Best Pub for pre match Drinks?

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Best Pub for pre match Drinks?

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The main criteria in my point of view is obviously location to the ground, atmosphere and how easy it is to get a pint.

Normally I go to the Duchess Of Kent on Liverpool Road just as its the closest pub to me and relitively easy to get a pint, but getting a bit bored of that one now, it is a good summer pub though.

I'm luckily enough to live v.close to The Emirates so was wondering what peoples opinions were.
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Twelve pins or Auld triangle for me. Occasionally the Gunners but it is a bit out of the way since we moved.
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Arsenal Tavern on Blackstock road is pretty good if you dont mind the walk, obviously the Rocket is also a forum favourite if you can class it as a pub?
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Post by Step »

No question THE COMPTON ARMS just off Upper St.

Country style pub discerning Gooners ,great lager and great foo (plus patio area to rear.

Nothing else touches it.
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SPUDMASHER wrote:Twelve pins or Auld triangle for me. Occasionally the Gunners but it is a bit out of the way since we moved.
Jaysus Spuddy!! There are about 5 threads on this already and you aren't having a Sean!! :shock:

Well done - the prozac working huh?? :wink: :wink: :wink:

I usually do the Rocket or the Pins and Gunners before. Rocket after and then into Laaahhndaahn proper for a piss up that night!! 8)

And welcome to the madhouse Hammertime!! 8)
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Step wrote:No question THE COMPTON ARMS just off Upper St.

Country style pub discerning Gooners ,great lager and great foo (plus patio area to rear.

Nothing else touches it.
yeah, a good pub is the compton, they do great liver and bacon.
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DB10GOONER wrote:
SPUDMASHER wrote:Twelve pins or Auld triangle for me. Occasionally the Gunners but it is a bit out of the way since we moved.
Jaysus Spuddy!! There are about 5 threads on this already and you aren't having a Sean!! :shock:

Well done - the prozac working huh?? :wink: :wink: :wink:

I usually do the Rocket or the Pins and Gunners before. Rocket after and then into Laaahhndaahn proper for a piss up that night!! 8)

And welcome to the madhouse Hammertime!! 8)
I've let this one pass as it's a while now since this appeared. I'm getting mellow in my old age :lol: :lol:
(It's ever since the now infamous blowie. All that stress has been released) :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
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Wetherspoons, White Swan on Highnuty Corner is pretty sexy! :D
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Cesc is God wrote:Wetherspoons, White Swan on Highnuty Corner is pretty sexy! :D
CIG - you are under age mate! :wink: :moderator:
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Yeah sorry, I realised there were already a few posts on this but thought I'd try and get a more current update seeing as pubs in London can go down hill very quickly.

Step – I’m glad you mentioned ‘The Compton Arms’ as thats a pub I’ve been meaning to try for literally a year but I keep forgetting too. I’ll definitely give that one a go early on this season.

Cesc is God – ‘The White Swan’ is a good suggestion but I think I would probably rather sit on a bench and drink a can of Super Tennants.
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and what exactly is wrong with super T's?
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U.F.G Anfield '89 wrote:and what exactly is wrong with super T's?
Absolutly nothing I was a big fan of it when I was 16 back in the day, as I recall it gets the job done very quickly!!! :lol:
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Basil is a Gooner wrote:
Cesc is God wrote:Wetherspoons, White Swan on Highnuty Corner is pretty sexy! :D
CIG - you are under age mate! :wink: :moderator:
And yet I can still drink. Strange that! :-P
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bunch of alcoholics :shock:
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i've only ever been in the rocket, the 12 pins, and the Herbery and Chapman
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