Most drunk at an away game

[tomario]

Like a lot of other Palace fans I enjoy a drink or two before a game, especially at away games. Its probably safe to say I have been wasted at quite a few. The worst one for me was when we lost 2-0 at Bristol City, when Bobby Bowry got sent off. Stated drinking at 8am at Victoria Station, and I was pissed by the time we reached Bristol station at 10;45 am and I fell off the train. The return journey was a nightmare, as I proceed to be continously sick in the first class toilets on the way back. Must of been the dodgy burger at half time.

[Chocky]

My most drunken days were my college days when we were in Div 1 79-81. Always got the special train, always took our own concoction, and always remembered f**k all. Since then there have been many memorable 'piss-up' trips, and I always have my faves, like Southampton or Ipswich. But I suppose the most wrecked was when we beat Hull away 2-1 about 1986. We travelled on the friday, went out with Hull Art School students that night, woke up pissed, carried on before the game, went into the main stand, and somehow (Christ knows how though) got into the directors lounge where there was a buffet spread. And nobody even questioned these two pissed ars*holes helping themselves to grub and asking everyone what the other scores were.

[Chocky]

And I remember, well not much of it, an away day on the special to Wrexham where we got our first away victory in 18 months, 1-0. So so pissed on beer & scotch. Rolling about the cattle truck compartment.I was in a coma til about tuesday.

There are loads of drunkards that have joined this board since this thread was started, it would be interesting to hear some of your awayday pisscapades.

[Boring Al the Prude]

My mate Al from Bromley reckons you're a desperate man Chocky, continuing a thread some 4 months after YOU posted the last message but making it sound like it was an afterthought.

[SE19CPFC]

Manc Scum in the semi was a special one. We started on our Vodka and Coke at Balham. Between Watford Junction and Brum none of us remember much apart from pissing the whole carriage off. On the local train I came around and remember surging to the Jim-boyo song down the carriage. Paralytic by the ground we attempt to get into a pub unsurpisingly the Police turn us away. Being intuitive we decide if we turn our tops inside out as a disguise we’ll get in. Instead they threaten to nick us. Some how we get into the ground where I spot my old man with a hip flask. That didn’t help.
Derby away when Kenny Brown scored was a head banger. We’d loaded up on lager only to be told on the train by the steward that to celebrate a year of privatisation all drinks would be half price for the journey. When we scored I nearly pulled my mate off the upper tier down to the poor sods below. We eventually got back to The Duke of York where we carried on.
Boxing Day Ipswich away a couple of years back, I had to drive my mates who downed a bottle of Scotch on the way up there. How I didn’t get nicked for climbing out of the car in a car park full of cops holding the empty bottle they had thrust into my hand I don’t know. By the time we made it back to The Puzzle in Balham I wasn’t talking to any of my mates who on the way back persuaded me to slow down on the streets in the East End so they could lean out of my car windows and abuse them all for being from North of the river. I haven’t driven to an away match since.

[LP]

At Watford last season I was so wrecked that I started a chant of 'we're the left side over here', even though I was standing on the right side of the away end! Everyone laughed!

[LP]

At Watford last season I was so wrecked that I started a chant of 'we're the left side over here', even though I was standing on the right side of the away end! Everyone laughed!

[Oisin]

Do you drink in The Puzzle? I watched the FA cup semi finals in there until they turned over and put the Rugby on. B*stards.

[SE19CPFC]

Occassionally we go there as some of the Palace I go with are Balham boys. We were in The George for last years FA Cup final which was a very drunken affair.

[Kevin T]

Although we always start early on away days, due to travelling and not knowing area etc, we never seem to get as pissed as planned. I suppose things never live up to their plans. I find it's at quiet home games where it all goes pair shaped. How many times last season have I struggled to watch a match with one eye closed and nipping off to throw up just before half time.

[Chocky]

So the new Mitsubishi half time challenge next season is to wade through Kevin's puke to get to the bar before the teams come out again.

And Mr Prude...go away if you don't get horrendously drunk and spew at footie! I bet you've chundered your cheese & pickle sandwiches at least once in your time.

[exiled in Wales]

I remember one match, well I don't remember the match, but I think Kevin T was there - we were about 16 and all I remember is throwing up every two steps all the way to Norwood Juction after the match. Also got nicked away to Reading about 3 years ago for being too p*ssed before even getting into the ground - copper who let me out after the match was OK though - told me we thrashed 'em 6-1 - bloody typical, I miss the match and we play a blinder.

[Kevin T]

I also remember Exiled and I were at a BBQ on the last day of the Holmesdale v Watford (can't remember why we weren't at the match) in this hotel that some bird we knew lived in with her parents (who owned it) We were watching on TV, extremely pissed, bouncing up and down on the sofa singing "boing boing break the sofa" which indeed we managed after a couple of minutes. Some dodgy bird called Chelsea also accused me of touching her up that day although I never went near the bitch. It's all in the name!

[nugget]

Not a Palace match but Euro 96 semi v Germans.
There I was with my Palace baseball cap with airfix bomber attached in the ground.I had been to the other matches building up to this one so I think it was perfectly reasonable that I should be standing up and cheering every time the team in white attacked.I am told I was so wrecked that I was cheering the Germans on even in the penalties.
And most of England thought they were gutted the next day.

I do not believe they had dates back when my drunk came about, we left London heading to the frozen north (Preston). It was a Friday night and the plan was to drive North for about five hours and find a place to get drunk and sleep it off in the car. We stopped after about a hour or so and found ourselves in Bedford. We stop at the first pub and lo in be hold the Gov. and I served in the Army together. Needless to say we had a beer or two and about 5 am we started our trip again. After about 1 hour or so we had to stop for a pee; when we returned to the car and found NO BEER in boot, boy was there hell to pay! It was at this point that we all realised that it was not my car(I still had the keys to my car in my pocket). We decided that we should go on to the Frozen North (Preston). On arrival into Preston we were stopped by the Police and informed that we had taken the Gov. car and had left mine behind! After the game we visited a few locals, had a curry and headed back to pickup the car. On arrival at the car park we could not find "MY CAR", called the Police and reported my car stolen. Luck being on our side the Copper who turned up at the car park was the same one who had informed us we were in the wrong car. We found the other car and with his help headed SOUTH for sunny clims! We made it back to the Parade in the right car Sunday evening feeling like a real bunch of dickheads!

[This message has been edited by PalaceFan_inAlabama (edited 01 July 1999).]

[Chocky]

And the copper didn't for one moment think "mmm, Southerers with bloodshot eyes...pubs...driving...the wrong car...stink of booze..." PC Dildo!! Did we win though?

No it was a draw! I am talking about pre-drinking laws(when you could leave the Parade and be heading up the "A1" in about an hour(can you get to Brixton in an hour now?)), when no one worried about drinking and driving. He asked us if we were OK and told us the best way to get out of town, what was really funny was he gave us the directions using Pub names! Those were the days, F*CK I am really showing my grey hairs and my age; sorry for you younger drinkers.

[Chocky]

Are you sure you don't mean you took the wrong horse & cart? And was the game in black & white?

(Sorry! Seriously do you remember when that game was?)

I cannot remember the date, but it was my first and only visit to PNE, The main reason I remember this trip is because The gov. of that Pub in Bedford was staying with me(when this thread started) and it came up as did many other war stories(us old farts love to tell stories about when we were "YOUNG", like when the Police took me home after they found me and some mates leap frogging the "keep left signs" outside Waterloo Station; returning from another away game).

[Gavin Axten]

I had a mate (Andy Aitchison)who was at university in Manchester .We played Oldham on a saturday and after the match went back to his university for the evening disco.This was about 1986 and at that time i was into drinking brandy chasers and i had this brilliant idea that if you knocked back 6-7 double brandys one after the other you would be p*ssed in 10 minutes, what i did not take into account was the other 6-7 pints of lager i had before.My mate was supposed to have been knocking back the brandys too but he had left 5 of them on the side and was quite sober.Apparantly on the dance floor i was trying to have a fight with a qpr supporter and then dissapeared only to be found fast asleep on my mates front path with my nose buried in some mud!!! The weird thing is i had never been to my mates student house before except for an hour or so before the Uni disco but found my way back to his house which was about 2 miles from the university!!! I didn't even know what his house number was.

[northernsouler]

At Luton away last time but one I elected to stay in pub all day with a group of England rugby bores. I paid a heavy price by missing last train home and setting off for home on foot around midnight. I ended up walking around aimlessly before trying to sleep rough on a park bench in the grounds of golf course.

[Richard Pocock]

This one doesn't qualify for this thread at all, because:

* it was at Selhurst; and
* I wasn't drunk, I was stoned!

It was in 1970, the second home game of the Season (I can't remember who we played - the first game was the 2-2 V ManU). Anyway, I had this crazy girlfriend who made a stack of Cannabis Resin Rock Cakes, and we ate the lot standing on the Holmesdale. I knew we would win. as we were kicking downhill in the second half, and the pitch was sloping at an angle of at least 45% away from me.

RP

[Al From Bromley]

I was talking to Boring Al the Prude the other day and he tells me Chocky is still drunk, almost three years after this thread started.

[King Tubby]

Not really away game, cos I didn't go, and again, not really drunk, well I was drunk, but that wasn't the main problem.

The second leg of the semi final against liverpool last season, I was in the firkin in bromley (its not the firkin anymore, its oneils). By half time we're three or two nil down, (I dont know, I'd been in the pub for hours, had brought my palace shirt to school, pulled it on at four o clock and gone straight to the pub) anyway, the way the game was going so badly I had to go for a smoke. Me and a mate went and hotboxed one of those old enclosed red phoneboxes near bromley north with two pure skunk spliffs.

Came back for the second half not knowing what was going on, I'd even forgotten that we were playing away. That season we had mainly red home strips, so when they team in red scored, me in my palace shirt, in a pub full of palace...

YEEEEEEEAAAAJAJAJJAJA......

standing up,

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

sitting down, my head in my hands, everyone in the pub just staring at me.

[Chocky]

Originally posted by Al from Bromley
I was talking to Boring Al the Prude the other day and he tells me Chocky is still drunk, almost three years after this thread started.

Not wrong there, bugger balls!

[Polish Prancer]

One of the recent ones was at the pre season at torquay at the beginning of this season.Me and some other members of the BBS had had a very lively night out on the Friday in Torquay which had lasted well into the early hours.
The next day saw us start early at the working mens club
in the town where we met more of our mates.
We were given the upstairs bar and gave them their biggest ever takings for a sat lunchtime.
I remember having several red and blue aftershocks down in one as well as the normal pints and chasers.
I don't know how we got in the ground but i do remember staggering around the terrace.
After our 3rd or 4th goal i got the urge to jump onto the pitch and was trying to climb up the back netting of the goal .
I don't know what I was trying to do but I do know i was very, very drunk.
Luckily the stewards attention was diverted by another palace fan screaming in the penalty area :D

[budgie]

Many years ago we were away to Villa midweek, we had had a party previous weekend and had loads of drink left, so brought it with us. Anyway I remember getting on the special, drinking a couple of party 4's and a bottle of Southern Comfort (how did I ever drink that stuff) and opening the train door at Villa, and thats the last I remember.

Apparently me mates half carried me to the ground, where I then tried to pick a fight with the local police, who were going to nick me, but my mate Pete persuaded them that I'd been attacked by some Villa fans, and so was a little hostile. So instead of nicking me, they sent me to hospital, which is where I woke up the following morning totally unaware of how I'd got there.

When I got to New St to get train home, the local paper was full of stories about Palace fans rioting the previous night, and it been the worst trouble ever seen.

Quite a night. :o

[Samo*]

Watford last season,i was mullered,i cant remember the game,only the steward refusing to let me in the ground untill i told him i would behave myself and that i had travelled all the way from yorkshire for the game(not).I then fell a kip next to my uncle for 70 mins,woke up,and went on a booze up with the likes of riccardddododododoodododo :),we went to one bar where the dj was that good he actually didnt have any headphones :rolleyes:

[Pidster]

Many years ago I went up to Stoke... after a "couple" of cold drinks on the train ( back in the days when you could take the contents of an off licence with you ), we sashayed our way to the Victoria ground. There was a beer stall at the bottom of the steps leading up to the terraces . We didn't make it up them. At half-time we nearly got twatted by Palace fans who thought we were Stoke, because we were, ahem, "speaking in tongues".

The journey back to the station was a sobering experience..

[congress]

The 6-0 away win at Reading.We went up early in a few cars and stopped in some little country pub because the food was good.We did not touch the food.
Got to the ground just in time for the kick off and could not really remember the game apart from it was a major hassle as Palace scored six goals and it was terracing.
Ever tried trying to find your mates after celebrating a goal while drunk.Why did Palace score six times that day?

[Pistike]

Anfield the season Gabba-i-adini and Thomas got us a famous 1-2 victory.

I was so pissed that I fell asleep on the floor of a pub about 500 yards from the ground. My brother James "sensible" Varcoe had to wake me up at 2.45 so I could stumble to the turnstiles.

Watched the whole game Kevin stylee with one eye closed.

If I remember well that was the silly hat day out.

What wonderful, if not somewhat clouded, memories.

[Pistike]

Originally posted by congress
The 6-0 away win at Reading.We went up early in a few cars and stopped in some little country pub because the food was good.We did not touch the food.
Got to the ground just in time for the kick off and could not really remember the game apart from it was a major hassle as Palace scored six goals and it was terracing.
Ever tried trying to find your mates after celebrating a goal while drunk.Why did Palace score six times that day?

Jesus I had forgotten all about that game.

[dave_who_ru]

I've had a few beers in my time at away games but my best memory is my brother at the Zenith Data etc etc final at Wembley against Everton.
He had to travel down from Kettering by coach and had already drank a bottle of wine and a couple of cans of lager when I met him at Victoria. We then proceeded to have several drinks before proceeding on our way.

As the game wore on he slunk lower and lower in his seat and finally disappeared to the toilets. With Palace winning in extra time I went searching for him and eventually found in with his head in a sink. I dragged him back to our seats and had to keep pulling him up on his feet every time Palace scored. Sadly to this day he remembers little of that final half hour.

[BVB Bob]

I'm sure this will be corrected as I have no memory of most of this, but others can put me right. The match was Huddersfield away & to say I was lashed is an understatement. It has been posted about before but during the course of the day I:

1. Phoned Everton FC to find out the right back before Gary Stevens (& they phoned back)
2. Arrived in Huddersfield 10 mins before kick off & still insisted on going to an old haunt of mine
3. Broke my toe kicking a wall of a building site cos pub had been shut down & demolished
4. Realised I was on the wrong road & found said pub 100 yards away
5. Got to the ground when Palace were 2-0 down
6. Only realised I was in the wrong end when I shouted some encouragement to a Palace player & was the only person in the whole stand doing so
7. Bought a Hudds Town teddy
8. Got thrown into the Palace end
9. Nearly got thrown out of the Palace end for holding aforementioned Teddy for ransom with a loaded finger
10. Got thrown out of the Palace end for bouncing Teddy on the head of the Chief of West Yorkshire Police
11. Missed Hudds' 3rd & 4th goals (a blessing - I saw a 0-0 draw)
12. Met a Millwall trainee on the train on the way back who turned out to be a Hammers fan & told him my brother-in-law is a West Ham fan - every 5 minutes for the duration of the journey.

I'm sure there's more, but I don't remember!! :clown:

[TAK]

Liverpool 5-0, I don't remember much but people keep telling me about it:clown:

[Psychokiller]

Man City 1989 - I was only 15 at the time and got totally ratted on cans of Red Stripe Crucial Brew (anyone remember that muck?) on the train up there and vomited 4 times during the match.

AWFOW's birthday when we had an exec box at the Brum home game this year I was quite ratted too!

[holeesheet]

ashamed to say pretty much all of the away games ive been to i have been pished just in case we get a kicking , that way you dont feel it you undersatand !:D

[Ruskin Old Boy]

Sunderland away in the cup 1976....opened the first cans before the train left King's Cross. Something like 8am (really don't remember)....and it kept on flowing until some time the following morning in Croydon....:eek:

[Al From Bromley]

The famous Norwich away 1-0 with the 50 yard cross field pass by Cole. I phoned JP on Capital Gold from the car park of the pub after the game and rambled on semi-coherently for a while as well. A few sherries were downed that day...and lots more besides. Drinking so much we missed the last train home and had to stay the night. Monty's classic line to the official at the station when told the last train had gone..."you must have known there'd be stragglers"! Stragglers? The station was 5 minute walk from the ground. We had straggled into a few pubs and completely lost track of time. Staggered into Norwich's finest hotel and askd how much a room was.. £100 came the reply. "Look there's six of us, we'll give £50 for each room, cash. take it or leave it" I slurred. They left it. We ended up in a B & B where the landlady refused to talk to me about organising some rooms because i was too drunk. Ah! happy days.

[Streatham man]

on the train coming back from Cardiff in 1975 -- a match which sealed our relegation to the old 3rd division.

[johanncryuff]

Stockport away chucking up
Torquay with Polish - they threw me out after he had jumpoed Gladiator-style onto the back of the net:D
Any game where we go to Stourbridge first
Any game where we go to Middlewych first
Most home games

But paradoxically (?), we went to PNE a couple of years back and didn't have a drink on the way up - running late - dived in the ground at 2.45 to get a beer and was told "strongest tipple in here. lad, is Tea or Coffee" Watc hed an hour of the worst game ever stone cold sober, straight - God it was AWFUL:eek:

[pebble@thewooly]

two games come to my mind here:-
1, charlton away,me & mates from pub went to this game a few years ago (cant remember exact) we were in the pub most of us were drinkin hooch, well at work i used to drink apple tango and in the pub i was drinking apple hooch and thought they tasted the same,anyway we werer downing them like there was no tommorrow, when we eventually got to the game about half way through the first half i started feeling ill and wasn't sitting near the isle so proceeded in throwing my guts up all over the seats in front and me m8s and myself and let me tell ya The Valley never smelt as sweet as it did that day,let me apologise if any of you lot were the ones in front of me that day.
2,sunderland away in the cup, went up by train with 1 m8, we got talkin to a villa fan who was going up coz villa were playin newcastle the next day so we went to newcastle to drink with his m8s (had a great laugh) left pub totally p*ssed to continue train journey was singin all sorts of songsgot in ground (somehow). hayden mullins got sent of so i said to my m8 "who's goin off" & he said hayden then i said " good thats 2 less people on the pitch " 'coz i was seeing double BUT i didn't throw up though

[tomario]

One of my favorite days on the piss with palace was ipswich away, second game of the season with Lewington/Nicolas at the hel. As you should be aware Ipswich away is always a top day out on the piss, so naturally in town for the pubs opening with the orpington pissheads, before heading to the Drum for a few pre match sherbets. All i can remeber about the game is the prat with the helicopters at half time. Couldn't even remeber the game, and didn't recognise my cousin who was sitting in the row behind me for the whole game. Top day out. Then i found out we lost 1-0 the next morning.

[johanncryuff]

Originally posted by pebble@thewooly

2,sunderland away in the cup, went up by train with 1 m8, we got talkin to a villa fan who was going up coz villa were playin newcastle the next day so we went to newcastle to drink with his m8s (had a great laugh) left pub totally p*ssed to continue train journey was singin all sorts of songsgot in ground (somehow). hayden mullins got sent of so i said to my m8 "who's goin off" & he said hayden then i said " good thats 2 less people on the pitch " 'coz i was seeing double BUT i didn't throw up though
And you spoke to me on the fone that day - you were VERY Pished!!

[Pistike]

Originally posted by Gavin Axten
The weird thing is i had never been to my mates student house before except for an hour or so before the Uni disco but found my way back to his house which was about 2 miles from the university!!! I didn't even know what his house number was.

I was in Manchester in about 1986, we probably ran into one another and I offered to show you where your mate lived.

[Sandowneagle]

For me it was Swindon away in the 90's - the day we made the playoffs. I was so drunk that I walked into a lamp post before the game, knocked a tooth out and suffered concussion. I woke up the following morning and had to look on teletext to find out the score.

[pebble@thewooly]

Originally posted by johanncryuff

And you spoke to me on the fone that day - you were VERY Pished!!

just goes to show how bad i was 'coz i don't remember that fone call
:D :D :D

[dickie]

It has to be the Cup Final. Like most I guess, me n me mates thought Wembley was still dry, so we made an early start and headed for pubs in the West End for a few. Headed up to Wembley on the tube, complete with drinks. Arrived at Wembley only to find out is was two pints per person per time. Needless to say, by the start of the game, I was well n truly hammered. All I can remember was standing on my seat for the whole match, singing/shouting, with people around me trying to hold me up as I could not stand very well! I remember nothing of the match.

[pebble@thewooly]

Originally posted by dickie
It has to be the Cup Final.

with people around me trying to hold me up as I could not stand very well! I remember nothing of the match.

well m8 we drew 3-3 :D :D :D :p

[Grim Reaper]

Originally posted by tomario
Like a lot of other Palace fans I enjoy a drink or two before a game, especially at away games. Its probably safe to say I have been wasted at quite a few. The worst one for me was when we lost 2-0 at Bristol City, when Bobby Bowry got sent off. Stated drinking at 8am at Victoria Station, and I was pissed by the time we reached Bristol station at 10;45 am and I fell off the train. The return journey was a nightmare, as I proceed to be continously sick in the first class toilets on the way back. Must of been the dodgy burger at half time.


I saw the title of the thread and that you'd started it and KNEW you'd pick this game, despite there being a number of worthy contenders. You forgot to mention dropping your ticket under the train while it was still on the platform and having to climb under the train to retrieve it!!!

Why no mention of the friendly game in summer 1993 where you stood in the middle of the Victoria station concourse and had a slash in a pint glass in front of hundreds of people??????? :o Sorry, just had to mention it!!! ;)

[le piddler]

Brentford away that game was if I remember rightly Grim??? And a tramp drank what he had pissed into that pint glass if I remember rightly?? :eek: :eek: & did'nt spud nearly fall onto the tracks on the tube & have to be pulled up??:eek:

[tomario]

Yes you are both correct fellas on both accounts.