Best and worst away day you’ve been on

Best - Palace Away 2-0 after Gerrard slipped v Chelsea. We left the ground knowing we could do it.
Worst - 1-0 at Arsenal after Balotelli got sent off. I thought we'd lost the league that day and the Arsenal fans were loving it.
 
jimmygrimblesboots said:
Stoke away , Trevor Francis debut , genuinely thought there was more Blues than Stoke fans that day , me and my brother went fancy dress as Blues Brothers , suits and trilbies , Clever Trevor scored two on his debut
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I was at Stoke on that day in 1981 too, for Trevors debut, although not in fancy dress , it was brilliant day ... i was stood in a packed paddock down the side of the ground, and they never got a look in .... City, and Francis, played really well in a 3-1 win.

Some pics of the match on this link ....


The best time at Stoke though , at least for fancy dress anyway, came in a 3-1 defeat down there on Boxing Day 1988 .. when Nigel Gleghorn scored ..... around 12,000 City fans turned up , and practically ALL of them were in fancy dress!

We had two sides of the ground .. again i was down the side of the ground, although this time in the seats , and i had a 'Vicar' sat to the left of me , and 'Batman' sat to the right .... there were thousands of bananas and various rubber toys being waved about everywhere!

The negative result just didn't seem to bother anyone that day!


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jimmygrimblesboots said:
Forgot the worst , Halifax away , we hit rock bottom with Allison that day , Steve Daley our £1.5m signing running around on a paddy field , we were stood on a mud heap under a f8cking tree and still getting soaked wet through , got back to the car , window put through and radio/cassette nicked , ive had better days.
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Being cold, piss wet through, and covered in as much mud as the players along with the obvious reason to have thought it might have been a good idea to have thrown oneself under the train rather than getting on the bastard thing that took me to Halifax that day was quite enough. To have returned to a car to discover the window through and the radio gone would really have put the icing on the cake....laughing my bollocks off now, but not on the day.
 
Best away; villa weds night 5-1 7000 blues in 24 000 crowd as was rearranged. Incredible atmosphere.

Worst; ha ha too many to choose one.

Go on then, Lincoln, lost, piss wet through, crashed car.
 
asahartford1 said:
Best away; villa weds night 5-1 7000 blues in 24 000 crowd as was rearranged. Incredible atmosphere.

Worst; ha ha too many to choose one.

Go on then, Lincoln, lost, piss wet through, crashed car.
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Agree on the Villa one. Midweek night game, great following from City, flew back up the M6 made it back in time for last orders.
 
the best and worst for me in my life was the same game

last year when we beat arsenal 3-0
the de bruyne masterpiece

took me nipper,he loved every minute
i had a few,as usual

on the train back,my dad kept txt me saying when you get home
txt us back etc

i was annoyed all the way back from Euston
i thought,they thought i would be drunk and
not in control of my son (their grandson ) in London and coming home

when we got home,abut 11pm/ midnight
i phoned them

they told me,my Italian uncle had died in Paris that very day,a massive heart attack
he'd gone there for his anniversary with my aunt
and their kids,one was 40(my cousin ) a double celebration and then that happened

My Italian uncle came here in the 1960's
Always supported City

RIP Reno
 
jimmygrimblesboots said:
Forgot the worst , Halifax away , we hit rock bottom with Allison that day , Steve Daley our £1.5m signing running around on a paddy field , we were stood on a mud heap under a f8cking tree and still getting soaked wet through , got back to the car , window put through and radio/cassette nicked , ive had better days.
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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
 
Best was the 6-1 at the swamp - I've never felt a buzz like it at the football, the QPR game was close but I felt high for about a week after we beat the rags.
Worst was Napoli away first season in the CL. Got forced on a bus which drove around the ring road for hours before the game, then chased round Naples by tooled up Italians on scooters after the match, whilst trying to walk back to the hotel. And a lad walking back with us got knifed.
 
Why Napoli are allowed to participate in European competition is beyond me. There were two Juventus fans next to me at the Napoli home match who were there purely because they hate them. Bought City scarves too.
 
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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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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