NEWSNOWUpton Park – is it a toilet?
Does anyone else share my disapproval at the state of the loos at our place? It is a real bugbare of mine, I have to say.
Any other public convenience I visit seems to be relatively clean and well cared for but even the most basic standards of sanitation and cleanliness are absent in the Bobby Moore Upper. Why?
My own feeling is that it is symptomatic of the relative disregard football club owners seem to have for the fans.
So, am I just being poncey or does this strike a chord with anyone?
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Upton Park has been a toilet for years mate.
The bogs at THE BOLEYN GROUND are pretty horrible too!
The toilets in the DM lower are pretty much okay – much better than I’d expect from a venue of the size of Upton Park.
However, I tend to “go” before the match starts. I can’t speak for what they’re like afterwards.
The DR Martins upper toilets are absoulutely diabolicol its just a flood of urine and the smell is awfull to. But in some ways its part of football.
The fans at UP are turnstile fodder.
They had the chance to give the fans decent facilities when modernising the stadium.
But Mr Brown and his crownies cut corners, as usual, and we ended up with aluminium troughs and cold water only.
I’ve recently been to the O2 Arena and The Emerates……..they leave our facilities (not just the bogs) looking like a sespit.
I’ve always been quite happy with the Ladies Loos (BML) always clean, my only complaint is the lack of paper towels/hand drying machines.
The toilets in the Lower Chicken run are clean but the facilities for food & drink are sub standard poor service and extortionate prices.The televisions are pre 1970’s and do not work – It wouldn’t take an awful lot of money spent to improve these facilities considering the amount of money we pay the club for our season tickets!!!!
@Smudge.. I wouldn’t eat anything in the ground mate.. The Chippie on the corner is my only eating place at UP before the game and after.
and as for using the toilets there, the toilets at the beginning of the Movie Slumdog Millionaire look cleaner. lol!
Funny, I was at Chelski vs Juventus and they seem to have a toilet per fan! I’m in the DM upper and after seeing both the Emirates and Chelski this season I have to agree our new Stand is shite and the toilets are the cheapest cr@p (pardon the pun) that could be bought.
re smudge
My daughter works in the bar in the chicken run Lower, and they do the best they can with the facilities they have, she has even been attacked on one occassion this season , by a so call fan who wanted a drink after the bar had closed, give these girls a break, they work dam hard, often not getting out of the ground untill gone 6.30 on match days, they try their best.
Usually go to the Centenary lower and upper depends whats available, can’t complain about the toilets really seem ok to me. As for Staff, they do well, its always very busy and they do seem to turn it round quite quickly.
If your really that fussed about where you take a slash go before you arrive.
They are luxurious compared to the urinals in the old south bank in the late 70’s/early 80’s.I’m in and out asap in the cetenary lower.It’s clean & I don’t spend long in there.
Considering how many people use the bogs, they ain’t that bad. Agree that Doc M could have been better when it was built. Brown certainly went for the cheapest option when choosing more or less everything, signs, bogs, finishes, lighting etc
Food in the ground like most grounds is expensive rubbish. I too, eat in the chippie by UP tube, which isn’t exactly classy but at least it doesn’t make holes in your wallet.
You can’t compare The Boleyn with the Emirates which was finished what, three seasons ago??. Even the Doc M must be getting on for ten years(?) old now. And although the food is better at the Emirates it’s still stupidly expensive.
Interesting range of comments. Thanks y’all.
I tend to compare our facilities with those at the modern grounds, true, but also with facilities in other places where large numbers congregate.
I don’t think they’re good enough and I think we deserve better.
Better facilities = better treatment = better human beings – it’s basic behaviour management. Treat people like second class citizens and, guess what, you are more likely to get poorer behaviour exhibited.