RoytonBlueLad Posted January 16, 2008 Share Posted January 16, 2008 QPR just a mini bus of silence all the way home and the 94 semi final. Only highlight was seeing one of their coaches in flames on the motorway on the way home. West Ham in the Carling Cup was an odd one too. Barlow's doing a tour of London then saw us getting there at 7.45 just in time for kick off after setting off about 1. Then on the way back we passed Canary Wharf. About an hour later someone pipes up "is that Canary Wharf - again?". Yes, yes it is Canary Wharf. Doh! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frankly Mr Shankly Posted January 16, 2008 Share Posted January 16, 2008 QPR for me in the playoffs. Had a tyre blowout on the M6 going down near Wolverhampton wrecking my front wheel arch. Managed to get the spare on but drove the rest of the way at about 60mph bricking it in case my spare went. After the game got stuck in Shepherds Bush amongst thousands of jubilant Rangers fans and then on the way back had to push start my car at Oxford Services. Driving ultra-slow on the way back I realised I'd practically been up 24 hours and needed matchsticks to keep my eyes open. I got home at 6am eventually and had to be in work for 8am. Horrible. Another bad one was Ipswich Town away, around the time Colin was manager. We got absolutely blitzed in the first half and was 0-4 down at half-time. We left just at the start of the 2nd half and I think the eventual score was 0-5. We were around Cambridge by full-time and drove all the way back to Preston to drop a mate off and then down to Cheshire to collect my dad (who had returned from a holiday), all in atrocious conditions. I was in a foul mood and shattered. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcgoo_84 Posted January 16, 2008 Share Posted January 16, 2008 QPR just a mini bus of silence all the way home and the 94 semi final. Only highlight was seeing one of their coaches in flames on the motorway on the way home. West Ham in the Carling Cup was an odd one too. Barlow's doing a tour of London then saw us getting there at 7.45 just in time for kick off after setting off about 1. Then on the way back we passed Canary Wharf. About an hour later someone pipes up "is that Canary Wharf - again?". Yes, yes it is Canary Wharf. Doh! RBL - with you on the West Ham one. Sounds very much like the coach I was on. Like you said - left BP lunch time, then ended up legging it into Upton Park and got in just as they kicked off. Getting back on the coach after it was kicking off all around us with not too happy hammers a tad narked that we'd just beaten them and then having set off at about 10:15 ish we went back past Upton Park at midnight having become separated from all the other coaches. It ended up that the driver was falling asleep on the M6 and we were veering across all the lanes, my Mrs had to sit in the aisle talking to him to keep him awake because we thought we weren't going to make it home, to cap it all, we got onto the M56 and he said that if he didnt have us back within 25 mins or so we were going to have to stop for 40 minutes because he would have gone over his time! There was uproar, luckily he just about got us back. Possibly the scariest journey of my life. Have also been on some amusing coach journeys too. A few years back we came back from Brighton after a 0-0 at the Withdean and Barlows broke down about 300 yards from a favourite haunt of Latics coaches - Hilton Park Services. We crawled in to the services at about 8:00 in the evening and told to wait inside while they called the breakdown people out - it wasnt until about 11:30 that they decided the fan belt had gone and that coach was going no where meaning another Barlows had to come from Oldham to get us. As if sitting i Hilton Park from 8 - 2am wasnt bad enough, we'd only been there 5 minutes when another coach pulled in, a bloke got off and the coach drove away. The other coach was a coach of City fans coming back from Pompey, the bloke who got off had been chucked off because he was so hammered he had shat himself, he absolutely minged, we spent 4 hours running around the services trying to avoid him. Even the Cops wouldnt put him in their car when he started walking up the motorway!!! They escorted him back down the hardshoulder to the services again. God know's where he ended up. It sure passed the time though. Got home at about 3:45 on the Sunday morning, happy days! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slurms mckenzie Posted January 16, 2008 Share Posted January 16, 2008 QPR for me in the playoffs. Had a tyre blowout on the M6 going down near Wolverhampton wrecking my front wheel arch. Managed to get the spare on but drove the rest of the way at about 60mph bricking it in case my spare went. After the game got stuck in Shepherds Bush amongst thousands of jubilant Rangers fans and then on the way back had to push start my car at Oxford Services. Driving ultra-slow on the way back I realised I'd practically been up 24 hours and needed matchsticks to keep my eyes open. I got home at 6am eventually and had to be in work for 8am. Horrible. This was mine also. What a horrible day. Can't even laugh about it. Not even now. Phoned in sick the next day. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frankly Mr Shankly Posted January 16, 2008 Share Posted January 16, 2008 This was mine also. What a horrible day. Can't even laugh about it. Not even now. Phoned in sick the next day. I wish I did. My employers at the time were quite forgiving and let me come in late (around 10am). My idea of hell is to revisit that journey with the same sick-to-the-pit-of-my-stomach feeling constantly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oafcprozac Posted January 16, 2008 Share Posted January 16, 2008 (edited) I wish I did. My employers at the time were quite forgiving and let me come in late (around 10am). My idea of hell is to revisit that journey with the same sick-to-the-pit-of-my-stomach feeling constantly. Aside from the high-profile 'nightmares' at QPR and Wembley '94. The 'what a waste of petrol' tonking at Reading was a surreal evening out and the journey home was awful. Losing 3-0 at Bristol City with the coach raining in on the way home was a disaster too in Feb' 2002. Millwall beating us with a last-minute pen that never that was in 2000 is a day I don't look back at with too much fondness. Edited January 16, 2008 by oafcprozac Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
palmer1 Posted January 16, 2008 Share Posted January 16, 2008 Barnsley away under ronnie moore, not the furthest, but getting tonked after 20 mins and no effort. bristol city away 2-0, no shots at goal, out of bristol before the final whistle had blown qpr playoffs, nuff said man scum semi, nuff said anfield injury time , nuff said makes you wonder why you leave home on a saturday for football.......... then you realise you need that saturday fix, love it, even the bad days..........thats the life of a latics fan always so near yet so far away! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ceskylatic Posted January 16, 2008 Share Posted January 16, 2008 Bournemouth away a good few years back on a Friday night!They were playing at Dorchester`s ground as their new ground was being built.We went 1-0 up after 30 seconds(Tipton)but ended up losing 3-2.Think sir David of Eyresshire got our other goal.Decent game,though one hell of a trek back home.I got home around 5.00am on the Saturday morning after dropping my mate off en route. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oafcprozac Posted January 16, 2008 Share Posted January 16, 2008 Bournemouth away a good few years back on a Friday night!They were playing at Dorchester`s ground as their new ground was being built.We went 1-0 up after 30 seconds(Tipton)but ended up losing 3-2.Think sir David of Eyresshire got our other goal.Decent game,though one hell of a trek back home.I got home around 5.00am on the Saturday morning after dropping my mate off en route. Just thought of a couple more, walking out of Vale Park in November '90 after losing our 20 game unbeaten run going back to April was pretty demoralising for a 13 year old! Even worse was when we received a lesson in finishing from Messrs Wright and Bright to lose at home for the first time back in the top-flight, felt absolutely numb coming out of the ground, you see I just wasn't used to seeing us lose at home!!! (I wasn't there against Hull in March '91, Sheff Utd March '90 or Man CIty Jan '89 our previous three home defeats in the League) In fact the last time I had seen us lose at home in a competitive game was in November '88 as a very wet 11 year old in our League Cup Replay vs Everton! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andyt84 Posted January 16, 2008 Share Posted January 16, 2008 I remember that game were Wright and Bright taught us a lesson, I think it was 3-2 in the end. I remember being gutted though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
footy68 Posted January 16, 2008 Share Posted January 16, 2008 (edited) Leicester Filbert Street 1987(ish). IIRC 4v1 Jari Rantennen(?) absolutely battered us. When I say battered I really do mean it in every sense of the word. It was a night match and I had been up since 5 on earlies and had to be up at 5 again. Just one of those games where you wonder why bother. Edited January 16, 2008 by footy68 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OldhamSheridan Posted January 16, 2008 Share Posted January 16, 2008 Rotherham away when we lost 2-0 under Mr Moore. I have to say this is up there. Threw it down all the way there (risking life and limb every time I overtook a lorry). Players put in one of the most abject performances I've seen from an Oldham team. Threw it down all the way back. I knew I shouldn't have gone back to Rotherham after that 3-0 stuffing we got a couple of years earlier*. *And I didn't for the 3-2 win. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oafc0000 Posted January 16, 2008 Share Posted January 16, 2008 (edited) Fullham 3-0 Away.....i think it was 3-0....97 i think... Keegans/Wilkins first game in charge... I got interviewed outside the ground and asked how long I thought it would take before Fullham would be up with the big boys....I said five years with latics fans laughing all around me.....who's laughing now chumps.... We was hopeless.... No atmosphere... Got smacked.... Long journey back.... Edited January 16, 2008 by oafc0000 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oafcprozac Posted January 16, 2008 Share Posted January 16, 2008 Fullham 3-0 Away.....i think it was 3-0....97 i think... Keegans/Wilkins first game in charge... I got interviewed outside the ground and asked how long I thought it would take before Fullham would be up with the big boys....I said five years with latics fans laughing all around me.....who's laughing now chumps.... We was hopeless.... No atmosphere... Got smacked.... Long journey back.... 3-1 it was, Doug Hodgson scored our goal, it was just as bad at Millwall the week after, despite leading again through Hodgson we lost 2-1, was the same day England drew 0-0 in Italy to qualify for France '98. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OldhamSheridan Posted January 16, 2008 Share Posted January 16, 2008 Fullham 3-0 Away.....i think it was 3-0....97 i think... Keegans/Wilkins first game in charge... I got interviewed outside the ground and asked how long I thought it would take before Fullham would be up with the big boys....I said five years with latics fans laughing all around me.....who's laughing now chumps.... We was hopeless.... No atmosphere... Got smacked.... Long journey back.... Didn't think it was too bad, we were always going to get a bit mullered under the circumstances. It wasn't half as annoying as the 4-4 draw with Bristol Rovers which preceded it. (3-1 twas) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oafcprozac Posted January 16, 2008 Share Posted January 16, 2008 It wasn't half as annoying as the 4-4 draw with Bristol Rovers which preceded it. 3-0 up in no time at all then 3-3 by half-time. We scored again just after HT then BRizzle gained an iffy pen late on to secure a point. Unreal it was. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oafc0000 Posted January 16, 2008 Share Posted January 16, 2008 (edited) Not that bad ?? I can remember there was only me and one other guy trying to start songs of....everyone else was just stood around with faces on.... like being at a home game now.... It was dire..... We was at the height of accepting just how far the club had fallen.... was glum.... I didnt in fact go to another away game until last year when we beat Hudds 3-0.... EDIT: actually i went to Stoke away (1-0) and Chesterfield (5-2) away.... both equally annoying days out.... Edited January 16, 2008 by oafc0000 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nickhenryno4 Posted January 16, 2008 Share Posted January 16, 2008 Anyone remember Leeds away mid 80's,My grandad took me in the Home End behind the net (it was cheaper!!) we got battered 5 or 6 nil and Our fans were throwing there scarfs onto the pitch in disgust, which the stewards were throwing back!!. As a young boy i just couldn't understand what was going on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oafcprozac Posted January 16, 2008 Share Posted January 16, 2008 Not that bad ?? I can remember there was only me and one other guy trying to start songs of....everyone else was just stood around with faces on.... like being at a home game now.... It was dire..... We was at the height of accepting just how far the club had fallen.... was glum.... I didnt in fact go to another away game until last year when we beat Hudds 3-0.... Don't blame anyone for having glum faces around that period as from 96-2001 was a very dark time to be a Latics fan I can sum it up in eleven phrases Lees Out, Sharp out, Manchester North End, SAFE, Relegation, Oldham Nil, Skint, Sports Park 2000, demoralising, Hot-Dog Gate, Rotherham away............ or in eleven words, Ironside Maclean Hodgson Foran Morrow Salt Swan Sinott Spooner Beavers Starbuck NO matter who we sign, the law of avergaes states they will be far better than any of those clowns Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oafcprozac Posted January 16, 2008 Share Posted January 16, 2008 Anyone remember Leeds away mid 80's,My grandad took me in the Home End behind the net (it was cheaper!!) we got battered 5 or 6 nil and Our fans were throwing there scarfs onto the pitch in disgust, which the stewards were throwing back!!. As a young boy i just couldn't understand what was going on. Remember my owd fella sweaing at the radio a lot that afternoon, think it was 84-85 season and all the goalscorers went on to play for Latics if I remember rightly (sure i've read it in a programme from the season after) Stitch got a hat-trick Tommy Wright bagged two and Shez scored too. Checked soccerbase and it was 29/9/84 no scorers listed but i'm sure i'm right! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inspiral_Carpet Posted January 16, 2008 Share Posted January 16, 2008 Anyone remember Leeds away mid 80's,My grandad took me in the Home End behind the net (it was cheaper!!) we got battered 5 or 6 nil and Our fans were throwing there scarfs onto the pitch in disgust, which the stewards were throwing back!!. As a young boy i just couldn't understand what was going on. I remember that one. Tony Henry was also trying to throw the scarves back over the fence to us. Me and my mate also got battered in the Car Park after the game just to rub it in. God knows what would have happened if we'd won! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frankly Mr Shankly Posted January 16, 2008 Share Posted January 16, 2008 (edited) 3-1 it was, Doug Hodgson scored our goal, it was just as bad at Millwall the week after, despite leading again through Hodgson we lost 2-1, was the same day England drew 0-0 in Italy to qualify for France '98. It's a bit sad this, but I'm sure we played Lincoln, and not Millwall away the day England played over in Rome. I went and always remember Lincoln being a ground I've not been because of that. We won 3-1. Off to soccerbase I go... EDIT: I have my head bowed in shame. We played Lincoln away the season after and that was the same day England lost away in Sweden in a qualifier. I was there too. Edited January 16, 2008 by Frankly Mr Shankly Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oafcprozac Posted January 16, 2008 Share Posted January 16, 2008 It's a bit sad this, but I'm sure we played Lincoln, and not Millwall away the day England played over in Rome. I went and always remember Lincoln being a ground I've not been because of that. We won 3-1. Off to soccerbase I go... Lincoln was a year later and England did indeed play that day, we lost 2-1 in Sweden. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest AMO Posted January 16, 2008 Share Posted January 16, 2008 QPR Away in the Play Offs has got to be one of the worst, nobody dared to say anything in the car back it was stone wall silence. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boundaryblue80 Posted January 16, 2008 Author Share Posted January 16, 2008 Don't blame anyone for having glum faces around that period as from 96-2001 was a very dark time to be a Latics fan I can sum it up in eleven phrases Lees Out, Sharp out, Manchester North End, SAFE, Relegation, Oldham Nil, Skint, Sports Park 2000, demoralising, Hot-Dog Gate, Rotherham away............ or in eleven words, Ironside Maclean Hodgson Foran Morrow Salt Swan Sinott Spooner Beavers Starbuck NO matter who we sign, the law of avergaes states they will be far better than any of those clowns What was wrong with SAFE? Or do you mean the fact it had to exist with the troubles we were having financially? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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