Me and a mate have a running joke about having 'never been to Birmingham'. It's as a result of going to an end of season football match in 2002 at Birmingham City.
We arrived at 11am as we were visiting my mates relatives. We had a cup of tea. Went to a pub, had a pint and a game of pool. Then set off with plenty of time spare to get to the match.
Usually if we go to away matches we set off at the latest possible moment. Arrive and find a parking space. Then make it to the ground with minutes to spare. All 'skin of the teeth' stuff. But on this occasion we had hours and hours in hand. What could go wrong.
Driving round the Gravelly Hill Interchange we could see the ground. All was well.
Until we failed to take the correct exit route.
Some time later we made it to the ground. The away turnstiles wouldn't accept us and we had to go round the ground to the home fans turnstiles. They eventually let us in, then took us under the home fans stand and out in front of the home fans all around the ground.
We made it to our seat after missing only 28 minutes of the first half.
The stand on the far left is the one we came out from under.
I can't recall the score, as I said, we've never been to Birmingham.
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