Worse Away Game Attended

What was your worse away day experience ?

The Luton game we lost 6-0 was mine,

When we got there a police Inspector got on our bus saying we were trouble and he would deal with us,

It drunk down all game we were in an open corner and the Luton fans pelted us with coins,

The Inspector did get back on our bus after the game and said we were the best behaved fans there all season,

I told him to go and tell that to whoever told you we were trouble.

He said he would.

Norwich opening day 2002 or 2003?

When we lost to Rotherham by 4 or 5 goals at that athletics stadium in Sheffield. I think we had Tony Ameobi up front. The only game I've ever left early and even then it was a 5 minute walk of shame to the exit the other side of the ground, during which Rotherham stuck another goal in. Apparently Mike Newell was in the crowd looking over his future club. Proper misery stuff.

Wembley for that tin pot conference trophy, it was flipping freezing.

28th October 2008 - Dagenham & Redbridge beat us 4-0.  It was freezing cold and if I remember rightly, sleeting.

For me, not a lot can top that long trip to Salisbury for a 1-0 defeat!    .... Worse still I was sat in the press box next to their assistant manager at the time,  Warren Feeny and had to endure him attempting to scream instructions to his players from a floor up! And then basically celebrate on my lap at the final whistle like they'd just win the FA Cup!

That accent still seems me cold!  

Halifax away !

Burton.

The 5-0 loss at Sincil Bank under Slade (half time team talk on the pitch) wasn't too enjoyable either.

Absolutely no contest - Braintree away first year in the Conference - still embarrassed, shocked, ashamed, disgusted by the performance.

Either Hartlepool away (we all know the game I'm talking about) or
Bristol Rovers in the Play off final - To painful! we was robbed!

Tuesday 17th September 2013 away at Halifax where we lost 4-0 and down 3 at halftime.

What a horrendous evening that was

Quoted from H19P1

Tuesday 17th September 2013 away at Halifax where we lost 4-0 and down 3 at halftime.

What a horrendous evening that was

I'd forgotten about that one - that really was truly miserable

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Bristol Rovers in the Play off final - To painful! we was robbed!

I don't count Wembley as an away match - but I think that was the worst match I can think of (wasn't at Burton), just because of what losing meant.

Nuneaton 1 Grimsby 0

It was a long Tuesday night drive to watch the most boring game of football I’ve ever seen, our players offered nothing and may as well never turned up, it was the FA trophy final 5 days later so I think they were saving themselves and trying not to get injured. Oh and it was blooming freezing!

Braintree away the 5-0 was awful, but for the toxic atmosphere and the result the 4-0 at halifax.

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Tuesday 17th September 2013 away at Halifax where we lost 4-0 and down 3 at halftime.

What a horrendous evening that was

Oh god I’d forgotten about that! Wasn’t it hursts first game in solo charge? I think we were already behind by the time we’d got into the ground because they only had one turnstile open

Agree, that Nuneaton game was truelly awful.

Swansea away in the fa cup around 1993ish (0-0). Got on Bernard's coach at around midday from the memorial hall and got home as it was getting light! If anyone was there.....what was the manaquin all about!

Hartlepool in the zenith data systems (or something) and it pi55ed it down all night. (0-0)

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Absolutely no contest - Braintree away first year in the Conference - still embarrassed, shocked, ashamed, disgusted by the performance.

Agree Ipswin, though Halifax was close!

Biggest defeat was 7-1 Sheff Weds in the cup, but the one that stands out for me was Port Vale away. We won 1-0, we stayed up, they went down think Kevin Jobling scored the goal. But never been so frightened in my life. Place and people absolute scum. Vowed never to go back to stoke in my life.

Still, looking forward to Cambridge tomorrow.

UTFM

If I remember right, if we had drawn that Vale game we would both have stayed up and Keegans Newcastle would of been relegated

There's been a few over the years... Cambridge away in 71/72. Boxing Day 11.00 kick off. Town didnt turn up. Lost 3-1. A 4-0 hammering at Walsall in 2003(?)-to date the ONLY  Town match I've left early through choice. 5-0 Braintree...
My vote goes to the F.A. cup tie at Ipswich in 1982/3. A stone smashed the large half windscreen on the near side of the bus but the driver felt able to continue because his part of the screen was intact. I was on the side with the smashed window and we travelled about 60 miles with a howling freezing January wind blowing down the bus. On the outskirts of Ipswich the driver ploughed into the back of a car driven by a young lady at traffic lights causing her to become hysterical and the police to be called who "detained" us until about 2.50 but the decided to give us an escort. We arrived at the ground after kick off and were directed by some stewards INTO THE "HOME" END from which we had to make a very quick exit. The first action we saw on the pitch was Whymark being cartied off with an injury. Town lost and the promise of a night out in Boston on the way home was dashed by police road blocks preventing Town buses entering the town.

Morecambe last season

The 4-2 defeat at Halifax was awful, Town fans shouting “we know what we are, we’re f***** spoiled, we know what we are” and “Hurst is a w*****” made it a truly horrific afternoon. The 4-0 defeat 2 and a half years previous to that was dreadful as well. That Rotherham one was not very good. I remember a terrible 4-0 defeat at Port Vale when Bosh got sent off during the terrible run under Woods. The one for me that sticks out was that defeat at Chasetown in the FA trophy, welcome to non league everybody.

York away in cup replay we lost 1-0  and had Paul Raven playing as center forward.Jan 2002

Burton away when we were relegated to the conference

Burton, Halifax (2-4), Lincoln (0-5). I only really go to about a half dozen away matches a season and it’s because I’ve got an appalling away record!

That Ipswich game in 82 was my first Town game. Dagenham away in the snow was bad and it took hours to drive back to Reading. There were a couple of games at Fulham in about 85/86/87 I think where we lost 0-4 it poured down and my zbrylcreem ran into my eyes - burn lasted ages.

Donnie say mid 80s - we were late they scored as we walked in and rest of the match was awful. Poland away in Poznań with England in the early 90s was the worst though - German Nazis and England fans fighting each other at every opportunity

Oldham under Groves

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There's been a few over the years... Cambridge away in 71/72. Boxing Day 11.00 kick off. Town didnt turn up. Lost 3-1. A 4-0 hammering at Walsall in 2003(?)-to date the ONLY  Town match I've left early through choice. 5-0 Braintree...
My vote goes to the F.A. cup tie at Ipswich in 1982/3. A stone smashed the large half windscreen on the near side of the bus but the driver felt able to continue because his part of the screen was intact. I was on the side with the smashed window and we travelled about 60 miles with a howling freezing January wind blowing down the bus. On the outskirts of Ipswich the driver ploughed into the back of a car driven by a young lady at traffic lights causing her to become hysterical and the police to be called who "detained" us until about 2.50 but the decided to give us an escort. We arrived at the ground after kick off and were directed by some stewards INTO THE "HOME" END from which we had to make a very quick exit. The first action we saw on the pitch was Whymark being cartied off with an injury. Town lost and the promise of a night out in Boston on the way home was dashed by police road blocks preventing Town buses entering the town.

Doesn’t sound good barra, although not sure what Boston was like in those days, as if you missed a night out there nowadays it would be an absolute bonus!!!

Early 80s Millwall away in the cup. Couldn't find the ground so drove up and down the Old Kent Road for ages too scared to stop and ask anyone as all the locals looked horrible. Eventually found a copper who told us it had been cancelled.
Too late to go anywhere else and the Spurs v Arsenal match was on if we'd found out earlier

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28th October 2008 - Dagenham & Redbridge beat us 4-0.  It was freezing cold and if I remember rightly, sleeting.

I was at that match.
Dire performance
I had to pay for my train ticket twice due to mix up with credit cards and a jobsworth ticket man
We played like a bunch of donkeys with no interest
First snow in October in London for 74 years and on an open terrace.
Soaking wet, freezing and fed up along with about 50 other brave souls.
Got back to Doncaster and my van had a parking ticket on it.
You couldn’t make it up!
This match confirmed to me that we were doomed for non league!

Oldham, although at least it was free.

Apart from the obvious one at Burton, 3 stick in the mind for me.

Barnsley, just before Christmas 1991. Lost 4-1. drunk down with rain on the open away end at Oakwell. 4 nil down with 10 minutes to go. Only time I have ever left a game early. Got back to the car and local radio was reporting that we'd scored a consolation and it was an own goal by Barnley's Mark Smith. Just so happened we had a Mark Smith playing that day and it was him who had scored.

Carlisle late 80's. Got stuck in a massive traffic jam on the A1 on the way there. John Cockerill scored for us after 20 seconds but we didn't get there til 5 minutes late. Dumped the car where we could. We ended up losing the game 2-1. Got back to the car and it had a parking ticket, then on the way home the car broke down and we ended up coming home on the back of an AA truck.

Reading Boxing Day 1990. Some bright spark decided that the game would kick off at 11am meaning that we had to leave about 6am. We lost 2-0, drunk it down the entire first half. At half-time a steward there took pity on the 200 or so drenched Town fans and decided to put us in the under cover side stand seats until some old twit of a Reading fan complained that he'd paid a quid extra to sit under cover and didn't want scores of Town fans sat with him so they left us in the open away end for the rest of the game when  the rain got heavier. We were bloody awful that game and it didn't make it any better having to travel all the way home soaked to the skin.

One of the worse for me was Barnet last season, we all turn up for a nothing match, but kick up an atmosphere ready for the start of Slade bilgeball, absolute let down after the effort fans had put in to get the band etc. Players and especially the manager should of being ashamed. Along with Cheltenham around the same time was the warning of what to expect this season, hence on my list of awful trips.

Burton away 2010, for obvious reasons.

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York away in cup replay we lost 1-0  and had Paul Raven playing as center forward.Jan 2002

I remember that one, a good example of the phrase “we never turned up”

Oldham, Hartlepool were pretty grim but Tranmere that season was the worst. Still remember Nicky Laws and half the town players sprinting down the tunnel at the end. We took around 4,000 but they couldn't wait to get off the pitch. Watched the highlights for the first time recently and it was exactly as I remembered. We should never have gone down that season but we were completely mismanaged from top to bottom. Still not been back to that level.

The other one that stands out for me was Scunny when we lost 2-0 in 2004. You could tell that they were on the up and we were sinking below them. Getting forced into the ground hours before kick off and town fans chants towards Laws just rounded off an awful day.

Thinking about it the 4 games I've mentioned were within a year of each other.

An honourable mention for Tamworth in our first seaon in The Conference.

About our 3rd or 4th away game and the first time it really dawned on me just how far we'd fallen, stood on that desolate away terrace watching us get beat 2-1.

I must admit the Braintree 5-0 was a close second to the Luton 6-0,

BUT

At least I was dry and was back home in 40 minutes,

A very bad night to be a mariner.

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. The one for me that sticks out was that defeat at Chasetown in the FA trophy, welcome to non league everybody.

Kerching !!

Absolutely without a doubt.

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I must admit the Braintree 5-0 was a close second to the Luton 6-0,

BUT

At least I was dry and was back home in 40 minutes,

A very bad night to be a mariner.

I was in hospital having my head carved open for the 3rd time on the day of that Braintree game. Not sure if it was you or me who felt the most pain though Pete as at least I was under the anaesthetic.  

My memory isn't the best, but i can remember being at the back of a stand between a football ground and the back of some terraced houses, in a sort of alleyway, and being showered with bricks and bottles from above. I think it might have been Maine Road. Everyone started to surge down this alleyway and people were getting trampled and i remember one of the terrace house garden walls getting pushed over in the crush. It was bedlam and not a very nice experience. Can't remember anything about the game.

Sorry, Cambridge Utd away 2018.