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Following on from the 'First Town Game (http://thetownend.com/index.php?topic=48314.0)' thread, here's a similar opportunity to share your first away day memories.

Six questions:

• Who was your first away game against?
• What was the score?
• When was it?
• How long was it after your first home game?
• How old were you?
• What do you remember about the day?

I'll set the ball rolling.

• Who was your first away game against?
  Oxford United
  
  
• What was the score?
  Oxford 5-3 STFC (http://swindon-town-fc.co.uk/MatchCentre.asp?MatchID=19920133)
  
  
• When was it?
  March 7th, 1992
  
  
• How long was it after your first home game?
  18 months
  
  
• How old were you?
  19
  
  
• What do you remember about the day?
  The long walk up the hill to Headington from the city centre.  The feeling that their ground was brutal and inhospitable, and shit (compared to the relative grandeur of the County Ground...the only other ground I'd ever set foot in).  The Police helicopters overhead as we left the ground.  And the Irish pisshead, about 50 yrs old, who sidled up to us as we were leaving the ground and offered us a fight.  (We politely declined.)
  
  Oh...and Shaun Close scoring after less than a minute, and thinking we had it in the bag.

Northampton away when Kingy was in charge. Jon Beswetherick played. I think Kingy got in a fight? I was younger than I am now and it was probably a good 15 years after my first home game.

http://www.swindon-town-fc.co.uk/MatchCentre.asp?MatchID=20030135

Ipswich,

We won 2-1
 
March 4th 1989

4 years.

14.

We got there late and had to go in through the home turnstiles and were led through the back into the away end adjacent.
Think I paid £3 towards the petrol. Chalkie bagged a double.

Who was your first away game against?
Bristol City

What was the score?
lost 2-1

When was it?
March 1971

How long was it after your first home game?
2 months

How old were you?
7

What do you remember about the day?
John Galley is s fairy, big fat & hairy (I was only 7)

Also Ipswich.

Lost 3 or 4 nil.

Towards the end of our last season in Championship so I guess the early months of 2000.

At least 10 years, couldn't get to an away game until I passed my driving test, this was days after passing my test

17

Nothing memorable about the game, we were shit as per most that season. I guess the "highlight" was driving on the M25 for the first time.

You have basically answered my reason for starting this thread.  My two (aged 7 & 6) are begging me to go to an away game.  I'm tempted, but just a little apprehensive.

Bristol Rovers
Won 4-1
1981
18
5 years
Stood with my Gas mates trying to stay out of the way. Got over excited with the goals going in  and got a slap at half time for my troubles

Oxford away.

Ran em all over the shop and took the London Road on my own.

ROAAAAR

That's brilliant.  I had a similar experience (without the slap) on second away game...which was vs Rovers at Twerton Park at the start of the following season.

Bristol Rovers 3-4 STFC (http://swindon-town-fc.co.uk/MatchCentre.asp?MatchID=19930102)

I was in the away end with a Rovers-supporting mate.  We went 4-1 up, and managed to hold on to 4-3 win at the end.  I seem to remember that one of Rovers' late goals came as a result of a free kick awarded because Diggers handled the ball from a back pass.  The back pass rule had been introduced just weeks before.

Who was your first away game against? Watford (FA Cup)
What was the score? 0-1
When was it? 28th Jan 1995
How long was it after your first home game? 10 years
How old were you? 17
What do you remember about the day? Very little in all honesty, my mate driving us up there, and the stand behind the goal with Watford fans in looked huge!

Our son was 4 when he went to his first away game, it was at Reading.

Probably easier with one, but you will be savvy enough to keep them away from any issues.

Who was your first away game against?

In truth it was supporting Aberdeen at Hibernian in 1991 with my Dons supporting step-dad (4-2 win for Aberdeen).

For Swindon it versus Bristol City.

What was the score?

0-0

When was it?

1996

How long was it after your first home game?

About 5 and a half years after my first home game.

How old were you?

12

What do you remember about the day?

We wore the blue and black away kit.
It was an early Scott Leitch game.
Walking through some fighting on the way out.
Dad telling me to stop singing Town songs in case he was somehow targeted with a 12 year-old son with him.

My first ever Swindon game was away, at Wycombe. Only thing I really remember is that a) singing Swindon songs in the home end is not the done thing, and b) football is much better than shopping on a Saturday

Pretty sure that was my first away game aswell. I would have been 11. Only things that stick out for me were sitting in the City End, Wayne Allison getting a fair bit of stick & Peter Thorne heading just wide!! Would have been about a year & a half after my first home game!!

In fact it may have been the Swansea away game in the same season where Shaun Taylor scored the winner so whichever came first! Memories of that are Taylor's winner, my uncle jumping up to celebrate in the home end when it went in & the ball rolling under Bodin's foot to go out for a Swansea throw!!

Sorry to derail the thread but you're from the Rhondda right Freddy? Do you still go to games? Wondering if I might have seen you at some point on my travels  :)

Christ.... just because talk talk does it doesn't make it right.... they often say the victims of stalking/grooming often become perpetrators themselves :D

Crystal Palace Away 73-74 Lost 2-6. Don Rogers tore us to pieces. First home game was the week after. I was 9 so everything was big and fucking scary, but the thing I remember most is my dad and his 2 mates pulling up in a pub along the A4 somewhere and getting pissed up whilst I froze in the car with my crisps!

Ah.. So when adje (as an example) asks if he saw someone at a recent game it's not creepy, but when I ask casually if we might get the same train or something because we live close it's stalking?

You sir, are a sexist pig.

..not really  :)

He did get accused of grooming IIRC

A man who hasn't bought a new razor in 22 years?

Oh you meant adje. Fuck it, you're all perverts and so am I.

Who was your first away game against? Nottingham Forest FA Cup
What was the score? 4-1 to Forest
When was it? January 1978
How long was it after your first home game? 2 years
How old were you? 16
What do you remember about the day? Bodmans coach from Devizes.  Loads of trouble in some service station on the M1 after one of our lot stoved the back window of a Southend United coach in.  Stones thrown at us by Forest fans in the ground.  One of our coach getting thrown in the Trent and therefore leaving late.  Still marvelled that we were playing THAT Forest team.

Ardiles is lying anyway. that baby face has never needed a razor!

Quality first game.

Who was your first away game against?

West brom

What was the score?

Won 2-1 http://swindon-town-fc.co.uk/MatchCentre.asp?MatchID=19970132

When was it?

96/97 season

How long was it after your first home game?

3 years(?)

How old were you?

Just before my 14th birthday

What do you remember about the day?

My namesake scored the winner!

First away game against - Luton Town
What was the score - 2-0 to Swindon (FA Cup 3rd Round)
When Was it - 5th January 1980
How long after your first home game - 4 years
How old were you - 11
What do you remember about the day - My Dad thinking it would be safer to stand with the home supporters than the Swindon fans! And the Luton fan we stood next too getting angrier and angrier throughout the game as Luton were losing, but having to curb his swearing due to the no doubt annoying 11 year old next to him. Also remember the terracing being open at both ends and it seeming quite a big ground at the time, to an 11 year old anyway.

Bristol City

4-0 to us :)

January 1991

1 year

20

Going into the home pub before the game, being kept in the ground until 5.45pm and getting pushed down the terracing for ages when we scored.

That forest Jan 78 game.Big town following I thought until we got there .Loads of forest up for it and we were in side terrace where their lot were waiting .( either side of us )No stewards or old bill about so just a normal 70 s Saturday

I believe it was a rather insignificant game in our history.  A 5-0 defeat at Newcastle Utd in 1988 a good 6 years after my first home game at the age of 12.  On the plus side we went on some club organised coach/hospitality thing where you got taken to a restaurant pre game.

Newport County away, Boxing Day 1980ish.  Won 2-0, even with Andy Rowland in goal for most of the game.  I'd have been 11 so a good 7 years after my home debut.

We went in a 'lively' pub before the game, and as per some comments above, then went and stood in the home bit on the side as it was um, safer that way.

Swindon played all in blue, and when we got home the cat had done a poo behind the telly.  Then I played with my new Atari (?) for a bit.  Think we had a home game the next day too, proper Christmas.

Yeah, from the Rhondda. Still go to games, ST holder in the DRS since 96/97.

Pretty much sums it up.  We parked up in the old livestock market next to Meadow Lane and had to walk past the back of the Trent End to that side terrace - scary shit at 16yrs old.  I think the trouble in the services was also because Millwall were away at Derby that day and we all arrived at the same time

We must have crossed paths at some point. Skinny short-ish brunette here (not supposed to sound like a dating profile) who takes the Swansea - Paddington every week when we're at home. Not since 96 though! Chwarae teg to you! :D


This is my favourite post ever

Oh dear. Oh dear oh dear

 :insane:

What's wrong with that?

He's jealous you never told him that...

I've got this thing for petite slim women...

Bristol City
3-2 loss.
1994
1 year
15
The look on my mum's face when my mate's dad told her about going there in '87 before we set off. The near silence of their lot even when winning. Thinking how loud we were(although that now demolished stand had great acoustics). Thinking their fans obviously don't understand self-deprication as they applauded when we sang, 'we're shit, and we're going down'.

The Man City cup game in the 90's at Maine Road.

Went with a few guys from Scotland (I lived in Edinburgh at the time) and we hung about after the game for a few beers. Vaguely remember taxis not wanting to come into Moss Side to take us to wherever we were staying. Pretty sure our eventual taxi broke down (but that could have been some odd dream as my memory is ropey at best!)

Ouch.

This was mine, Aldershot away Dec 82, 3 years after my first home game.

http://swindon-town-fc.co.uk/MatchCentre.asp?MatchID=19830120

The tradition of going to football on Boxing Day with my Dad, Uncle & cousin had started a year or 2 before, and this was the first one to be an away game. I was 10, my cousin was 12, so we got there fairly early to find a decent place to stand where we would be able to see. Moved from directly behind the goal as the sun was setting right in our eyes. Some time during the first half, it all kicked off behind the goal right where we had been stood, and when it started to move around to where we were now standing we jumped over the advertising hoardings and stood right by the side of the pitch, although to be honest for a 10 year old lad, the fighting was more interesting than a 4th division relegation scrap ! I did however get to sit in the dugout at half time for a Bovril & a Drifter.

Who was your first away game against?

Bristol rovers at Twerton Park, August 92 - http://www.swindon-town-fc.co.uk/MatchCentre.asp?MatchID=19930102

What was the score?

We won 4-3, but I didn't remember that before checking.

When was it?

Ausgust 92

How long was it after your first home game?
 
Four days

How old were you?

I was 5-and-a-half

What do you remember about the day?

Honestly, very little. I remember the atmosphere being pretty scary and generally being completely overawed by everything, and that's about it.

I would imagine so. We drive to games but I've got the Cardiff-Paddington many times over the years so will at least recognise u!! We're going to have to leave it at that though I'm afraid, I don't want to trample all over Talk Talk's territory :-[

Who was your first away game against?
Arsenal

What was the score?
1-1

When was it?
League Cup QF Dec 1979

How long was it after your first home game?
7 years

How old were you?
16

What do you remember about the day?
Went up with mate on train and tube after school. As it was our first away game and we were more used to 8000 than 38000 we wildly underestimated time it would take to get there, get in etc etc consequently couldn't get in Swindon end so had to go in with home fans, meaning we were not able to celebrate Billy Tucker equaliser as much as would have liked. Stayed with auntie after game then back on train for school next morning. No way 16 year old could afford train fare never mind Arsenal ticket these days!

Next away game was Wolves Semi Final on supporters coach and that was definitely a very depressed journey home........

Six questions:
Who was your first away game against?
Bristol City
What was the score?
Won 2-1
When was it?
2004
How long was it after your first home game?
About 6 months
How old were you?
7
What do you remember about the day?
Henderson scoring 2, not being able to see properly but still going mad anyway

Who was your first away game against? Blackburn - play offs away
When was it ? May 16th 1990
How long was it after your first home game? 5 years
How old were you? 17
What do you remember about the day? Steve Foley's wonder goal and climbing up the fence to celebrate

First away game in 1979 against Reading (coincidentally, my first ever game was the home game against Reading a few weeks earlier):

http://www.swindon-town-fc.co.uk/MatchCentre.asp?MatchID=19800111

Score: Lost 2-1.
When was it? October 1979.
How long after first home game? A few weeks.
How old was I? 13.
What do I remember about the day? Rowland scoring the first goal that I'd ever seen "live". Apart from that, not much, other than the noise.....oh, and that Reading played in the same kit as QPR and Town played in the Liverpool kit (all red) so I pretended I was watching QPR v Liverpool....

I have always loved away games - the atmosphere always seems much better compared to home games. For years after those first 2 games I considered Reading our biggest rivals.

Who was your first away game against?
Pompey

When was it ?
2 January 1989 (my second was 5 days later, also v Pompey)

How long was it after your first home game?
Ni idea. Years.

How old were you?
18

What do you remember about the day?
The two Pompey away games have blurred into one! Definitely at one of them I managed to cut the lip of the bloke next to me while celebrating a goal. Also, either at one of these, or it could have been a later game at Fratton Park, a friend mistimed going through the turnstile and so had to climb over to choruses of suitable jeering.

Who was your first away game against?
Liverpool, in the Prem (assuming Wembley doesn't count)

What was the score?
Drew 2-2

When was it?
December 1993

How long was it after your first home game?
5 years, almost exactly to the day

How old were you?
13

What do you remember about the day?
The supporters coach getting met by police motorbikes outside the City, walking up through huge crowd, stopping off at the Hilsborough memorial, sitting in the front row of the away end, Anfield Road. The crazed, disbelieving, celebrations both times we went in front. The inevitable disappointment of the late equaliser and The Kop clapping us off.

Who was your first away game against?
Charlton in Div 3

What was the score?
Drew 0-0

When was it?
March 1981

How long was it after your first home game?
18 months

How old were you?
18

What do you remember about the day?
Two haircuts: a huge ugly skinhead among our number on that vast terrace bowl they used to have, and Derek Hales sporting his Frank Zappa look. And being a bit scared most of the time.

• Who was your first away game against?

Wrexham

• What was the score?

3-4

• When was it?

30 Sep 1995

• How long was it after your first home game?

About 2 years

• How old were you?

6

• What do you remember about the day?

We lost (I think) about 4 games that season, and this was our first defeat of the season and also the first time I ever saw us lose. After the game I threatened to break the Wrexham fans legs. I've been a sore loser ever since!

Bristol City 3-3
March 1970
15 months
14
Ashton Gate only had 3 sides.Arthur Horsfield scored twice.

Who was your first away game against?
Oxford United

What was the score?
Oxford 0 Swindon 0

When was it?
April 1968

How long was it after your first home game?
2 years

How old were you?
13

What do you remember about the day?
Packed out. 17,500 people in the Manor Ground.
People watching up the floodlights, and standing on the wall down one side. Someone on the roof of one of the stands.
Couldn't see much of the match.

Stoke, Boxing Day 96. 0-0. Shaun Taylor hit the bar. The terraces at either end of the Victoria Ground were huge. Great noise, terrible game.

I suspect that it was against Blackpool on the Saturday, November 10, 2001, Danny Invincible missed a penalty in the last minute and I had to stand in the away fans as the club would not post a ticket to a Lancashire post code.

Quite sometime after my first home game which was against Chelsea in the Simod cup in January 1988 - my dad struggled to park and we missed the first 2 goals! http://www.swindon-town-fc.co.uk/MatchCentre.asp?MatchID=19881103

Not been to a home game since 1999 but been to a fair few away outings throughout the north.

It's quite surprising how many of these games I was at, seeing things from a very different perspective to the wide eyed optimism of youthful support.

I was hoping to read about your first game when I saw you'd posted in this thread :(

I was there too.  First was our NYD League fixture (2-0 win) and second was FA Cup (1-1).  Two things I remember were sections of our fans shouting in squeaky voices at their manager in his flat cap (Ball) and that the curse of losing to STFC struck when he was sacked soon after losing to us in the replay

Youthful support, I was 26 when I finally made it to an away game!

Everyone knows Reg's first game...

http://swindon-town-fc.co.uk/MatchCentre.asp?MatchID=18870601

Who was your first away game against?
Southampton in the old League 2

What was the score?
Got thrashed 5-1, including a Martin Chivers hat trick and one from Terry Paine.

When was it?
April 1964

How long was it after your first home game?
A couple of years

How old were you?
11

What do you remember about the day?
Went on the Rimes' coach with my older brother's school mate.  Bemused by the lop sided-ness of The Dell and it's bizarre split-level terraces.

Torquay united
2-2
2005?
15 years old
About 9 years after my first game, 6 months after I started going regularly
All I remember is being right in the bottom of the terrace and having the sun blind me for most of the second half, and being sat behind Swindon Town Dave on the coach, and he showed us his tattoos

oxford
1-1 Dean Saunders for them Tim Parkin for us
5th October 88
about 2 seasons after my first home game
18 years old
dont remember to much about the game! got pulled over on the way home though

Wimbledon away in the league cup 1979.

I was 10.

We won 2-1

Remember the town fans being escorted from the train station in full voice and we had more fans than them

I honestly can't remember my first away game :( I think Saints in the cup replay at the Dell, but it may have been earlier than that.

is that the one where gittens tried to let the ball go out for a goal kick, only they ended up scoring from it, I was at that one, think we took the lead :hmmm:

No, this one was much later. I must have gone away earlier than this, bugger knows where or when!

http://swindon-town-fc.co.uk/MatchCentre.asp?MatchID=19960606

Tbh if it weren't for that website I don't think I'd know anything about at least half of the games I've been to

Cheltenham away September 2002
We lost 2-0
About four years after my first home game
I was 12
I'd been begging my Dad to take my to an away game and he relented seeing as this was so close to home, it was on a Tuesday night so it made it extra exciting knowing it was going to be under floodlights and that I would be home late! I had my Swindon window stickers in the car and was expecting great things! It was when they still had the terrace and I remember how different it felt to a home game being able to stand and chant and really feel a part of a crowd rather than a spectator.
The game was pretty rubbish! Only two things I can remember are Parkin sliding into Cheltenham's goalkeeper and the ref coming over and slipping into Parkin to send him off and still not having the sense to just give him a yellow seeing as how much water as on the pitch!! And then at the end of the game some of our players having a pop at the fans and the anger from our fans was palpable!
My Dad said it was one of the worst away games he's ever been to and is surprised I still wanted to keep going!

Remember that game well.

I'm firmly in the "never boo you own players" camp but fuck me they deserved everything they got that night, I definately dished some out.

Things were very bad at that time

that Cheltenham game was a real low point for me too. Was far more fanatical in those days  mind.

Gurney and Heywood wasn't it, when Steve Coppell was "assisting" King.

Vicarage Road is one of those grounds I've been to reasonably often....up until a few years ago we'd played them in league games more than any other club.  Interestingly in all fixtures we've played them 141 times, won 54, drawn 33, lost 54.  However we've a better goal difference.

We haven't played Watford in the 21st Century  :(

Until a few years ago, I think Preston was the club we'd avoided playing for the longest period.  See what you say about Watford.  Ipswich are another club we used to play frequently but have now missed playing for an age.

24th March 1973(had to look it up)
Brighton away.
It pissed down all day and we got beat 3-1.
Can remember the coach stopping at Winchester and one of the "lads" giving me a can of Long life.
I was  12.

Before Preston it was Cardiff....now it's probably boringly one of the Prem clubs, my punt would be Liverpool.

I reckon it must be Liverpool, we played them early on at the CG in 93, and the Anfield draw was in December, the likes of WHU, ManUre, Everton, Spurs we played after.  Some like Villa and Chelsea we've had in the LC.

As regards Ipswich, I'm quite pleased we don't play them, since the Prem season our record v Tractor Boys reads P8 W0 D0 L8 F 4 A 25  :)

I may have missed it, but do share your first ever away game when you were brimming with wide-eyed optimism.

I believe some on here think you have lost a little of such optimism but then that's Swindon, however undiminished the attachment remains.

 
Reg had a good start  :) then come November normality resumed.

sorry Reg  :)

http://www.swindon-town-fc.co.uk/Results.asp?Season=1886-1887 

•Who was your first away game against?  Fulham League Cup

•What was the score?  1 0 defeat (possibly)

•When was it?  1970 ish

•How long was it after your first home game?  2 years ish

•How old were you? 15

•What do you remember about the day skipping school (Braden Forest) Rimes Coach. taking an age to get to Lunnun before the M4. Buying a porn mag.

1st game - Mansfield away

result - 1-1, I cant remember who scored though (without looking it up I'd go for Colin Gordon as he always seemed to score at away games)

When was it - 1986

How long after your first home game - not sure probably about 8 years

how old were you - 15

what do you remember - the atmosphere.  The Police thought they were back in the Miners strike again.  The away end was packed, there are those iconic pictures of people on the trees watching, and the players coming back out after the game.

I thought it was Stumpy that scored for us

I thought it was Stumpy that
I was stood at the back near the clock, and by the time we had finished celebrating I was almost at the front.

Our coach driver decided the best way to get there was via Baker Street, and by the time we arrived Arsenal were already 1 up, the bloke on the turnstiles told us not to bother as they were already winning & were probably going to score 5, wish I'd seen the cunt after the game :)

Yes, I just looked it up, it was indeed Leigh Barnyard, there's no video though

No, a Tv blackout for some reason, but you're right about the Old Bill, even for those days they were proper bastards that day

The Nottingham police were drafted in that day in massive numbers and treated us like cattle, they were fresh from the flying pickets marches and really gagging for a fight that day, one bonus...leaving Mansfield in my old Fiat Strada we were allowed to speed through red lights at way over the speed limit with the police escort just to get us out of the town.....couldn't do that these days.

Great day out. We ran a coach from Faringdon. Got stopped by the police on the services who didn't want let us go to the footie. We had to empty all the alcohol which filled 2 black bin liners and out in the bin which the cleaners nicked. Coach got bricked coming into Mansfield. The coach emptied and ran Mansfield across the dual carriageway. Great Atmosphere. What a day out. The coach was organised by the now Supermarine chairman. 

That tall bald headed bloke,wearing a crombie,was a mean looking frecer.

Wouldn't happen now due to the internet, but I set off for the Mansfield game from Newbury with a severe hangover, got to Reading to find Mansfield didn't have a train station, they advised get a cab from Nottingham. I went to watch Reading v ....  instead (and more beers) and went in the away end with my headache. Whoever they played beat them 2-1 iirc, I had a great time :)

Who was your first away game against?

FA Cup 3rd round, Bristol City away

What was the score?

Lost 2-1

When was it?

Jan 1990

How long was it after your first home game?

just over a year (Brighton at home Sep 1988)

How old were you

16

What do you remember about the day?

Was on a school trip and everybody told under no circumstances were we to go to Ashton Gate....legged it down there, seemed to remember asking random punters where the away end was, some old brizzle bloke pointed me in the right direction and told me to shut the fuck up or I'd get myself killed. Chucked it down, soaking wet on the old open end where they used to put the away fans. Think we got a late goal. Legging it back to the town centre just in time for 5.45 to get the school coach back home. Bitten by the bug of away trips ever since.

Did the same questions with my daughter, Rotherham away under Di Canio, Jan 2012, won 2-1. At the old Don Valley, a kind of Bayern Munich Olympik Stadion-lite. What does she remember - so cold her feet were like blocks of ice. What do I remember, telling her that I'd had over 20 years of pain and suffering and she'd seen Matt Ritchie score a blinder after 20 minutes!

•Who was your first away game against?
Bristol Rovers

•What was the score?
4-1

•When was it?
17.10.81

•How long was it after your first home game?
About 3 years.

•How old were you?
17

•What do you remember about the day?
Glancing back at the motorway behind the away end and seeing a motorbike rider and passenger with red and white scarves and waving as they went by.
We were top of the league after that game and ended up being relegated.
Also trips to Bristol City, Reading, Oxford, Luton (FA cup) and Newport that season.

Many a good away day out has been spoiled by 90 minutes of football since then, but also lots of memorable moments
e.g. Birmingham (6-4) have made the pain and suffering, over the years, worthwhile.

If I remember right that was also the game when the Rovers fans left early & we're throwing rocks & bricks over the back of the away end.
Also going on a football special train & there being a lot of trouble in the way back to the station (Stapleton Road)

Yeah there was a lot of trouble that day, used to love the football specials on the train, we always had one for Rovers and Shitty, the oldest dirtiest carriages with blocked toilets and broken seats etc.

Good times :)

Fulham 1-0 Swindon Town, 16 October 1999

Competition   League Division 1
Venue   Craven Cottage, London
Attendance   13,715

How long was it after your first home game?
approx. 1yr

How old were you?
7

What do you remember about the day?
Hot dog at a pub next to the Thames on a nice autumn day before a shit performance in our relegation season from the 2nd tier- never to return.

Craven Cottage with terraces at either end, before the two temp stand were build.

Watford V Swindon, league cup game

Lost 4-2

Think it was late 1987






2 years or so

15/16

The walk the and from the away end seemed to be a trek!

Yeah down a fenced path around allotments and crap iirc. Don't think I've been there since 94/95

That game at Brum was a cracker Easter Monday it i remember rightly.
We took so many up they opened up the segregation section to allow us all in.

4-1 down well into the 2nd half i know many an old boy left for the pub but we were too young to drink so stood it out. The rest is history the Brum fans were not happy and a few slaps handed out outside for good measure.
Oh happy days

Who was your first away game against?
Notts County

What was the score?
1-0 win. A Fjortoft header in the first half at our end. And a Beauchamp red card late on.

When was it?
September 1994

How long was it after your first home game?
3.5 years

How old were you?
15

What do you remember about the day?
The coach trip up there. The radio talking about the death that morning of Billy Wright. The novelty of a different stadium, and thinking it was slightly nicer than ours. Going 2nd in the league and thinking we were nailed on to bounce back to the Prem...