Your First Away Game

[Wobbly Bob]

•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.

[Posh Red]

•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)

[Peter Venkman]

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

[The Million Pound Man]

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.

[The Grim Reaper]

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!

[suttonred]

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

[skiptotheLouMacari]

•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.

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

[knifey spoony]

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...