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sarahxI've just about recovered from the excitement of the third Test in Manchester last weekend. And it looks like the toilet survey needs to be extended from football grounds to sporting venues in general.
There don't seem to be sufficient loos at Old Trafford - the queues snaking outside the gents' at lunchtime were prodigious. They're obviously aware of this as they'd brought in a lot of green portable cubicles to try and alleviate the problem.
However, I know the ground well enough to know that there's a ladies' loo underneath the pavilion where the queues are usually much shorter. It's very dark down there - though the tunnel's by far the warmest place to hide when it's cold and the cricket's been rained off (and my friend Fiona and I managed to inhale two bottles of champagne by mid-day down there on the Friday of last year's Test when it rained all day and we saw no cricket).
The loo is similarly dark, added to by the decor which echoes Lancashire's Sunday cricket pyjama colours of red and blue. However, there are plentiful cubicles, four on one side and five on the other. This picture doesn't do justice to the darkness of the walls - those behind me and to my right in this shot are tiled in the same deep red and dark blue. If they'd made the doors dark too then it would have felt like a goth palace. Or at least somewhere more suited to the Brides of Dracula.
The cubicles themselves were more than adequate - clean and plenty of loo roll.
Rating: 8/10. That original decor was a definite plus.
There don't seem to be sufficient loos at Old Trafford - the queues snaking outside the gents' at lunchtime were prodigious. They're obviously aware of this as they'd brought in a lot of green portable cubicles to try and alleviate the problem.
However, I know the ground well enough to know that there's a ladies' loo underneath the pavilion where the queues are usually much shorter. It's very dark down there - though the tunnel's by far the warmest place to hide when it's cold and the cricket's been rained off (and my friend Fiona and I managed to inhale two bottles of champagne by mid-day down there on the Friday of last year's Test when it rained all day and we saw no cricket).
The loo is similarly dark, added to by the decor which echoes Lancashire's Sunday cricket pyjama colours of red and blue. However, there are plentiful cubicles, four on one side and five on the other. This picture doesn't do justice to the darkness of the walls - those behind me and to my right in this shot are tiled in the same deep red and dark blue. If they'd made the doors dark too then it would have felt like a goth palace. Or at least somewhere more suited to the Brides of Dracula.
The cubicles themselves were more than adequate - clean and plenty of loo roll.
Rating: 8/10. That original decor was a definite plus.
