Wigan away in the cup under Brownie. Day after New Years. I was hypothermic and had frost bite( slight exaggeration) by the end of the day. Must have been minus 4 all day, then the sun went down. Abstract misery.
Has to be Doncaster away, mid 90’s I think. They were bottom of what is now league 2 by a country mile. Their club was in turmoil and they played a team of young kids as most of their senior players had left. There was a long pitch invasion by home fans in protest at the club owner. We played absolute garbage, lost 1-0, and to add insult to injury the only available food at the ground were crisps.
Probably losing to Hednesford 2-0 at home in the FA cup - just for the embarrassment of losing to non-league opposition for the first time. We were bloody awful - the dreaded Hateley era. Could think of many more but another one that springs to mind was away to Doncaster in the League Cup around 77 - they were lower league and we were all set up to muller them - we took a huge following on a pissing down night and got soundly beaten and had to dodge the rocks being thrown from the Donny end - not a great night.
August 1997 - Mansfield away - lost 2 0 - first game with Mark Hately - realisation that he was crap and we were going nowhere with him
Wasn't Jay Jay Ochaca sent off in the home match against Burnley too? Also a ridiculous red card. Worst game for me, and I've seen a few, especially at a time when the club looked devoid of cash, ideas and support which made it ten times worse was an FA Cup game v Notts County at home. Chairman Richard Cheetham had sacked the manager in mid week, maybe Stan Ternant, then pissed off on holiday leaving the club rudderless with no manager and no-one line up. A decent cup run could have saved the season for us and put a bit of cash in the bank, but no, we took to the field like a team of strangers on a Sunday morning and County, who were no great shakes themselves wiped the floor with us, winning about 5-2. It was dismal and the only fans left in the ground at the final whistle were about 200 County fans jumping up and down behind the goal not believing thier luck, a bit like Stoke were yesterday.
The Allam’s dropping subsidised prices for children & OAPs closely followed by the Allam’s pathetic attempt to change the club’s name.
I got stuck behind a crash on the M25 for that Colchester away game, gave up and turned around when I realised that I’d be lucky to get there for the second half, turned out to be a good move.
That Geo goal was celebrated in the away end for ages as well. It was like with VAR now. We just had absolutely no reason to think it would be disallowed so we fully went for it. The home fans must have been pissing themselves laughing at us still going as the play restarted.
Even the time I arrived at their ground to find out the game was off was a better matchday experience than that night.
ditto both games - drove well 200 miles to get there - couldn't understand why there were no cars near the ground to be told it's called off due to water logged pitch - ffs
Scarborough 0-2 at Boothferry Park in the Auto Windscreen Cup. The only game I’ve left before the end, it was pissing it down too!
Hednesford weren't the first non-league team to beat us in the FA Cup. The views expressed in my posts are not necessarily mine.
Burnley 0 City 2 1984 - missed out on promotion by 1 goal - and to Sheff Utd too, ouch! City 0 Hednesford 2 - losing at home to an obscure non-league team, I think it was the main game on Match of the Day Donny 1 City 0 - Doncaster were more or less already relegated to non-league and had a team of teenagers playing Wigan 3 City 0 - FA Cup 5th Rd, they were a division below us, we had a great team and what a chance to get to Q/F's City 0 Brighton 2 (9 men) - humiliating game, BHA managed by Horton at the time We've certainly had to put up with some really depressing times, but makes the good times all the better!
This one probably was my worst. But I'd also like to mention losing 4-1 at Bolton in 2013. After about 50+ years as a City fan we finally persuaded my Uncle to go to an away game. And that was the performance they put in! Not to mention the police kettling afterwards.
5-2 wasn't it? Policing and stewarding was an utter disgrace that day inside and outside the ground, on a par with Barnsley the same season, and it was ****ing freezing. Never been back since
