[Albion] What is Your Longest Ever Away Day ?

[East Staffs Gull]

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[Paulie Gualtieri]

Carlisle away on two occasions

Drove it once to say we’d done it and second time made a weekend of it and flew up and stayed in Newcastle.

Our second visit might have been the same game that @Bozza was referring to as we also got some unwelcome attention on our way back to the station as they took exception to us drinking in the Beehive pub post match. Pretty sure the police advise us to!

 

[PeterT]

Had the thread included home games, then going from Hove on the A27 and parking at the Bridge would be right up there!

 

[DarrenFreemansPerm]

Burton, a few years back. We’d left Brighton early doors to enjoy the ale in town, watched the match, went for a few more scoops and then decided to get a curry by the station. Eventually boarded a train home only for some poor soul deciding to throw themselves under the train near Leicester. We were at standstill for eternity as it had become a police investigation, eventually we were sent north back to Loughborough where everyone had to squeeze onto what felt like a 2 carriage train. We arrived into Victoria at some obnoxious time in the morning, just about caught a train to Brighton only to be greeted by standard Saturday night/Sunday morning carnage. I had to walk to Hove before I could hail a taxi, got through the door at about 2:30am if memory serves correct.

 

[One Teddy Maybank]

Caledonian cup in 1979.

Glasgow Rangers, only stayed up for both games, so not an away day as such….

Will go with Newcastle

 

[Giraffe]

Another for Carlisle. During the dark days. There and back in just over a day. We agreed to share the driving but I only took the wheel at 3.30am when we were on the M25 and he was asleep!

 

[aftershavedave]

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.

Carlisle with @Man of Harveys and @Willow a long time ago, we met some Celtic fans on the train back, it took about 3 days

 

[HangletonGull]

Too many too mention , probably Newcastle 2 years ago the midweek game

 

[MTSeagulls]

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

Ahh I was going to say Chesterfield but your post reminded me that I went to a few games when living in Limerick and Cork. Mostly home games but the play off final in Cardiff wins by around 80 miles if the ferry is included.
I always try to get to a game when I visit from Brazil but only home ones.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

Carlisle on the Costa coach. Set off from Withdean at 0530, returning around 01.00, and then driving home.

 

[HangletonGull]

Carlisle on the Costa coach. Set off from Withdean at 0530, returning around 01.00, and then driving home.

I did that for Newcastle away last season the last day of the season honestly I felt ill on the way back it was so long

 

[thedonkeycentrehalf]

Another vote for Carlisle - back in the gory years I went with Costa Coaches. Seem to remember a 5am start and back around 1am. We had the West Ham team coach so very comfortable (no idea why) which then got beached trying to get over the little hump back bridge to get to the away end.

Newcastle 79 was another one - we left Worthing about 10pm, travelled overnight to Durham where we had to wait until being escorted into Newcastle - coaches were stacked up in various towns locally. I think we got back in the early hours of the Sunday morning before then heading over to the Goldstone for the celebration later that day.

 

[HangletonGull]

Another vote for Carlisle - back in the gory years I went with Costa Coaches. Seem to remember a 5am start and back around 1am. We had the West Ham team coach so very comfortable (no idea why) which then got beached trying to get over the little hump back bridge to get to the away end.

Newcastle 79 was another one - we left Worthing about 10pm, travelled overnight to Durham where we had to wait until being escorted into Newcastle - coaches were stacked up in various towns locally. I think we got back in the early hours of the Sunday morning before then heading over to the Goldstone for the celebration later that day.

I was on that it was actually the qpr team bus i must know you

 

[Eeyore]

Too many too mention , probably Newcastle 2 years ago the midweek game

Oh yes, your ones are really long. But fun to watch on the NEX tracker. A few more of those next season, please.

 

[HangletonGull]

Oh yes, your ones are really long. But fun to watch on the NEX tracker. A few more of those next season, please.

Sunderland

 

[LamieRobertson]

Hmmm Portsmouth…no idea what year probably somewhen in the 70’s ….left saturday morning came back the following Saturda, as I went on holiday to Devon straight after the game….that not count

otherwiseit would be THAT match up at Middlesbrough…early start for 12.30ko and I must have stopped half a dozen times on the drive home

 

[Peacehaven Wild Kids]

Off the top of my head, Chester 88.
On the way home we stopped off at the evening kickoff between Stockport and Cambridge.
We all had work the next morning but were somehow puzzled how a train from Stockport at 1030pm on a Bank Holiday Monday couldn’t get us back to Brighton by about 1 a.m

 

[Man of Harveys]

Carlisle with @Man of Harveys and @Willow a long time ago, we met some Celtic fans on the train back, it took about 3 days

That was tremendous fun. I shudder to think how much that train fare would be now.

 

[studio150]

As others have mentioned Carlisle.

However a happy visit in August 1984, the sun was out and we won 3-0

 

[Official Old Man]

I remember seeing off my mates who were getting a coach to SJP in '79. They left around 11:30 the night before. I flew up.
Evening game at OT just a couple of years back and driving home on the coach in a snow storm. M25 & M23 closed we got lost down a narrow country lane in Leatherhead.
Boro in 2016. I was on the B&B coach that went up the day before. Longest journey home ever.
Most of the 70's games I was on the Seagull Special train which always got stuck somewhere.