Daft places youve slept on an away day..

Not an away but got so pissed on the way to Maine Road that I fell asleep about 10 minutes into a Friday night match against Tranmere in 1997. My mate woke me up at full time and told me we drew 1-1. I couldn't believe I'd slept through the North Stand celebrating a goal around me.
 
Not an away but got so pissed on the way to Maine Road that I fell asleep about 10 minutes into a Friday night match against Tranmere in 1997. My mate woke me up at full time and told me we drew 1-1. I couldn't believe I'd slept through the North Stand celebrating a goal around me.
TBH that probably happened to alot of people back then .
 
I've passed out on the tube after many London games. Try reading a tube map when you're bladdered, impossible. Kipping on the eurostar after Lokeren was a costly mistake. Paris is a long way from St Pancras.
I fell asleep pissed on the tube on the Circle Line and woke up 2 stops before I got on.

I had to go half way round again before heading out east go back home.
 
I know I've been caught asleep in a Chinese restaurant in Alicante, this was on the way to one of our Real Madrid games a few years back (via Alicante and a train to Madrid) f**kin tough few days that was ;-)
 
Done it all over the country particularly at train stations but more after gigs. City related include a cell in Tottenham nick after someone must have spotted me going into their shed to kip til the first train on Sunday. I was pretty grateful. The cell was a lot warmer. Went to England in Rotterdam 93 with no accommodation and spent all my money on booze on the way over. Think other than alcohol I just had a bar of chocolate in 48 hours. Argentina game world cup 98, stayed with a lass and her family who spoke fuck all English in st etienne after the game even though all my clobber was in a hotel room in lyon. A great day that including drinking with Daft Donald in the big square before the game.
 
Mate drove to Norwich away, bottle of sherry did for me, I woke up and asked how long, the reply was about an hour, turns out it was an hour from home as I slept through the game on a car park, favourite was Bradford away promotion game, went to the bogs to get my head down night before game, every cubicle was taken up by blues but security let us lay on terrace probs about 40 off us. Morley made up for the inconvenience
 
Went to portsmouth 80s
Me and a mate Hitch-hiked on the friday evening .
Slept in a barn in tomarton . A village near Bath.
Needed a bath after it.
Jumped on one of donalds coaches for the trip home..... memorable de-tour to birmingham town centre.
 
Not an away day, at Maine Road around 92/ 93 me and my mate Tommo (RIP) queued all night in November for derby tickets
We only got 500 that year and only 200 went on sale to fans
You could buy two each with the correct application forms (remember them!)
We got there at 6.00pm on the Friday night we were the last two so we got raffle tickets 99 & 100

It was that cold about midnight they brought soup and opened the north stand and let us in!
Everyone was pissed by then, we sloped off earlier into the social club for a few !


Wasn’t long before a football appeared and full scale match was going on at 3-00am on the pitch (don’t think Stan was happy the next day) yes I scored at Maine Road

Anyway we got the tickets at 9-00am
And we got beat !!

Edit. City will read this now and probably try to ban me !
 
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Some great stories on this thread boys and girls.

Here's one not City related, but involves sport, sleep, beer and stupidity beyond belief.

Me and another Leicester branch member got invited to watch Leicester Tigers v Wasps in some stupid egg-chasing Cup Final at Twickenham, so we thought fuck it we'll give it a go. Lets see how these rugger buggers do a match day piss up. After drinking all day and totally steaming, after the game we ended up in a pub called the Cabbage Patch, which apparently had a reputation for stupid pranks and was legendary for rugby types. We agreed that anything they got up to, we'd go one better. It was rammed outside the pub and there were some traffic lights and lots of traffic. People were mooning at cars, chucking them strange shaped balls at cars, rugby tackling cars (I kid you not), sticking spuds on exhaust pipes, that kinda thing. I could see my daft pissed as a fart mate, observing and taking it all in, muttering to himself. Surveying the scene with the one eye that wasn't rolling to the back of his daft head. Suddenly, he runs into the traffic, opens the boot of a car and climbs in. He called to some bloke, eh up r kid, shut this for me, so he obliged. I thought the driver would get out and fuck my mate off, but there was that much going on she stayed still and drove off with my mate in the boot. Everyone was pissing themselves, some were slightly concerned and I just stood there in stunned silence. An hour went by, no sign of him. Another hour came and went. Couldn't get hold of him. He could literally have been anywhere. We had a train to catch at St Pancras so I jumped on the tube, thinking he might head there. No sign of him. Was starting the get really worried, thinking what the fuck am I going to tell his mrs?? The phone went and it was him and the conversation went something like this...

"Where the fuck are you?"
"The Pub"
"Which fucking pub you bellend"
"The Cabbage Patch"
"Eh?"
"How did you get back there?"
"I got a lift"
"Who off?"
"The lady who drove off with me in the boot"
"What the fuck are you on about and why would she give a lift to a random bloke she found in her boot?"
"She was doing an extra shift"
"Where?"
"At the fucking Cabbage Patch - you coming or what?"

So, she worked at the pub where he jumped in. What's the odds on that? She drove home. He fell asleep in the boot. She probably had some food, shower, change of clothing, read a book, did her nails, then left the house to set off back to the pub. He woke up when she started the engine, shat himself, banged on the boot totally confused at the situation he found himself in, thinking he'd been kidnapped (he actually though that). She panicked and got her dad to open it and found my mate. He introduced himself, apologised for being a twat, they saw the funny side so she offered him a lift back to the pub.

The one and only time we ever went to a rugby game.
 
Went to Derby away in a transit van as usual on a Friday night, as in those days we did full weekends away for away days. Taking in clubbing in towns and cities all over the UK. Causing mayhem.

Sadly sleeping in a van full of drunk lads isn’t pleasant. Nicotine rain from condensation, farts, you name it. So I got out and found a carpet shop with a covered skip behind full of new carpet cut offs. Tucked myself in….cosy as fuck.
Then other trips away we would walk into hotels and sleep in bathrooms which they had back then (shared bathrooms on landings) Toasty warm with radiators and then a nice bath in the morning with residents going mad banging on the doors. Same at a students residential building near Chelsea and we took over the bathrooms. Slept in the baths with the linen as blankets and underneath from cupboards on the landings. Then trot off to the dining canteens for a proper breakfast with funny looks from staff.

Great days…........could write a book about football fans and their freeloading ways.
 

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