[Albion] What is Your Longest Ever Away Day ?

[The Wookiee]

Leeds December 1989

Was clubbing in Brighton on the Friday night and had the bright idea of heading off to Leeds once clubs closed. I think I arrived in Leeds around 9am.
I don’t remember anything about the game or how I got home, all I remember is having the worse headache ever

 

[empire]

Blackpool away petrol strike ,stowed away what we thought was enough petrol in jerry cans ,couldn't make it back so had to wait till a mate could drive up and replenish

 

[Bodian]

Leeds December 1989

Was clubbing in Brighton on the Friday night and had the bright idea of heading off to Leeds once clubs closed. I think I arrived in Leeds around 9am.
I don’t remember anything about the game or how I got home, all I remember is having the worse headache ever

Sorry to inform you - we lost 3-0

 

[Stripey808]

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

Incredible support .

 

[Ken Livingstone Seagull]

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

Burnley away, 2018.
Maui to LA 5 hours.
Layover (24 hours)
LA to Fort Lauderdale 5 hours.
Cruise voyage to Southampton via Bermuda, Azores, Lisbon, etc. 16 days
Morning flight Southampton to Manchester
Mate driving me + Mrs. KLS to Manchester Picadilly to pick up KLS Jr.
Mate driving me + Mrs. KLS + KLS Jr. + Mate Jr. to Burnley.
Total 19.5 days for a 0-0 draw that kept us in the prem. Mrs. KLS (American) not overwhelmed by Day 19.
But never mind, eh -- Result!

 

[Eeyore]

Burnley away, 2018.
Maui to LA 5 hours.
Layover (24 hours)
LA to Fort Lauderdale 5 hours.
Cruise voyage to Southampton via Bermuda, Azores, Lisbon, etc. 16 days
Morning flight Southampton to Manchester
Mate driving me + Mrs. KLS to Manchester Picadilly to pick up KLS Jr.
Mate driving me + Mrs. KLS + KLS Jr. + Mate Jr. to Burnley.
Total 19.5 days for a 0-0 draw that kept us in the prem. Mrs. KLS (American) not overwhelmed by Day 19.
But never mind, eh -- Result!

That's not an AWAY DAY, It's a HOLIDAY

 

[jackalbion]

Japan in Pre Season probably (not Europe )

Domestically Norwich away this season left Portslade with Guiness Boy at 6:15. All went well until I left my phone on the replacement bus at Royston, and via a Hotel where the rail replacement bus drivers were staying I eventually got home to Brighton at 3am via a rail replacement bus from East Grinstead.

 

[OzMike]

I went out to get a paper at about midday on the Saturday of a bank holiday weekend and got back on the following Tuesday.

 

[Seagull on the Hill]

I hitch hiked ( with a mate) to Mansfield and back in the '71-72 season.
Left Brighton around 8pm on Friday, got back around midday on Sunday.
Was worth it to witness a Kit Napier hat-trick.
Also, Torquay away in the same season,
left Brighton on a coach around 11pm on Friday evening, got back to Brighton on Sunday afternoon.

 

[Anger]

Middlesbrough in LC match on Tuesday 24th September 2003. I didn’t get home until 4 days later.
Mind you, I did take in the Hartlepool league match on Saturday 27th September whilst I was up there.


Aside from that it would have been a Carlisle game or the 1991 Liverpool FA Cup match which thanks to the low priority of the ‘Special’ train took an absolute chuffing age to get there and even longer to get home.

 

[BigBod]

Furthest in a day Littlehampton to Burnley by car..

Furthest in a weekend, Littlehampton to Glasgow Rangers, driving...

 

[Bombardier]

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

Whereabout's in County Galway are you?

 

[Hotchilidog]

I'd say Carlisle twice but we made long weekends out of those trips so I'm not sure they count.

For what were long travel days I'd also go the Cardiff 4-1 defeat, 5.30 am start from Brighton; The City Arms didn't open at 11 so had to make do with Spoons; absolutely p*ssed it down on the walk to the ground; noon kick off and we had to play into a force 10 gale where we could hardly get the ball over the halfway line; 3-0 down to wind assisted goals at HT; get a goal to get back in it early second half; Knockaert misses a sitter for 3-2 nd we then concede a penalty.....FFS. Then an interminable rattler journey home. A completely terrible day out and to think we could have watched it on TV!

My second nomination would be a 1-0 defeat at Sheffield Wednesday (Leon Best in the 90th minute or something like that) when there chronic roadworks all the way home, motorway closures everywhere and the coach didn't drop me off at Seven Dials until just before 4am. Happy days.

You might as well chuck Blackpool away on the coach on one of the Christmas/NY holiday games. Enjoyed the Oysten out protest before the game. The match it self utter sh*t, another defeat played on a ploughed field. Thoroughly depressing.

 

[rippleman]

Only ever got as far as Burnley.

These are a bad fan.

 

[Guinness Boy]

Japan in Pre Season probably (not Europe )

Domestically Norwich away this season left Portslade with Guiness Boy at 6:15. All went well until I left my phone on the replacement bus at Royston, and via a Hotel where the rail replacement bus drivers were staying I eventually got home to Brighton at 3am via a rail replacement bus from East Grinstead.

Ah yes. I'd said to the boy when the draw came out "we should definitely do Norwich, nice easy trip that".

Which is mad as the last time I was there was in 1989 when we took 47 away fans for a Zenith Data Systems (or it might have been Simod) Cup game that we lost 5-1. That was another long one for us as it was before night tubes so we walked from Liverpool St to Victoria on the way home and kipped in Departures at Gatwick before getting the first train from there to Brighton. I think it was about 6am when I got in.

Still, at least no one had a phone to lose in those days as odds on one of us would have lost one.

 

[spoonie]

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

remember phoning seagull line at every service station on way down as there was pitch inspection that kept being delayed

 

[Man of Harveys]

Which is mad as the last time I was there was in 1989 when we took 47 away fans for a Zenith Data Systems (or it might have been Simod) Cup game that we lost 5-1.

I was there too; two of those away fans had only got the bus to that game from the old Fifers Lane halls of residence - one of whom (not me) had taken acid that afternoon and then - perhaps not unsurprisingly - forgotten that he’d said he’d join me in going to the game. He then spent much of the game crouched in a foetal position on the terracing and laughing randomly, thereby having a much better time than anyone else in Carrow Road. Students eh.

 

[boik]

Newcastle 79 was probably the furthest and we lefty extra early to avoid mishaps.

Wrexham 79 felt like a longer day because of the interminable raodworks everywhere we turned.

 

[Ooh it’s a corner]

Whereabout's in County Galway are you?

About 30 mins west of Galway City - the nearest village is Oughterard in the first part of Connemara

 

[Ken Livingstone Seagull]

That's not an AWAY DAY, It's a HOLIDAY

Fair point, well made, my equine friend, but ending up in Burnley is no one's idea of a holiday. Least of all my (understanding) spouse.