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Les Beeavinu
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Think you can get there any time - if the turnstiles are closed a steward should let you in. Be careful you don't get a yellow card though, maybe take a picture.. Latest for me was half time when I got a puncture on the m3.
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Thanks, i might be looking at ht on Sunday. Good point about the yellow card, ill take a selfie!
Les Beeavinu
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There's a gate in the corner of West and North that they should let you in - well, that's what happened with me.
Mr Tree
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Yes, I've used that gate too.
Not sure you'd be successful trying to get in once the second half is underway, though...
Not sure you'd be successful trying to get in once the second half is underway, though...
Isleworth_Bee
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Ohhhhh i thought this was going to be another great thread discussing the latest you've even entered a ground at.
Must be some top TW8 stories.
Must be some top TW8 stories.
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When we played Tranmere away once, my group arrived very late as there was total carnage on the M1, proper gridlock with people walking around the motorway etc.
It was actually half time when we rocked up to the away turnstiles, closed. Went around to the main office entrance and they charged us half price, took us though the main stand, along a corridor where we past open door to the Bees changing rooms(!), out through the players half way line tunnel(!!) and alongside the pitch down to the away end!
I liked being late that day ?
It was actually half time when we rocked up to the away turnstiles, closed. Went around to the main office entrance and they charged us half price, took us though the main stand, along a corridor where we past open door to the Bees changing rooms(!), out through the players half way line tunnel(!!) and alongside the pitch down to the away end!
I liked being late that day ?
Houghton Bee
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Dont think I've ever missed a kick off. THAT Cardiff home game was probably the closest, got on to the terrace moments before kick off only to realise we'd walked in to the ad hoc Cardiff section that some f***ing idiot at BFC had set up
horshambees
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Half time at Bolton once.
An hour into the game at Gillingham.
Pub related nonsense.
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I left my wallet with season ticket in it at work and had to rush to get it before an Everton home game at the Gtech, in either '22 or '23.
Got to the ground five minutes before the second half started and had to bang on the shutters for someone to open up.
A very nice security lady told me technically she couldn't let me in, but she must have taken pity on me and very kindly let me in 'just this once'.
So long story longer, they shut the shutters at half time.
Got to the ground five minutes before the second half started and had to bang on the shutters for someone to open up.
A very nice security lady told me technically she couldn't let me in, but she must have taken pity on me and very kindly let me in 'just this once'.
So long story longer, they shut the shutters at half time.
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I must have been with you as I remember this happening to me and my mate.
Tranmere staff let me park in a directors space inside the ground who didn’t attend the game to avoid us missing any more of the game.
Was around 2001/2002 by memory.
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100’s of Cardiff bunked in that dayDont think I've ever missed a kick off. THAT Cardiff home game was probably the closest, got on to the terrace moments before kick off only to realise we'd walked in to the ad hoc Cardiff section that some f***ing idiot at BFC had set up
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That's some effort.Dont think I've ever missed a kick off. THAT Cardiff home game was probably the closest, got on to the terrace moments before kick off only to realise we'd walked in to the ad hoc Cardiff section that some f***ing idiot at BFC had set up
Have missed dozens of away kick offs due to one pint too many, and then the ground being further than we thought / no taxis / traffic / oh the away end isn't this way it's the other way / yes I do need another wee before 45 mins in the cold....
Don't remember ever missing more than a minute at GCS though.
My only "all complete" season, 22/23, I raced back from Plymouth that morning for the Man City game. Was looking a bit dicey as we battled train cancellations and delays and then my own stupidity getting on the tube the wrong way for two stops... but made it to the turnstiles just as Hey Jude was starting (at the start of the game, not the end
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Can't remember now quite how this went, but we had a home game with Northampton in my 20's, the day after my birthday. So someone organised for Peter G to give me a mention in his pitchside ramblings... pre-match i guess, although maybe we missed the whole first half. Anyway yes, we got hammered and barely made the 3pm kick-off, with one of the group feigning unconsciousness on the couch to avoid going to the game.
The mate who'd organised is was well chuffed, "did you hear your name, that was great huh, i sorted that" "you what?"
The mate who'd organised is was well chuffed, "did you hear your name, that was great huh, i sorted that" "you what?"
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I lived on the edge of Oldham for a few years in the early 2000s. For reasons I won't go into, at 14.40 was suddenly able to go to Rochdale-Bees when I thought I was committed elsewhere. It's about a 25 minute drive, so was always going to be late but found a parking space quickly and arrived about 7 minutes into the match. Unfortunately in my haste, I mis-read the signs and saw a sea of blue (might be exaggerating) as I entered what turned out to be the home terrace. No need to stop myself cheering the Bees goals as we didn't really trouble them. Managed not to be too conspicuous by not celebrating when they scored. Remembered to always check when late. Perhaps one benefit of always needing a ticket these days!
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There was a game at GP (can't remember the opposition) when we were in League 2 which I wasn't planning to attend as I had to be somewhere else. I got a train back to Brentford which arrived at around 1640 so thought I might as well go to the ground to catch the final score. The gates were open to let people out so I went in with about three minutes to go, and caught the only goal.of the game, scored by Glenn Poole.
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Jay Bee
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If anyone can beat that for late arrival I'd be impressed.
A quick skim of our league two results....was it this one?
Brentford 1-0 Macclesfield (8 Mar, 2008) Final Score - ESPN (UK)
Game summary of the Brentford vs. Macclesfield Town English League Two game, final score 1-0, from 8 March 2008 on ESPN (UK).
www.espn.co.uk
I think I looked this game up once before... I believe that was our lowest home Saturday league crowd between 2001 and now (many lower, but in midweek or in cups...maybe a topic for another thread).
Not surprising with people sneaking in for free
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That'll be the one. A Glenn Poole header was a rare event!If anyone can beat that for late arrival I'd be impressed.
A quick skim of our league two results....was it this one?
Brentford 1-0 Macclesfield (8 Mar, 2008) Final Score - ESPN (UK)
Game summary of the Brentford vs. Macclesfield Town English League Two game, final score 1-0, from 8 March 2008 on ESPN (UK).
I think I looked this game up once before... I believe that was our lowest home Saturday league crowd between 2001 and now (many lower, but in midweek or in cups...maybe a topic for another thread).
Not surprising with people sneaking in for free
hobbsy
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Well it looks like the attendance of 3,863 should now be 3,864.If anyone can beat that for late arrival I'd be impressed.
A quick skim of our league two results....was it this one?
Brentford 1-0 Macclesfield (8 Mar, 2008) Final Score - ESPN (UK)
Game summary of the Brentford vs. Macclesfield Town English League Two game, final score 1-0, from 8 March 2008 on ESPN (UK).
I think I looked this game up once before... I believe that was our lowest home Saturday league crowd between 2001 and now (many lower, but in midweek or in cups...maybe a topic for another thread).
Not surprising with people sneaking in for free
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horshambees
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And .......
Rotherham away 83/84 lost 4-0.
For some reason my first pint went straight to my head.
By the 7th pint i was all over the shop and left for the ground.
Straight in the home end,down the front,over tbe barrier,they scored,into the main stand,up in the seats,out like a light.
Woke up at half time and went for a pee.
Me fly broke,back in the seats,back to sleep for half hour and see the last 10 minutes.
Felt as rough as fk.
hobbsy
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For the Forest game last year we were about 35 minutes late. No one outside the ground knew who could let us in and we kept on being passed from steward to steward. Eventually we had to bang on a door near entrance P (I think) in the West Stand and there was a steward that let us in.
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One game in the 90’s - Cambridge United away got there at half time, score was 0-0, we went on to lose the game 1-0, Graham Benstead punched the ball into his own net from a corner.
This season we were two minutes late getting into Man City away due to heavy traffic on the M6 and missed our goal.
This season we were two minutes late getting into Man City away due to heavy traffic on the M6 and missed our goal.
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Northampton away 12/08/2000. Had a young lad turn up behind us about 25 minutes in. Absolutely shredded, proceeded to fall asleep immediately, only woken in ~80th minute when we were celebrating Ivar Ingimarsson’s equaliser.
Then fell asleep again and his mates left him after the game. Assume they weren’t Marines.
Then fell asleep again and his mates left him after the game. Assume they weren’t Marines.
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Fortunately they had installed an impregnable gaffertape/clueless steward barrier & disaster was averted.Dont think I've ever missed a kick off. THAT Cardiff home game was probably the closest, got on to the terrace moments before kick off only to realise we'd walked in to the ad hoc Cardiff section that some f***ing idiot at BFC had set up
Wise old Bee
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I got the KO time wrong for the Sunday game against Bournemouth in the run in at the end of 91-92 and turned up five minutes from half time. I asked a bloke on New Road the score and he mumbled something which I didn't fully grasp but thought it was 0-0. When Bournemouth scored late on I thought they had nicked it but it turned out to have been a 2-2. Was also late for the Oxford LC game and heard a muffled roar as we approached GP. Second went in as we reached ER terrace. Should've walked straight past.
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For some reason Millmoor is/was my favourite away ground.
Had a Griffin Parkness about it sizewise & the red & white crush barriers.
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Took a friend to a game at gp possibly uwe rosler time. Did the 4 pubs round gp starting about 11am in the griffin. Do remember standing on the ealing road terrace sometime after half time but all the rest is hazy. So definitely late but no idea of the details.
horshambees
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I envy FJs eloquence.
And i could not,under any circumsrances,try to mimic the great man
Its a good job the gpg was not around in 1984.
We would have been describing a complete shambles of days out here there and everywhere.
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I'm guessing there are loads on here who didn't get into Forest on time after that god awful train special?
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I think we did, but as it was half time our entry was kinda subdued as far as I recall ?
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Someone said they had emailed the club re this earlier in the season and they confirmed no entry after the half time whistle.
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True. I could imagine it may have something to do with the concourse filling up and the turnstiles not exactly being secure
