Face Of Cheam

Trying to think of the best line from 'The Only Living Boy In New Cross' for the title as this week I saw Saints thrash Millwall 4-0. Fairly uneventful weekend, but did do a crawl of the newtown area of Sutton. The four main pubs were all relatively quiet for a Saturday but the Little Windsor was open till midnight. Just before this though we tried to head back to the High Street. It appears the Sutton nee Nonsuch Arms now closes at midnight too (instead of one) meaning the only pubs that are free to get in after midnight are the Treasury, where loud booming music came out of, or the Wetherspoons. The Moon On The Hill (the spoons) was very depressing that time of night. I find it ok earlish evening if only cause some 18 totty are wearing next to nothing, but even teenagers have the sense to move on when they are drunk enough for the evening! This leaves mainly old alcoholic men. To be fair there were a small number of normal people scatterred about (myself and friend amongst them) but hardly a great place to drink. All Sutton needs is one more place to open till one that doesn't have loud music and it'll be ok. Rather bizarrely, presumably on council's orders, all the bouncers were wearing luminous bin-liners with the word security written on them.

Tuesday I dared the trip to Millwall. Even dared to visit a couple of pubs in New Cross. The Amersham Arms, a music venue pub, was ok. Goldsmiths college is nearby and a few students were dotted around at 6.30pm. Then I had a ten minute walk to the Five Bells. A large pub on a corner, plenty of floor space and a smallish bar. I was served by a short, fairly pleasent to look at, blonde eastern european barmaid and watched the various team news on Sky Sports News here. A strange notice was by the gents asking non-customers using them to contribute towards the charity box. Anyway no threatening yobbos were in here and a nice pre-match pint was had. Onto the game and a fairly comfortable 4-0 victory for us. As it happens, most of the yobbos seem to have disappeared as the attendence was scarcley above 5000. To avoid being locked in as Millwall fans left the station I had to say I drove and walked round with the locals to South Bermondsey station where the 21.53 got me back to Suttton with plenty of time to spare for a final pint of the day in the Old Bank.