Your Worst Albion Away Day

[Mackenzie]

A trip to West Brom stands out. Trouble at Euston (Millwall), New Street (Birmingham) and coined by West Brom on the way home. We lost 1-0 and it rained.


The 5-0 at Palace was pretty miserable.

Sitting in the home end against Hereford in that match was pretty tense. Great that we drew but couldn't celebrate. I'm glad I went though.

 

[8ace]

Tranmere away last season.

 

[Beach Hut]

Tranmere away last season.

I can understand why

 

[Notters]

5-0 Palace away. By a million miles

If this isn't your answer, you weren't there.

 

[Bobby's Gull]

5-0 Palace away. By a million miles

Truely horrendous.

 

[KneeOn]

0-2 Northapton, league cup this season. After leaving 4 hours in advance, we spent an hour in brighton f***ing about geting everyone in the car, sped up to Northampton, but traffic was AWFUL, showed up 20 minutes late, goals had been scored, navvaro out for a season, some twat (Ringleader!) threw a bottle at me - that was the highlight acutally - some twattish fan decided he'd try it on with me and failed, and then i had to do an 8 hour rehearsal the next day.

The trip up and down was awful in terms of dely but my mates and i made a laugh out of it.

 

[Dover]

Sorry for me it's Mr Carrowgate. Sorry the Norwich game where as mentioned earlier, Norwich away, where the floodlights failed.

No match. Being heavily escorted to the train station. Piss poor beer next to the ground, and lastly, Krispies, and an unnamed person who supports the Albion, chuntering on about the sex they have had that week and in how many positions etc etc.

I think you can get my drift.

 

[Lord Bamber]

3-1 Notts County - Play off final 1991 - I think I actually cried.
5-0 Palace - Still haunted by it
1-1 Cardiff - Came round in A&E, never made it to the game, got done by some Cardiff hoolies prior to the game.
7-1 Huddersfield - Game turned on the back pass/penalty. Worst ever Albion defeat. Roadworks meant not getting home till very late 2- 3 am cant remember and had to be at work for 7am

All bad for differing reasons.

 

[Gully]

That was a particularly shit day, you forgot to mention that it pissed down all match, and the police then abandoned us to the locals after locking us in and they went back to the station in a van whilst we took a sever shoeing.

Something similar happened on my first visit to Pompey, except that it was in 85...not long after Gerry Ryan had his leg broken at Palace...it definitely wasn't raining, but the Police locked us in the ground then escorted us back to Fratton station, we were ambushed by the locals not long after leaving the ground. My abiding memory was them knocking over a young woman with a kid in a push chair who just happened to be in the wrong place at exactly the wrong time...nice!

 

[The Ringleader Returns!]

0-2 Northapton, league cup this season. After leaving 4 hours in advance, we spent an hour in brighton f***ing about geting everyone in the car, sped up to Northampton, but traffic was AWFUL, showed up 20 minutes late, goals had been scored, navvaro out for a season, some twat (Ringleader!) threw a bottle at me - that was the highlight acutally - some twattish fan decided he'd try it on with me and failed, and then i had to do an 8 hour rehearsal the next day.

The trip up and down was awful in terms of dely but my mates and i made a laugh out of it.

That was Gerbil and NOT me.

Did you throw a bottle at me?

No that was me

Anyway...

The 5-0 loss at PaleArse.
The Paint Pot final at Luton.
4-2 loss at Pompey.

Can't think of any other away games I haven't liked... Leeds last season was gutting but a great day.

 

[8ace]

The Paint Pot final at Luton.

Yeah that wasn't a good night either, some Luton c'unt hit my mate with a knuckleduster or something and fractured his eye socket. Hope I never have to visit that f***ing shithole ever again. Same goes for Tranmere.

 

[Ninja Elephant]

Shrewsbury away, last day of the season in the Division 3 Championship winning season, lost 3-0 and my granddad died that day.

Other than that, the 2-1 defeat at Swindon last season was pretty galling!

 

[Grassman]

If this isn't your answer, you weren't there.

I was there at the 5-nil Palace defeat and I disagree. It was acutely embarrassing but at least we had taken the piss for the two hours before kick-off! One of my funniest moments happened at this game, a group of about 6 blokes, including Fathers and teenage sons, were in front of me at the turnstiles, they were all pissed up and the one of the fathers had a load of porn mags in his hand, the turnstile fella said: "you can't bring porn in here", the fella said "why not?", the bloke looked at him, couldn't think of an answer and then let them in. Priceless.
For me the very worst games were Canvey Island away, Sudbury away, and Kingstonian away, all in the FA Cup in the dark, dark years. Lost one, drew two. We were utterly pathetic in all of them

 

[tonymgc]

Bit of a random one but for personal reasons getting knocked out the FA cup in 98/99 at Brisbane Road was absolutely terrible for me.
The last thing i wanted on a hellish day like that one was to watch our boys take a pasting off the O's

 

[Lord Bracknell]

Sorry for me it's Mr Carrowgate. Sorry the Norwich game where as mentioned earlier, Norwich away, where the floodlights failed.

No match. Being heavily escorted to the train station. Piss poor beer next to the ground, and lastly, Krispies, and an unnamed person who supports the Albion, chuntering on about the sex they have had that week and in how many positions etc etc.

I think you can get my drift.

You've forgotten to mention the snow.

 

[Gwylan]

That 5-0 at Palace was horrendous but as it was the closest ground to where I lived, I didn't have that long journey back to mull over the result. Palace in 1977 was worse: we lost 3-1 and we turned a corner on the way back to the car to see 20/25 Palace fans coming towards us - never legged it so fast.

I don't have fond memories of a 1-0 defeat to Walsall in 1989 where we battered them for 89 minutes and then lost to a penalty. It was a bitterly cold day - one of the coldest I've been at the football.

I also remember a 4-1 defeat to Leicester in 1978 that entailed a miserable journey back and a 1-0 defeat to Notts County in, I think, the same season - a truly terrible game in the freezing cold.

 

[sammy g]

Halifax! I am fairly sure the season we went up from league 2 under MA. The six of us travelled up in the morning, so a long drive. Landed in Halifax, which turns out to be a large village with limited number of pubs, full of gruff northern folk. Best northern accent chosen amongst us to get drinks. Designated driver decides six pints and a short is a reasonable amount to drink before the game.
The game turns when ex-squaddie Cameron comes on and fall over a lot.
Halifax fans abuse us as we return to the car. Decide to wait in grim northern shit-hole for the blood-alcohol level to reduce somewhat for the driver. Card declined in a Wakefield Supermarket so nothing to distract us for the long and very painful trip home!

 

[Cheeky Monkey]

31-1 Cardiff - Came round in A&E, never made it to the game, got done by some Cardiff hoolies prior to the game.

Was that circa 1989/1990? I got stuck on a jam-packed train back to Cardiff Central after the game, wedged in and surrounded by chanting 'Soul Crew' types, me trying desperately to look Welsh while pulling up my jacket collar to hide my BHA scarf.


:albion1:

 

[Gwylan]

Landed in Halifax, which turns out to be a large village with limited number of pubs ...

Halifax must a contender for the British town with most pubs per sq metre. I've been well bladdered on Halifax pub crawls - when I lived in Bradford it was a popular destination for a day's boozing. It's also got a population of more than 80,000 so it would be some village.

 

[Behind Enemy Lines]

Obviously concur with the 5-0 Palace game.
Kingstonian away in the FA Cup was also extremely depressing.