Worst Away Day you've done


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But yesterday was easily the most miserable I've been at the football.
I was absolutely freezing. Watching the ball get stuck and football unplayable, it was just a waste of time.
Easily the earliest I've left a stadium, and to show how bad it was there were loads of pompey fans walking to Fratton Station with us who we got chatting to who couldn't stay any longer.
Strangely I'm not overly upset with the result, as yesterday wasn't a football game.
It was a total waste of time and absolutely pathetic that it was played
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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.
Clearly Southampton away wins this at 8-0
 
Done the Everton 7-1 and a few of the 5-0s mentioned on here, a few relegations plus loads of Mags defeats including the 5-1.

But Hull QF under Poyet stands out for me. A 3rd division team awaited in the semi and he couldn’t give a fuck. Ustari and Scocco starting, Jesus wept. Still pisses me off til this day - many of us on here may never see a better chance again for us to win the cup. Hull were no better than us as a side and went 2-0 up against Arsenal in the final that year.
Bradford played against a championship team in the quarter final round too.
 
Done saints 8 safc 0
But yesterday was easily the most miserable I've been at the football.
I was absolutely freezing. Watching the ball get stuck and football unplayable, it was just a waste of time.
Easily the earliest I've left a stadium, and to show how bad it was there were loads of pompey fans walking to Fratton Station with us who we got chatting to who couldn't stay any longer.
Strangely I'm not overly upset with the result, as yesterday wasn't a football game.
It was a total waste of time and absolutely pathetic that it was played
My worst day ever. Worst than getting chased by 50 Stoke lads when I was 18 and with 5 mates and getting jumped by the cemetery near their ground and kicked all over.
This.
 
Since we’re talking about the wider day out and not specific to just the match, Bradford away under Poyet in the cup was canny crap. We drove so none of us barely had a pint all day and the whole thing just seemed subdued after all the hype. Pretty sure it was a mid afternoon Sunday kick off as well which didn’t help. The definition of anti climax that game.

Coventry away first game after the 15 point season also stands out, when Quinn was both chairman and manager. We took good numbers down from what I remember and even went 1-0 up. Just remember the ground (Ricoh Arena) seemingly in the middle of nowhere and the walk to it from where our bus dropped us off felt like miles away. We ended up losing 2-1 and it was just overall pretty forgettable as far as away days go.

I was at Everton 7-1 but went on the Jarra bus and a day out with them usually softens the blow of most inevitable away losses, even that one to a degree.

One final one to mention that was also shite was Mags away in 2008 when they beat us 2-0. News before the match that Bardsley and Johnny Evans were out seemed to zap the atmosphere from our fans as we all seemed to predict what was going to happen next, and sure enough it did very early on with McShane having a mare. Only highlight of that day was on the buses heading to the ground before the match going through some area of Newcastle’s west end, maybe fenham or cowgate, and the locals stood at the road side flicking their fingers at the convoy but in amongst the middle of them was a lad about 12 wearing a Sunderland top and he was patting the badge and waving at the buses.
 
Norwich away, LC replay in 82/83 season. Got beat 3-1, only around 200 down a quick pint before the match ,horrendous journey back, coach got lost in the dark Norfolk wilderness, got home at 5.30am, an hour in bed, then straight to work.
Is there anyone on here who was at all of the 8-0's.

West Ham, Watford and Southampton. I was at the Saints game and my mate Fishboy from here was at Southampton and Watford.
Was at Watford, 2-0 down when I got in, 7-0 down when I left. It wasn't a bad day though, as we always stayed the night in London, which always made up for any woes on the field.
 
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Why did you turn the ticket down if you went about the train asking for spares :confused:
It was in the Sunderland end. I knew I wouldn't be able to hide my allegiance and didn't fancy a kicking. I did that once before at Roker... stuck in the seats with about six Newcastle and hundreds of Sunderland. Same day Newcastle idiots went in The Fullwell. Lucky to get out relatively unscathed. Not making that mistake again.
 
Sunderland away 1st May 1993. A win would have virtually guaranteed us promotion with one game left and as it turned out a draw would have been enough.

Thousands of Pompey made the the long trip up north. The final score was Sunderland 4 Pompey 1. We had 2 players sent off one of who was Paul Walsh our best player, which meant he couldn't play in the play offs where we got knocked out by Leicester.

And then of course there's the long trip home afterwards in total despair.
 
Sunderland away 1st May 1993. A win would have virtually guaranteed us promotion with one game left and as it turned out a draw would have been enough.

Thousands of Pompey made the the long trip up north. The final score was Sunderland 4 Pompey 1. We had 2 players sent off one of who was Paul Walsh our best player, which meant he couldn't play in the play offs where we got knocked out by Leicester.

And then of course there's the long trip home afterwards in total despair.
A love/hate game for me, a great win which ultimately saved us from relegation but gained promotion for the mags.
 
Probably Charlton, I think Bent scored for them. I was having a bad time, drank to much and just generally made a twat out of myself.
Sunderland away 1st May 1993. A win would have virtually guaranteed us promotion with one game left and as it turned out a draw would have been enough.

Thousands of Pompey made the the long trip up north. The final score was Sunderland 4 Pompey 1. We had 2 players sent off one of who was Paul Walsh our best player, which meant he couldn't play in the play offs where we got knocked out by Leicester.

And then of course there's the long trip home afterwards in total despair.

Rumours of stabbings that day I think.
 
Probably Charlton, I think Bent scored for them. I was having a bad time, drank to much and just generally made a twat out of myself.


Rumours of stabbings that day I think.
December 2005 I think, I was there. The club was having a bad time too, 1 of our 29 league defeats that season
 
18 years old, Derby away at Bradford City 1984, I think same season as the Bradford fire. Just after kick off fighting erupted all over, the main stand erupted and the big open kop behind the goal home and away fans were ripping bits of terrace up and chucking it over the fence at each other. Me mate passed me a chunk of concrete and like a twat I threw it, before I could do anything my arm was up my back and I was being frogmarched round the pitch past loads of gobbing Bradford fans. Got beaten up by police in a back room and then had to battle Bradford fans in the back of a police van, everyone with the cable tie jobs round our wrists so weird scrap with loads of headbutting and kicking.

There were 30+ arrests that day and all kept in the old style open cage cells like you see in cowboy movies. By about 8pm it all calmed down and most fans were just chatting through the bars about what they were doing later when a copper came in and said "Which one is Franks?, your mam’s on the phone wants to know you're ok" :oops::D

They us all out at 10pm and everyone just cleared off, seemed to know what they were doing. I only had about a fiver but still ended up getting bus to Leeds, train to Sheffield, bus to chesterfield, Aquarius nightclub bus back to Mansfield and walked last 5 miles back to Kirkby in Ashfield, got stopped and searched at the end of my street at 4am by police who were convinced I was out robbing houses.

I think it was later on the same season we were coming back from Newport and all laughing on the coach about the Bradford fire without realising how bad it was. Not my proudest few years but you live and learn.
 
Cambridge, sometime in the early 90s. Forward line of Gary Bennet and Tony Cullen. Dion Dublin destroyed us and they beat us, I think, 3-0, without breaking a sweat. Don’t think we threatened the entire game. Getting so comprehensively beaten by a team like Cambridge was a perfect summation of those days. Grim.
 
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