What Stadium do you least enjoy Visiting & and most look forward to

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  1. EastStander

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    Recent seasons I dislike going to Oakwell!
     
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    Like - Millmoor - great atmosphere when we beat 'em 4-2

    Dislike Valley Parade - always felt threathened
     
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    I think that kids shouldn't be singing 'scabs' just like I wouldn't like to hear England fans chanting 'nazis' at Germany fans. It's abusive, it's wrong, and for every one person inside that stadium that did scab, there's probably an awful lot of people didn't/weren't around to/weren't involved in the industry etc. Kids/grandkids of miners chanting abuse at kids/grandkids of miners for what their grandparents did thirty years ago is wrong. It's how long term animosity survives. More to the point, most of the pissed up racists that are chanting 'I'd rather be a paki than a scab' are:

    1) humiliating themselves, the club and the town
    2) are only reflecting badly on the miners that struggled proudly through the strike (reinforcing what the establishment would have the rest of the country believe about them being ignorant, lawless and aggressive)
    3) using a significant piece of our shared industrial heritage and trivialising it for a drunken football chant.

    There ought to be a formal review of exactly what transpired through the time of the strike - government action, police tactics, who was involved and what crimes where committed against those brave enough and proud enough to take industrial action. Lowering the situation to an abusive football chant gets us nowhere near that.
     

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