The 8 most miserable away days in the EFL named and ranked by AI | OneFootball

These are the grounds that ChatGPT wouldn't recommend you to visit.

The EFL has some cracking grounds for away supporters to visit, but there are also plenty that are on the other end of the spectrum.

Some road trips you just don't look forward to. For one reason or another, there are teams that every club faces that they never get any success against when they go to said domain.

The infamous 92 challenge of visiting every ground currently in the EFL and Premier League is a feat that is set out to do by many but that has been achieved by few. Only those people have the true say on which grounds in the English second, third and fourth tiers are the most miserable, so, instead, FLW asked ChatGPT to rank them, and this is what it said.

8 Gillingham

Priestfield is not a shining example of how football has lept into the modern age.

The stand for away fans, depending on the game, is exposed to the elements. While its location in Kent helps the chances of avoiding as much bad weather as those up north get, it still leaves a lot to be desired for those travelling to face Gillingham in the colder and more blustery months of the calendar.

One of the people that has completed the 92 challenge, and done it all in one season, is Daniel Story, a writer for the i Paper. In his rankings, Blundell Park was awarded the gold medal, the best that professional English football had to offer. AI sees things rather differently.

Its proximity to the North Sea can make for quite cold viewing at the League Two stadium, as noted by ChatGPT in its rankings, and, a bit like Grimsby's aforementioned division rivals, it's not the most sparkly of places.

Blundell Park did get some marks for its food, though, specifically the fish and chips on offer.

ChatGPT must not like coastal grounds because, yet again, it has listed this as a negative for Highbury Stadium. The fourth tier ground that only holds just over 5000 people at an absolute maximum is one of the smaller ones in the whole of the EFL.

Not only is its seaside location put down as a minus towards its overall score by AI, it's also a stick to beat Fleetwood with in terms of accessibility for the non-northwest-based outfits.

The JobServe Community Stadium is a package of everything that was wrong with the weird phenomenon of clubs moving their bases way out of the city centres that they previously resided in, just so they could build a bowl that had more seats than their old home.

You cannot feasibly walk to the location from anywhere. It is a stadium that has nothing but A-roads around it, making it annoying to access for both travelling supporters and those that go and see Colchester play week in, week out.

Once you are there, the place doesn't stir up too much atmosphere outside of the moments before and after the home or away side score. It's just not a good football stadium for supporters.

The old gripe about Rodney Parade was that it was a rugby pitch, and that wasn't just a cheap jab that away supporters used to bash it: it literally was used for the rugged, non-surface-caring sport by rugby union side Dragons RFC.

Newport have taken major steps to improve the quality of the pitches that they produce, which is a welcome sight for all of the travelling fans who do make the trip to Wales each season, but that doesn't make the place any easier to get to. Just east of the Welsh capital of Cardiff, no teams are a stone's throw away from the Exiles.

Another stadium with a low capacity and an exposed away end, the Wham Stadium hasn't been the place of much joy for the home supporters in recent seasons, meaning that those who've made the journey to watch their team away from basecamp have probably come away from the place feeling happy, and not just about the result.

The narrow and often cut-up pitch there doesn't necessarily foster beautiful, flowing football, and the facilities around the stadium are described by ChatGPT as "spartan at best." Not exactly a five-star review of Accrington's home, is it?

2 Millwall

As the second most miserable ground for travelling fans to go to in the EFL, we've moved away from the poor establishments and onto a place that does have a good reputation.

The Den is infamous for its lively atmosphere and intimidating feel, especially towards those that aren't used to being inside of it. That, according to AI, is what makes it miserable.

If you come away from the place with no points, you'll have to hop on the tube and hear all about it from the rowdy Millwall supporters all the way to your destination.

A very controversial one to top the list of most miserable grounds in the EFL. While its distance from nearly every other club in the football league plays a huge role in AI's ranking, a lot of football fans look forward to going down to Devon because of the journey, especially for people that live anywhere remotely northern.

There's a sense of achievement that can come from the 12-plus hour roundtrip to face Plymouth, but that is made a hell of a lot worse if you have to face them midweek.

If you come away from it with the points that you wanted, then it all feels worth it. But if you make that journey and things go south, you know that you've got a long time on the bus or in the car to stew over that loss.