What's your choice of sustenance at half time?

Somebody has already done a book on football food quality at grounds. Every ground in fact. Football Fans Guide by Janet Williams. Hasn’t been updated for some time though.
Ive got that book. It 20 years old mind. Reading it now. Some old defunct grounds still in there. Our esteemed fanzine editor also gets a mention in the credits.
 
Can you post a picture of the cover and a couple of pages? I am interested in the idea of people self-publishing books.

No worries - here's a sample (three photos if you click through)
Actually, it's a pretty well put-together volume with a decent cover and good typesetting. It says Blackline Press, but I'm not sure if that's just a cover for a vanity publisher, as it's clearly not been edited by a professional.

I might sound like a snob here, but I frequently browse Amazon and come away with different football books (by unknown writers) which all look great - only to find when they arrive that they're self published and therefore full of mistakes. This was one such example, and I've seen a lot worse too. But maybe not everyone's as bothered by that as I am.
 
No worries - here's a sample (three photos if you click through)
Actually, it's a pretty well put-together volume with a decent cover and good typesetting. It says Blackline Press, but I'm not sure if that's just a cover for a vanity publisher, as it's clearly not been edited by a professional.

I might sound like a snob here, but I frequently browse Amazon and come away with different football books (by unknown writers) which all look great - only to find when they arrive that they're self published and therefore full of mistakes. This was one such example, and I've seen a lot worse too. But maybe not everyone's as bothered by that as I am.

The cover is rather good but the writer's skills leave a lot to be desired. I realise this book is fairly antiquated by now but even a simple Grammarly (other online writing assistants are available) check would improve stuff like this by orders of magnitude.

Can we have a look at the foreword by Brian Blessed? A veritable behemoth of pie culture, no doubt.
 
I saw the NY Red Bulls play and it was a decent experience, especially their attempt at "ultra" imitation. Once is probably enough to be fair but there were plenty of "genuine" fans.

My brother-in-law is one of the "Sons of Ben" - the 'ultras' for the Philadelphia Union soccer team. There's only about 50 of them and their repertoire of songs amounts to just 2 which they repeat alternately for the entire duration of the game. I'm going back about 4-5 years last time i went to see them so they may have expanded and learnt some new ones. They weren't in short supply of blue flares though, which seemingly were permitted

The game against NY Red Bulls was also my most expensive half-time, I think it was something like $60 for 2 burgers and fries (which were quite nice to be fair, more like a BK whopper than what you would get from a burger van outside the Riverside, although i do love those too!) and 2 big (2ltr) buckets of Heineken
 
The best pies in football are the meat and potatoe pies at Morecambe. They've won awards. Best pies I've ever eaten. They'll be a thing of the past soon as bakers able to make proper food are dying out, and they'll just end up getting some ***** like pukka pies in.

The worst food I ever got was a hot dog at reading. It was sealed in one of those paper bags with foil on the inside. I think they left it in the heater too long as the bread stuck to the foil and was rock solid. There was a manky frankfurter that I was unable to insert into the bun.
 
The best pies in football are the meat and potatoe pies at Morecambe. They've won awards. Best pies I've ever eaten.

They came in at #1 in the aforementioned book - so I guess the writer does know what he's talking about, after all! And Norwich, who I think someone else mentioned earlier, were at #3.
 
After reading that I've got a self-generating earworm; in my head, I'm ordering the full gamut of takeaways in a Brian Blessed accent.
 
Blessed's secondary modern education shining through. It makes you proud to be British, or something.

Your go to half time was us freezing our arses off drinking a pish water pint. Can't even recall what we did on some our away trips by half time. Leeds being one of em
 
Your go to half time was us freezing our arses off drinking a pish water pint. Can't even recall what we did on some our away trips by half time. Leeds being one of em

I barely remember getting off the train after spending all night in your mam's kitchen backing Cameroon for the African Nation's Cup
 
I barely remember getting off the train after spending all night in your mam's kitchen backing Cameroon for the African Nation's Cup

Oh yeah forgot about that bet, best left in the past that one :LOL:
 
The worst food I ever got was a hot dog at reading. It was sealed in one of those paper bags with foil on the inside. I think they left it in the heater too long as the bread stuck to the foil and was rock solid. There was a manky frankfurter that I was unable to insert into the bun.

Reading this back it also strikes me as an allegory for my sex life since turning 40.
 
I definitely paid something like $13 for a can of Punk IPA at a Columbus Blue Jackets game last year. It was a big 16 ouncer mind. But I think a tenner was bit steep, for less than a pint!
 
Last season, it was Valium
Ha, ha, ha. We often mention this in reference to dodgy Boro moments but it's always pronounced vale-ium. Stems back to 1990 and our near relegation to Div 3. We were leading 2-0 at home to Port Vale when our @rses fell out in the last 15 mins and we lost 2-3.:rolleyes:
 
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