 1985. I say odd because there was absolutely no segregation, and every hooligan in Northamptonshire had arrived that day. I vividly remember only 2 coppers on duty, and the sight of the Kettering hard lads walking from their end, unimpeded, straight into the Gillingham end …with inevitable consequences. Even in non league you no longer see grounds where you can walk from one end to the other.
Oddest ground I have ever been to is Selhurst Park, not least because of its dual purpose as a toilet.
To get to Selhurst Park from where I lived was an awful journey. The stands were similar to a non league ground.
12 miles, but felt like a lot longer. That drive through the traffic up Sydenham High St & then Crystal Palace parade on a Saturday afternoon was not enjoyable.
Parish has promised their fans a new stadium / Stand literally every year since he’s been there. I just had a quick look, and his latest whopper is a new £125m Stand with work starting in January 2026
