Best Away Day Ever!

[Reremnart]

No contest whatsoever for us lot. 27th January 2001. Goodison Park. Everton 0 Tranmere 3. Still celebrated annually by Tranmere fans as "St Yates Day" much to the annoyance of our blue neighbours. I can still heard the chants of "Are you Chester in disguise" as the Everton fans trudged home in the the night.

 

[Another Walkley Owl]

Had some great away days, but best for me would be Blackburn away League cup semi final 1993, after going a goal down we produced the best 15 minutes I have ever seen (probably ever will) to blow Blackburn away with a 4 goal salvo all right in front of the delirious Wednesdayites.

Last days of terracing at Ewood Park the roof was half removed great day and football from heaven that produced the miracle of an Owls fans with crutches celebrating with both crutches in the air. Happy days.

 

[GTFCfish]

I did. The first game was played at the 2nd attempt as it was originally snowed off. I was on a coach that got halfway down the A15 (it had to go that way as the A46 was shut at Cabourne) when we heard it had been called off. That 3-0 game was the evening of the most awkward handshake in history between Laws and Bonetti.

Yeah luckily our original coach had only got as far as Scunthorpe before we heard it was called off, I’d been looking forward to it for weeks though I was proper devastated.

 

[Etienne Vermeer]

Arsenal 0 Millwall 2 in 1995. When you're in London, nothing is more satisfying that shutting up smug Arsenal fans. School was amazing next day

If we mean away days in a more traditional sense, Liverpool in 1988. They were a juggernaut, we were in our first ever season at the top level. End to end game, we took the lead only for them to pull it back and it finished 1-1. Liverpool fans very gracious afterwards. My first ever away trip beyond the M25 and I've hardly matched it since!

 

[Third Team Lucky]

‘Twas me birthday - 12 Apr. We didn’t know it at the time but we were on our way to the PL.

Birmingham at St Andrews. 4-1 down with 25 minutes left.

We win 6-4. The Zulus were not happy!

An amazing day. I remember slagging Hoddle off before KO for dropping Brian Marwood for his 'bestie' Micky Hazard. IIRC, Marwood's recall into midfield had resulted in a great winning run that had pretty much confirmed play-offs. I was wrong, although it was one of Dave Mitchells more 'rumbustious' games that actually turned the match.

 

[GTFCfish]

Where any of you Swindon lot at that play off final against Leicester?
I remember watching it in disbelief even as a neutral.

 

[Indian Dan]

Yeah. Twas therehead in hands when they got back to 3-3. Then good ‘ol Chalkie dived a good ‘un for a pen. Excellent

 

[Crewelad87]

Some great days in the championship, loved going to big clubs and spoiling there day. 4-1 at West Brom, 4-2 at Derby and 2-0 at Leeds a few that stood out. More recently the 3-0 at Coventry in front of 30000 a night the 1800 Crewe fans that were there wont forget.

 

[Chris FGR]

I found a £2 coin on a train seat on the way to Histon. Then later on their chairman let me have a free jacket potato with tuna that was going spare in their bar. What a great day that was.

 

[UTS]

Embarrassing Everton 3-0 at a packed Goodison... that'll probably never be surpassed for me. Various wins at places like Bolton, Stoke, and to a lesser degree Oldham, Crewe and Stockport were all great fun, but they didn't have quite the same impact.

That is a great video. Always good to see the smaller clubs triumph against the big boys, 3-0 too, I’m guessing you’ve not played Everton since?

As a relatively young fan, supporting Bury since 2003, and away games since 2007, there’s a few that stick in my mind, two of which we lost but it was a great day out.

Notts County away April 2012: We were in and around the relegation zone, albeit with only a slim chance of going down, Notts County were 6th, and had this player on their team called Lloyd Sam who had torn their previous opponents a new arsehole, so naturally Bury fans were sceptical of a result. But what a performance, 4-2 win! Goals from Worrall, Grella (brilliant goal) and then Carrington right at the end from a counter attack to seal the win. Lovely stuff, then found £20 lying in a puddle on the walk back to the pub, had some nice beers along this canal somewhere in Notts. Rochdale AND Bolton both got relegated (on the same day) and we were sharing a train back with the Dale fans as they’d been beaten at nearby Chesterfield. If Carlsberg did away days I think that would be up there, everything just went right for us that day.

September 2015 - Sheffield United 1-3 Bury: added value to this one as a Sheffield University student at the time, annoyingly the match was scheduled a week before I was due back at uni so I didn’t get the instant satisfaction of lording it over my Blades supporting classmates. A game that featured two of the best goals I’ve seen us score in a match. It was 0-0 at half time and Tutte had gone off injured (at the time a key player for us), so I’d have taken a draw at FT. Never expected us to then get 3 goals at Bramall Lane, especially considering we were newly promoted. A goal from Tom Pope set us off, before a dubious penalty for Sheff U levelled the tie (it was outside of the box). I thought we’d then go on to lose as the crowd had livened up and momentum had shifted in United’s favour. Joe Riley had other ideas as he smashed one in out of nowhere from 35 yards before Leon Clark added a third in injury time with the most casual lob I’ve seen.

Here are the goals from the Sheffield United game:

 

[GTFCfish]

I think that second goal was a cross........

 

[EricSabin]

Beating Liverpool at Anfield in the cup was pretty special. 17th in League 2 at the time with a dreadful dreadful side and we outplayed them. Magic night.

League games, under Wilder we beat Orient 4-0 at Brisbane Road playing some great stuff. It was around February time and I thought yep, we've got the league wrapped up. My usual group went down on the train and we just had a quality quality day, even before the football.

 

[King Kev]

That is a great video. Always good to see the smaller clubs triumph against the big boys, 3-0 too, I’m guessing you’ve not played Everton since?

As a relatively young fan, supporting Bury since 2003, and away games since 2007, there’s a few that stick in my mind, two of which we lost but it was a great day out.

Notts County away April 2012: We were in and around the relegation zone, albeit with only a slim chance of going down, Notts County were 6th, and had this player on their team called Lloyd Sam who had torn their previous opponents a new arsehole, so naturally Bury fans were sceptical of a result. But what a performance, 4-2 win! Goals from Worrall, Grella (brilliant goal) and then Carrington right at the end from a counter attack to seal the win. Lovely stuff, then found £20 lying in a puddle on the walk back to the pub, had some nice beers along this canal somewhere in Notts. Rochdale AND Bolton both got relegated (on the same day) and we were sharing a train back with the Dale fans as they’d been beaten at nearby Chesterfield. If Carlsberg did away days I think that would be up there, everything just went right for us that day.

September 2015 - Sheffield United 1-3 Bury: added value to this one as a Sheffield University student at the time, annoyingly the match was scheduled a week before I was due back at uni so I didn’t get the instant satisfaction of lording it over my Blades supporting classmates. A game that featured two of the best goals I’ve seen us score in a match. It was 0-0 at half time and Tutte had gone off injured (at the time a key player for us), so I’d have taken a draw at FT. Never expected us to then get 3 goals at Bramall Lane, especially considering we were newly promoted. A goal from Tom Pope set us off, before a dubious penalty for Sheff U levelled the tie (it was outside of the box). I thought we’d then go on to lose as the crowd had livened up and momentum had shifted in United’s favour. Joe Riley had other ideas as he smashed one in out of nowhere from 35 yards before Leon Clark added a third in injury time with the most casual lob I’ve seen.

Here are the goals from the Sheffield United game:

Bolton were relegated on the last day of the season that year, several weeks after the Notts County fixture and the same day as the famous Aguero goal to win the title. QPR conveniently capitulating after they became aware that Bolton had drawn at Stoke.
That Notts County game was epic though. There was a fifteen minute spell where Coke and Grella were unplayable. We played some fantastic stuff that day and that result secured our mathematical safety.

 

[Brooksy]

Brilliant stuff in this thread. The very essence of why we follow our team on the road. Shame these sorts of days don't happen too often, but they are all the sweeter when they happen and we never ever forget them.

Someone should write a book called Away Days and pack it full of these sorts of memories.

 

[les.gtfc]

Brilliant stuff in this thread. The very essence of why we follow our team on the road. Shame these sorts of days don't happen too often, but they are all the sweeter when they happen and we never ever forget them.

Someone should write a book called Away Days and pack it full of these sorts of memories.

Spot on mate. Those memories are something that'll never leave me. Even though I was diagnosed with a brain tumour a few years back and they had 5 goes buggering about in my brain, those memories are still there thank God.

Makes it all the more sweeter when those days come around, that you've been absolute garbage for the past x amount of years.

 

[Brooksy]

Always been partial to this one...

Spot on mate. Those memories are something that'll never leave me. Even though I was diagnosed with a brain tumour a few years back and they had 5 goes buggering about in my brain, those memories are still there thank God.

Makes it all the more sweeter when those days come around, that you've been absolute garbage for the past x amount of years.

Too true ... all the best with your health mate! It's one of the things that is even more important than football ... or so I'm told. They'll never take those memories away.

 

[Casey]

Chris FGR will be able to relate to this...

Missed the coach to a game v Folkstone. A friend and I decided to take the train (via London) to get there just for the hell of it. Magnificent game, ding dong battle with some really good goals that ended 4-4.

In the clubhouse after the game got talking to our club secretary and said how much we enjoyed the game and told him how we had got there. He arranged for us to get back to Crawley on the team coach! When the coach arrived back half the players bundled into the clubhouse and we ended up having a grand old night smacking back the beers with them. Staggered out after a lock in about 1.30.

Last time I saw a Crawley player in the clubhouse he was drinking water! Some things about non league football are definitely better.

Casey