Subject: Romance of the FA Cup - Paulton Rovers Away...

Norwichs' first 1st round match for about 50 years as given us an away tie to a suburb of Bristol.

On our local papers website forum, there are people suggesting that the ticket price can be saved by taking the following measures...

"if you can't get tickets go down to somerset, bring your binoculars and stand on the slag heap which over looks the ground, this is a left over from the days when Paulton was at the heart of Somerset Coal Fields. Yesterday there was on Paulton suppourter with binoculars stod on the slag heap watching the game (all to save £7). Slagheap Co-Ordinates for Google Earth lat=51.3032912368, lon=-2.4919883928"

You really couldn't make it up !

Edit : This is followed up by a Frome Town fan hoping that we smash the ****ers up ! The world has gone mad.
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norwich are on their way out by the looks of it.

Paulton are world beaters

Messi-" Paulton, it is my dream to play there"

Gerrard-"Aaah y'know, it's er every players dream to play there la"

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That's really authentic Gerrard - are you an ex-scallie made good ?

your just jealous of the regional accent because you dont have an accent to speak of!

no

I just write everything Gerrard says

GERRARD-"The gaffer sayin er y'know keep yer head daan and stay in the game and er y'know...

Its very easy

Beat me to a thread ;-) i wouldn't worry about binoculars. I would imagine you'll be able to watch it from the comfort of your own home. What a tie though.

Oxford have Yeovil at home, a tricky one, but we're playing well while our city name sakes have burton away. Nice little stadium burton.

Ah, you must be from south wales then ;)...

Yeovil weren't all that when we beat them 4-0 away in the cup. Bearing in mind that this was just before we sacked Brian Gunn, and 3 days after Colchester humphed us 7-1 at home.

This is Paulstons' ground...

So it isn't actually an option to sit on the slag heap - there are no other seats!

I think those thin red bits around the one and a half of the sides are the stands... To be fair they have a population of about 4000, their biggest gate was in 1906 when 2000 of them watched Crewe...
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yes well done :)

there seems te be a problems with the sidelines...

if you mean the wiggly line, i think thats the hose they use to water the pitch with.

what a time to take that picture then. :o

It was probably taken by getmapping.com or someone similar. They probably didn't have it done especially for the team.