Some Gillingham supporters were not too impressed with Edgar Street last Saturday as these couple of paragraphs from the Gills 365 site show.
Their main concerns were the view and the toilets.
This was a first visit to Edgar Street where character should not be confused with dereliction. In these columns I’ve championed the quirkiness of the old in comparison to the legoland modern day stadia. But the facilities and the sightlines were so poor that, even for me, nostalgia has to take a back seat.
After four hours in a car it felt good to have the opportunity to stand on a terrace and we took this in preference to a seat. But we instantly regretted not paying the extra £2 as it was difficult to find a viewing position that was not impaired by huge concrete pillars that could have held the QE2 above water. The only option was to stand in front of them and get wet from the sometimes heavy rain that fell throughout the first half.
For those of you that can remember those awful toilets before the Rainham End was rebuilt, they were the deluxe version in comparison to those at Edgar Street. The one quirk that I did appreciate was the huge floodlight pylons that could have housed 50 bulbs per unit but instead were home to just nine!
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Next Game: Away At Leamington In The League On New Years Day At 3.00pm