I think Wetherspoons gets a bad press and I am going to take a stand to defend them.
Yes, within their chain of over 1000 pubs there is ****holes, like the one on Highbury Corner. Yes some of their clientele may be chaps you would not want to socialise with, nor invite into your house – but then this would apply to the clientele of virtually every pub in your so called United Kingdom and also in Ireland.
I was very fond of some of their pubs back in the day.
The one in Croydon is I suspect a fúcking shíthouse, kind of goes with the area.