Last night I went to Notts Forest, we had a pub stop 20 miles away and ended up getting to the game 15 mins late. I was very angry, and during the whole game it just didn't feel the same. I'm still peed with them, and will be complaning again if anything like this happens again. I think getting to the game on time is a minimal requirement. It was with the official travel club.

So do other clubs havs pub stops on the way to games?
Have you missed KO?
What role do the police play in this, as KO wasn't delayed?

I miss more kickoffs than make them :ph43r:

Most coaches up here have pub stops, its tradition really. The problem doesn't lie with stoping for a pint itself, but the other club underestimating our support and having 2 cash turnstiles open for 3000 fans, running out of change etc.

Two seasons ago I never got in until about about twenty past eight, and that was queing outside at twenty to seven (7.45 ko).

Police did nothing about it.

i never get official sanctioned transport so make my own pub stops but i quite often miss kick offs at home due to staying in the pub.

When iv gone with afew of our supporters coaches from around the north west we have stopped off before and after. Swansea we stopped in newport and then made our way at about 1.30 getting there at 2.40 only to be messed around by the police in the gypo car park :ph43r:

I missed kick off at bristol but that was my own doing for staying in the pub too long and not being bothered to move so i was only annoyed with myself. If i went on official buses id expect to get there in more than enough time afterall that would be the only reason id go with them to make sure i get the ground if theres no other means of getting there so if its then their fault for being late id be rather pissed off with them....

I went millwall with stoke once and we were about 10 miles away in loads of traffic at 2.40 so we got a police escort through all the lights/junctions/short cuts and made it easy, if they had left us we would have been 30 minutes late at least

For our FA Cup 5th Round replay at Wimbledon the stupid coachs decided to leave Adams Park at 5pm not taking in consideration London Traffic so we got to the game 20 mins after kick off. My Dad had gone by train and got there at kick off and said only about 1000 Wycombe were in by then - we ended up having over 4500 fans there. The club learnt there lesson and coaches left for Charlton at 3.45pm for our Carling Cup game last season - No one was late !!!!

Liverpool only run one official coach, and I'm not sure if that goes anymore, nobody ever gets on it.

No ale, just tea and coffee. And wonder why nobody ever got it.

Every other coach that goes away from home carries more ale than a brewery.

Doesn't stop at any pub on the way either. The only ones that do are the ones lads organise by themselves. Like for Luton the other week, 3 of the lads of coaches that go everywhere just arranged with each other to stop outside Luton until late on.

We don't really have official coaches

A pub stop on offical coaches count yourself lucky!!

Im rufusing to go on offical coaches again, (bar cardiff as they are forcing us) last season on a game where if city won they would of went up it was a nice trip to millwall.

Me and my mate thought, be on the safe side, train is a bit expensive so lets coach it.

We left bristol at 9AM and we didnt get to millwalls ground untill 3.45PM!!! that is with no stops.

Then on the way home they took the piss aswell, we didnt get back untill 10pm

It was a complete joke.

Welcome to my world.

So far this year: Reading, 25 minutes into the first half.

Liverpool: Just walking through stanley park as YNWA was finishing

Villa: 15 minutes late

West Ham: Arrived 10 minutes late

Bolton: On time, only because the pubs are wank

Kiev: Half Time :blink:

Brum: Arrived about 5 minutes before KO, but turnstile chaos made me ten minutes late for KO.

I can't be arsed thinking of many more, but the times I've seen kick offs over the last 4 or 5 years have been few and far between. It's always the same old faces in the queue at that time aswell, we might aswell start our own crew :D

It doesn't help that I go with a load of lads who seem unable to leave pubs without having 6 for the road at about 25 to 3.

Nick did you say you stopped at Ashby?


Whenever I go on Official travel they have a services stop (Families don't like pubs, it's not sanitised enough). never had any problems with ours though, still try to avoid it.

Same with ours very reliable in the 2 times I have used it. But like you said no beer on board and full of the opposite type of fan which I am. You may of read about them in the most recent issue of FourFourTwo magazine on the trip to oldham.

Ye we stopped of in Ashby, dont like that place ever since I found a hair in my chips, and then a hair wrapped around my fork.

I do about 15 away games a season on the bus, the ones I cant drive or train it too. We have our usual stops (Ashby, Bramley, Rochdale) and they usually get us there 20 mins before KO which is alright, but they like to push it, I've often got there on KO which I dont like. I like to get in early, build the atmosphere, know the teams, get up the for the game and then enjoy it. I dont see why alchol and pubs are so important, the game is the rraon for the trip.

Swansea official travel is alright, usually half the regulars bus is sit down fans, funnily enough at the front of the bus, and the singers standers at the back, just like the game. Its a good laugh, but lets good to the ground an hour early and be on the safe side, go in the pub any other time of the week.

our coaches never stop on the way the unoffical do but they set off 2 hrs before our official so arrive at same time just drink more, i never go on the coach sometimes i do at wolves but no where else. missed a couple of kicks off but not many though

but you woudnt off been aloud in many pubs round nottm they wouldnt let ur lot go in city centre .

I live 10 Minutes down the road from there.

Bit grim I'll agree with you although theres plenty worse & it's actaully got quite a nice feel to the town.

I'm suprised you get a pub stop on official travel. I used to go on ours when I was a kid, it was awful. Made to sit in silence, felt like a school trip.
We're allowed cans on the coach I go on now so we dont really do a pub stop. Still get there really early though.

It's scary sometimes isn't it - on many levels how similar situations are sometimes.

I'm a train man myself only been on the offical coach once in recent years down to Chelsea in the Carling semi

Never again

Its nothing against the town, it looks tidy enough, but when I think of that place all I can think of is that long hair wrapped around my fork :huh: