Your Worst Albion Away Day

[Skills]

Most days at Gillingham!

 

[Basil Fawlty]

I can recall many horrible away days, but the one I forget about and it never happened was the 5-0 against Palarse.

 

[bha25]

Theres two. Palace away 5-0, that was just crushing and Norwich away in the cup also. I was masscot for that game as well, it was bloody frezzing on that pitch !!!

 

[rcf0712]

Kingstonian FA Cup was my Albion nadir away from the G.......

 

[New Carpet?]

Bar the obvious 5-0 at Selhurst, my two would be:

1 - Brentford away 98/99 - early season, stand was like a sauna, and Glen Thomas single-handedly gifted the hosts the game in the first half-hour. We were also badgered by this nuisance of a bloke who spotted us in colours and wouldn't leave us alone in the build-up to the game, repeatedly talking about all of these rucks that he'd had at football over the years in a way not too dissimilar to Begbie's anecdotal style in Trainspotting.

2 - Fans United II, versus Doncaster on Valentine's Day in '98 - This is purely for footballing reasons, certainly not the occasion itself. Pretty much has to be the worst match ever in football league history, not one real chance created by either of the two worst clubs in the league at the time. The fact it was at Priestfield just made matters even worse. So pleased that both sides have since enjoyed much more success both on and off the field.

 

[Notters]

yeah i cant agree with the palace 5-0 people! the question wasn't strictly about the match but the whole day and that day iv never had such a buzz turning a street corner and seeing a blue and white invasion all over the pubs near ground! shocking game but we kept singing!

Yeah, but 2 1/2 hours in a police cordon afterwards was a nightmare. Then they told me I'd have to get on the train to Brighton and then get another one back to London from there (I was going to Nottingham). I told them where they could stick there train. Still didn't get back to Nottingham until 1am, having got a rail replacement bus from Leicester.

 

[Foster House]

The great Pompey battering looms large in memory. I went down with one other and stopped for a beer in havant (on his recommendation), quiet game of pool turned into a massive ruck with 8 or nine Pompey sailor shagging retards armed with pool cues and beer glasses...I recall the landlord interveneing but the locals just sitting watching, got out of that one with some right old bruises, then got severely questioned by dibble at Fratton because of injuries...thanks to an anonymous NSCer who is also a cop managed to convince them not to nick us for suspected hooliganism, then got royally tonked on the pitch and had to listen to radio commentary of Pompey goals whilst locked in afterwards (am I remembering wrongly that they also played YMCA or other such Gay related music over the PA?...That might have been Cardiff come to think of it)...then afterwards meeting up with two or three from the Hollingbury whilst we were being bricked outside by the locals...no Old Bill by this point...eventually getting back to the car only to have it vandalised on the drive out of that f***ing yard by more knobheads.

Marvellous day. I vowed never to go there again.

All that rings true for the spring visit of 1990. I think we lost 3-0. Chants of HIV HIV from the Fratton End. I got nicked on the train home whilst minding my own business. Shame the police didn't give the same attention to those who were giving us a beating

 

[bristolseagull]

Canvey Island

 

[Djmiles]

5-1 Plymouth for me, Chippy got sent off too.

 

[Djmiles]

Thats Bournemouth (if you belive the rather fit tour guide i had at the open day!). More bars and pubs per square meter than anywhere else in the land.

You've clearly never been to Aberystwyth!

 

[Gwylan]

2 - Fans United II, versus Doncaster on Valentine's Day in '98 - This is purely for footballing reasons, certainly not the occasion itself. Pretty much has to be the worst match ever in football league history, not one real chance created by either of the two worst clubs in the league at the time. The fact it was at Priestfield just made matters even worse. So pleased that both sides have since enjoyed much more success both on and off the field.

That was a shocker. Wasn't that one of the games that Mahoney-Johnston played for the Albion? One of the worst players I've ever seen play for us. But it wasn't an away game.

 

[Kalimantan Gull]

Too many. But thankfully good ones come along now and again to make me keep going.

1. Hull under Micky, when Cameron was subbed off after 15 minutes. Poor 2-0 defeat

2. Doncaster in 97 or 98, our 17th consecutive away game without a win (or was it 17 defeats in a row?)

3. Palace 5-0, left after 75 minutes, although right up til the first goal it was a cracker, so not the worst.

4. Reading 1-5

5. The worst of all, 3-0 to Walsall a couple of seasons ago, took my Indonesian friend to his first football match and we sat in cold subdued silence for nearly the whole match, like everyone else in the ground, even the walsall fans it seemed. No atmosphere, no hope of a positive result after 20 minutes, depressing.

 

[mcshane in the 79th]

yeah i cant agree with the palace 5-0 people! the question wasn't strictly about the match but the whole day and that day iv never had such a buzz turning a street corner and seeing a blue and white invasion all over the pubs near ground! shocking game but we kept singing!

I know what you mean but still the feeling when those penalties kept going in and the sending off just made (and still do when I think about it) me feel proper sick. I have never felt so low at a football match than that day and would actually say losing my wallet or getting punched would be a preferable option. Nothing has ever come close to that afternoon

 

[drew]

1978 v Nottingham Forest in the 5th Rd of the League Cup. Went on one of the three seagull specials but only got as far as Corby (or was it Kettering, can't remember). Sat on a train waiting for details of the score from the few that had their am radios.

 

[Southover Street Seagull]

Notts County Play Off Final 1991
Palace 5-0 Away
Pompey Away Easter Bank Holiday circa 1989?
Halifax Away, midweek fixture that got rained off about an hour before kick off circa 2001?

 

[Kuipers Supporters Club]

Chesterfield 2001

Oatway sent off for 2 stupid Yellows.
Last minute winner for them, as they pulled further ahead in Div 3, and they thought the title was theirs (as did I)
Stupid fight outside the ground, with Brighton fans fighting each other and getting chucked over a brick wall myself.
Shit Place, Shit Result, Shit Weather, Shit Wooden Stand, Pure Crap day.

 

[les dynam]

I know what you mean but still the feeling when those penalties kept going in and the sending off just made (and still do when I think about it) me feel proper sick. I have never felt so low at a football match than that day and would actually say losing my wallet or getting punched would be a preferable option. Nothing has ever come close to that afternoon

spot on sir.

horrible horrible day.

 

[gjh1971]

Sudbury in the cup in 1996 for me. An abject 0-0 draw against a Jewsons League side, standing in a roped off grass bank. The game was on a sunday but the backwater we were in hadnt discovered sunday opening yet, so nowhere to go for lunch. Still, made up for it in the replay by losing penalties. Also had to report a fellow Albion fan for racist comments to George Parris. A sad day all round

 

[Simster]

1-3 Notts County - Play off final 1991 - awful awful day.
0-5 Palace, 2002 - Dreadful. Not so much the fact we got absolutely humped. I mean, the highlight on the pitch was Johnson scoring and then having it disallowed. But everything else on the day was similarly woeful. Being frogmarched to the ground 2 hours before kick off, not being allowed out, being frogmarched to an inconvenient station, it was awful.
1-5 Portsmouth, 1994 - to this day, I cannot believe they were allowed to replay the commentary of all the scum's goals. And we were leading 1-0 at half time.
0-2 Southend, 2001 - boiling hot day but the football was a crushing disappointment. Trouble all over the place after the game, mostly from people who oddly enough are never seen among our away support at Cardiff or Millwall.

 

[Uncle Buck]

Charlton away last season.