Worst Away Day you've done


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Arsenal and Man Utd Cup Finals got to be up there. Yes we played best team in League then in Europe but we just didn’t offer anything. Stoke in League Cup for different reasons, their scum fans. Blackburn 2-1, then Forest 1-1, the year we should have won the league. Both games we should have won. Everton under McFaul. Opening day. So much optimism. Cue Tony Cottee.
 
Mags away around 2002. I went on one of the buses. Absolutely ages to get there, into the ground a couple of hours before kick off. Beer had ran out by the time I went to get served. Sat right next to the mags taking the piss after we went 2-0 down after about 20 minutes. Food at half time was a burger and the lass at the bar told me to pull a little kinda of pint pouring tap to get ketchup, it turned out to be hot water and had nowt to eat all day. Two of Northumbria's finest taking the piss as I was waiting to get out. Showing me the NUFC badge on their old Nokias. Back to the buses and ages to get back with mags taking the piss and chucking stuff at the bus.
Coventry the second time we went up under Reid second. The week before we had come from 2-0 down to draw against the mags and spirits were high. 3-0 down inside 20 minutes in typical SAFC fashion.
 
Flipping the other thread on its head, what's the worst away experience you've had.

Not in terms of result but the overall day. For me it was Everton away in 2017 under Simon Grayson in the League Cup. Travelled down by myself on a dry supporters bus, lost 3-0 and may as well not have showed up.

Everton won in first gear and there was about 400 SAFC fans down. Just an absolute waste of time from start to finish and one of those proper 'what am I doing with my life' kinda nights.
Swindon away midweek the season before Reid came in. I was working in London and took the afternoon off and went by train. We lost 1-0 and were utterly pathetic and were sleep walking to relegation to the third tier.


Honourable mention to the infamous Notts Couty game when we stayed up. Had we gone down it would win hands down and the mags 5-1 wasn't great either. I will put that one in third place.
 
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Stoke away as a Wolves lad. I was literally about 11 with my mate. Stoke raided the pub and bottled my old man while he was playing pool with us kids. Ended up in A/E
waiting for me old man to get stitched up. Naughty 40 shitesters. Got my own back in the bad old days.
Unless you later attacked the same Stoke fans who did your dad, you did not 'get your own back'. You more than likely attacked some innocent Stoke fan who then later went on to attack some innocent Wolves fan at another game and so it goes on.....

What happenned to your dad sounds horrific but getting 'your own back' is effectively the same thing.
 
For some reason I was at home for a few days and decided to go to Southampton away. Took about 46 hours to get there and proceeded to watch us get bummed 8-0.
 
Millwall at Old Trafford. An absolutely pathetic performance and had to wait an age afterwards for my mates as they were sat away from me while hundreds of Millwall's finest came past celebrating.
I think I had erased this one from memory. The let down of this match when a game away from a cup final makes it a good shout. We would have been in Europe had we won if memory serves me correctly.
 
Brighton away when they played at some athletics track miles out of the city. The sort of place that should never see a football match.
I’d have Wimbledon (MK Dons then maybe?) at the hockey stadium a close second for the same reason. Only slightly better than Brighton as we beat the Dons
Most ground hoppers like me would kill to have been at both those games.
 
Worst for a football experience was Watford away early 80's, got completely schooled 8-0.

Worst overall experience was Swansea away a year or two before that. Lost 3-0 in a gutless, heartless display with a very long and slow bus back.

Most worried was NYD 1980 at the mags, nastiest atmosphere I have ever been at and the coach was bricked a few times, the hatred from them was new to me.
 
Everton away 19th May 1977. Lost 2-0 but the drama at Coventry overshadowed everything. Walking from the ground everyone was trying to find what the score was at Coventry, but with no mobile phones etc in those days, information was hard to come by. Then someone heard that we were safe but by the time got back to the bus we realised we were relegated. Never felt so sick on a journey back home, only to feel worse when the truth came out.
 
Travelling wise probably stoke in the snow, got back about 3am but the game itself took that edge off. Game wise Halloween through the mags, horrendous.
I was at that one and we were on the meagre bus from Shudehill in Manchester at 9pm. (got train from Manchester to Stoke and back). The M6 was snowed under and the bus was stuck and late. There were about 12 of us waiting for it, me and my mate and 10 other randomers. I/We sorted out a shift system so 2 people waited at the bus stop for 20 mins and the rest could just go to the nearest pub (The Hare and Hounds), then the two were replaced by two others, one person to talk to the driver and let him know the rest were in the pub and one person to come back to the pub and drag the rest out. It worked a treat and the bus turned up 20 mins after last orders so we were still drinking up. Better than all 12 of us standing at the bus station in the freezing cold for three hours. A bit of colaboration made it a better experience for everyone. We won that game 1-0 so I would rank it fairly highly as an away day.
 
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The Den and being hearded in with the home fans as approached the ground "from the other direction".

Shit game and scary as feckery
 
Bury - League Cup August 2006

We lost 2-0 against the worst team in the EFL. It was the game before Keane took over and was the lowest point in my SAFC journey (at that stage).

Arnau Riera was sent off in 2 mins, not that he was missed​

 
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