[Albion] Your worse awayday with the Albion..

[Eeyore]

Blackburn Rovers 1991.

Rotten day, 1-0 defeat.

Splitting headache all the way home on the train. One Albion fan decided to do some damage on the train and was arrested. Heavy delays on that line too and had to get a BR hired taxi all the way back from London.

Arrived home at about 2.30 the following morning.

Streets ahead of any other 'worse away day' I've ever had.

 

[southstandandy]

1st December 1990.

Oldham away on that bloody PLASTIC pitch in our PINK away kit

Lost 6-1 from what I can remember. The ball bouncing all over the place and John Keeley had a mare. Wilkins scored a cracker but it was so effing cold and a hell of a long drive in 1 day.

 

[yxee]

It was 6-0 at Upton park. I had a bad feeling about that at the very start when brezovan nearly let a shot through his hands in the first few minutes. Everything they did looked like it could have been a goal

 

[Highfields Seagull]

Definitely 5-0 Palace. Lived in London at the time and took hours to get home having been herded to a station and platform I didn't want to go to

 

[El Presidente]

Chester away 1997.

Arrived to find Belotti in the car park and a bunch of us chased him to their player/director's entrance but sadly failed to give him the kicking he warranted.

Home form had been good, we had been climbing the table, narrowing the gap with clubs above us.

Jeff Minton scored to put us one up, transistor radio time, other scores weren't great though... but if we picked up three points then you never know.

Chester equalised and then our defence went AWOL again and it was 2-1 down and we were toilet for the rest of the match. ALL the other results for the clubs around us were bad news.

Remember driving home and thinking that was it.

 

[Chicken Run]

Ipswich in the 80’s two trains broke down near Colchester and we exited the train and walked the track to Colchester and went back.


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[rippleman]

Without doubt Cardiff away (at their old shithole of a stadium).

Station at the ground was closed and so a long hike through the most rundown place I've ever been (at around that time many places in London had newspapers over the windows instead of curtains but in Cardiff they had newspapers instead of windows). OB let the Cardiff fans into the away enclosure at half-time. Lost 1-0 and then had to walk back to main train station with the taffies asking the time so when anybody with non welsh accent replied trouble ensued.

Hate Cardiff; never been back. Only time I was ever really scared at a game.

 

[Paulie Gualtieri]

Carlisle away, stayed in Newcastle for the weekend, had to get a two carriage no toilet train from the 70’s which took 2 hours each way, awful


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[zamora the merrier]

Brentford evening game in about 2001. We were top so went there very confident. However we were absolutely terrible with Mayo getting the runaround from their winger (Hunt?). Lost 4-0 but certainly the earliest I have ever left a match circa 70 mins.
I have tried to forget about that so details may not be accurate

 

[Super Steve Earle]

My last away game apart from FA Cup semi against Man City, was at Roots Hall. Surrounded by lairy, drunk Brighton fans who didn't give a sh1t about bullying people out of seats and threatening all sorts of mayhem if you so much as looked at them. Haven't been near an away game since apart from Wembley.

 

[peterward]

It was 6-0 at Upton park. I had a bad feeling about that at the very start when brezovan nearly let a shot through his hands in the first few minutes. Everything they did looked like it could have been a goal

Was there too, but weirdly I never thought of that day, until someone else mentioned it. Possibly because whilst bad and embarrassing, its not anywhere near the same emotions as Palace 5-0.

Never even saw the 5th goal, just left the stands on route to the exit as I heard the roar, it was only a bit more than 10 minutes into the second half I think, we were 2-0 down at half time, they scored numbers 3 and 4 within the first 10 mins of the second half and we had a player sent off I think, I thought f*** this, and as I was walking out of elhurst onto the street, I heard the roar of number 5, just a couple of minutes after the 4th.

best decision I made that day.

 

[Surf's Up]

Definitely 5-0 Palace. Lived in London at the time and took hours to get home having been hered to a station and platform I didn't want to go to

This, horrific day from beginning to the end.

 

[Whitechapel]

QPR away a few years ago.

Went up with a bunch of mates on the piss. Got in the ground, sat with my mates and then got asked by a steward to show my ticket. Came to the realisation I’d dropped it between getting in to the ground and getting to my seat. Steward wasn’t having any of it and despite me being 6’4 and nearly as wide he threw me out for sneaking in to the ground.

Being a drunken ****, I went round the corner to the ticket office and bought a ticket for the home end. Walked in and my seat was near the away end. Less than a minute later I’m being dragged out for being an away fan in the home end. Two tickets purchased, about 60 seconds of football seen. Then got manhandled face first in to a brick wall, threatened with being arrested before being let go to walk the streets of WestLondon for an hour and a half because I had a group saver ticket.

 

[Weststander]

The 1991 play off final.

A young Colin W*nker out thought Lloyd with a superior formation and tactics in the first half, game over.

What a shame after all those away wins, Wilkin's regular season ending freekick and it broke up a quality squad (imho) with many of my favourite players.

Then it took hours for our coach to get out of the tedious Wembley car park.

Gutted, it took me years to put this one to bed.

 

[Behind Enemy Lines]

Palace away was the nadir but losing at Kingstonian away in the FA cup wasn't much better.

 

[peterward]

The 1991 play off final.

A young Colin W*nker out thought Lloyd with a superior formation and tactics in the first half, game over.

What a shame after all those away wins, Wilkin's regular season ending freekick and it broke up a quality squad (imho) with many of my favourite players.

Then it took hours for our coach to get out of the tedious Wembley car park.

Gutted, it took me years to put this one to bed.

Was a bad day, Tommy f***ing Johnson. But I was so pissed, I dont remember much as I strained to see the pink shirts in the distance

The away leg at the old den, was definitely the most shit scary away game Ive ever been to, walking through some dusty no mans land to the ground, council estates all around, stones and bricks being lobbed, Wall scumbags foaming at the mouth to get at you behind the not very big police escort from the station.

great result but also remember the sick monkey chants to Mickey Small. proper scum fans

 

[Pinkie Brown]

The 5-0 Palace is the obvious one. Aside the awful game, kettled back to Norwood Junction to a special train. Was a relief when the thing finally started heading south. Not so when some clown pulled the emergency stop chord at East Croydon.

Oldham away losing 6-1 on the plastic pitch. As is norm for there, freezing cold. Running the gauntlet of their six fingered fans after the game was fun too.

West Ham away losing 6-0 during the Poyet era. The team selection was bizarre as I remember. Marcos Painter started the game for the first time in ages and clearly wasn't 100% fit. Queueing for ages at Upton Park tube amongst their Neanderthals was all part of a super day.

Another awful day was Bolton away in the cup early 90's during the Lloyd era. Bolton were a league below us at the time. Lost 2-1 after being 1-0 up. Spent a freezing cold day on that away terrace with the warehouse built alongside where you could only see about half the pitch. Journey home was the worst ever. Most of it was in freezing fog with holdups en route due to accidents on the motorways. Naturally I was driving that day.

 

[Weststander]

Was a bad day, Tommy f***ing Johnson. But I was so pissed, I dont remember much as I strained to see the pink shirts in the distance

The away leg at the old den, was definitely the most shit scary away game Ive ever been to, walking through some dusty no mans land to the ground, council estates all around, stones and bricks being lobbed, Wall scumbags foaming at the mouth to get at you behind the not very big police escort from the station.

great result but also remember the sick monkey chants to Mickey Small. proper scum fans

I remember our quality 19 year old John Robinson playing brilliantly.

Did a chav jump on him when he was taking a throw in?

 

[dejavuatbtn]

Walton, Kingstonian, Canvey, all very depressing.
Worst? Probably Wrexham away in 1977. Train got there late due to a suicide on the line. Got there at half time. 0-0 draw. Train got stoned at Wrexham station. Half way down the line all the windows popped out of the whole of one carriage. stopped at Rugby to rearrange punters into other carriages. Then a problem with the Diesel engine breaking down. Had to wait three hours for another engine to tow us to London. Got home around 2 in the morning. Am I the winner?!

 

[dejavuatbtn]

Was a bad day, Tommy f***ing Johnson. But I was so pissed, I dont remember much as I strained to see the pink shirts in the distance

The away leg at the old den, was definitely the most shit scary away game Ive ever been to, walking through some dusty no mans land to the ground, council estates all around, stones and bricks being lobbed, Wall scumbags foaming at the mouth to get at you behind the not very big police escort from the station.

great result but also remember the sick monkey chants to Mickey Small. proper scum fans

My eldest was taking penalties at half time at the Millwall end for Junior Seagulls. I have never seen a football crowd so akin to a bunch of animals in all my life. How to terrorise a bunch of junior school kids.