Worst match day experience?

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Where to begin, there have been so many awful days watching The Blades but I think the worst for me must be Chelsea away, last match of the season and from being safe with five minutes to go we end up being relegated.
I still can't believe that happened, it was also pissing down just to make it more depressing and the coach journey home was like your worst nightmare with flashbacks to Chelsea's late goal.
 



The promotion party v palace ruined by some 'so called supporters ' refusing to join in the Mexican wave

I'm seething now just thinking about it
 
The night Fanny Magnet got attacked in the Nelson by a "so-called supporter" for being a clapper.

What made it really bad was the fact I'd already gone home.
 
maidmarion said:
Standing in the Forest terrace as an 11 year old watching United get beat 6-0.... Or was in 6-1... Silent will know.

I wanted to leave but my dad said, nope we're not leaving till t'end.......and we never have left until the end ever since.
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Boxing Day, 1979. Me, Dad, big brother got home pretty quickly, went straight into the house without making a noise so that the guy across the road would not see us, only to find him sitting on the settee in a blue-and-White scarf, and with a glass of my Dad's whiskey in his hand, waiting to toast the result.
 
Getting dropped off the coach in Coventry only to find the game had been postponed spent a fucking miserable 3 hours traipsing around Coventry City centre in the pissing down rain with no money to even spend half a hour in a boozer. The driver got a reyt round of fucks when he returned I thought some of the older blokes were going to kill him, fair to say there was fuck all in the tip hat when we got back to Sheffield. I bet the bastard was a pig fan.
 



maidmarion said:
Standing in the Forest terrace as an 11 year old watching United get beat 6-0.... Or was in 6-1... Silent will know.

I wanted to leave but my dad said, nope we're not leaving till t'end.......and we never have left until the end ever since.
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i was there too as a schoolkid, my old biology teacher was a forest fan and gave me some stick on the monday. going to forest then was not a good experience, no designated away end as such and normally surrounded by a few knobs intent on sticking a size 10 doc martin on your head. being stood on there terrace 9where the brian clough stand now is) was worse than being in the trent end
 
maidmarion said:
Standing in the Forest terrace as an 11 year old watching United get beat 6-0.... Or was in 6-1... Silent will know.

I wanted to leave but my dad said, nope we're not leaving till t'end.......and we never have left until the end ever since.
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After the game, I got a good kicking, which made the day even better !
 
Barnsley at home 96-97. I was so fucking ill, and for some reason decided it would be wise to attend the game (after travelling up from London the same day, having watched us beat Palace a few days earlier) in just a replica shirt, a few days before Christmas. I was also going straight up to Scarborough on the train to visit family after the game.

During the first half I kept alternating between falling asleep (through illness rather than inebriation) and waking up shivering. People around me kept telling me I really didn't look in a good way. Got up at half time and just left the ground, jumped on the train, predictably fell asleep, missed York and ended up god knows where, had to travel back to York, eventually ended up in Scarborough about 3 hours after I should have got there, feeling more ill than I'd ever felt in my life.

Alternated between sleeping, shivering and feeling incredibly ill for the entire duration of Christmas and New Year.

Oh, and we lost 1-0 (and I missed the only goal of the game).
 
More bad ones than good ones over the years, but a night match to Ipswich in the late 90s always sticks in my mind.

I decided quite late to jump in the car and drive down as my dad had already left. Not really concentrating, I ended up on the M11 going past Stansted and got stuck in an almighty traffic jam. Realising i wasn't going to make the KO, I phoned ITFC and asked them to keep a turnstile open as I would probably arrive at half time. Sure enough, after detouring via Colchester I finally got to the ground at half time. We were 3-0 down and they charged me the full £30 to get in.

Met my dad, endured a dismal 45 mins, gave Don Hutchison the rods at full time and set off home.

What a shitty away day.
 
New Years Day at Oxford under Bassett. We'd only decided to go at about 4am in the morning, seemed like a good idea at the time:rolleyes:

Set alarm clock (on New Years Day!!!), felt like shit and parked seemingly miles from the ground. Open terrace, freezing cold and started raining at around half time to make it feel even colder. They ran out of pies, we lost 3 nil and they kept us in for about 30 minutes after full time. Long walk back to the car and a wrong turn, roadworks and bad traffic (as a consequence of said wrong turn) on the way back meant we missed last orders.

My mate had given up smoking as a new years resolution. He'd started again by the time the full time whistle went!
 
Wigan 2007 for me.........just a fucking depressing day, and just as others have said, I had a bad feeling about it before as well.

There are loads of really bad days, all been said already.

Another one that comes to mind though was losing 3-0 in the 3rd round of the FA Cup in our last Prem season at home to then 3rd division Swansea - they brought about 5,000 noisy fans and we only had about 7,000 home fans in. Swansea were up for it, not surprisingly, but we were just shite with the majority of our players having billy big bollocks attitudes and not trying.
 
Neuschwanstein said:
6-1 I think, I was there too, with my red printed silk scarf.

Worst matchday experience for me was Play-off final verses Wolves. I really thought we just had to turn up to win it. Left the ground fuming.
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If only Warnock had played Windass instead of Asaba.
 
Bringing my future wife to her first United game..... scummy at home about 7 year ago.

Remember being all excited to show a northern Irish girl BDTBL.... and being equally disappointed as we lost to 10 men & were shit!!
 
So many awful days in decades gone by.

The thing is they didn't seem so awful at the time.

If it wasn't awful at the time it cannot possibly be awful

But looking back and laughing about them really makes you think "Oh my God we must have been mad"
 
Long time lurker first time poster but had to respond to this one! Robson season. I'd renewed my season ticket pre-season but moved to Dorset for work purposes which involved a 500 mile round trip to get to games that season.

There weren't many highs that year but was one particularly low point, a December Tuesday night against Stoke. 3-0 down in about 25 minutes and I'd shown more enthusiasm than the players in being there that day. Only time I've left a game early.
 
Overall experience, has to be Millwall last year.

1-0 defeat, we were shit, they were shit, and anybody who wanted to get the tube home was kept behind by the plod. Never been treated by a Police force with such disdain as I was that day.

Also lost money because I'd bought a London-based pal a ticket which he was going to give me the money for, but after that debacle, I'd have to be a right cunt to charge him.
 



As a young lad, back in the early 80s (Arsenal I think - which would be apt all things considered), a friend of mine ate several cooking apples on the way home from school and before leaving for the game. Almost shat himself in the queue to get into the ground and then had to have the biggest, sloppiest shit ever in the open-air Kop toilets, with everyone on the stairs laughing and shouting and chucking chips, coins and lord knows what at him, and then discovered there was no bog roll so he had to use his under-crackers to wipe his arse. Despite a big crowd, the upside was he had loads of room standing on the Kop as no-one would go near him - the stink!!!

Edit - to be clear he did ditch the said underwear in the toilet area, he didn't put them back on FFS!!!
 
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