Your 'why did I bother' game

I’d say Birmingham city last season, there loads amount of things gone wrong that day, my coach broke down, the boozers around Sutton Coldfield were dogcrap, the team lost 1-0, the Birmingham police treated us like garbage and me and all other pool fans that were with me had to wait in the ibis hotel until another coach came. Yep definitely my “Why did I bother” type of game.
 
Trimm-Trab said:
Every time at Tranmere
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Boxing Day 1983 we lost 3-2 had a player sent off and the performance was awful and too make our day they stoned our Coach and one of the windows that was broken was where we sat .

It was f****** freezing on the way home but luckily nobody was injured.
 
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It should be "why do I  still bother"

This season, Rotherham absolute garbage, then Hull and yet, I'll be still go to another mid-week game at some point, knowing I'll turn up, but the players won't...
 
LimerickTangerine said:
I wasnt at brentord how did that go again?
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Footballer impersonator Charles Dunne sent off after 40 minutes or so didn't help, although we were already 2 - 0 down at the time, it ended up 4 - 0, but it could have been ten, the performance was absolute gash, something like 75% possession for them and maybe one shot on target for us.

At least with Watford we got half a game of football and a team who looked like they were trying, with Brentford we looked like a team who'd just shipped 7 goals in the second half and had given up and were waiting to die.
 
Hazi said:
Barnet away, stuck in traffic got there late, got car clamped £250 supposed to be driving back but went and got drunk and booked a hotel. All in all cost me over a grand
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The hotel bit sounds like fun though
 
Sheffield United away in the early 80's, We went in my brother in law's Bomber . Top speed about 60. Poured down all the way , took about three hours with stops. Got beat and had to go to work next day on about 3 hours sleep. Alan Ball was the Manager. I'm going to look up exactly when it was now
 
The last one that I can remember was the Luton game at home on the 4th of December 2021.
Was soaked before the game even started and then got thrashed 3-0.

Took my non-football-interested brother to the Stoke City v Blackpool game on the 5th March 2022.

Felt sorry for him, snoozefest, was one of the most stalest games of football that I can remember.
He hasn't been back since. Wish I never went to that one either.
 
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Wigan in the Cup (1980?). Went from Leeds, lost, got bricks thrown across at us in the terrace, got frog marched back to the station by the police and put on the Blackpool train (like it or not). We we herded into a couple of carriages like cattle but...the best of it was, Trades Union delegates were on their way to Blackpool for the TUC. They made the police treat us better.
 
Southend away May 1988 last game of the season. Car broke down on A13 on the way in pouring rain. Finally got it going but only arrived covered in oil and grease in time for second half, parked up in some local side street. Lost 4-0, uncovered away end. When I returned to the car, some local **** had sprayed paint stripper all down one side. Not the best day out…
 
Lost Seasider said:
Footballer impersonator Charles Dunne sent off after 40 minutes or so didn't help, although we were already 2 - 0 down at the time, it ended up 4 - 0, but it could have been ten, the performance was absolute gash, something like 75% possession for them and maybe one shot on target for us.

At least with Watford we got half a game of football and a team who looked like they were trying, with Brentford we looked like a team who'd just shipped 7 goals in the second half and had given up and were waiting to die.
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Yes but at Watford my flight home was delayed hours and hours and missed my train to Limerick 🙁🙁🙁🙁
 
Barnet immediately sprung to mind but that was a relatively local game back then.

Hereford away in the LDV (2004?) probably topped that, long drive, dour game and 1-1 with only minutes to go. Not wanting to face extra time I was desperate for a winner in normal time and luckily Hereford obliged.
 
Rotherham away in 2005. Me and my mates walked to Bloomfield Rd to buy the tickets after collecting our GCSE results. Lost 4-0. Deon Burton hat trick.
 
The FA Cup game at Torquay is an excellent nomination. As is the Brentford game where they had 41 shots and we had one.

I am inclined to go for the latter on the basis that whilst we were shit at Torquay, we should still have been able to give a National League team a much better game than we did. So it was a bit unexpected.

There was absolutely nothing unexpected about Brentford. I only had to travel an hour and I still wondered why I did it. Probably for the pubs around Griffin Park. To anyone who travelled from Blackpool on a shit midweek night, I salute you!
 
Around 2000 Tranmere away on a Thursday night. Match was on ITV digital.
I was living in the South East at the time drove all the way up for a 4-0 drubbing. At work 0700hrs next morning😔
 
Old_Laytonian said:
Sheffield United away in the early 80's, We went in my brother in law's Bomber . Top speed about 60. Poured down all the way , took about three hours with stops. Got beat and had to go to work next day on about 3 hours sleep. Alan Ball was the Manager. I'm going to look up exactly when it was now
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I was at that game, we lost 4-1 and Ian Hesford did well to keep it down to 4. Martin Peters was their player manager at the time, as Bally was ours. Surely some kind of unique event in itself.
 
Any midweek league home game over the last couple of years …. Scored what 2 goals ? 1 draw n countless defeats.

Joking aside, York in about 1994 ish. Boxing Day away got stuff 4-0 (Paul Barnes hat trick surprisingly). Mix of rain hail n sleet on the open terrace most of the game. Club coach broke down on M62. Back to Blackpool at midnight cold damp & miserable.
 
Fargo99 said:
Rushden and Diamonds away drab 0-0 draw on a freezing night and an hour to get out of the car park.
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Good shout. Picked up BBR3 at Loughborough and went to the POC which might have been someone's living room, comfy chairs et al. Dreadful game in a dreadful stadium .I'd pretty much erased this from memory.
 
Meliora said:
I was at that game, we lost 4-1 and Ian Hesford did well to keep it down to 4. Martin Peters was their player manager at the time, as Bally was ours. Surely some kind of unique event in itself.
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I was at that too. A house mate at university was a Wednesday fan and drove a car full of us to the match in his mini. He needed petrol and decided to stop at a filling station near Bramall Lane. A yellow mini with tangerine clad blokes in and an 'I follow the Owls' badge in the back windscreen - not the best idea.
 
Exeter away, mid week Mickey Mouse cup around 1989. My mate picked me up from Leeds University, we lost three nil, we were on an open terrace and it threw it down all night, the motorway was shut coming back so we had to go via Wales, he dropped me off in Leeds around 3 am and he then got back to Blackpool around 5 am

I’m amazed that this hasn’t had a mention already
 
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