[Albion] What is Your Longest Ever Away Day ?

[Eeyore]

No, not including Europe....

I remember a trip to Blackburn where I must have caught the famous 06.19 out of Brighton. Went to a beer festival in Darwin that had no cider (they always had a cider table and I don't drink beer). Albion lost 1-0 on a drab November day. Awful match. Trains were delayed coming back and the transport police got on when one of our fans decided to smash a table. The delays meant we were put in a taxi back from Victoria as we missed the fabled 01.05. I was feeling ill with a throbbing headache most of the way back. I eventually got in sometime around 03.00. Worst away day ever. Unless I die on a trip it will never be beaten.

Door to door about 21.5 hours

 

[Bozza]

Carlisle with @Arthur.

Aspinall scored and we won 1-0.

Local kids bombarded us with mint imperials on our way back to the station.

The first thing I did when I got on the train in Carlisle, which was taking us all the way to London, was knock a can of Stella over which soaked my seat.

 

[Weststander]

It is the May 79 SJP.

Guessing we left at 6am, know home at midnight.

Inter City.

 

[Jaxie]

Geographically, Sunderland in 2004. But stayed the night in Yorkshire so didn’t seem too bad.
But Hull in 2005 sticks in my memory as the longest away day ever. Seemed to take an absolute eternity to get home by minibus.

 

[Biscuit Barrel]

Darlington in November 1998. We won 2 - 1. A comeback win, with goals from Minton and Storer (if my memory serves me right)

 

[Seagull kimchi]

I was an idiot who went all the way to Newcastle when the game had been snow cancelled 7 hours before ko!

Otherwise the Sunderland.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Carlisle with @Bwian.

 

[pasty]

Hereford. Yes, that Hereford match. Think it was something like 7am next day we got back to Brighton. All a bit hazy now, but 15 or 16 of us in a mini bus, visited many a drinking establishment on way home, and mini bus broke down a couple of times on the motorway. Eventually got to Reading services on the M4, and ended up getting cabs back to Brighton from there.

 

[stewart12]

Sunderland away in 2004 on the Liz Costa express

 

[Dancin Ninja BHA]

Carlisle away, about 2008? 2-0 down before half was even over.

Never disappointed though with the amount of away fans we used to take the further North we ventured, impressive turnout but crap performance and it was a LONG day of travelling

 

[TomandJerry]

Without looking at map, Preston North End.

I believe Micky Adams was in the opposition dug out?

 

[Dave the OAP]

Carlisle


Set off at 6 am and got home 5am

Those were the days

 

[Invicta]

Plymouth away, New Year in mid nineties when Shilton was Plymouth manager. 1.1 draw in torrential rain. Long drive for a day trip

 

[Eeyore]

I was an idiot who went all the way to Newcastle when the game had been snow cancelled 7 hours before ko!

Otherwise the Sunderland.

I traveled up the night before for that one.

 

[Seagull kimchi]

I traveled up the night before for that one.

Ouch! A very disappointing city break!

 

[Ooh it’s a corner]

When you live in the west of Ireland 24hr trips are the norm for every game, home or away, and you get used to it
Did 21 PL games this year and though Mrs Corner will enjoy the next couple of months I already can’t wait to plan next season
UTA

 

[kevo]

No, not including Europe....

I remember a trip to Blackburn where I must have caught the famous 06.19 out of Brighton. Went to a beer festival in Darwin that had no cider (they always had a cider table and I don't drink beer). Albion lost 1-0 on a drab November day. Awful match. Trains were delayed coming back and the transport police got on when one of our fans decided to smash a table. The delays meant were put in a taxi back from Victoria as we missed the fabled 01.05. I was feeling ill with a throbbing headache most of the way back. I eventually got in sometime around 03.00. Worst away day ever. Unless I die on a trip it will never be beaten.

Door to door about 21.5 hours

Carlisle away in the bottom tier, 0-0 draw.

 

[Lady Whistledown]

Yeovil away one year took a disproportionately long time to get to and from, due to the abysmal train service, the fact that Yeovil station isn't even in the town, and you have to get a bus from the station to the town centre and then hike miles to their ground. We probably lost, I imagine. That was crap.

The other memorably long one was after a particularly shit game away at Cardiff, having to get the slow train back via the interminably long south coast route, stopping at every crap, pointless little station between Portsmouth and Brighton and probably a load more in Hampshire and Wiltshire too.

 

[Badger]

Carlisle away in 2010. A long journey for a 0-0 draw. Lots of beers consumed on the way up, and I remember one guy being so hammered he chundered in the middle of the road on the walk to the stadium. An entertaining day out (if you exclude the football).

 

[East Staffs Gull]

Oxford away back in the 1980’s. Was living in Birmingham at the time. Missed the last train home. Had a few more beers. Crashed out in one of the university colleges. Got home Sunday afternoon. Pretty sure we didn’t win either.