Toughest BFC Game you've watched in the wrong end

In the late 60s we ended up in the kop end at Leeds it was very scary.
We won 2-1 and we left early because it was the match on granada on Sunday afternoon.
The coach got stoned as was the norm back then.
 
Sunderland away, Boxing Day 1977 (?). Lost 2-1 to a late penalty, I don't think there was any allocated area for away fans at all that day. A crap day all round as I was skint and had to walk to the ground to get the coach from Fleetwood and then walk back.

I went in the Torquay half the Kop when we beat them in the FAC R3 in 1990. Home sections sold out when I arrived.
 
TANGERINETOWERPOWER said:
And another here..we celebrated and feared the worst but there were a few Blackpool in there
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And another!! I took a customer who was a Burnley fan, when Blackpool scored a lot in the Bob Lord jumped up how it didn’t really kick off I don’t know.
Lots of verbal abuse & threats from Dingles but no “actual action”.
I think it was Andy Preece who got the goal opposite end to cricket stand I think.
It’s was the year we blew promotion in 1996
 
basilrobbie3 said:
Sunderland away, Boxing Day 1977 (?). Lost 2-1 to a late penalty, I don't think there was any allocated area for away fans at all that day. A crap day all round as I was skint and had to walk to the ground to get the coach from Fleetwood and then walk back.

I went in the Torquay half the Kop when we beat them in the FAC R3 in 1990. Home sections sold out when I arrived.
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I went to that match & on the supporters coach from the ground, think about 30 thousand on that day & no away end, coach parked miles away near the beach. Paul Hart had a goal disallowed for punching it into the net.
 
basilrobbie3 said:
Sunderland away, Boxing Day 1977 (?). Lost 2-1 to a late penalty, I don't think there was any allocated area for away fans at all that day. A crap day all round as I was skint and had to walk to the ground to get the coach from Fleetwood and then walk back.

I went in the Torquay half the Kop when we beat them in the FAC R3 in 1990. Home sections sold out when I arrived.
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yeah, the two games i've mentioned, i can't recall there as such being an away end.
 
Another one for the 2010 Newcastle Championship away game. Had to join Newcastle supporters club to get a ticket as pool tickets sold out. Got beat 4-1 so little to cheer about. I was getting email correspondence from the club for years. Got a better view of the game than if I had got a BFC ticket. Unfair that away supporters have to sit in the gods there so can add little atmosphere at pitch side. Geordies were friendly but often thought other Prem clubs should allocate their fans seats similarly far away from the pitch at their own grounds. As a footnote; I remember thinking about Andy Carrol "if that's all you have, you will struggle back in the Prem". Next thing you know Liverpool buy him for £35 million. Its a funny old game ...😊
 
Born_in_the_Fifties said:
Millwall away in 1979 when they were fackin' evil, there with my mate Moggie who posts on here as FARGOnn.

We'd been drinking in a boozer miles away and ended up leggin' it to the ground after two train trips and went in the nearest turnstile.

Missed the kick-off and ended up standing wiv Fackin' Cants all over the bleedin' shop!😱😨🧡
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Terrifying 90 mins then afterwards sharing the cattle truck train back into town with half a dozen nutters.
We'd never been so quiet 🤫
 
I had the same as tangerine 10
In the home end for the Newcastle game when we got whopped....
Was hard sitting on my hands when hearing a pile of tosh being spoken by the home fans
Revenge was sweet the following year though and I did get in the away end that time 😁😁
 
Millwall 1978 about 3 weeks after the 'Harry the Dog' documentary as someone suggested it would be safer than the away end. We got battered outside after the match
 
ansdellmafia said:
Was in the Stoke end the day Tricky Trev scored the last minute winner . Ecstatic but ever so slightly bricking it .
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I remember that day well. Was dismantling the garage with it's dodgy roof and had the game on in the garden. Left with only the rusty steel frame that wouldn't move, Trev broke from the halfway line, anticipation built and he scored and I booted the frame in celebration. It collapsed. I can recall vividly where I kicked it. Two results in one day.

Victoria Ground home end wasn't pleasant when we won in the 70's.
 
Port Vale when we won 6-0. Was at Uni, got the train from Birmingham to Stoke, went to the bookies (didn't win) then found out Burslem was a trek away so had to get a bus. Got to the ground and couldn't afford to get in the away end, home end was cheaper. Watched surrounded by the local skinheads as we battered them, then had to walk back to Stoke for the train.
 
Riverside at Ewood in Prem…Richard Fcuk up Kingson….with a Rovers business plastic… nearly kicked when they equalised…pint in corporate after with wife’s cousins… then back to Cherry tree for a session…to be fair good craic in there.
 
3 of us in Old Trafford , last day of our fateful season (a mate of mine had given me his 3 season tickets) His words were “You,ll win today ,we don’t give a ####. Even when we declared our colours on our second goal, nobody around us gave a hard time. To this day I hate Michael Owen , he only lives a few miles away.
 
TotallyTangerine said:
Goodson Park ..league cup game in 1980.. lost 3.0 and the locals weren’t overly friendly.. plus I remember seeing a dog getting hit by a car on the way there, which upset me much more than the result…
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Was at that one …pretty sure we were down the side at one end … corner flagish with a shit view… think I was more traumatised by Peter Nobles(RIP) combover …😁😂…
 
Swansea away mid 90’s. 12noon kick off as the rugby was on later
My mate got us free tickets off Quinny who was a mate of his but we were in the home end
We won 2-0
Managed to sit on our hands for the first goal but not the second, which is when it got a bit hairy
If memory serves me right I think TAM drove so he might remember better than I do
 
What a sad thread. In the early sixties, there was no 'wrong end'. I have been on the Stretford end, the Kop etc, with absolutely no problem at all. It all seemrd to change in the mid-sixties, why? I don't know. Why and when did football become so tribal?
 
Not difficult, but me and a mate were on the Bloomers kop with York City fans during Billy's era and we were like a steam train at home, total one way traffic. We put 6 past Carlisle and 5 past Cardiff, but a young Dean Keeley in York's nets had an absolute blinder! We scored late on, won 1-0
 
Swansea City May 13 1989…a game that kept us from being relegated.A 2 1 win🥳
Thought sitting in the upper stand by the Prison would be OK but got a heap load of abuse and threats…had to move to a slightly safer seat but was still a hairy experience but the Drive home was buzzing despite major hold ups on the motorway coming home.
 
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