An old secondary school friend of mine lived in many different parts of the UK before returning to his native heath on retirement (TOWIE).
He reckoned that the best place he lived was the Isle of Wight (home to many Addicks) and the worst was High Wycombe. He thought that the people there were odd and unpleasant.
He never met many Chairboys, but that's not so surprising as home attendances this season averaged 5,456.
For many years they were a successful amateur club and only joined the non-league system in 1985. For over ten years they hosted Wasps rugby club and it is the sort of area that favours egg chasing.
The train from Leamington usually stops at High Wycombe and on a match day lots of fans of Premier League London clubs (plus QPR) would pile on. Chelsea had a particularly strong representation.
Many years ago I went to see Rushden and Diamonds play Wycombe. As I recall Irthlingborough's finest won and Sid and Doris Bonkers and the other away fans took exception to some of the decisions by the officials.
They then staged an away stand sit in and as I walked up the hill to the lane where I had parked my car, plaintive calls of 'Chairboys' drifted on the breeze.
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