Uncle Buck
Ghost Writer
- Jul 7, 2003
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You must have gone to a different town to us, last season.
The pubs in the town were dreadful. Blackburn is the only place I have been to, where the line 'It is worse than Burnley', has been uttered.
We got into the Spoons at around 1030am, ordered our beers, at which point a local scrot stumbles in, with his own beer, sits down at a table and proceeds to drink said carry in. When we asked the bar staff about this, they said it is easier to just let them get on with it.
Next pub we went to, proudly advertised its 2 giant HD screens. Which happened to be showing a repeat of Jeremy Kyle.
Another pub we visited, there were 2 old boys in there, one throwing a bar stool at the other.
After the game, as we left the ground, the home 'yoof' of sorts came to the away end, chanting al sorts of the usual homophobic ditties. When questioned on this, they did come out with the usual come ons, lets have it etc. To be fair the whole thing calmed down when one of our travelling companions in his 60's squared up to one of them and another of the Blackburn fans came out with the line, 'you can't hit him, he's and old man', followed by the line, 'look at his trainers, he's wearing the wrong clobber'.
Now the crowning moment was probably the Mill Hill Hotel, whilst waiting for the train to Preston.
In we walk, to a barrage of homophobic comments. Laugh it off, order a beer, but the jibes continue. Just before we leave, we feed £10 into the duke box and put on an array of 'gay' songs, which must have still been playing at closing time.
So Blackburn was neither friendly or had decent pubs, from my visit there...
