Worst away days you've had?

How could I forget Derby? The pr1cks - that was a bad day.

 

Donny and Chesterfield were bad away days that season aswell donny been the worst of the 2. But Chesterfield was awful aswell keef treacy scoring a late consolation fans kicking off all over out side sad times.

 

Losing at Plymouth 2-1. Developed a migraine on the way down on the supporters bus. Just wanted to get home after the match but of course we had to stop outside Bristol for the beer monsters to get a neck full. Bus parked outside the pub in a field in the rain. When it came to kicking out time the bus had sunk up to it's axles and they had to call a tow truck to pull it out.
Absolute nightmare from start to finish.

 

Easy one for me. Sniffers second spell in charge September 1989 Blackburn away.
We were trounced 5-0 and a little barrel of a bloke Simon Garner was our torturer
in chief. He always seemed to play well against us.

One of our most pleasing results was against the same team in January 2000. They
were managed by Graeme Souness and had a side choc full of full internationals.
They rocked up at Oakwell and I honestly feared the worst, but we absolutely hammered
them 5-1. We made players like Berg, Duff and Co look second rate that day.

 

That's brilliant. Only Fools and Horses-esque.

 

Tranmere 6 Barnsley 1 - Think they had 6 shots and scored we had 30+ and scored 1. Aldridge got 4 I think - lived near me at the time- should have tripped him up when he was on his daily jog

 

Yes we did, I’d forgot about that. Took my fairly new girlfriend (now wife, somehow) to that one after advertising it as a day in London for Valentine’s Day.

 

It wasn't a bad weekend then

 

Burnley away, 06/07

I was offered a seat in a car at the last minute, but had no way of getting to town for the lift. So my mates had to drive to Cudworth to pick me up. Hit traffic somewhere near Bradford I think, and took a wrong turning somewhere just inside Lancashire (Rochdale maybe?).

On the journey over, the other lads were talking about how bad their days had been. One had broke up with his girlfriend, one had failed his driving test (not the driver) and another had lost his job.

Arrived in Burnley, and all the surrounding car parks wouldn't let us park. We'd noticed all the side streets were full, even though they had permit holder signs up, so we decided to risk it in the only spot we could find, assuming there'd be no traffic wardens after 8pm at night.

Just got to the turnstiles as an almighty cheer went up. One of the stewards informed us we'd just gone 2-0 up. We'd missed a Michael McIndoe brace.

We took our seats just as Gifton Noel-Williams came on. Me and my mate joked about how bad Gifton Noel-Williams was as he came on. Anyway, the inevitable happened, after a John Harley free-kick in the first half, Gifton Noel-Williams scored a 2nd half hat-trick. Full time, Burnley 4-2 Barnsley, and we'd only seen their goals.

Got back to the car, and ours was the only one on the street with a parking ticket. With petrol, the match ticket, food at half time and chipping in for the parking (ticket) that 6 hour jaunt over the pennines cost me £50.

 

Macclesfield away in the league cup first or second round circa 2002 ish and it chucked it down, lost 4-1 after extra time, some kid got a hat trick in the second half of extra time.

 

In the Prem ended up sat in the Stretford end when we got turned over big time by Manure ​

 

Altrincham would be an obvious pick, as would any of the huge defeats I've seen us suffer over the years, but the saga of the Oldham away FA Cup tie in 1996 takes some beating.

After drawing the first tie, the replay was called off due to fog minutes before kick-off with thousands of Reds fans queuing outside the turnstiles. The fog cleared within about 10 minutes, so by the time we got to our cars/coaches the conditions were perfectly clear.

Then, having wasted the original journey, we all did the same thing the following week, only for George Cain to produce one of the worst penalty decisions of all time, when Gunnar Halle was apparently fouled by the invisible man for us to be knocked out in the 3rd round.

 

Both at Wembley. Cardiff and Millwall. Enough said.

 

You mean Ipswich? We beat Millwall @ Wembley

 

I enjoyed Spinksys antics on the dustbin at Marine the rest I'd rather forget
What could have been one of the worst was getting to Exeter early morning after a midnight set off from Oakwell only to hear there was a pitch inspection due to a hard frost. Thankfully it passed but seem to remember we lost anyway (though I may be mistaken on that bit)

 

It depends on the context of the OT .....

Depending on travel, results, expense, trouble, arrests, atmosphere, weather, postponements, illness etc I've unfortunately got one for every occasion .

 

Bloody hell, that's some amount of bad luck on the night!

If its any consolation I've been to Forest 6 times, and the one time I saw us win it was from the Trent End (Hourihane 88th minute) so I had to sit on my hands.