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Well, mine would be yesterday. We arrived 5 minutes into the second half and what's more, we got in COMPLETELY FREE!

Well worth it aswell.

I felt sorry for you but hey, if it was free ace!  Shame about the non existent food/drinks.

What time you leave home tails?

Dunno what time Tails left home but I picked him up from Bristol Parkway around 2:50 - we then basically did a 10-hour drive with a 45-minute break in between to watch some football (edit: actually, thinking about it, as I left work at about 2.30pm and got home around 2.30 am, make that 12 hours).

Got stitched by tailbacks on M5, then decided to "cut through" Worcester. That was the big mistake - spent two hours sat in stationary traffic in the middle of a convention of extras from the League of Gentlemen. Then cross-country to Wolves, onto M6 for a bit before that slowed, then cross-country again to Wales (more or less).

F**k it though, like Tails says, well worth it to see the second half - team were immense, fans were immense - We are Invincible!!!

And we saw Paul Ince coming out with his lad - nearly cut him up, actually. Tails "papped" him! But I don't think the pic will come out.

Well I have to say well done for persevering! And I guess you got yuor reward!

The worst thats happened to me was 10 minutes into Ashton Gate when Dukey got sent off and we won 2-1. The coaches got stuck on the motorway.

Unless you count 20 minutes late in that Pompey friendly, but I wasn't all that bothered!

never late me.

i usually get there too early and then need a nap halfway through  :(

the old manor ground gotin 10 mins late

outside queing in the alley

i think that was the game were the ref pulled the players of the pitch   . :mrgreen:

Think it would be after 30 mins gone at Newcastle in the infamous cup game.....class 47 hauling the special broke down outside Brum....took a while to organise acouple of replacement locos, who then thrashe it to newcastle in about an hour and a bit.   Couldn't have happened with a privatised railway.

  We then wasted a further 5 mins, when some  :wanker: go tin a strop because someone was sat in his seat.....fellow fans tried to explain that it hardly mattered as there were spare places and folk were sitting anywhere. , but he insisted on getting stewards etc to move this fella.

 At this point it was 0-0......we lost 5-0.

It WAS a NIGHTMARE jouney .. even on a coach ... terrible traffic ..

4 pies and 2 bottles of water left and we were 20th in the queue  :|  still I had Bennetts dairylea dunker  :D

I'm really hoping that's not code for something. And if it is, I don't want to know

it's not. she has a boyfriend now apparently..

Seems Ince should be happy it olny took him 4 hours to get to Swindon then....

I think not going via Worcester is very much the key ..... :oops:

I left home at half 11, went to town for a bit then got a bus to Bristol at 13.40...

I thought Worcester was fairly entertaining, we got a nice porno puppet show and we saw a Jade Goody lookalike. I wouldn't advise anyone to ever go pulling there....

good old Denzel  :mrgreen:

30 mins to go up at Maine Road, lost 3-0 with Horlock scoring - I forget which season and can't be arsed to look it up.

About 5 mins into the second half against Stockport, tuesday night game couple of seasons back.

Car wheel almost fell off on the way to Swindon. Got to the county ground and were then told we couldn't get in.  Went for a walk down the nationwide found a very slightly opened fire exit, managed to open it and walked in.

That was one good thing about last night - Chester stewards couldn't have been more helpful. And let us in for free!

I got to Chesterfield at half time once, when we were 3-0 bloody down anyway....train stopped in the middle of nowhere, all the locals were getting the arse and then there was a procession of fat men running half way across the town to get to the game!

Best bit was, with them 3 up, the stewards didn't let the in at half time to the home end. I ran round to the away end and scrambled so my head popped over the gate and got a stewards attention. I offered him a fiver to let me in, and he pissed himself, and said he'd pay me to come in we were so shite!

2nd half was shit too!

i have been late once away to ipswich around 1988-89 got in late in the first half.had to go through the home fans turnstiles and get escorted through.was a bit daunting as a young lad.think we won 2-1 if i remember rightly

Ive left the CGH at 4.45 and caught the last minutes more than a few times in the past.

This is my first post on here so hi everyone!

I remember travelling to Kiddy Harriers for an LDV Cup Game about 3 seasons ago. We started off from Swindon really early but there was an accident on the M5. We got to the ground about 9pm in the end and was not going to bother, but when we got there, apparently there had been a floodlight failure earlier on so the game was just about to start.

The game kicked off about 9pm, and there was extra time as well (golden goal?) Anyway, Kiddy scored near the end and we lost 3-2.

welcome

I remember staying up "late" to listen to the end of that game. On a school night too  :D

Ha! I got caught in that one as well - what made it worse was I was supposed to be doing co-commentary on radio that night. Bricking myself we weren't going to get there for kick-off, screeched into car park at 7:42, ran to reception to get press passes and the bloke says "I don't know what you're rushing for, we've got no lights". Then follows an hour and a half or so of trying to do "fill-in" chat with Ed Hadwin and Shaun Hodgetts to fill air-time. Which is extraordinarily hard to do, when you're put on the spot - I don't normally run to much more than 2 mins of intelligent chat at the best of times, never mind live radio. Then Danny Invincibile got our extra time equaliser ruled out by trying to get the last touch when it was already going in. Bah!

my latest will be this tuesday, i dont finish work til 8...

I remember the Kiddy game. I turned around on the Motorway at about 8pm because I was still stuck outside Tewkesbury and went to the pub.

I know Scotland fans who have travelled all the way across Europe for an away game and never actually made it to the match itself! :-))(

Charlton away - 92 I think, they were playing at Upton Park anyway. My mate drove and we got hopelessly lost, arrived 15 mins into 2nd half, I was so pissed after getting in (free) I tried to sit on a barrier in the terrace and promptly fell off. I don't remember the score or owt.