Your Worst Albion Away Day

[johnny jigsaw]

Middlesborough vs Brighton 21/03/92

5.30am start from the Goldstone, going on the Liz Costa funbus for the first (and last) time. No booze on board allowed, around 20 passengers playing bingo all the way up. Got to the outskirts of Middlesborough around 1pm to be greeted by half of Cleveland Constabulary for an escort in to Ayresome Park. Taken direct to the stadium and escorted straight off the bus into the ground, no option to go for a wander, a pint or some hot food. Waited on the open terrace for an hour and a half in the bitter cold wind until kick-off, lost 4-0, got escorted straight back onto the bus and into Brighton at 11.05pm, too late for last orders.

 

[patchamalbion]

yeah i cant agree with the palace 5-0 people! the question wasn't strictly about the match but the whole day and that day iv never had such a buzz turning a street corner and seeing a blue and white invasion all over the pubs near ground! shocking game but we kept singing!

 

[StanmoreSeagull]

5-0 Palace away. By a million miles

100% agree - highly depressing!

 

[Gerbil]

That was Gerbil and NOT me.






Anyway...

The 5-0 loss at PaleArse.
The Paint Pot final at Luton.
4-2 loss at Pompey.

Can't think of any other away games I haven't liked... Leeds last season was gutting but a great day.

I was FORCED into it, y'know peer pressure

 

[Gwylan]

yeah i cant agree with the palace 5-0 people! the question wasn't strictly about the match but the whole day and that day iv never had such a buzz turning a street corner and seeing a blue and white invasion all over the pubs near ground! shocking game but we kept singing!

This is very true. And also, we'd just lost something like 8 or 9 games on the bounce so our expectations were very low - I don't think a single person expected us to win (although no-one expected a 5-0 hammering). But it was encouraging to see such a large turnout even though we were clearly a struggling side.

As I said, it was a bus ride home for me so I couldn't really think of it as an away match but even if I'd lived in Brighton, while it was a horrendous day, I've had worse.

 

[Sausage]

Obviously 5-0 at Palarse but...

it got RIGHT up my nose at Milton Keynes last season when they nicked all our balloons. Bland stadium, bland fans, bland game, twatty stewards, bland town.

Bland.

 

[Austrian Gull]

Ignoring the blindingly obvious palace 5-0, it would be Plymouth away from a few years back.

5-1 defeat.
Terrible refereeing decisions.
Typically crappy journey down there and a very long journey back.

 

[KneeOn]

That was Gerbil and NOT me.






Anyway...

The 5-0 loss at PaleArse.
The Paint Pot final at Luton.
4-2 loss at Pompey.

Can't think of any other away games I haven't liked... Leeds last season was gutting but a great day.

Damn.

I remember thinking it was Marcgorry, and some one saying it was them.

Its not longer my highlight now

 

[KneeOn]

Halifax must a contender for the British town with most pubs per sq metre. I've been well bladdered on Halifax pub crawls - when I lived in Bradford it was a popular destination for a day's boozing. It's also got a population of more than 80,000 so it would be some village.

Thats Bournemouth (if you belive the rather fit tour guide i had at the open day!). More bars and pubs per square meter than anywhere else in the land.

 

[Stat Brother]

Early 90's Reading away.
At Elm Park, lost 4-0.
We didn't even get a kick all game, and were complete toilet, to the point we left so early (everyone has to do it once) we were probably out of Berkshire by the time the final whistle blew.

And all Radio 1 would play was Mr Wendel.

 

[pasty]

Oldham Athletic 6 - 1 Brighton and Hove Albion

Birthday weekend
Freezing cold
Plastic pitch
Andy Ritchie hattrick
Worst "meat" and potato pie in the world ever
Pissed down all the way home and we were in a leaky Fiat Uno
Alternator died on the car on way home

 

[Bevendean Hillbilly]

The great Pompey battering looms large in memory. I went down with one other and stopped for a beer in havant (on his recommendation), quiet game of pool turned into a massive ruck with 8 or nine Pompey sailor shagging retards armed with pool cues and beer glasses...I recall the landlord interveneing but the locals just sitting watching, got out of that one with some right old bruises, then got severely questioned by dibble at Fratton because of injuries...thanks to an anonymous NSCer who is also a cop managed to convince them not to nick us for suspected hooliganism, then got royally tonked on the pitch and had to listen to radio commentary of Pompey goals whilst locked in afterwards (am I remembering wrongly that they also played YMCA or other such Gay related music over the PA?...That might have been Cardiff come to think of it)...then afterwards meeting up with two or three from the Hollingbury whilst we were being bricked outside by the locals...no Old Bill by this point...eventually getting back to the car only to have it vandalised on the drive out of that f***ing yard by more knobheads.

Marvellous day. I vowed never to go there again.

 

[Gwylan]

Thats Bournemouth (if you belive the rather fit tour guide i had at the open day!). More bars and pubs per square meter than anywhere else in the land.

Or St Albans? Or Lewes? Or many other places.

It's a question I'd love to see definitely answered. Every third place seems to think that it's the most pub-saturated place in the country (can't see it as Bournemouth though, that's a place where I've struggled to find pubs).

 

[Gwylan]

Oldham Athletic 6 - 1 Brighton and Hove Albion

Birthday weekend
Freezing cold
Plastic pitch
Andy Ritchie hattrick
Worst "meat" and potato pie in the world ever
Pissed down all the way home and we were in a leaky Fiat Uno
Alternator died on the car on way home

That has to be the winner.

 

[Dr. Notthenineo'clocknews]

any defeat at shithurst is bad, but Middlesboro 1990 ish. evening game lost 2-0? only ever been on the coach about 3 times, this one broke down on the M25 for a good few hour, no-one told us what was going on and no-one seemed to ask Just remembered, took a proper kicking of some Chelsea in a case of mistaken identity when some Brighton lad gave them some verbal

 

[Braders]

7-1 Huddersfield - Game turned on the back pass/penalty. Worst ever Albion defeat. Roadworks meant not getting home till very late 2- 3 am cant remember and had to be at work for 7am
.

that is the one for me , laughably shocking

also mentions for the 5-1 defeats to Reading and Plymouth

 

[Lord Bamber]

Was that circa 1989/1990? I got stuck on a jam-packed train back to Cardiff Central after the game, wedged in and surrounded by chanting 'Soul Crew' types, me trying desperately to look Welsh while pulling up my jacket collar to hide my BHA scarf.


:albion1:

nah, this one was 2005, I believe any trip there follows a similar vein.

How did you manage to look welsh?

 

[Dr. Notthenineo'clocknews]

How did you manage to look welsh?

this should have it's own thread

 

[Gerbil]

Damn.

I remember thinking it was Marcgorry, and some one saying it was them.

Its not longer my highlight now

Am i not WORTHY enough to throw at bottle you then?!

 

[Digweeds Trousers]

Canvey island in the FA cup is up there for me.

Outside of the fact that it was just an utterly woeful performance on the pitch - to be fair back then it was almost expected that if we had to play the cast of The Archers we would probably get stuffed.

The dawning realisation on getting off the train at benfleet that it was three miles from any sort of urban spread - no pubs nothing.

The coach to the ground was heaving and had to sit on a piss-stained floor.

The abject game which we nearly lost in the last minute - and then the delights of having the coach bricked by West Ham and Millwall who had turned up the day - the coach stopping in the middle of the brick barrage and then having the living shit kciked out of the four of us at Benfleet station on the way home.

When seeing 5 British Transport Police on the concourse at Benfleet station and asking for help - we were told 'f***ing arseholes like you who have turned up today deserve everything you get' and promptly walked past the West ham pikeys who proceeded to knock seven shades of shit out of us.

One of those days when you get home and genuinely think - is this really worth it.