Not easy to watch it there due to numbers. The Cotton Tree, The Streetbridge, The Bay, Where I will be, and just up the road the Colliers are good pubs to watch City in/near FW.
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Watching game in town
- Thread starter Segga
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Not easy to watch it there due to numbers. The Cotton Tree, The Streetbridge, The Bay, Where I will be, and just up the road the Colliers are good pubs to watch City in/near FW.
Dive bar of Oldham street is OK loads of TVs and a big screen.Cheers for the replies chaps! I might try printworks, don't usually like it in there though! Not bothered about the trouble I find if your looking for it you will find it! I won't be wearing colours and I'll be meeting both city and united mates after game who have gone, I don't mode united fans who go, it's the go shites who will be in these pubs at a home game who boil my piss!
Cheadle_hulmeBlue
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bit rough for you levvy
i was brought up on lark hill road/estate and adswood, sure i can deal with the roughians ;)
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been going for years and never had an issueCheck my earlier post about that place
peoffrey
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Willow is where my mates still in Failsworth/Newton Heath go .... seen a few derbies in there, and was usually just the one rag who is a regular, and not a dick ...
Chris? He's more in to cricket and cycling. We had a good chat pre-Wales v Belgium.
warpig
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Have watched City on TV (not derbies) in town itself on a few occasions, and have either found the atmosphere dead or overly raggish, depending on how important the game is to the league. Tend to find a lot of rags travel up to Piccadilly and then hang around in town, presumably they can't get a ticket so just go for a day out. Would certainly advise caution of you do choose to watch in town, you may find a lot of their fans are day trippers and won't give two thoughts to starting something then running for the train. Last place I watched a game was at the Town Hall Tavern, West Brom, my wife was expecting any day with me on standby, she was meeting friends for a hen do/afternoon tea round the corner. Anyway, were more rags in there cheering on our opponents than anything, they all disappeared after 70 minutes when we scored the winner.
Have you thought about watching just outside of town, at one of the pubs the supporters clubs gather at? Usually a good choice in my experience. Used to watch at the Nelson in Didsbury on away derby days, but think they lost their telly 'license' last year?
Was great in there on derby day - all blues except the one old boy red who is one of the only rags I have ever been able to stomach and could take a defeat as well as a win (he actually said well done boys, great to watch, after the 6-1), and if we won you could see the red pub opposite emptying as full time approached as the rags all did one to get home early - thta always spoke to me of their base need to win, win, win, rather than just enjoy the ride. Not us lot though, win or lose on the booze, and Nelly karaoke to top it off. Remember traffic being stopped by celebrating blues and the police having to have a word on more than one occasion.
Actually watched last years or the one before at the pub round the corner, The Fletcher Moss, but that was around 50/50 thanks to a heavy didsbury student contingent shouting on Rooney & Co in very non-manc accents.
the derby youre talking about in the Fletcher moss must be the drab 0-0 from last season. I was in there and all the united fans to a man (or boy) were all studenty non-Mancunian types.
The Royal Oak seems to have replaced the Nelson as the main city pub to watch the games now. I think the Didsbury blues still run a coach to the home games out of both of them though (??) And the celebratory conga/road block outside the nelson is legendary ;-)
A bit further up the road, The griffin used to be a massive city pub a few years back showing all the wasters. for some inexplicable reason took all the TVs out and changed to a foodie type place. It used to coin it in. Madness .
I tried watching the Swansea game in town a few weeks ago, and none of the places that used to show games had it on. Asked a few of the door staff and they said hardly anywhere shows the 3pm games in town any more. Not sure if the police have clamped down on it?
DWIFF
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Has anyone watched the game in The Victoria in Withington recently? I've heard it's quite good. Just deciding where to watch it tomorrow. Cheers