Your First Away Game

[Bewster]

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

[Exiled Bob]

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.

[leftside]

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.

[PetsWinPrizes]

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.

[Red Frog]

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.

[Tails]

• 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!

[adje]

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

[wokinghamred]

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.

[Frigby Daser]

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.

[horlock07]

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.

[Reg Smeeton]

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.

[Ells]

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

[quinnismyhero]

Who was your first away game against?
Pompey

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

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

[horlock07]

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.

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

[Tails]

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

Everyone knows Reg's first game...

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