Regular away supporters that used the official club coaches in the past may not know that Watford Council are redeveloping Watford Business Park. As such and for the foreseeable future the car park and roads where the coaches left from in past seasons are boarded up for the massive redevelopment there and there isn’t any parking left in any event. BTW a the council say you should just cycle to Greenhill Crescent anyway. Yeah, right, like anybody did after they spent half a million pounds making it cycle friendly a few years back. I cannot see how away coaches will leave from Greenhill Crescent this season and a new venue (with parking) will have to be found. Some may argue that SAGE will never allow away fans to go anywhere this season anyhow!
If the Government is to be believed, all restrictions will definitely definitely definitely be lifted on July 19th so travelling to away games will be as acceptable as travelling to see Andrew Lloyd Webber's latest insipid production. So, it'd be a EPL decision to not have away fans. Which is quite possible but with the huge losses clubs are making, I don't think it'll happen.
Away fans is a bit of a strange one, certainly for the Premier League. Take Spurs v Arsenal, the average distance travelled to the match would be similar for both sets of fans. Take any Man Utd home game, for argument's sake Man Utd v Leeds, most Leeds fans will be coming from Yorkshire which is not that far from Manchester, whereas in the home end you would have more than 3000 travelling hundreds of miles from London and other places. Away fans is more likely to be an issue with leagues below the EPL, but the further you go down the pyramid the fewer fans would be travelling anyway.
I think away fans isn't so much an virus-spreading concern as an issue when social distancing is reducing capacities. Clubs don't want to turn away home fans in order to accommodate opposition ones.
If an enterprising location owner (say Bushey Met Club) near a main road, provided parking and loading space and say breakfast options and a bar to serve the coaches on return, they might make a few quid. I expect Greenhill crescent was chosen because it was relatively quiet on match days, and had the space for coaching loading. Maybe colonial way, as an alternative. I have only used the club coach twice. Once to the playoff final in Cardiff and the promotion clinching match at Brighton. So for a fee, I am prepared to forego the car and travel on the official coaches to increase our chances next season.
A couple of years ago I had no choice but to travel by coach to Burnley for a Sunday midday kickoff as the train wouldn't have got us there on time. It was very well done.
I hate these window licking comments that surface every so often. You are insulting disabled people - that's the intimation here whether you realise it or not - and that's a truly repulsive and unacceptable attitude whether through your ignorance or malice. And there are all sorts of people that take the club coaches for their own reasons. Youngsters who can't drive and older fans who feel more comfortable being taken directly to the ground and everyone in between. Sent from my Pixel 3a XL using Tapatalk
It's a derogatory word for people with learning difficulties. Not cool. Sent from my Pixel 3a XL using Tapatalk
I assume then that your personal list of banned words include 'idiot', 'moron', '******' etc etc? In my experience people who are mentally and physically challenged are quite capable of laughing at themselves and do not need po-faced Guardian readers to tell them what they should or shouldn't be offended by.
Best form of defence is attack clearly. I'd suggest you grow up, accept your comment was wrong and don't use the phrase again. Clearly you can choose to ignore that and continue being offensive but that's up to you. Sent from my Pixel 3a XL using Tapatalk
The rest of the world might be in a woke nightmare of chest feeding and 99 genders, but can we at least leave this forum the last bastion of sanity?
