[Football] Worst football match….

[redoubtable seagull]

I’m sure I’ve seen worse but a dull 0 0 against stoke in 1981 in Div 1 has stayed with me all this time.
That was my first year of going to matches and only went occasionally as I had a Saturday job as a kid. I went with a mate and his dad and remember thinking it was all just a little bit shit.

 

[Vaughan Storm]

Surprised no one mentioned the 3-1 defeat against non-league Lincoln 5 years ago (I think). The Tomori shocker sticks in my head.

If we're talking games I've been to then the 5-0 against Bournemouth, knockaert forcing a red card, players turning on Hughton and what was looking like relegation. Also doesn't help when life in general wasn't the best at the time either, horrible day

 

[A1X]

Losing to Millwall at the end of the Sami era was pretty dire. The football may not have been the lowest standard ever but everything else going on coupled with being a cold, drizzly night meant the whole experience was just awful.

 

[Return of the Rev]

Hull v Brighton
Went up by train walking towards the ground nice and early only to have a steward coming the other way tell us it was postponed.
Pre mobiles and no time to take in another game

 

[Withdean and I]

Rochdale, Friday night at Withdean in the rain, RAIN!!! more like being on the beach with 20 foot breakers crashing down on us and a truly inept performance.

This 100% - never been so cold or wet


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[Cheshire Cat]

Various away games in the late 1980s at Oldham and Doncaster, more recently away at Tranmere when Murray deliberately caught the ball to get himself sent off.

Utterly dismal.

 

[Sirnormangall]

This has to be the worst one for me too - but what I want to know is how you managed to leave on 60 mins ? When the firth goal went in with about 20 mins to go hundreds of us tried to leave and the old bill kept the gates shut and weren’t letting anyone out. Amusingly, people were joking about starting a fire so they would have to let us out !

I’ve no idea why they let me out - probably sorry to see a grown man crying

 

[thedonkeycentrehalf]

Hartlepool 0 Brighton 0 circa 1997. A cold Winters afternoon. That was grim.

I’ve seen us play three times at Hartlepool and yet to see an Albion goal. Was that game the one where 5 players made debuts? If so I remember most of the away fans who arrived late couldn’t work out who half our players were.

 

[maresfield seagull]

Anyone mentioned the 5*0 defeat at Smellhurst ?

 

[cheshunt seagull]

Hull v Brighton
Went up by train walking towards the ground nice and early only to have a steward coming the other way tell us it was postponed.
Pre mobiles and no time to take in another game

That reminds me of getting the Seagulls Special to Bristol Rovers away in 78. We got as far as Bristol Parkway and were told that the game had been postponed and the train was turned around. 6 hours on a train from Brighton to Brighton.

 

[Dinner with Gotsmanov]

Great thread

So many bad memories dragged up here. I do recall a game V Stoke, towards the end of the season (possibly?) when we played already relegated Stoke (they make a few appearances in this thread, don’t they?) and we got gubbed 4-1 or something, absolute shocker. Late 80s or early 90s. Cracker….

 

[Bodian]

That reminds me of getting the Seagulls Special to Bristol Rovers away in 78. We got as far as Bristol Parkway and were told that the game had been postponed and the train was turned around. 6 hours on a train from Brighton to Brighton.

We caught the train to an Ipswich game in c1984-88, and it broke down outside Manningtree (in a cutting, so we couldn't even see anything). We finally limped into Manningtree at about 5pm, got off and caught the train back to London with fans who had made it. BR kindly wrote and thanked us for not trashing the train. They gave us vouchers for a free ticket. I used it to go to Stoke (Stoke again!). The train was late, and when we got to the Victoria Ground about 10-15 minutes in it was 1-1. It ended 1-1..... The Old Bill then kindly 'escorted' us back to station a very long way round, which meant we missed the train we were hoping to catch.

 

[Eeyore]

Saturday 14th January 1995 away at Crewe, just over 4200 fans, probably 120 Albion fans...

4-0 after about 20mins, it was so bad, as i have mentioned before at half time some supporters me included wanted to leave and the laughing stewards made us stay until about 65mins and they then finally let us out....

The score remained 4-0

That is the only game I have ever left early from, it was plain to see that there were major issues with the squad, it just left you so flat and disheartened, thinking it can't get much worse, but it can, and it did, boy did it get worse....

Thankfully we can look back now, and appreciate things we have now slightly more when we draw at home 0-0 with Norwich or something.
We earnt our stripes, and have the scares, and now the light at the end of the tunnel....

Boy is it bright.

It was much easier for me as I was standing anonymously in with the home crowd at the Crewe match. Until some of you buggers saw me. Thankfully the station wasn't far. We'd probably recognise each other if we met. There weren't many of us back then. I was at most of the away matches that season.

 

[Return of the Rev]

Anyone mentioned the 5*0 defeat at Smellhurst ?

Took my boys to their first palace v brighton games

 

[Ike and Tina Burner]

I'm not sure how nobody has mentioned losing 1-0 to 9 man Walsall. Getting battered 4-0 by Crewe is also up there.

 

[Springal]

I'm not sure how nobody has mentioned losing 1-0 to 9 man Walsall. Getting battered 4-0 by Crewe is also up there.

The Walsall game was top of my mind. Clayton Ince diving on the ball to waste time the whole game

 

[jcdenton08]

I'm not sure how nobody has mentioned losing 1-0 to 9 man Walsall. Getting battered 4-0 by Crewe is also up there.

I did mention this.

Worst from an Albion perspective - 7-1 away at Huddersfield, 1-5 (I think) at home to Stoke last game of the season, 0-2 home to Kidderminster, losing comfortably to Walsall at home who played much of the game with 9 men.

Worst Albion from a quality perspective overall was Doncaster at Priestfield. Absolutely embarrassing to watch. And Mahoney-Johnson’s infamous 45 minutes was unlike anything seen before or since.

 

[wigman]

We caught the train to an Ipswich game in c1984-88, and it broke down outside Manningtree (in a cutting, so we couldn't even see anything). We finally limped into Manningtree at about 5pm, got off and caught the train back to London with fans who had made it. BR kindly wrote and thanked us for not trashing the train. They gave us vouchers for a free ticket. I used it to go to Stoke (Stoke again!). The train was late, and when we got to the Victoria Ground about 10-15 minutes in it was 1-1. It ended 1-1..... The Old Bill then kindly 'escorted' us back to station a very long way round, which meant we missed the train we were hoping to catch.

I was on that train that broke down outside Manningtree.
On a positive note they kept the buffet bar open so we didn't go thirsty.

 

[Bruntburger]

Barnsley away - lost 1-0, scrappy goal and Keith Dublin sent off!

 

[Reinelt 62]

Three from a different era, one from the dire 62/63 season that saw us tumble out of Division 2 straight into Division 4, and two at the start of the following season.

Bournemouth at the Goldstone, Easter Saturday 1963. 0-1.

On the Good Friday we had been tonked 0-5 at the Goldstone by the Northampton side who were going to finish as champions on their way eventually to Division 1, but the Bournemouth game was even worse.

I remember at the time that the Sunday newspapers used to give scores out of 10 for the players. One had to play appallingly badly to get a 4, but The People on that Sunday gave virtually the entire Albion team 3s for the Bournemouth game IIRC!

Relegation duly happened, but we then set off full of confidence at the start of the following season (63/64) in Division 4, confidently expecting to thrash the dregs of the old Division 3 North clubs that we had never played before.

And what happened? 2 awful home games with waves of slow hand-clapping around the Goldstone (Do fans still slow hand-clap).

24 August 1963 Workington home 1-2
7 September 1963 Stockport County home 1-2

which left us 23 out of 24 in Division 4, with only the old Bradford Park Avenue club beneath us. That was the nadir, never to be repeated until the 1990s, and Archie Macaulay gradually turned the team's fortunes around.