Worst away days

Struggling to remember any really bad away days, now that is either because I was pissed, have just forgotten or they were all good in one way or another.

Someone posted Leicester away when Swales was chairman. Lost 4 nil but we had a Swales out banner which made the day memorable

Losing one nil to Arsenal when Mario was sent off, thought the title had gone then

Derby 6 nil, shit performance but the fans were top notch that day

Spurs in CL was bad only because of the trip home when the coach driver got lost. We went past Coventrys ground twice for some reason.
 
maccieblue said:
Think the 0-4 at wolves was 1982 possibly Easter time ,went in a pub in Wolverhampton and it got bricked by a wolves fan in a wheelchair unsurprisingly he got recognised and nicked just up the road
We also got bricked in the police escort going down an underpass
Not one of the best away games
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It was 4-1. We were 4-0 down at half time but a late Bobby McDonald goal meant we edged the second half 1-0!
It was on Easter Monday. The dippers beat us 5-0 at Maine Road on the Saturday so by half time at Molineux, we’d conceded nine goals in 135 minutes of football over slightly less than 48 hours.
 
The Colonel said:
Blackburn 4 - 0 City. 1989

Moulden benched. One footed (left) Taggart playing right back trying to play it with the outside of his left foot down the line. Kept finding the stands. Simon Garner hat-trick. Then news of Hillsborough coming through afterwards. Miserable day.
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Andy Kennedy gave us the rods after scoring to end first half in which poor Gerry Taggart kept passing the ball into touch. Why Machin thought playing the most one footed left footer at right back was best known to him. Even Neil Lennon (one previous appearance when Birmingham kicked the shit out of him) would have been a better option.

Turned on my radio at half time to find out how my Evertonian mate's lot were getting in v Norwich in the FA Cup Semi only to hear the hushed, solemn tones of the late, great Peter Jones and rest is beyond words.
 
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Zabbasbeard said:
6-0 defeat at Derby in '89. Every City player gave up at 4. Torn to pieces by McMinn, Saunders, Goddard and Micklewhite on their tiny pitch. Grim.

As was 4-0 at Leicester in 86-87. Everything that could could go wrong went wrong. Back passes stuck in the mud, passes straight to dangerous players like Alan Smith znd Gary McAlister who would both go on yo much bet

Notts County in 85. 12,000 Blues at Meadow Lane to clinch promotion against already relegated Notts with songs of "We'll be up by 5 o'clock" but abject City are 3-0 down Rachid Harkoul and Justin Fashanu at half time and more than a few bad boys ripping up the fence at half time. Pitch invasion, chaos, horses gallopinh on the pitch Billy Mc and Jimmy Sirrel coming out together towards the end of 45 minutes of half time appealing for calm. City almost pull off a comeback but still lose 3-2 setting up a last day with Charlton at home (winder what happened there...)
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I was there too.I remember us singing 'we want ten',when it got to six! Typical city fan sense of humour! Cold,wet night aswell.
 
Sheff weds mid 90’s , got there half hour late bladdered, scored within 5 mins of getting in fell down the steps in my drunken state and got thrown out , the good old days !
 
Kippax77 said:
Forest away..... Andy Dibble/Gary Crosby.
We were the laughing stock of English football that weekend (well it felt like it later on that night back in the local in Heywood from the rags)
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Went with a City mate and a Forest colleague who got us into the so-called "posh" seats. Nowt posh about them. Tight game, had a skinful and felt cheated by Crosby and to add insult to injury my City mate wouldn't stop on the way home so I could have a piss, and thought it was oh so funny. Bastard.
 
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Blue Mist said:
You joke now but it was a very low point. My mate, a home and away Blue, vowed not to go to any away matches after that. He was so certain we would stay in the division he booked a foreign holiday for the end of season and ended up missing Wembley.
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Although I'm not the guy you're posting about, I did that too.

Was in Tunisia while City were at Wembley.
 
hallsteve62 said:
The Cottage Burners turned out mob handed for the Bank Holiday Monday game at theirs at the start of the 83/84 season too. An interesting walk from the station to the ground!
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"Interesting" wasn't how I described that walk to the ground, or the walk back to the station for the special.
Newcastle FA Cup, 76-77. Got in early and the visitors end was full quite early. Full of little shits with Geordie accents.
The flagpole was in that section and the flag came down round about the time we scored; the locals weren't happy and all hell broke loose.
Fans were fighting on the terraces, in the stands and on the pitch. We won 3-1 and after the game the cops told those on the coaches and trains which way to go. We asked about getting back to a city centre car park and were advised to walk down a particular alleyway, then "run like fuck". So we did.
Got back to the car park and were waiting for the lift when some City fans a few floors up decided to remind some passing locals of the score.
We got out OK but a couple of cousins had a very draughty return trip as their coach windows decided to stay on Tyneside. We declared we'd never go back, but there was a League game a few weeks later. On that occasion we broke down at Washington Services and had to get a bus to and from the ground.
 
bridgeblue said:
Yep, that's exactly how it is, I have lived in Wigan most of my life, even in non league, utd fans in particular would latch on to Wigan.
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I've worked there in the past and seen it first hand.
Plenty of reports of Wigan "fans" at the 2013 FA Cup final of Rags and Dippers who went for a day out. Spoke to some on the overground after the match and a few guys I know had similar experiences.
 
Zabbasbeard said:
Went with a City mate and a Forest colleague who got us into the so-called "posh" seats. Nowt posh about them. Tight game, had a skilful and felt cheated by Crosby and to add insult to injury my City mate wouldn't stop so I could have a piss, and thought it was oh so funny. Bastard.
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I was stood on the open terrace near those "posh seats".
After the goal, all I remember seeing was police throwing dozens of fans out of those seats as it kicked off.
Kept in afterwards followed by a police "escort" back to the train station.
 
bluebc said:
Sheff weds mid 90’s , got there half hour late bladdered, scored within 5 mins of getting in fell down the steps in my drunken state and got thrown out , the good old days !
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You saw more than a bloke at Wimbledon, early 90's......midweek, absolutely pissing down, walked out at full time, a bloke from Oldham who my mate knew was sat on the curb with his flag drapped over his head....he said something rather unpleasant to a Wimbledon player, and got thrown out....while they were warming up before kick off!
 
mainestand said:
This the one when when the coach driver stopped at the lights near the station, someone told him to put his foot down, he replied the lights are on red you dickhead, huge mob of Geordies came running towards the coach launching bottles, bricks and pots, driver soon put his foot down and went through on red, ha ha happy days those Railway trips, absolutely mental after the game as they came at us down the hill from the park.
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Thought this may feature a few times in this thread - went on the train, absolutely packed with blues, who apart from about 12 of us got off at Durham. Literally hundreds of Newcastle fans outside waiting for us. Bundled in to Police van, blue lights the ground until it screeched to stop as a city coach was being pummelled by the mass of black and white hoards. Fighting in the ground, a 5-0 defeat, the escort ( f you could call it that) back to the station and then to round it off a mass brawl in our carriage on the train back. Dread to think what would have happened if we’d have got a point. Didn’t go back for about 12 years until we played them in the FA cup - couldn’t have been more different a Newcastle fan took us for a drink in one of their pubs - and they were great with us.

Notable mentions for shipping 10 at Anfield in 4 days, 6 at Derby, 5 at Arsenal, 5 at OT, 4 at Wigan, Brighton and Blackburn (day of Hillsboro) and the never to be forgotten Halifax Town. We’ve certainly suffered for the cause!
 
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