Car parking around Craven Cottage

"Mait001" <mait001@> wrote in message
news:20041113132015.11401.00000738@mb-m29....
>
> The sooner Fulham and Chelsea move their grounds to some quiet backwater
where
> their "fans" don't cause mayhem to anyoen within a 2-mile radius, the
better.
>
> Hardly ever in the history of human "sport" has so much misery been
infected on
> so many by so few.
>
> Marc.


Fulham FC have been at Craven Cottage (except for that unavoidable two-year
sojourn at Loftus Road) for over 100 years. How long have you been in the
area? I think they have as much right as anyone to be in SW6. Moving away
from their spiritual home would be the death of the club.

--
Richard

>Fulham FC have been at Craven Cottage (except for that unavoidable two-year
>sojourn at Loftus Road) for over 100 years. How long have you been in the
>area? I think they have as much right as anyone to be in SW6. Moving away
>from their spiritual home would be the death of the club.
>
>--
>Richard
>

Actually, Richard, I have lived in the same house for my entire life (39
years), so would argue that my claim is at least as great.

At the time my parents bought this house (in 1963), football-generated car
traffic was virtually non-existent.

Now, it means that we can't leave the house on match days (we can't drive or
use public transport because of the traffic jams) and dare not return home
during weekday match times, unless we want to sit in the car for 2 or 3 hours
until the football fans have left.

Marc.

Richard Rundle wrote:
>
> Fulham FC have been at Craven Cottage (except for that unavoidable
> two-year sojourn at Loftus Road) for over 100 years. How long have
> you been in the area? I think they have as much right as anyone to be
> in SW6. Moving away from their spiritual home would be the death of
> the club.

Look at Reading as an example of what *can* be done if the willpower and
money is there. Elm Park was a small, scruffy, crowded ground in a tightly
packed residential part of town - a PITA for both fans and local residents.
The move (5 miles?) across town to the Madjeski gave the club a modern,
usable stadium with plenty of car parking and easy access to the M4. The
club is now flourishing in it's new home - whats not to like about that?

>
> Please, please, please do NOT drive to Fulham and do NOT park your car in our
> already imossible-to-park-in-for-residents' streets.
>
> Marc.

Who do you inflict your car on when you drive somewhere or do you go
everywhere by public transport?

Kevin

>Who do you inflict your car on when you drive somewhere or do you go
>everywhere by public transport?
>
>Kevin

I make sure that there is somewhere to park (preferably off-road) before I even
think about driving somewhere.

But, supposing my answer was "I don't have a car" - as it would have been for
the vast majority of my childhood (between 1975 and 1982) when my parents chose
not to have a car? That would not, in my view, make me a morally superior
person: the trick is to drive only when necessary - I certainly wouldn't drive
half the length of England to attend a football match!

Marc.