Comments on: Upton Park – is it a toilet?

By: The Headmaster

The Headmaster — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 22:58:33 +0000

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.

By: supernumbersix

supernumbersix — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 17:56:00 +0000

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.

By: paul

paul — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 16:47:06 +0000

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.