Refunding fans for away matches

[HodgysBrokenThumb]

To fully enjoy the good times, it is worth remembering the bad times to bring home how good things are just now. The news that Bristol City players are reimbursing fans who made the trip to see them lose 5-0 at Preston prompts me to ask when you have ever seriously felt you deserved a refund from a United team. Needs to be a proper hammering, team never turned up, embarrassingly outclassed, etc. I can recall a few home performances of that type, but which away performances have been that bad?

 

[Digger]

The 6-0 debacle at The Emirates. When I saw the team sheet I said "great, they're playing the kids. We can win this".

 

[BLADES1988]

Last Season

 

[ashsufc1889]

Wolves play off final
Burnley play off final
Arsenal away that Digger said
Gillingham Away last season
Scunny away 4-0 last season in Championship

 

[corkysbeard]

Oldham at bdtbl 80s,lost 5-0,frankie fcukin bunn hatrick I think? Leaning in net fcukin useless,took a goal kick in front of kop and his boot came off and went further than ball, blades singing nil 5 nil 5 nil 5 nil 5..shambles!!!!!

 

[Tray]

Pompey away. 3-0 down to an already relegated side after about 20 minutes.

 

[Tray]

Honourable mention for Stevenage away. 4-0 loss, with Dani Lopez scoring his only 3 goals he ever scored for them, all in one game. Has scored 20 goals in about 5 years since. Magic.

The defence that day was beyond woeful.

 

[COME BACK CHED]

Any Robson away match

 

[metty]

Stevenage away, what a shambles that was.

 

[Pedro Verde]

Crewe away last time we played them we were a fucking shambles

 

[LoughboroBlade]

Gillingham away in 2015
Portsmouth away in 2013
Wigan away in 2003

 

[PokerBlade]

Never been into a game under the illusion that we couldn't lose, so not really. Maybe I could've been given a discount for the missing end of the Battle of Bramall Lane.

 

[georgebernardshaw]

Burnley Play-off Final

If I'd had a gun on me, Blackwell would never have made it back to the coach

 

[Selly]

Considering the gulf in quality between the rest of the season and that game, this years trip to Walsall doesn`t come far off.

 

[Sean Thornton]

Bury last season. Villa under NW.

 

[pommpey]

Pompey away. 3-0 down to an already relegated side after about 20 minutes.

Read all about it Tray.

pommpey

 

[Harrisblade]

The 6-0 debacle at The Emirates. When I saw the team sheet I said "great, they're playing the kids. We can win this".

Not quite fair - those kids were bloody good!
And didn't we Blades fans clap the kids off?

 

[Trafford]

There was a match many Christmases ago that springs to mind.....

 

[blade too long]

port vale away
newport away
shit if I got money back for every poor away day Id be Trumps golf partner

 

[Scallywell]

Your dump, I came out in a rash after visiting that old ground

 

[Oreyt]

I went to Retford vs Hallam for a preseason jolly. Despite being one league below (at least I think) Hallam won 0-7. And Retford's assistant manager got asked to leave for calling the lino a "Fucking ****". Retford reimbursed their own fans.

Top day out.

 

[Bladesman]

Any play-off final.

 

[Johnstreetstand]

Back in the day I went to a few disastrous away days. Wrexham for a midweek cup game, not only did we get hammered, I got food poisoning from a dodgy chip shop supper. Grimsby away in the fa cup , got hammered then kept in by the local police after, squashing us all in a tiny space behind the stand. The wooden fence got smashed down and everyone poured out into people's back yards. Luton town away in the cup. Aston Villa etc. Too many to remember.

 

[Razor1967]

To fully enjoy the good times, it is worth remembering the bad times to bring home how good things are just now. The news that Bristol City players are reimbursing fans who made the trip to see them lose 5-0 at Preston prompts me to ask when you have ever seriously felt you deserved a refund from a United team. Needs to be a proper hammering, team never turned up, embarrassingly outclassed, etc. I can recall a few home performances of that type, but which away performances have been that bad?

Crewe away February 1st 2014! Freezing cold and a 3-0 thrashing that left us bottom of the table....was convinced we were going down!

 

[Boxer Blade]

3-10 away at Middlesbrough, 1933, by fuck that was a long journey home on sharra

 

[Boxer Blade]

Your dump, I came out in a rash after visiting that old ground

Lucky you wont be coming again then for a few years

 

[bartman]

Crewe away February 1st 2014! Freezing cold and a 3-0 thrashing that left us bottom of the table....was convinced we were going down!

and a few days later we went to Fulham and Sean Miller scored the winner

 

[HodgysBrokenThumb]

I have not been convinced yet (and I'm not going to give you the refunds anyway!) Bad as things have been (some of the defeats have been at very unfashionable clubs), the Gillingham and Stevenage defeats seem to be as low as we have gone. At least the 6-0 at Arsenal was against a team in a higher league, and at a big new ground, so no refund there! The most humiliating performances I have seen have been at home - the 0-5 against Oldham, and the 2-7 against Rotherham in the 1950s are the ones which stand out for me as really low points. Oh, Boxer Blade, I will make an exception for the 10-3 at Middlesbrough in 1933; I note the crowd was only just over 6000, so not many Blades there. But if you send me your ticket stub, and the address of your Care Home, I will send you the refund.

 

[sheffielder]

Can I have last years season ticket money back now?

 

[sheffielder]

Bury last season. Villa under NW.

Why oh why did you have to bring up the Villa game. It makes me physically sick that we tossed that game off.