Best and worst away day you’ve been on

blue61 said:
Was at Halifax with 3 other mates all teenagers. Somehow managed to get into the club as the City players were making there way to the coach afterwards, still stuffing their faces with sandwiches. We were soaked full of mud from that stand at the side of the pitch.

Year before we got beat at Shrewsbury. That second spell of big Mal was a disaster!

Talking of muddy terraces the baseball ground was not much better. That was the day they couldn't find the penalty spot amongst the sand and mud as we got thrashed 4-0, I think that was in 1977 when we had a decent team before the return of Alison
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I was there for the 4-0 and the only other time I went to derby we lost 6-0, not my favourite away fixture. The best was Dennis Tuearts hat trick at villa park, we were 1-0 down at half time against a v good villa team, 2nd half was just superb 1-4 , 76 ?
 
I once went to Stoke away but arrived 20 minutes late. Asked the turnstile guy what the score was and it was 3-0 to Stoke. Thought about just turning round but stayed for the rest and, as I recall it ended up 3-0.

Hardly a great day out.

Best was the long coach trip to Newcastle in 1968 to see us win the title. Word was that one of the coach party got stabbed but, unless he was a closet rag wuss, I’m sure that didn‘t ruin his day.
 
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Apart from the actual match, Ajax three dayer was pretty damn good.

Newcastle when Dunney got sent off was great until kick off and deffo the worst drive home.
 
Best day away was Newcastle to win the league in 68, my mates VW Beetle was rocking from side to side coming back down the A1, worst day away was Stoke, all the Stoke inbreds were throwing glass bottles in to the rafters and the glass was raining down on us.
 
stonerblue said:
Apart from the actual match, Ajax three dayer was pretty damn good.

Newcastle when Dunney got sent off was great until kick off and deffo the worst drive home.
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Ajax was one where the football got in the way of the rest of the trip. The game was shite and getting into the ground was a nightmare. It was like losing 3-4 hours of the session having to go to the match.
 
Shite ones too numerous to mention. A 3-0 defeat at Reading (the last time we played them at Elm Park) was probably the worst I’ve ever seen us play, closely followed by a 6 goal drubbing at the Baseball Ground.
Good ones? The Bayern Munich away game that clashed with the Oktoberfest was a cracker. All afternoon singing City songs in the bierhalles and then a drunken stagger around a gloriously sunlit funfair. Pity about the match. Lost 2-0. Lokeren was another belter. A total City invasion. Doing the rags in the cup semi in 2011 was another memorable day
 
Hard to think of just one so added a couple:

Best:

1) Brighton 2019
Stuck in the home end but managed to get into the City end to celebrate.

2) Blackburn 2000
Again in the home end, but surrounded by blues, and managed to sneak past the stewards onto the pitch to enjoy the celebrations.

3) West Ham 2007
Opening day under Sven, new team, new hope, boiling hot and goals by our two new signings.

Worst:

1) United 2010 League Cup Semi Final
like we would never beat them and being locked in while there tannoy system played United songs accentuated how frustrated it was to lose to them.

2) Liverpool 1996 league cup
4-0 defeat and like the vast majority of matches we looked completely clueless under Alan Ball

3) Notts County 1991 Fa Cup fifth round
Really though we had a chance of the Cup this year but an injury time goal knocked us out. The keeper pulled of one save after another to ram the taunts about his weight right back down our throat.
 
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