So what you done and where? Any good stories?
Last one I did I’m amazed to see was over 15 years ago now down at Southampton when Chris Iwelumo scored an injury time winner in 2007. Can still remember the look of disgust by
@LargeAddick when I was smoking in the blokes toilets on the concourse (strange the things you remember).
Other memorable ones for me were two great Manchester nights out for United and City (when the latter were at Maine Rd) early 2000s, Newcastle when we were at Sat 5.20 game, Blackpool when we got humped 5-3, an earlier Southampton one (the one that started our beef with them), Colchester when we got humped with Llera having a mare. Best game wise was a win up at Stoke which kick started our great run and Sachs’s clean sheets in the run up to the 98 play offs.
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We must have been in the pub from about 10am, and was only when we walked out to the taxi that we realised how much it had already been raining (Had no idea it was evening lashing it down at that point)
Although do remember post match walking into an Asda, and there were a good amount of Charlton / Yeovil fans just wandering around trying to dry off for a bit - God knows how my mate didn't end up in hospital that night as well, we were walking back up the hill to the B&B after finally getting back to the original pub - He was a lot more pissed than me, and fell over into the road, managed to get him out of it just before a car came along!!
Leeds away met a mate in Rochdale then met Abs and @Medders in Leeds. Abs can’t bear Leeds and they were hungover from cocktail drinking the night before as I recall.
Liverpool with @Curb_It bagpipe request in arkles
norwich with @Curb_It and friends and deserting them and going to a club with others and B coming to find me in another room the next morning!
newcastle stayed with mate then met up with everyone at game and on the boat!
walsall called off in snow stayed at mates in midlands
Blackpool……too many memorable things. Inflatable Fish. No coat @WSS. @Stu_of_Kunming @palarsehater (I think) @DaveStorry on dancefloor and @Gumbo tricking me into paying for cab to hotel. I was like a holiday rep that weekend with the itinerary. Kebab in porch of hotel and lost shoes at breakfast.
Bring me back a traditional pasty please.
sunderland away few seasons back 1st can cracked as we rolled out of kings x 6.30am
Booked a Jury's Inn about 10/15 min walk to the ground, great City and great place to drink.
On the Saturday morning we got up and had breakfast, then decided to take a stroll (to shake off the hangover) and to find the ground so as we'd know exactly where to go later. Found the ground and the gate was open, we wandered in and around - no one about at all, found a ball and went on the pitch, spent a good 5 mins swinging some crosses into each other before an irate groundsman told us to get off.
Pretty sure we lost the game but I actually have no real recollection of it at all as we started drinking again by midday
Went to Norwich for the St George's day game with my wife and was in the Complete Angler (where the guy stripped off and jumped in the river) before and after the game. Had a meal booked in town for the evening, which I somehow managed to make. In the morning, my wife said to me "don't take me to an away game again, it's the most drunk I've ever seen you".
My favourite weekend is still Brighton when we won 5 3 in '85. Was the 1st lads weekend we'd done together and went down there on the Friday night.
The funniest incident was at Wigan when we lost 3 0 in the Curbs era. A few of us went up there and on the Sunday morning we went to @1905 room to chivvy him up as we wanted breakfast. He was in the shower when suddenly we heard "Fuck, fuck fuck", smash, followed by a naked 1905 crashing through the bathroom door with blood streaming down his arm screaming. He'd gone to turn the shower off but turned up the heat to full by mistake. Instead of turning it off, he instinctively dived out, taking the shower curtain with him, knocking a glass on the floor and cutting his hand on the shards.
two of us had got back to the hotel after night out and were playing pool, third came in a bit disheveled and said he had been approached by two ladies of the night asking him he was looking for business. He said no, and they were flattering him saying he was too good looking to not get laid himself, all whilst taking his wallet, removing his cash and replacing the wallet. he wandered off and then realised his cash was gone, found the said women, and they just just said ' well we didn't nick your cards, as that would be out of order'
He implored us to go back out with him, find the ladies and their pimp and ask them for his money back.
we continued our game our game of pool.
think it was the game the fella fell off the bridge or something next to the packed pub before the game???
Went out on the town afterwards but the clubs weren’t letting us in as it was students night. Managed to sweet talk a bouncer who got us in. Every drink was £1. You name it. £1. Got absolutely plastered. Remember falling out the cab when we got back to the hotel, then running straight to the toilet to chuck my guts up, couldn’t get it all up so stuck my fingers down in to the sick ridden toilet bowl then back down my throat. My mate was like WTF have I just witnessed. Don’t think I’ve drunk that much since.
But since the pandemic, hotel prices have at least doubled as have train tickets and petrol prices increased some 50% .. my away trips have been far fewer this season .. I have a few aways booked; Posh, Derby, MK, Ipswich, Bristol and plan to come to the Valley for the Barnsley game .. assuming the trains are running and that this flu/cold/fuckmeupbug that's had me staggering since mid December clears up .. we will see
Afraid yes Tel, Feb 2008. Think we were both staying in the same hotel as the team.
Some of the best has to be Wolverhampton mid 90s John De Wolf , Blackpool coming back from Carlisle 86 and Liverpool for Wigan 2006. Last time I stayed over car broke down up north another person had booked up same room as us ,had to find another place to stay. I arrived home 3 days later having left car in garage.
anyhow, off top of my head done overnighters or weekenders in Sheffield, Huddersfield, Bath for Bristol Rovers, Nottingham, Brighton, Portsmouth, West Brom, Preston, Chesterfield, Swansea, Blackpool, Burnley, Derby and at City/United staying in Chorlton, Didsbury and on one occasion Harpughey. Harpughey is/was straight out of the ‘chatsworth estate’ mould only less believable.
the landlady of a boozer wouldn’t let us walk back to our hotel as one of her regulars was found dead in the boot of a car parked opposite it a few weeks prior. Before we knew this, the previous evening I went inside a pizza/kebab place while my other half waited outside and had a cigarette. A group of girls, no older than 13 were discussing graphically within earshot of my other half how they were going to, let’s just say sexually gratify me.
That was our only stay in Harpughey.
We got back late one night after a club and they were still up in the bar so joined them. They had some wind up going on where one of them was burning something with a lighter and then rubbing their healing fingers across the others face. Or something like that. What he never knew was
he was getting black soot rubbed all over his face. This went on for ages and he looked like he’d worked a 10hr shift down a mine but was none the wiser.