You know what, Sash. I was in one of the Portman Road pens not long before Hillsborough - as you probs - and we were in the middle of a slightly swaying heaving crush which for a few seconds made me and my mates stop and look at each other. It didn't feel right and I had been on terracing hundreds and hundreds of times by then. Crushes were fun. This one wasn't. Rectified itself a minute or so later with peeps moving around a bit but me ribs weren't half nearly broken. All of them. Absolutely packed the Palace end was. Sardines.

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Victoria Ground for Stoke was pretty bad. Also the Manor Ground for Oxford was basically standing in the open on a concrete block.

Red and Blue Army!

Bloomfield Road, Blackpool for me. It’s a lot better now, but the FA Cup 3rd Round tie there in 2003 was a pretty dire experience as I remember. I think it was an evening game (or maybe it just felt like an evening game as it went dark early with it being January) and being by the sea it was freezing. I’ve never been so cold at a match before or since.

But it wasn’t just the weather. The pitch was marked out in the ‘top left hand corner’, if you will, of the field so the left-hand touchline and the far goal-line were positioned nicely in front of the L-shaped stand with the Blackpool fans while the near goal-line was about half a mile away up the field from the Palace end (at least that's how I remember it). The stand to our right was unoccupied and looked set for the knacker's yard. Think it was only the bird droppings holding it together (if only that old stand could have spoken! I bet it had seen some sights in its day!).

Tommy Black's two goals made it all worthwhile though as we won the tie 2-1. We then got Liverpool in the next round and beat them 2-0 at Anfield in the replay, one of my best Palace memories ever

Must give an honorary mention to Exeter FC. Their fans are actually proud of the fact that they have probably ther worst away end in the entire league. Has to be seen in the flesh to appreciate how awful it really is.

And it pisses down almost every game....

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Reading as its a nightmare to get to and Turf moore is grim.

Not the worst ground I've ever been to, but Aldershot a few years back in a friendly involved us walking through a forest to get to the away end.

All I can say is, thank God Brighton have never played away at Aldershot.

If punk ever happened I'd be preaching the law, instead of listenin to Lydon lecture BBC4