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deaconred
Went to Fulham Newcastle match on Sunday. Cost a fortune for a half decent seat near dugouts. Some good ideas at the ground - priority queues for disabled fans, decent beer, loads of food. Served food all game (I know - encourages fannies to keep going out) but it did mean that you could have a pie and a pint at the end of the game. Might be an idea to allow for gradual dispersement at when we move to the Gobi.
Seat was dirty enough for me to get a wet tissue to try and clean some of it off. (yes - ponce). Terrace was very shallow - obviously an ex-standing area which hadn't been properly converted to seating. Apparently, they are pulling down this stand in the summer and building a new one. The chairman/owner seems quite popular with the fans I spoke with.
The Archibald Leitch stand is quite wonderful from the street side but wouldn't fancy watching the game from it.
They also have a "neutral" area - which was full of Geordies.
Lad sitting next to me (Newcastle shirt) and girlfriend (Fulham top - she was nice). Newcastle scored the first goal and the camera phone was going so mental that he didn't realise they had scored a second. She did. What should have happened after our eyes met and she realised I thought her boyfriend was a prat and I realised that she agreed with me, didn't. Her loss.
Overall - quite enjoyable. Pac would have given it a 5/10. I hope. Having seen every Dons match this season, the football was much better than yer average SPFL match. Fulham were - bizarrely - the better team box to box but where it mattered they were third.
Lot of good, honest fans there but still a few tourists - plastic bags full of souvenirs. Boy and girl left early (I'd moved by then to save her from temptation). But there's a difference between "tourist" and "football fans". Pac and I are very different but neither of us are "tourists" - we are both football fans.
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