Withdeanseagull
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Out of every away game you've been to, what one has been the most intimidating in and out of the ground?
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Most intimidating away day
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Ernest
Stupid IDIOT
Everton in 1979
Super Steve Earle
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Southend last time we played them -- and that was our fans!! Haven't ventured to an away game since.
Yep all day long
I remember going up to Old Trafford for the league cup in 1992 and the United fans spent most of the game pelting us with coins and the walk back to the car was quite intimidating for a young chap!
That was before they did the place up. I've just googled it and see that the attendance that day was only 25k, which is hard to believe given what they get there week in week out nowadays! (We lost 1-0 by the way. Andy Kennedy days)
That was before they did the place up. I've just googled it and see that the attendance that day was only 25k, which is hard to believe given what they get there week in week out nowadays! (We lost 1-0 by the way. Andy Kennedy days)
Hillian1
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Was about to post this.
The only time I've ever really been scared for my life at a football match.
studio150
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Either of these, I would also throw in Millwall away when Mick Ferguson scored and we won 1-0 which was Millwalls first home league defeat for 50 odd games
Weststander
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Burton 2016.
Just to elaborate on this, getting there was pretty uneventful. I'd wrongly thought that having turned them over 4-1 in the first leg, they wouldn't be interested and we'd take over the place. Turning up, they had about 18,000 there while we had just a few hundred. Stood down near the front until a lump of concrete landed at my feet, so moved back a bit.
I remember being quite pleased when they scored as they may lay attention to the game but we ended winning 2-1 and it turned into the most incredible atmosphere. I think John Robinson scored the 2nd and instead of celebrating turned round and ran back to the half way line.
At the end of the game we were kept in for ages while they lit a bonfire in the stand to the left and burnt policeman's hats. When we finally got out we couldn't move anywhere. Hundreds of police and horses trying to get us to the station while anything the Millwall fans could get hold of came flying over the top. I had to nip down a side road as I needed to get back to London Bridge rather than a direct train back to Brighton that had been laid on, just stood in a corner while they ripped the train to pieces.
Strange evening.
Trips to Cardiff were never much fun.
Nixonator
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jevs
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Oxford away....the old manor ground. A labyrinth of alleyways with loads of wannabe's hanging around every corner.
The Birdman
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Over the years it's difficult but Oxford Was bad Millwall Spurs Luton up and down. Cambridge could be doggy.
Cardiff was bad in the old days.
Depends who you went to the games with.
Cardiff was bad in the old days.
Depends who you went to the games with.
Wrong-Direction
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- Mar 10, 2013
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I would suggest the Mick Ferguson game, just horrible
Mr Banana
Tedious chump
Uh, Cardiff under Hammam - they were chucking stuff over the fence and then chased us through the car park, lobbing rocks.
Stoke - someone with a knife came after us, but that was partly because the massive orange bag I was carrying turned out to be unexpectedly incendiary, and I had to get a mate to drive round at the speed of Nigel Mansell to let us dive in the back and escape.
Wolves a couple of years ago was a bit dicey, although the amount of hot air and poorly-designed Stone Island jackets ended up being vaguely comical, and then became less amusing when the establishment shuffled us into a sub-Yates bar as a result of all the posturing.
Stoke - someone with a knife came after us, but that was partly because the massive orange bag I was carrying turned out to be unexpectedly incendiary, and I had to get a mate to drive round at the speed of Nigel Mansell to let us dive in the back and escape.
Wolves a couple of years ago was a bit dicey, although the amount of hot air and poorly-designed Stone Island jackets ended up being vaguely comical, and then became less amusing when the establishment shuffled us into a sub-Yates bar as a result of all the posturing.
Or the game in the 80's when their fans lobbed bricks at the train!
We had more than a few hundred that game, I seem to recall it was about 1500. I went back very early the following season, a warm late summer evening, and saw John Robinson get attacked by one of their fans, only for Mark Beeney to intervene. That was pretty lively afterwards too.