Nightmare Away Days

doolan_legend

doolan_legend

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Currently on the train from Euston to Blackpool so I can collect my spare car key. Went out in London after the game last night and lost my keys. Takes 14 days for a new key and they wanted £1000 to recover my car back home so round trip to go collect the spare key. I blame yesterday’s train strikes for my car being in London.

Tell me about your horror away day stories and make it worse than mine so I feel better about my pathetic self.

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doolan_legend said:
Currently on the train from Euston to Blackpool so I can collect my spare car key. Went out in London after the game last night and lost my keys. Takes 14 days for a new key and they wanted £1000 to recover my car back home so round trip to go collect the spare key. I blame yesterday’s train strikes for my car being in London.

Tell me about your horror away day stories and make it worse than mine so I feel better about my pathetic self.

Up the pool 🍊👍
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I think it unlikely there will be worse away day than that (other thank getting beat to a pulp)🤦‍♂️😂
 
doolan_legend said:
Currently on the train from Euston to Blackpool so I can collect my spare car key. Went out in London after the game last night and lost my keys. Takes 14 days for a new key and they wanted £1000 to recover my car back home so round trip to go collect the spare key. I blame yesterday’s train strikes for my car being in London.

Tell me about your horror away day stories and make it worse than mine so I feel better about my pathetic self.

Up the pool 🍊👍
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Barnet away on train 7-0 took 23 hrs from getting up to going back to bed bus from Preston to Lancaster then drove home to Heysham .😀😀🍊🍊
 
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Although I did reverse into a wooden post at Derby which meant a new side door costing in total £900.

And we got battered 2-0
 
Exeter away 30 ish years ago - gear box went in the way down, couldn’t get in fifth gear.

Fortunately my mate with me was a mechanic and just said ‘it’s f….., what do you expect me to do?’ 🤣

Got there at half time and made it back after a very very long slow drive back.
 
Made a spontaneous decision with a work colleague to go to that night's midweek away game at Oxford. Stood on an open end in the pissing rain & the mandatory late winner for the home side. Long journey home on the coach & the new trousers I'd got on had turned into the most itchy, uncomfortable kecks known to mankind. Still at least everyone else on the coach went to sleep. Then back up for work.
No car keys to lose though, to poor to afford such a luxury.
 
doolan_legend said:
Currently on the train from Euston to Blackpool so I can collect my spare car key. Went out in London after the game last night and lost my keys. Takes 14 days for a new key and they wanted £1000 to recover my car back home so round trip to go collect the spare key. I blame yesterday’s train strikes for my car being in London.

Tell me about your horror away day stories and make it worse than mine so I feel better about my pathetic self.

Up the pool 🍊👍
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My train was 2 minutes late getting back last night. Disgrace 😉
 
Was travelling back late to my mates in Colchester after WHU at Wembley, fell asleep and woke up in a dark train with nobody on it, parked in a little railway station in the middle of nowhere, was pissed off at my mate leaving me. Finally got a taxi back to Colchester (80 miles) then I couldn't find his house, got to his house two hours later at 5am and his missus lets me and asks where her husband is, I said I haven't a clue! He turned up in Norwich! We both haven't got a clue to this day what happened.
 
Millwall away in our nearly season under Ollie,answered a advert for coach travel,turned out they couldn't get a coach so picked up in a car.
There was a cycle event in London which created horrendous traffic in Central London and we turned up after a 7hr journey at the New Den just in time to meet the supporters leaving at full time.We promptly turned around and drove back to Blackpool.
 
Went to Hull. Got lost. Got in at half time. Pool fans streaming out cos the mighty were 3-0 down. Think we lost 3-2.
Went to Mansfield . Got there to find game postponed.
 
Lincoln away to miss out on automatic promotion still haunts me to this day. Thankfully we got the job done at Wembley.
 
The very first play off final at the old Wembley v Torquay (evening kick off, Friday night, WHY?)
Drove to Blackpool and got the supporters coach.
We lost the game (but did win the following year v Scunthorpe, on a Saturday) Got back to Blackpool, about 4 am and had a parking ticket on my car.

Went to Tranmere for a midweek match. My car was in for a repair but the garage kindly lent me another so I could go to the match. That busy looking for a parking spot near to the ground that I missed a give way sign at a junction and another car (with right of way) ran into me.
 
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So Mr Pessimism - that was he extent of your awayday nightmare?
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Huh? Yes a kid, it was sheer sadness. Probably the only time felt upset and not just disappointed.

I could mention getting a coach on my own to Barnsley in the freezing cold snow and losing 3-0 but that would be boring wouldn't it.
 
Mansfield away under Steve McMahon before we became a really good side. Lost 0-4, no shots on target. My Corsa broke down on the way home with dead electrics. When the RAC bloke turned up he fixed a dodgy connector in about 5 seconds.

Walsall away, lost 0-2. We took shit loads of fans, had 3 sides of the ground and played terribly. Bamber was injured I think and Carl Richards played up front.

Torquay at Wembley. My late Mum, bless her, knitted myself and Mason Kid a couple of tangerine bobble hats for the occasion..using distinctly brown-ish wool. He still has his in a box in the attic and will cherish it forever.
 
Went to Torquay in the FA Cup, got battered and two cars had parked so close next to me I couldn't get out. Went for a drink thinking they'd go and got back an hour later and they hadn't. Knocked on doors/hotels etc and couldn't find the owners. Eventually had to stay the night in Torquay - got up the next day and one of the cars had gone. Was absolutely fuming!
 
nothing as bad as o/p. Spurs away in League Cup. BSA took 3 coaches, one of them broke down and so we had to turn back for a good half hour to go and pick up passenger on broken down coach. Think also the M1 was closed so we had to then divert to M11 and go up there and then cross country. Was gone 8:30 when we got back into Blackpool. Think that's pretty accurate as far as i recall.
 
Maths said:
Went to Torquay in the FA Cup, got battered and two cars had parked so close next to me I couldn't get out. Went for a drink thinking they'd go and got back an hour later and they hadn't. Knocked on doors/hotels etc and couldn't find the owners. Eventually had to stay the night in Torquay - got up the next day and one of the cars had gone. Was absolutely fuming!
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How selfish & shit is that 🤬
 
doolan_legend said:
Currently on the train from Euston to Blackpool so I can collect my spare car key. Went out in London after the game last night and lost my keys. Takes 14 days for a new key and they wanted £1000 to recover my car back home so round trip to go collect the spare key. I blame yesterday’s train strikes for my car being in London.

Tell me about your horror away day stories and make it worse than mine so I feel better about my pathetic self.

Up the pool 🍊👍
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Son bought us birthday pressie flight from BAe for Charlton Cup game some years ago, supposed to land Biggin Hill. Fog all way there, couldn’t see anything, had to land Southend then coach. Lost 2-1 I recall after Hillsy thunderbolt and Jason Euell winner for them (?). Coach back to Southend, fog has moved north so eventually coach all way back to BAe Warton. Home middle of the night, hours after Pool coaches. 🤨
 
Broken leg at Hartlepool in the playoffs, a brick in the face and 8 stitches at Rochdale and a smashed up car at Port Vale in the Steve Hetzke era……wouldn’t have changed a thing though. All part of growing up in the 80s and 90s as a football fan 🤔😂
 
Had my first car crash on the way home from Chester away League Cup around 1984. Completely my fault, drove into the back of another Pool fan in the after match queue on Sealand Road.

Apologies to anyone on here who was one of the other passengers, or the bloke I went into.
 
Sunderland away (Boxing Day 77 I think) stands out. Due to no public transport and a shortage of funds I had to walk from Fleetwood to the ground to catch Ossie's coach. We lost 2-1 to a late penalty and when we got back to Blackpool I had to walk all the way back.

There were plenty of others down the years. A 5-1 pasting at Watford midweek in the 78/79 season was another highlight, as were 0-4 drubbings at Luton (I think that was the relegation season) and then at Southend after we had gone down. At both those games we got quite a bit of unwanted attention from the locals. As indeed we did in the relegation season at Bramall Lane, when Ian Hesford made them very angry....
 
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bfc3pne0 said:
Son bought us birthday pressie flight from BAe for Charlton Cup game some years ago, supposed to land Biggin Hill. Fog all way there, couldn’t see anything, had to land Southend then coach. Lost 2-1 I recall after Hillsy thunderbolt and Jason Euell winner for them (?). Coach back to Southend, fog has moved north so eventually coach all way back to BAe Warton. Home middle of the night, hours after Pool coaches. 🤨
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Stab in the dark, bet you've had better birthday pressies?
 
20togo said:
nothing as bad as o/p. Spurs away in League Cup. BSA took 3 coaches, one of them broke down and so we had to turn back for a good half hour to go and pick up passenger on broken down coach. Think also the M1 was closed so we had to then divert to M11 and go up there and then cross country. Was gone 8:30 when we got back into Blackpool. Think that's pretty accurate as far as i recall.
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I was on the broken down coach 😂
 
20togo said:
nothing as bad as o/p. Spurs away in League Cup. BSA took 3 coaches, one of them broke down and so we had to turn back for a good half hour to go and pick up passenger on broken down coach. Think also the M1 was closed so we had to then divert to M11 and go up there and then cross country. Was gone 8:30 when we got back into Blackpool. Think that's pretty accurate as far as i recall.
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Drove to white hart lane same issues on M1 got back to Morecambe at 6.30 fortunately didn’t start work until 2 pm.😀😀🍊🍊
 
I was one of the lucky ones but I'll always remember Charlton away in 2009.

One of the coaches hit trouble around Stoke. Apparently the occupants were faced with a decision; press on and accept you'll miss a chunk of the game or admit defeat and turn back.

The hardy bunch decided to carry on.

The coach finally arrived at the Valley just as jubilant 'Pool fans having seen a late Lee Hughes equaliser (a goal that relegated the Addicks) spilled out of the ground. I pity those on the coach that day.
 
Burnley away late 80s/early nineties. The one we took 7k to on a Friday night. Went on Bennys coach. 15 year old me and my m8. Told to sing on coach or we would get a slap. Got a slap anyway. Half way there they set coach seats on fire singing “fuck the match we’re mental” or something akin. Got a bottle on my head in Bob Lord stand and me and my m8 got home in the footwell of an official supporters coach, pleading with the driver not to make us go back with those absolute fukn mentalists!!! 😂
 
7 August 2004 V Doncaster Rovers away. Baking hot day on an open terrace at the old Belle Vue stadium. they renamed it the earth stadium. My son said jeez it was so effing hot. And we were playing in the black away strips. Colin Hendry looked like a rabbit in headlights . 2 .0 down early doors. And they were charging about 2 pound for a bottle of water which soon went. And then the coach back was like a steam sauna. Steven said they should have called it the centre of the earth stadium it was so fooking hot. What a s;;;te start and i don t think it got much better.
 
Left work in Bradford at 12 lunchtime, closed the office due to heavy snow falling, headed to Stockport away night match, hit a massive lake on the m62 near Huddersfield and nearly crashed, got to Stockport around 4pm, we had from memory 2 or 3 disallowed and we lost 1 nil I think, then someone ran out in front of my car on the m61 on the way home at Botany Bay presume trying to kill them selves.
Had better days
 
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Went to Hull. Got lost. Got in at half time. Pool fans streaming out cos the mighty were 3-0 down. Think we lost 3-2.
Went to Mansfield . Got there to find game postponed.
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If this was under Billy Ayre in the early 90’s I was there. Tony Rodwell hit the post in the last minute which would have made it 3-3
 
Not sure if anyone can match this. Reading away in the early 90’s. 16 years old on the club coach. Stopped at the services, me and another lad got off at the back door rather than the front, so didn’t get counted off. We were the last ones back to the coach only to find it had left without us. No mobile phones etc, used a pay phone to phone home, my Dad made a few calls and arranged for us to be picked by the coach on the way back. Spent about 7 hours there in total and missed the game of course. A 0-0 draw in a season when we lost most away games 🤦‍♂️
 
JOHNMAJORTOM said:
7 August 2004 V Doncaster Rovers away. Baking hot day on an open terrace at the old Belle Vue stadium. they renamed it the earth stadium. My son said jeez it was so effing hot. And we were playing in the black away strips. Colin Hendry looked like a rabbit in headlights . 2 .0 down early doors. And they were charging about 2 pound for a bottle of water which soon went. And then the coach back was like a steam sauna. Steven said they should have called it the centre of the earth stadium it was so fooking hot. What a s;;;te start and i don t think it got much better.
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Previous year, opening day of the season at Loftus Rd. Temperature recorded at 108°F in London, rails literally melting so couldn't get the train home until around midnight. Played in all black, lost 5 0 and Wellens sent off. The missus got me a brew at half time and accidentally put salt in instead of sugar.

Not a great day.
 
Qblock said:
If this was under Billy Ayre in the early 90’s I was there. Tony Rodwell hit the post in the last minute which would have made it 3-3
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Ashley Ward was playing on loan for us, but signed for Crewe the following week.
 
Qblock said:
Not sure if anyone can match this. Reading away in the early 90’s. 16 years old on the club coach. Stopped at the services, me and another lad got off at the back door rather than the front, so didn’t get counted off. We were the last ones back to the coach only to find it had left without us. No mobile phones etc, used a pay phone to phone home, my Dad made a few calls and arranged for us to be picked by the coach on the way back. Spent about 7 hours there in total and missed the game of course. A 0-0 draw in a season when we lost most away games 🤦‍♂️
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I can almost see it now...."Is everyone back on?"
"Yeeeeessssssss"
" right, we're off, we've left 'em further away than this before anyway!"
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Luton away 98 or 99 I think. I was 7 and we lost 3-2 and got caught in 7 hours of traffic. Was horrendous.
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Coming away from the infamous game at Barnet we got on the M1 after the game then sat in stationary traffic for two hours. I was that bored I rang 606 and spoke to Adrian Chiles. Told him we'd still go up despite losing 7 0.

I was right.
 
Bristol City on a Tuesday night, Feb 1987. Lost 3-1 and hit snow on the M6.

Car did a 180 degree spin and driver just about recovered control.

No traction on the road; spent several hours in a nearby service station.

That spin was like the scene in Planes, Trains & Automobiles when they nearly hit the oncoming truck...
 
Thepoolaregoingup said:
Bristol City on a Tuesday night, Feb 1987. Lost 3-1 and hit snow on the M6.

Car did a 180 degree spin and driver just about recovered control.

No traction on the road; spent several hours in a nearby service station.

That spin was like the scene in Planes, Trains & Automobiles when they nearly hit the oncoming truck...
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Which reminds me...

Yorkshire, Seasiders ran a minibus to Cardiff in 2012 in quite heavy snow on the way down, which got thicker and thicker as we travelled back after the 3 1 win.

As we got near Birmingham on the M5, a Jaguar in the middle lane started to fishtail a little, eventually swerving into the outside lane then coming right back across the motorway to slam into the rear offside tyre.

I was driving but could do nothing as we spun completely round, ending up facing the wrong way. Luckily, because of the conditions, traffic behind us managed to stop and I was able to turn the bus and get onto the hard shoulder.

We then stood for a couple of hours on the hard shoulder in the snow, including @Athers in his chair. Eventually a Highways Agency patrol came along, got Athers into relative warmth of his car and organised a tow to Dudley Services. The impact had blown out our rear tyre, so we had to arrange recovery and four hire cars to ferry us home, eventually arriving home at 6.00am.

It hasn't stopped us making trips though 😉
 
Wizaard said:
Which reminds me...

Yorkshire, Seasiders ran a minibus to Cardiff in 2012 in quite heavy snow on the way down, which got thicker and thicker as we travelled back after the 3 1 win.

As we got near Birmingham on the M5, a Jaguar in the middle lane started to fishtail a little, eventually swerving into the outside lane then coming right back across the motorway to slam into the rear offside tyre.

I was driving but could do nothing as we spun completely round, ending up facing the wrong way. Luckily, because of the conditions, traffic behind us managed to stop and I was able to turn the bus and get onto the hard shoulder.

We then stood for a couple of hours on the hard shoulder in the snow, including @Athers in his chair. Eventually a Highways Agency patrol came along, got Athers into relative warmth of his car and organised a tow to Dudley Services. The impact had blown out our rear tyre, so we had to arrange recovery and four hire cars to ferry us home, eventually arriving home at 6.00am.

It hasn't stopped us making trips though 😉
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Least we won! Imagine that trip under Appleton or McCarthy
 
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