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Post by NG4POTTERS on Jun 10, 2009 16:51:36 GMT
Anyone ever thumbed a lift up or down the country to watch stoke. I hitched from wolverhampton to exeter for a pre season friendly the once (mid 90's), got a lift from m6 junction 10 and got dropped off right outside st james park. Some stokies gave me a lift back up north after. Anyone else?
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Post by jbstokie on Jun 10, 2009 16:53:35 GMT
I bet you were gutted when you turned up in Newcastle Upon Tyne  |
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Post by NG4POTTERS on Jun 10, 2009 16:56:04 GMT
I bet you were gutted when you turned up in Newcastle Upon Tyne ;D |
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Post by ST1 Stokie on Jun 10, 2009 17:03:10 GMT
Yep, Myself and 2 friends were in a pub in Stone one Friday night,and Stoke were playing Wrexham on Sat,being bladdered one of us suggested that we could walk it(seemed a good idea at the time).So we set off and got as far as Woore and the drink was wearing off and we were knackered,so started to thumb,and within 20 mins we were picked up by some other Stokies who were going overnight.Never did get a chance to thank them for that,so if your out there and remember it.A great big THANK YOU and loads of invisible karma.  |
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Post by NG4POTTERS on Jun 10, 2009 17:05:04 GMT
Yep, Myself and 2 friends were in a pub in Stone one Friday night,and Stoke were playing Wrexham on Sat,being bladdered one of us suggested that we could walk it(seemed a good idea at the time).So we set off and got as far as Woore and the drink was wearing off and we were knackered,so started to thumb,and within 20 mins we were picked up by some other Stokies who were going overnight.Never did get a chance to thank them for that,so if your out there and remember it.A great big THANK YOU and loads of invisible karma. Walk it ;D |
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Post by GrandStokie on Jun 10, 2009 17:15:19 GMT
Went to West Ham in the 80s, I had a Mini 850 at the time and it broke down on the M6 near Stafford (piece of shit it was). I had no breakdown cover so I just abandoned it and tried to thumb a lift. I had no joy for about half and hour so I whipped the Stoke top out and bingo a Leicester fan stopped and gave me a lift to Wanstead, nr Upton Park! I slipped one of the coach drivers a tenner after the game and he let me on, sorted!!
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Post by skemstokie on Jun 10, 2009 17:37:06 GMT
Hitched to Amsterdam and back for the Ajax gamein the seventies
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Post by werrington on Jun 10, 2009 17:40:34 GMT
Not to a Stoke game but hitched home from one!!!!!!.......All the way from Padova in Italy with £19 in me pocket in Nov 93 as Happy Days coaches decided they would leave all those who were 5 mins late!!!..Spent 1st night on Swiss/Italian border and 2nd in Frankfurt eating shit burgers and £8 foot passenger over the Channel!!!!
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Post by mitchandtitch on Jun 10, 2009 17:48:51 GMT
Yep, Myself and 2 friends were in a pub in Stone one Friday night,and Stoke were playing Wrexham on Sat,being bladdered one of us suggested that we could walk it(seemed a good idea at the time).So we set off and got as far as Woore and the drink was wearing off and we were knackered,so started to thumb,and within 20 mins we were picked up by some other Stokies who were going overnight.Never did get a chance to thank them for that,so if your out there and remember it.A great big THANK YOU and loads of invisible karma. Fantastic - thats made my day ;D ;D ;D |
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Post by torgaustokie on Jun 10, 2009 18:02:44 GMT
We used to hitch from Stafford late 60s early 70s home and away we were 14 to 16 years old at the time ! would not do that today. We once got a lift in the Police Horse box too and from the match ! we thought we were in for a bollocking when it pulled up,worse thing was when the horses had a shit what a pong!!!
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Post by Staffsoatcake on Jun 10, 2009 18:14:52 GMT
Hitched to London to watch us play Fulham in the middish 60s.
Also Walked to Manchester to watch us play the Shit that time.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 10, 2009 18:15:37 GMT
Couple of times from Liverpool in the mid 70's for home games...false economy as always spent more on supplies than the train fare, so knocked it on the head.
77/8 Once cycled to Stoke from Liverpool on a bike with just three gears , to catch the coach to Southampton for the New Years Eve away game.Going was an adventure, Eddy Merckx and Tour de Stoke ...
Return journey was hell
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Post by NG4POTTERS on Jun 10, 2009 18:17:46 GMT
Some excellent stories here. Nice one. Devotion to SCFC
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Post by Ron Jeremy on Jun 10, 2009 18:20:06 GMT
Not to a Stoke game but hitched home from one!!!!!!.......All the way from Padova in Italy with £19 in me pocket in Nov 93 as Happy Days coaches decided they would leave all those who were 5 mins late!!!..Spent 1st night on Swiss/Italian border and 2nd in Frankfurt eating shit burgers and £8 foot passenger over the Channel!!!! Brilliant ! ;D |
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Post by Lakeland Potter on Jun 10, 2009 18:22:53 GMT
I've never hitched to a game but for one match last season at about 11.30 am I stopped just this side of Kendal (about 100 miles from the Brit) to fill up with fuel - I was wearing my Stoke shirt. A family of three came over - their car had broken down and they asked if I was going to the match. I said yes and gave them a lift to Stoke.
The bloke's brother gave them a lift home after the match and the husband travelled up to pick up the car from a garage on the Monday after it had been fixed.
I won't mention their name but the husband posts on here occasionally and more often on the TEAMtalk message board. The other weird thing was that his face seemed familiar and it was about half way down the M6 before we worked out where we had met (about three times) before - and it wasn't at a match!
It really is a small world. ;D
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Post by NG4POTTERS on Jun 10, 2009 18:25:46 GMT
I've never hitched to a game but for one match last season at about 11.30 am I stopped just this side of Kendal (about 100 miles from the Brit) to fill up with fuel - I was wearing my Stoke shirt. A family of three came over - their car had broken down and they asked if I was going to the match. I said yes and gave them a lift to Stoke. The bloke's brother gave them a lift home after the match and the husband travelled up to pick up the car from a garage on the Monday after it had been fixed. I won't mention their name but the husband posts on here occasionally and more often on the TEAMtalk message board. The other weird thing was that his face seemed familiar and it was about half way down the M6 before we worked out where we had met (about three times) before - and it wasn't at a match! It really is a small world. ;D Think i know who you mean off teamtalk lakeland. Seem to remember him thanking you at the time. |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 10, 2009 18:28:11 GMT
'The other weird thing was that his face seemed familiar and it was about half way down the M6 before we worked out where we had met (about three times) before ' Was it during an intimate search with your hand up his bottom ? Though 3 times ,surprised people hadn't started to talk Oh PS : forgot the smiley |
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Post by Lakeland Potter on Jun 10, 2009 18:32:44 GMT
'The other weird thing was that his face seemed familiar and it was about half way down the M6 before we worked out where we had met (about three times) before ' Was it during an intimate search with your hand up his bottom ? Though 3 times ,surprised people hadn't started to talk Oh PS : forgot the smiley No, it wasn't as part of MY former job that we met - it was when he was doing HIS job in Stoke - but not at the Brit.  |
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Post by stoke624 on Jun 10, 2009 18:36:09 GMT
hitched it to middlesbro in the seventies withjed from bradwell and got to thirsk via 3 lifts and then got a train.
jumped the train coming back with no tickets and when we got ff a stoke were stopped before we got off the station---"where did you get on"?,we were asked. "Crewe" was the answer and we had to pay 25p!!!
Oh,by the way,we got to boro midway through the first half and we lost 2 or 3-0 !!
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Post by Deleted on Jun 10, 2009 18:40:17 GMT
LP Apologies to the other lad as well - posted purley in jest |
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Post by kevkj on Jun 10, 2009 18:44:35 GMT
Yep, Myself and 2 friends were in a pub in Stone one Friday night,and Stoke were playing Wrexham on Sat,being bladdered one of us suggested that we could walk it(seemed a good idea at the time).So we set off and got as far as Woore and the drink was wearing off and we were knackered,so started to thumb,and within 20 mins we were picked up by some other Stokies who were going overnight.Never did get a chance to thank them for that,so if your out there and remember it.A great big THANK YOU and loads of invisible karma. Well im not sure who you are but you must have been a mate of mine as it was my dads pub we left at Stone.The Swan. If i remeber right there was a shuttle car running as well but we decided to walk and got as far as Woore,then we got picked up and were in Wrexham before the lark pinching milk lol. |
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Post by sonofbanks on Jun 10, 2009 18:58:15 GMT
Me and a mate got a lift as far as the M25 from me mates' mate who was going down south somewhere when Stoke were playing Millwall ( i think ) late '80's early '90's at a guess, it was definately a Saturday game if anyone can remember. Anyways we waited for best part of an hour trying to thumb our way to the match but no bugger stopped. It was at a time when we were both skint so we persavered instead of getting the train in  After a hour and a half I was desperate for a piss so ran behind some bushes at the bottom of the hill we were stood on to relieve mesen. Just finished when I hear me mate Andy shouting me that we had got a lift. I go pelting up this hill to see this poor bloke pulling the passenger door shut clearly shitting himself at the thought of being mugged and fooking off. We ended up getting a taxi into somewhere and getting a train into London at turned 4.00 pm. Gave up on trying to get to the game and sought out some mates of mates who were in a band at the time and living down there. Ended up that night in The Marquee club where this band were playing. Was pretty pissed and sitting near a slot machine when this bloke with long hair loads of rings on his fingers and tattoos started playing it. Never thought much of it 'till one of the lads shouted to him "eh up Lemmy owat ?" Yup was Lemmy from Motorhead, a exiled Stokie, don't know if he supported Stoke at any time but always remembered his roots and had a good chat about "home", top night getting pissed in London. We also tried to hitch a lift to Barnsley away around the same time, either Boxing Day or New Years Day, remember having a bastard of a hangover and walking halfway up the D Road, but no bugger stopped  so we went the pub instead |
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Post by Owd Twat on Jun 10, 2009 21:30:34 GMT
Hitching around the country was much more commonplace in the 70's. I was a poor student in Brum and used to hitch back for all the home matches because I had a season ticket. Even had Villa fans trying to give me a lift from Spaghetti Junction. Memorable hitches: pre-season friendly for the Herefordshire Cup at Edgar Street, being shown round the ground by staff who were chuffed to bits to have Stoke playing there. Cup match at Lincoln, scrapping with Shit fans as soon as we got there. The wall collapsed in the away end, getting a lift back as far as Derby in an overloaded minibus and some of the more worldly wise Meir lads 'finding' a much nicer motor to finish the journey in. Hitch to West Brom - must have been 100 of us coming back in a PMT double decker, swaying from side to side up the M6. Crackin days - not the chance to have such a laugh these times of CCTV, etc.
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Post by kidsgrove4 on Jun 10, 2009 21:59:23 GMT
Yes. A few times when I was skint. |
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Post by manitobastokie on Jun 10, 2009 23:50:44 GMT
Years ago coming down from Lancaster broke down just before J16 RAC towed me off motorway to layby, hitched a ride with fellow Stokie to game then back to car at layby phone RAC who then towed me back to Lancaster really impressed with RAC that day.
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Post by Soi Cowboy on Jun 11, 2009 2:57:44 GMT
Wasn't so much hitched but that hell-hole backwater known as Westerlo we got two trains and a bus from Amsterdam and were informed by the police that there were coaches back to the railway station. End of the game the police apologised as decided not to bother with the coaches and it absolutely pissed down with rain.
We sat in a bus shelter under my flag for an hour or so as absolutely nowhere to stay before I spotted a neon sign down a lane- followed it and found a cracking pub that was open until 6am. Got chatting to the bar maid and she gave us a lift to the railway station when the bar closed that morning. We got back to Amsterdam 2pm the next day still soaked wet through but full of very nice Belgian beer.
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Post by Northy on Jun 11, 2009 4:06:40 GMT
In the 80's to Norwich first game of the season, I even slept on the beach front in Great Yarmouth for 2 nights after the clubs shut
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Post by JoeinOz on Jun 11, 2009 4:13:41 GMT
In the 80's to Norwich first game of the season We lost 1-5 as well  |
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Post by CalgaryPotter on Jun 11, 2009 6:42:02 GMT
Had a hitching trip when Bally resigned after the 4-0 pummeling at Wigan.
Got picked up after the transport broke down somewhere close to Sandbach services, they were some very pleasant and very straight laced Stokies who I didn't thank enough and after the match spent two hours drinking with Tony Grey and his merry mob in a rugby bar in Wigan before we embarked on an eye opener back to N-U-L.
I'd had some mad bastard trips beforehand but that crew that day taught me a whole new side to puddled. Two words say it all for those who were there.................... "the Salamanca" ;D
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Post by Northy on Jun 11, 2009 6:42:33 GMT
In the 80's to Norwich first game of the season We lost 1-5 as well Same one as me, you weren't one of those lads who turned up in a cafe in Norwich about 7.30 after nicking a van in Stoke and abandoning it somewhere on the way were you? We went straight up to tesco for a carry out when it opened at 9.00 AM and then had a bit of a scuffle about 11.00 as the locals arrived? |
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After a hour and a half I was desperate for a piss so ran behind some bushes at the bottom of the hill we were stood on to relieve mesen. Just finished when I hear me mate Andy shouting me that we had got a lift. I go pelting up this hill to see this poor bloke pulling the passenger door shut clearly shitting himself at the thought of being mugged and fooking off. We ended up getting a taxi into somewhere and getting a train into London at turned 4.00 pm. Gave up on trying to get to the game and sought out some mates of mates who were in a band at the time and living down there. Ended up that night in The Marquee club where this band were playing. Was pretty pissed and sitting near a slot machine when this bloke with long hair loads of rings on his fingers and tattoos started playing it. Never thought much of it 'till one of the lads shouted to him "eh up Lemmy owat ?" Yup was Lemmy from Motorhead, a exiled Stokie, don't know if he supported Stoke at any time but always remembered his roots and had a good chat about "home", top night getting pissed in London.
