Beer: Wylam Angel 4.2%We’re basically following the Good Beer Guide recommendations, as we would in any new town; but also working out routes to the football ground tomorrow. Not that you can miss the football ground; it’s huge. The Strawberry is right outside. It would be an absolutely run of the mill decent pub with decent ale – but for its proximity to, and allegiance to, Newcastle Utd FC.
The walls are bedecked with black and white prints/photographs of players old and new – pictures of the ground (evolving to become the monster it is now) – a “Nee Mackems” sign behind the bar. This would not be a place to wear red and white. We’re alright, we’ve got our black and white scarves on… though I’m feeling a tiny bit conflicted that this means we’re necessarily being viewed as (soft Southern) Newcastle fans. I have a (b/w) Luton Town badge on my Harrington lapel (under the leather jacket – it’s a two coat winter weekend), but that’s quite small. It’s not going to ruin my evening… I probably just need to grow up.
The early evening before the match is packed, and noisy, enough to entirely eliminate the thought of coming here tomorrow.
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