Your first ever awayday watching the lads


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Liverpool 0-1 Safc. Cummins got the winner. Souness hit the bar and they won the European cup about ten days later.

Went to old Trafford the next season and we drew 0-0
 
I do not know. It could have been the FA cup semi final in 73. It might have been a night match at Carlisle.
I went to Bristol Rovers at Eastville with my first pay packet, I think.
 
Boxing Day 1983 (I think) away at Everton. Canny turn out in a 13K crowd on a Boxing Day! Shit 0-0 best memory was Gordon Chisholm sent off for assault on Andy Gray. Not long after this season Everton started being class. We didn’t.
 
Aside from a couple of Darlo/Bishop friendlies my first proper away was early 1989 Bradford away - Kieron Brady. I had a mate that sold pot noodles & crisps on Martindales buses and he was well in with the drivers and managed to get me to tag along as it was a shortish journey. Was only going for the craic & drive down when one of the lads (will have been either Durham ,Jarrow or Close House branch ) noticed I had the Vaux top on and gave me a ticket from one of their lads that hadn't made the bus. Absolutely buzzing, made a young lad very happy indeed.

Boxing Day 1983 (I think) away at Everton. Canny turn out in a 13K crowd on a Boxing Day! Shit 0-0 best memory was Gordon Chisholm sent off for assault on Andy Gray. Not long after this season Everton started being class. We didn’t.

The days when the likes of Arsenal,Spurs,Everton got under 20k on various occasions.
 
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Aside from a couple of Darlo/Bishop friendlies my first proper away was early 1989 Bradford away - Kieron Brady. I had a mate that sold pot noodles & crisps on Martindales buses and he was well in with the drivers and managed to get me to tag along as it was a shortish journey. Was only going for the craic & drive down when one of the lads (will have been either Durham ,Jarrow or Close House branch ) noticed I had the Vaux top on and gave me a ticket from one of their lads that hadn't made the bus. Absolutely buzzing, made a young lad very happy indeed.



The days when the likes of Arsenal,Spurs,Everton got under 20k on various occasions.
Aye, also paid in at the gate at Old Trafford at 3:05 on New Years Day 1990 for shit Man U v QPR 0-0, though crowd was canny to be fair. Still not the sort of thing you could do these days!
 
Aside from a couple of Darlo/Bishop friendlies my first proper away was early 1989 Bradford away - Kieron Brady. I had a mate that sold pot noodles & crisps on Martindales buses and he was well in with the drivers and managed to get me to tag along as it was a shortish journey. Was only going for the craic & drive down when one of the lads (will have been either Durham ,Jarrow or Close House branch ) noticed I had the Vaux top on and gave me a ticket from one of their lads that hadn't made the bus. Absolutely buzzing, made a young lad very happy indeed.



The days when the likes of Arsenal,Spurs,Everton got under 20k on various occasions.
This, the attendances back in the 80's were generally poor.
 
Man U away, either 1982 or 1983, can’t remember result possible draw, just remember being at (?) Trafford Park train station after match and stood with 3 Mates, crowd separated with us in middle, both sets of fans charged, we jumped on track to get out of way and then threw stones at the Man U fans. We’d paid a pound (yes a quid) to get in the Stretford End and took delight in being escorted around the pitch, the following season I don’t think I missed an away game, those were the days
 
I do not know. It could have been the FA cup semi final in 73. It might have been a night match at Carlisle.
I went to Bristol Rovers at Eastville with my first pay packet, I think.

Was your BRFC trip the first yr ( not that many went & Sheff & me were in their end at 3am, pub across road got wrecked, Sammy’s pie day :) ) or the next one with a special train full & WW3 at Stapleton Rd?
 
Was your BRFC trip the first yr ( not that many went & Sheff & me were in their end at 3am, pub across road got wrecked, Sammy’s pie day :) ) or the next one with a special train full & WW3 at Stapleton Rd?
It was WW3. I'll never forget it.I was on the special.
 
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It was WW3. I'll never forget it.I was on the special.

It was funny for us as Sheff & me were on the service train from Temple Meads & as we came through S Road, our lot was looking at us hanging out the door with an SAFC flag & shouting, some moved towards the train thinking we were the special & behind them along the road we could see it kicking off :)
 
Sheff Utd away 89/90 season, won 3-1. Tony Agana scored as we were just coming through the turnstiles, Bracewell scored a cracker and Brady had a blinder.
 
It was funny for us as Sheff & me were on the service train from Temple Meads & as we came through S Road, our lot was looking at us hanging out the door with an SAFC flag & shouting, some moved towards the train thinking we were the special & behind them along the road we could see it kicking off :)
I don't know how but I was in a group of about 20 /30 who got seperated on the way back. We walked up a main road with shops either side and we were getting attacked at every street corner. Bristol knew the lay out, we didn't. We were fighting with the same lads every other street.
I remember being relieved when I saw the station then oh feck when I saw the waiting reception. There was about 100 of them blocking the road up to the platform. I can't remember seing any police, funny that.
It literally was a case of oh well here we go, that train is pulling out and we need to get on it. We were the last ones to get on it and it was every one for himself but we needed to get on that train.
The windows in our carriage were out.
We pulled into a station in Birmingham and there were about 50 Wolves fans there. The train stopped and those Wolves lads got paggered. Not by me, I might add.
I shared a table and cans with two,great lads from South Shields who I've never seen since !
 
I don't know how but I was in a group of about 20 /30 who got seperated on the way back. We walked up a main road with shops either side and we were getting attacked at every street corner. Bristol knew the lay out, we didn't. We were fighting with the same lads every other street.
I remember being relieved when I saw the station then oh feck when I saw the waiting reception. There was about 100 of them blocking the road up to the platform. I can't remember seing any police, funny that.
It literally was a case of oh well here we go, that train is pulling out and we need to get on it. We were the last ones to get on it and it was every one for himself but we needed to get on that train.
The windows in our carriage were out.
We pulled into a station in Birmingham and there were about 50 Wolves fans there. The train stopped and those Wolves lads got paggered. Not by me, I might add.
I shared a table and cans with two,great lads from South Shields who I've never seen since !

The time before there was funny ( looking at it from now anyway). I mentioned 3 things but will expand sometime:)
It was & is the shit holebit of Bristol.
Shef & me used to laugh at the numbers on the specials all over the place & us 2 on the service train.
Maybe we were the Service Crew before it was invented :)
PS -those Wolves were presumably collateral damage !!
 
The time before there was funny ( looking at it from now anyway). I mentioned 3 things but will expand sometime:)
It was & is the shit holebit of Bristol.
Shef & me used to laugh at the numbers on the specials all over the place & us 2 on the service train.
Maybe we were the Service Crew before it was invented :)
PS -those Wolves were presumably collateral damage !!
I only went on one other special and that was Pools to Ipswich in a FACup game.
 
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