Worst away end you've been in?

[1973Blade]

Watching the Gillingham v Portsmouth game on Sky reminds me how miserable the Priestfield away end is. Held up by scaffolding, the stand moves when you walk on it, no roof, it always seems to be cold and we always play shit there. Surely the worst away end in the League?!

 

[snootyfenooty]

St Andrews when we played Brum in '75. Trouble is about 6000 Unitedites thought it was the away end and it wasn't. Fucking carnage for 90 minutes.

 

[S64 Blade]

Gillingham for the facilities I guess.

Bristol Rovers is another one that sticks out as being awful.

 

[Rusty view]

Readings Elm park was shit.

 

[RammyBlade]

Yep got to be Gillingham but SWillsboroughis close !

 

[LoughboroBlade]

Port Vale was a delapidated claustrophobic hell-hole...and the ground wasn’t much better either.

Fratton Park is the best advert for why it’s not a good idea to just stick seats onto old skool terracing. It makes the Kop feel palatial in comparison.

 

[Hague Blade]

Luton, through the back yards of the terraced houses. Watford, through the allotments.

 

[Revolution]

Pre-redevelopment Chelsea was pretty dreadful. Crumbling terrace miles from the pitch.

Oxford's old ground was pretty dismal too.

 

[Revolution]

Luton, through the back yards of the terraced houses. Watford, through the allotments.

Last time I was at Luton I was seated behind the goal and couldn't see anything because the keepers were blocking the view. Terrible place to see a game.

 

[Woodthorpe blade]

The crumbling terraces at Bradford, about 1980. Both set's of fans cobbing lumps of it at each other all the way through the game. Lot's of injuries.

 

[Fanny magnet]

Leppings lane
Remember going in not long after the Hillsborough disaster and being shit scared when going down the stairwell without my feet touching the ground

That on a night when football seemed to be a bit of a nonsense in the grand s heme of things

 

[BerksBlade]

Gillingham is pretty bad. No roof not really acceptable in this day & age. Elm Park was pretty grim for away fans as well.
Been to a few bad ones but Somerton Park (Newport) in the mid-80s probably the worst.

 

[PTBlade]

St Andrews when we played Brum in '75. Trouble is about 6000 Unitedites thought it was the away end and it wasn't. Fucking carnage for 90 minutes.

Ha remember it well.....wagged it off school for the day. I was a 15 year old wearing a scalf and got seperated from my friends.
I got so many slaps that night mi ears were red raw.

 

[blade too long]

Newport

 

[GreasyChipBeattie]

The crumbling steps of Notts County back in the day, although Wigan's old ground wasn't any better.

 

[alcoblade]

Belle Vue, Doncaster.

 

[oldblade]

Plymouth in the early 1980s was pretty poor. Seem to remember it being just an uncovered mud bank (perhaps my memory is exaggerating how bad it was). Wimbledon at Plough Lane in 1983-4 wasn't good either, but the fact that it rained all through the second half , I got absolutely drenched and we lost 3-1 didn't help.

 

[Part timer]

The crumbling terraces at Bradford, about 1980. Both set's of fans cobbing lumps of it at each other all the way through the game. Lot's of injuries.

October 1981 and we won 2-0. I was fourteen and very scared at that game. Snooker balls, darts and half house bricks were coming over as well.

 

[Lane Ender]

St Andrews when we played Brum in '75. Trouble is about 6000 Unitedites thought it was the away end and it wasn't. Fucking carnage for 90 minutes.

We were on the back foot still talked about 42 years on.

 

[shorehamview]

Mansfield years ago around 88 or so, hiding from the driving sleet behind a chain link fence. It was so cold most people there were various shades of blue, teeth chattering and shivering like crazy. And like an idiot I was wearing my new leather jacket, took a week for it to dry out.

 

[maidmarion]

Halifax Town. Early 80s. Not so much a stand and as old shack with seats in.
Crawley..."seats in a marque.
And I really didn't like going to Aston Villa.....cramped at back of the stand...ladies toilets probably put in as an afterthought and allthough we won, wouldn't go back again.

 

[FATTYFOULKE]

The Swill is genuinely one of the worst I’ve been in. Was there for the Bobby Davidson game and although a brilliant night I was absolutely piss wet through on what is the now condemned triangle. I’ve also sat in the top tier and had my view of the pitch obstructed by two or three posts and that’s not exaggerating.

I’ve been to loads in the early eighties in the lower divisions but I seriously can’t remember an away end as poor.

Maybe the old Carlisle ground (not sure if they still play there) and Bristol Rovers (can’t remember what it was called) give the Swill a run for its money.

But taking into account the supposed status of the stadiums and clubs, the Swill is the the stand out shit hole for me.

 

[SW12 to S12 to S18]

There have been a lot over the years, Aldershot, Halifax, Luton as mentioned elsewhere but even some of the big grounds were pretty poor. The Witton? end at Villa was big but had a rubble strewn grassy top and had no cover from the weather just like so many more. Behind the goal at Upton Park you were lower than the pitch and similar at The Baseball Ground.
Also don't forget the delights of The Den.

 

[jt64]

Preston pre redevelopment was a bit crap

 

[Bruce Wayne]

The crumbling terraces at Bradford, about 1980. Both set's of fans cobbing lumps of it at each other all the way through the game. Lot's of injuries.

Was at that game as a nipper, remember a lump hitting the floodlight pylon and it showered us in rust deposits.

 

[Woodthorpe blade]

October 1981 and we won 2-0. I was fourteen and very scared at that game. Snooker balls, darts and half house bricks were coming over as well.

We were on the special train, and got attacked by Bradford fans in town centre as well.

 

[I'll tell me dad.]

Mansfield years ago around 88 or so, hiding from the driving sleet behind a chain link fence. It was so cold most people there were various shades of blue, teeth chattering and shivering like crazy. And like an idiot I was wearing my new leather jacket, took a week for it to dry out.

I remember seeing a bloke at the end of the terrace with a minature snow drift between the end of his shoulder and the top of his hood.

 

[Liverpool blade]

Elm Park was s shite away end!. 3 concrete steps and then a muddy grass bank. Plymouth was poor. The away end at Portsmouth was pretty horrible also. The sty will always be top of the list for obvious reasons.

 

[ChipButtyBlade]

Derby County at the Baseball ground,it was definately designed for sheep.

 

[WhiteHawk]

Got to be Gillingham, although Luton is pretty shit (having to enter the stand by going over peoples gardens?!), Bristol Rovers isn't great and Swindon is crap too (I went last season and was on the roofless stand behind the goal).