Worst Albion match day?

[RowleyBirkinQ.C(deceased)]

We're currently experiencing an amazing time to be a Brighton fan. But what was your worst match day.
I'm not looking for depressing, just some gallows humour. I'll give you my top 3 crap Albion match days.
1:- midweek "home" match against team that escapes me. Lost 3-0, stood in the pissing rain with a cold and next day had an ear infection.
2:- midweek vs Bristol city in early 90's. Decided to go at last minute, missed connection at Portsmouth and turned up at Ashton gate with 20 minutes to go with us 2-0 down. We lost 2-1 and on the way home I was miss directed several times leading to me having to sleep rough at Portsmouth and southsea station the night.
3:-took my new girlfriend (now my wife) to her first Brighton game vs York city at the Goldstone. Spent the last of my cash to get us both in, then witness 10 minutes of football followed by rioting and the abandonment of the game.

 

[Grassman]

Kingstonian away in FA Cup in about 94, at around the same time also in FA Cup away at Sudbury and Canvey Island - all 3 were awful performances. Palace away when we lost 5-nil was pretty bad, as was the televised away game at Bournemouth when we lost 3-nil at the height of the "we'll never go to Pompey!" period. Mind you as we made our way to the bottom of the fourth division in the mid to late 90s there were many contenders for worst match day, though I think I've blocked most of them out.

 

[dejavuatbtn]

30th April 1977 - Wrexham away.
Seagulls Special train got held up on the way up there due to suicide on the line. Got there just in time for the second half of a 0-0 draw. Back to the train that got stoned at the station by Wrexham fans from the bridge.
Windows of one of the carriages got blown past Rugby. Train reversed to Rugby to get people into other carriages. Diesel enging on the train then packed up and a replacement engine had to be called up from London. Got back home at 2.00 in the morning.
The good news is we got promoted as runners up. The bad news, Palace went up in 3rd place.

 

[Return of the Rev]

1 walton and hersham at home,midweek game in the afternoon bunked off school got beat 0-4
2 hull city away got in sight of ground to be told by a steward walking the other way "game off"
3 cardiff city away won 1-0 1976 no segregation got chased out the ground by about 40 cardiff!!!!!!

 

[Surf's Up]

Palarse 5-0 away, the performance was pants, it was against Palarse and being kept in the ground for what seemed like hours then being herded very very very slowly and aggressively to Norwood Junction with a massive police presence and bloody helicopters whirring around above us was absolute pants.

 

[Max Paper]

Palace away, 5-0. Shit Day all round. . .

 

[Tony Meolas Loan Spell]

Losing 3-0 to Pompey at Fratton in the (then) uncovered away end circa 1989. It absolutely PISSED down and I mean real heavy rain. Dont even think we had a shot on goal.

Being at Elland Road at the day of Hillsborough and having to put up with the Leeds fans cheering as the were announcing the death toll at the ground. We lost 1-0 not that it mattered.

 

[Beach Hut]

Reading losing 5-1
CPFC losing 5-0
Norwich in the cup when the game was never player and my wallet was stolen in the pub

 

[peterward]

Palace 5-0 away meant the most,
losing to Notts C at Wembley - was totally gutted

Worse away game (non match related) away tie to Millwall at OLd Den in Play off Semi Final, It was an extremely intimidating and frightening experience....... thought we were going to get killed getting back to London Bridge station..... Baghdad would be safer than Bermondsey that night. Me and my mate were spat on, punched (with the old bill right there), had bricks and bottles chucked at us at another point, chased for about 1 mile through scumsville.

 

[Tony Le Mesmer]

Home to Darlington in 1997/98. Lost 4-0 (or 4-1).
Was living in Nottingham and was a real mission to get to The Priestfield for the most inept and inert performance I can recall.

Gabbidonkey got a hat-trick.

 

[southern_sid]

Ninian Park.

Got leathered by about 20 geezers, knocked out clean as whistle.

Thought the paramedic was my dad.

Bullying bastards.

 

[catfish]

Travelled all the way to Halifax only to find out the game was off. Lost 5-0 at Grimsby & got a kicking after the match.

 

[Questions]

Travelled all the way to Halifax only to find out the game was off. Lost 5-0 at Grimsby & got a kicking after the match.

Bet you deserved the Grimsby kicking.

 

[Gazwag]

1991 Play Off Final
Drove from Bexhill to Brighton to pick up a couple of friends, on our way up the A23 at about Withdean area the traffic stopped suddenly, the van in front stopped, we stopped three feet behind, the man in the big car behind didn't, smashed into me and shunted me into the van in front.
So it was a taxi back to my friends house to pick up her car and the three of us then went to Wembley to see us lose.
It was then back to the wrecked car and a ring to the AA to get me and the car back to Bexhill again and all the hassles of sorting that out.
On the plus side, the man who hit me (also going to Wembley), even though the front of his car seemed to have only minimal damage, his radiator was damaged and leaking so I hope he broke down on the way somewhere inbetween junctions on the M23.

 

[The Original]

Home - Sunderland 1989 - first and only ejection from the Goldstone for giving unruly hand gesture to Sunderland goalkeeper from central North Stand. We lost 2-1.
Away - Plymouth 1991 - terrible journey, rained all day, freezing cold and not even the toilets were covered. We lost 2-0.

The 1991 Play Off final result was depressing but the pre-match atmosphere (anyone in that pub in Kilburn remember 'Delila'?) was unforgettable. We also met the notorious Paul Scarrott coming out of Victoria Station which was probably a worse experience than the result....

 

[Storer 68]

2-3 Defeat at hme by darlington in dec 1995 or early 1996 - bottom v second from bottom - a go out of the league ten pointer. Winning would have brought us to within a couple of wins of the rest of the league - defeat would have put us 10 points adrift at the bottom

Had been 2-0 up in a game we HAD to win and (blame my memory) completly caved in and lost to a very late winner.

Sparked off a protest outside the west stand. Put us bottom of the the Fourth division by about 10 points

definitelty the lowest I have felt as an albion fan. Just the WORST - Watching it was ten times worse than Hereford! couldn't see a way back from this! walked away from the Goldstone thinking I had just witnessed the death of my football club

 

[Lush]

The end of season Stoke game when we lost 5 - 1 at Withdean because no-one on the pitch (or McGhee come to that) could be bothered.

Showed a complete lack of respect for Albion fans who'd paid good money for tickets to watch a game of football.

 

[Eggmundo]

5-0 Palace and when we got beaten by the 9 men of Walsall. That was LOW.

 

[smudge]

30th April 1977 - Wrexham away.
Seagulls Special train got held up on the way up there due to suicide on the line. Got there just in time for the second half of a 0-0 draw. Back to the train that got stoned at the station by Wrexham fans from the bridge.
Windows of one of the carriages got blown past Rugby. Train reversed to Rugby to get people into other carriages. Diesel enging on the train then packed up and a replacement engine had to be called up from London. Got back home at 2.00 in the morning.
The good news is we got promoted as runners up. The bad news, Palace went up in 3rd place.

I was there & I'm sure it was Wolverhampton where the train was ambushed & all the windows went in, just as we left the station.

Palace away, the 0-5. Last home game against Stoke a few years ago, 0-5 or was it only 4? So many over the years, which is what makes times like this so much sweeter.

 

[Simster]

5-0, Palace. Nothing good about any of it.

Play off final at Wembley. Awful day in London. I was at uni in Nottingham so decided not to travel back to Nottingham on that day. Instead I went back to my mums in Hurstpierpoint, but the taxi back from Hassocks station was with the only Notts County supporting cab driver in Sussex FFS.