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Okay, it’s a little out of town, but this was a Saturday night in Canterbury and, even its most ardent fan would have to admit, The Phoenix was as dead as the abandoned Christmas tree outside its back door. Solitary drinker Mark, a regular who retired here from Watford, was the only person in to provide barman Stewart with some company, so the SD family quadrupled the numbers. This free house on Old Dover Road is an unusual wedge shape with the narrowest edge facing out to the street and you enter through a side door. It’s only a stone’s throw from the Spitfire Ground and relies upon Kent Coun…

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