Worst away days

Harlaching Sky Blue said:
Dynamo Kiev in Europa league was pretty nasty,
Awful peformance.
City fans scrapping amongst themselves.
Runny eyes and stuffy nose, due to being allergic to the grass there.
20 degrees below freezing , and being kept in by more dodgy coppers than there were fans for 3 hours after game.
Being ripped off by the currupt locals for everything. Everyone was on the scam.
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Yes strange old trip that one.

Walking to the ground a single fan had got split up from his mates, and got attacked in the subway. Ironically, from memory, he was not a blue but went along with his blue mates for the trip. Once in the ground, hooch was getting passed across to City fans from the Kiev end and some Kiev fans approached to chat, only to be pulled away and shouted at by the ‘Ultras’ for talking to us.

After the awful performance as you say we were locked in for hours and when let out there were thousands of cops (preparation for the Euros) and we had to make our way back into the town centre through a huge park.

It was pitch black when we finally got out and with the thousands of police, dressed as robocops, you genuinely wondered what was awaiting us. As it happens nothing, so straight into a nightclub for cheap alcohol and questionable dancing.
 
City in the third tier garnered unbelievable support and cameraderie with a bonus that away games were especially memorable events - not always for good reasons. My worst, even worse than Wycombe away was the midweek night match at Oxford Uniteds old Manor Ground, which had the deserved reputation as one of the most dilapidated stadiums in English professional football being demolished a few years later.

We stood behind the goal in the rain getting battered 3-0 singing it was just like watching Brazil. To cap it all, plod marshalling City fans away from the ground clamped down on any singing including the ironic "We never win at home, we never win away ..." A miserable game with nothing to commend it apart from throughout the game you could buy a pie.
 
Revolver said:
Don’t go to many away games.

But Port Vale away in 1998 sticks in the memory. Dreadful pitch, dreadful City performance leading to 2-1 loss.

Half time saw a game involving amputees which added to the gallows humour in the away end.
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I bet! I can picture it; "get those lads on instead of the wankers we've got playing for us"
 
blue44 said:
I remember our tickets were at the top level along the side of their main stand where the players run out,we missed most of the first half because of merseyside police holding us in around edge hill,after the game it was a free for all,bedlem everywhere,lad on our bus back to the train station had been cut up badly in his face,poor sod.
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That was one scary night after the full time whistle mate, I was a 19ry old “game as fuck” lad, but I’ll openly admit to being scared with what went on total mayhem & like I said prob the worst violence I’ve ever seen, heard other stories about carnage with city but that’s the worst I’d personally seen
 
I don't do away games these days but attended most of those mentioned from the late 70s and 80s. Funnily enough, I remember them with a lot of affection.

My worst memory was an FA cup game away at Forest in 1978 which was called off because of snow, but not before our Godfrey Abbott coach crashed on a desolate Moor somewhere in Derbyshire. The coach managed to limp, without brakes, to a remote pub where we had to await a replacement and where we found out the match was off. I had enough cash for 1 pint so couldn't even drown my sorrows. Then there was a crawl back though the snow to Manchester stopping only to lift a car containing Blyth Spartans fans out of a ditch.
 
Wigan Division Two. Not the play off semi final but the league game.

I was in the away end, no roof, freezing cold and it absolutely pissed it down. We won 1 nil but it was still absolutely miserable as fuck.
 
blue44 said:
1988
Everton away quarter final.
got in late thanks to their police and escort from Edge Hill.
lost 2-0 and murder outside only tempered by the horrendous rain storm.
Train home being peppered with bricks and pellets etc
Home very late and work in the morning.
As usual,we thought that year was gonna be our year.
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Yeah crazy night that.We had running battles in the park after the game
I'm sure the rags got knocked out that night as well. I've got Oxford or Bournemouth in my head, but not sure.
 
Oldham 1984. My dad just about got us out without being twatted by a flying seat. I was 12. Don't remember the score but worst away game for me.
 
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