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Away Days 25/26: It’s Their Party But We Will Sigh If We Want To. Bromley

Bromley vs Cambridge. 1st v 3rd in League 2. It’s fair to say that Bromley have exceeded expectations. In only their second season in the football league they have reached the third tier! A feat that could have been achieved on a Thursday night against Cambridge however it was the U’s who really should have won the game. Since Bromley is basically London, myself and DJ decided to make a day of it and after a spoons breakfast in St Ives we headed down to London where we checked out the new Guinness Brewery. Through the tunnel  Top quality pint  I really enjoyed sitting the courtyard sipping a tasty Guinness but there was no cider for DJ so we headed to The Lyric in Soho. I spontaneously made up a pub crawl! There’s always obstacles in the way when I want to take a photo  Cheers! The Lyric had a good range of beers on including a few from Siren! I went for a Soundwave and we sat watching a group of completely bewildered German tourists walk in and then out of the pub again....
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Away Days 25/26: A Mega Weekend In Manc, Accrington & Stockport.

  Welcome to another blog! This instalment is a combination of an away day and northern beer blog, so there’s a lot to get through!  I travelled up north on the Friday afternoon and met Rach at Sureshot, where we enjoyed some of Sureshot’s 4th birthday beers! From here it would have been rude not to visit Cloudwater and Track too, so we did. I like Cloudwater beer a lot but there’s something I just don’t love about their taproom and I can’t put my finger on it. No there’s not a Peterborough United clock… Track however is one of my favourite taprooms. Here I enjoyed the Spezial, Festbier, which was stunning. Festbier is such a difficult style to get right and Track have aced it. We were getting hungry so made our way to Bundobust on Oxford Road. They had a new menu on which included some Chinese inspired dishes. The food here is excellent but is all veggie and I do miss meat… I washed the food down with their lager and centennial hopped NEIPA.  Our next stop was old fave w...

Away Days 25/26: Newport Lookin Down - Newport

Newport have never struck me as a football league club and I don’t think they will be one for much longer. Cambridge however are looking like they will be a league one club again, and we made the trip to Wales hoping to avoid another defeat to a bottom of the league club.  Setting off around 08:00 we made our first stop at the rather nice Rugby Services, where a Greggs was much needed! Nom Arriving in Newport around 13:20 we went for a walk to find a pint. ? Newport castle? A local suggested we visited The Potters, which happened to be just round the corner! A nice sports focused pub with Alpacalypse from Salt on tap, which I enjoyed. We saw even more sights walking back to the ground. Screams non league  Through the turnstiles we were presented with the choice of a stand with a roof to the side of the pitch, which felt a bit cramped or a stand behind the goal without a roof. We opted to stand behind the goal in the rain. Not a bad view Hardcore fans After a rather nothing fir...

Away Days 25/26: Creepy Crawley

  Another away day! It feels like ages since I’ve been to The Abbey! Looking to bounce back from a bad day at Harrogate, the amber army flirted with the tricky M25 for an evening game against Crawley.  As soon we arrived the chief steward announced that there would be no booze sold in the ground. Bit weird. Happily there were both pies and chips! The pie was alright. Glad to see some variation from the classic pukka pies. Being served in a bag and no forks wasn’t ideal though. The chips really hit the spot! Maybe the best chips I’ve ever had at a football ground! The other thing to note is that our white and green kit is cursed, no wins in it… A rather drab first half was significantly improved by a Cambridge United half volley goal!  Two second half KaiKai goals in front of the travelling faithful sealed a 3-0 win on the road against a frankly laughable Crawley side. I can’t remember watching a side who gifted so many needless corners from poor passes out from the back. ...