Crazy trips to watch Slough Town

[brighton_rebel]

After Yeovil Steve missed the local bus and had to hitch the last 20 miles to get to see us play Taunton I was wondering if people had other stories of journies to matches that didn't quite go to plan, so i could write about them for the programme.

For example years ago we picked up some Boston fans on the motorway whose car had blown up! We took them to Stafford - Slough and dropped them back off home in Oxford.

Alan Harding wrote of the time the wheels of the coach fell off.

Any other stories?

[Guest chris-sliski]

The time slough played Winsford in Cheshire , the team travel by Train and stayed in Crewe for the afternoon and went to the ground by coach, we lost the match and the team returned to the Station to pick up the night service back to Euston the train was due to arrive if I remember about 1-30am with a coach to take the team back to Slough ! Well it was a feezing night and the train broke down just outside Rugby the overhead power lines had fallen onto the train, we froze and finally after being rescued the train arrived in euston at 7am , I rememeber going straight to work just getting into work at 9am ! frozen ; lack of sleep and also knowing we got beaten ...

[Guest Anonymous]

I rember the trip to Runcorn when we hired an entire train to take us to Runcorn (FA Trophy I think), then having to walk through Runcorn with lots of Police, my first experience of being herded around by the Police. These days we are hard pushed to fill a coach!

[Ted]

Runcorn have fared even worse than us.

 

Runcorn Linnets Football Club was born on 28 April 2006, when the fans of Runcorn Football Club, dismayed at the club’s predicament, met at their spiritual home at the Quayside in Canal Street in Runcorn and voted to establish a new club which would continue the proud tradition of non-League football which had existed in the town since 1918. A large group of fans formed an interim committee to set the wheels in motion. A Supporters Trust already existed and this was the vehicle through which the new club would be run. At this early stage, the club existed in name only, and the choice of the name Runcorn Linnets was symbolic in representing where the fans had come from and in keeping those ties with our past, whilst at the same time recognising that a new club needed to be built to re-establish confidence in the local community.

 

To start a new club from scratch with only 4 months to the start of a new season was a mammoth task, and the newly formed committee drew up business and action plans to attempt to achieve their objectives. Negotiations were opened on many fronts, with the FA, the Cheshire FA, the North West Counties League, Supporters Direct and Witton Albion Football Club. We received a vast amount of advice and support from all of these bodies and were hugely grateful to them all for their help.

 

The Chairman and Board of Directors at Witton Albion FC extended the hand of friendship and offered us a ground share for the season, as no suitable venue was immediately available back in Runcorn. This we were delighted to accept. A Roll of Honour was established on our website in recognition of the support offered to us by fans and friends in those early days.

 

We were supported by our local council and MPs in our bid for a place in the league for the start of season 2006/07. The members of the committee worked tirelessly to achieve our objective and we were delighted when we were finally accepted into the league by the member clubs on Saturday 17 June 2006 at the AGM in Buxton. It was a proud day for all of us and we were grateful to be given the opportunity to re-build a non-League club representing Runcorn and with the firm aim of moving the club back to its roots at the earliest opportunity.

 

Former manager and player for Runcorn FC Halton, Steve Carragher agreed to join as manager. Steve has vast non-League experience and we are delighted that he lead the team in this new venture. The old Runcorn FC started life back in the Cheshire League, so it was perhaps fitting that we had this chance to re-build in the League that was formed from an amalgamation of that league and the Lancashire Combination.

 

We enjoyed our first season immensely, visiting some new grounds and making some new friends on the way and to achieve promotion in our first season was a just reward for the effort put in by so many fans. We finished second to Winsford on goal difference. We now look forward to the new challenges in the First Division. Our supporters will again turn out in numbers to support the team and visit lots of new grounds and we will also enter the FA Vase for the first time.

 

 

[Guest Anonymous]

Took 20 odd coaches and a train to Skelmesdale for the Amateur Cup quarter final replay. we lost 1-0 and yet they still stoned our coaches.

Most disappointed trip was to West Auckland in the Amateur cup we won 3-1 and they invited us to spend the evening in their local club ( that was in the days when folk raved about the northern clubs and the entertainment in them )but a few old foggies on our coache said " no lets get home ", what a wasted opportunity that was.

[Chris]

Not exactly crazy, but time last year I went from Slough to watch us play Horsham, only for it to pour down and get called off.

 

I then needed to travel tp Bournemouth to meet my friends to celebrate new years the same day, only to get my car stuck in mud in the Horsham car park. I was covered in mud and soaked through!

[Tom]

I travelled to Worthing from Portsmouth 2 years ago for a midweek fixture sitting on a train full of Austrian school kids and a magician doing card tricks! The Austrian kids weren't happy when I said I thought they were German.

 

[Harmston Rebel]

I recall travelling to Ashington for an Amateur Cup replay in the final year of the competition. Whilst Slough lost 1-0, the locals did us proud before and after the match buying all our beers, crisps etc. I think I still had 4 pints left at kick off time. After the match everyone stopped to ask the score. Rather better experience than some other 'big' matches. My brother was in regular touch for many years after with one local fan. The coach left Slough on Friday evening and we got back during the early hours of Sunday. We were not allowed to stop at any Little Chef outlets because they did not allow coaches and we only wanted chips!

[Guest BFR]

Not exactly a Slough match, but I did drive from Liverpool to watc Matt Miller play for Thame against Swindon Supermarine. And he still couldn't score!

[Ian]

He probably would have scored if we hadn't been there singing "He'll score again"

 

Kay

[Don Juan DeMarcus]

I think he was revelling in the attention...

 

 

Away trip to Dag & Red 4-4 it finised and the coach got flashed by some 'ladies of the night' which ended up with 40 blokes 14-40 running to the back of the coach, to get a better look!

 

Also an away game at Woking we won 2-1 (sayer x2 i think) Which ended up with 100+ of us dancing across a busy main road and stopping traffic.

[richierebel]

my favourite was driving all the way to merthyr the night before an fa trophy game in terrible weather conditions, the severn bridge was closed for a period it was that bad then going out in Merthyr and getting blind drunk and staying in our cars overnight only to find in the morning the game had been called off.

[DorneyRebel]

The same Dag and Reg match Marcus mentions resulted me and my mate broken down on the M25 in his bright orange VW Beetle smoking joints and listening to Martin Bashir interview Princess Diana. Happy days.

[Don Juan DeMarcus]

Ok mate... that beats the dancing across the road!!