Chris_OGrady

I’ve just booked to go Sri Lanka for my honeymoon in October, so i’l be looking for lots of tips when you return! Enjoy the Lion 🍺

The FA cup win was a strange one. Whilst I could never have imagined us winning the FA Cup pre winning the league, I still feel like I was robbed of arguably the best individual day out as a Leicester fan.

R&D was hardly oozing character inside pre-refurb. Always thought it was a bit bland. It has a great exterior though.

I don't think there's one absolutely "must go to" venue, there's just a proliferation of good pubs and it's hard to go wrong there! Very good cask and kegs options nearly everywhere. If I was with my Mrs, I'd deffo try and go to the House of Trembling Madness Stonegate- great view overlooking the cathedral, if you can find a spot!

It's always been largely underwhelming at the KP (apart from GE, title win and a little bit after that), however L1 would always give it a good go back in the day. Even in the championship wilderness years there was no area of the ground where people could congregate. L1 was always at saturation point and there was no area of the ground which could accommodate an influx of 1,500 + fans. No idea why the club would sell patches of tickets in every stand but they have always been useless. I remember a time when our vocal fans were split between N block, L1 and the top of the Kop...

I actually prefer going to the Tigers over City atm and I used to hate rugby. You can just turn up at the rugby in a big group and stand on a terrace. The atmosphere isn't a great deal worse than the football considering there's no atmosphere at that these days. You can watch home grown players on non ridiculous wages, and the club seems to be more entrenched and interested in the fans/local community than City. It's also slightly closer to town so better for boozing.

Liverpool and Man United (traditionally the two best fan bases) have seen a big drop off over the last 5-10 years. 10 Years ago they could both hold their own in Europe, but Liverpool fans were completely embarrassed by PSG last night. Anfield was poor.

Probably a mixture of quite a few things: lack of regional pride compared to other places; rural lower middle class rather than urban working class fanbase; club administration that has actively dissuaded atmosphere for years; people with no interest in creating an atmosphere holding significant sway in away priority, which causes more atmosphere minded people to give up/go to less games (I would go to more away games if we had good support and would go in SK1 if I could just turn up and get a ticket on the door).

I think we've always been a bit below average in terms of atmosphere. We've always been a bit tepid ever since I started going to games regularly in 2006. Back then we would consistently have well over 50% of our away ends sat down when other teams in the Midlands would have 100% standing. We can still create a decent atmosphere on our day and there is enough to not give up hope. Football atmosphere in England is the pits these days and I think there has been a real decline recently. We certainly aren't unique and amongst the worst.

In the same boat here too, think it's an extra £2.5k. Desperate to save that cash from going into a bottomless pit where it will make no tangible difference to anyone...

yeah those grass banks in NZ look great Still has a more local feel to it over there! Not sure I'm a fan of these enormous stadiums. I imagine they can feel a bit flat at times...

The test I want to do is England South Africa at Newlands in Cape Town. Obv Ashes would be amazing though!

This is a good watch, it's almost like he got his recommendations from foxestalk! They thought Ale Wagon was the best place in town.

It was @Miquel The Work Geordie who coined the term!

Went to Doon Spice at Blue Peter Club last week and had the lamb special which was £100 between 6 of us (you have to pre-order it at least a day before). It was a whole leg of lamb with keema and loads of rice. It was nice and something a bit different. All the food in there was tasty, but some of the portions were maybe a bit small for a group of 6. Would go again though. Luckily I was sat right underneath the TV so couldn't see any of the Leicester West Ham game. Also went to Nandos at Meridian on Sunday and it's absolute Dawn of the Deano in there

I managed a 49.13 in the Leicester 10k on Sunday which was tough! It did feel like endless loops of Victoria Park at times and was more hilly than I expected! Think I will also do the Abbey Park run in April.

Currently on cask at the Fox Cub in Barrow

Belfast was very good but, as with the rest of Ireland, you don't get much variety in beer selection from venue to venue.

Yeah agree with most of that. London is a hard one because it's SO much bigger than everywhere else. Whilst London has lots of great pub buildings, a lot of them are chain run and a bit rubbish. There's also lots of areas where there aren't many great pubs and it feels cask light compared to cities further north IMO. Haven't done Bristol, Norwich and Hull properly. Nottingham is annoyingly good. Even the suburbs are good, particularly Beeston and West Bridgford. It would be interesting to delve into villages and see what the best pub villages are in the UK. How would the likes of Barrow and Mountsorrel compare to others...

Is the foxestalk consensus that Sheffield is the best pub city in the UK? I need to get up there and try some.

Why are so many people still there?

This is a good watch, looking forward to the rest in the series.

Guildford Arms is good although gets very busy

I was down in London in the week. The Jackalope in Marylebone was a very nice pub.

I did most of January, I felt marginally better but it was very boring...