The Top Ten Best Football Club Pies.

1, Huddersfield Town, The Galpharm Stadium. Hollands meat and potato pie. Ok so in a previous post I said that Pukka Pies were the best pies in the world and they are, however Hollands run a close second and being a town fan pushes them over the top. Another plus is they serve John Smiths Beer.

2, Rotherham United, Millmoor. Pukka Pies meat and potato pie. I have already sung this companies praises so no need to say any more. Rotherham has the advantage of a better stadium atmosphere over Notts County.

3, Notts County, Meadow Lane. Pukka Pies meat and potato pie.

4, Sheffield Wednesday, Hillsbough. Chicken Tekka Mesala pie. Avoid if hung over, although having said that you probably would them if you were sober.

5, West Brom, The Hawthorns. Chicken Tekka Mesala pie. Let this be a lesson to the toffs of West Brom the high cost of your pies cost you forth place.

6, Ossett Town, Prospect Road. Pork pie and pea. I know it’s non-league and thing operate on a different level but how cool is being able to get pie and peas at the match. Also if I ever do a list of best Beer at the football Ossett Town would be a strong contender with Sam Smiths served in glass pint jars.

7, Barnsley, Oakwell. Cheese and Onion pasty. The only redeeming feature of my one and only trip to Oakwell, you could have believe the pasty came from your local bakery. Town played a striker in defence and lost 4-0. To add insult to injury there was no roof on what was laughingly referred to as the toilets. Call me a snob but I don’t class a downward slope towards a gutter as a toilet.

8, Burnley, Turfmoor. Cornish pasty. Sort of Gregg’s standard.

9, Wigan, JJB Stadium. Cornish pasty. Probably would have featured higher up the list had not a devious Lancastrian pizza shop owner refused to give me directions to the ground until I bought a deep pan pepperoni an hour before kick off. Directions that turned out to be wrong!

10, Birmingham City, St. Andrews. Miscellaneous meat and potato pie of an okay standard. Although we must remember that “meat” can mean anything lets face it I am sure there are many pie shops not to mention Indian restaurants were you would suspect “meat” meant Dog.

Best of the rest.

Halifax Town, The Shay. Candy Floss. There are several reasons I shouldn’t have mentioned Halifax Town, Candy Floss isn’t a pie would be the most obvious, but being able to buy Candy Floss at the football is the sort of crazy gimmick that makes you warm to the Shay men. They are local rivals so I should hate them as much as I hate Bradford City but somehow I can’t. Halifax have an endearing quality they’re the team who arrive in Huddersfield for an LDV Trophy match and announce that they have forgotten their kit. Even though Halifax is less than 10 miles away they still gamely delved into the Huddersfield Town got box and played in our old away kit.

Worst of the rest (it’s a photo finish).

Narrowly avoiding last place:

Wakefield and Emely, Bell Vue. Cheese Burger? There is no way of dressing this up Bell Vue is a dump although a Wakefield super stadium has been talked about for years it hasn’t happened leaving the cities football and rugby clubs sharing what is on three sides a hole. The forth, the goal end away from the city centre, is inexplicably an entire stand of executive boxes. I am sure that in that stand the fans are well catered for on the food front but the rest of the ground is severed by one dodgy burger/salmonella van. I don’t know which queue is longest to get the burger or for the toilet afterwards.

Dead last:

Leeds United, Elland road. Ginster’s Cornish pasty. How can you do wrong you take the pasty out of the packet and put it in the microwave. They found a way. It just adds insult to injury if your sat in the family stand, as you approach you see the huge McDonalds logo on the side of the stadium but is there a McDonalds inside, is there hell!