What/when was your first away game

[Poyningsgull]

Mine was away to Aldershot in the 3rd round of the FA cup Jan 1967. Crap 0-0 draw but we won the replay 3-1 and drew Chelsea at home in the 4th round. We drew at the Goldstone 1-1 and then followed my 2nd away game at Stamford Bridge in front of about 60,000 people. Got thumped 4-0 but what a night out. To see Osgood, Cooke, Hutchison etc in all their pomp was brilliant.
I was 17 at the time so late away game starter by today's standards. My first home game was 1958 but you didn't' seem travel to away games much in those days.

 

[hans kraay fan club]

Mine was the FA Cup semi-final at Highbury, at the age of 12.

#Gloryhunter

 

[Munkfish]

Leyton Orient away in the Coca Cola Cup around 1998 I think.

Edit: Turns out it was 18 years ago today.

Tue 26 Aug

Leyton Orient 3 - 1 Brighton & HA League Cup

 

[Left Footer]

Man Utd away November 1981 lost 2-0.

 

[Bruntburger]

Barnsley - very early nineties.
Lost 1-0, terrible game and Keith Dublin sent off. Never been back since.

 

[albionite]

West Ham 89 I think it was. Lost 3-1 with Gatting scoring first.

 

[Acker79]

Saturday 1st Dec 1991 v Oldham. We lost 6-1.

 

[sir albion]

Ipswich away 1988...we won 3-2

 

[Driver8]

I think it was Palace in about 1977.

 

[Moshe Gariani]

Ipswich in Feb 1980.

Gary Stevens debut.

Don't do many aways now but am back there on Saturday. From our seats I think it will be round the corner to our left to where we stood. We had a fenced enclosure to the right of the goal. I remember it being sparsely filled - would 500 Albion be about right for those days...?

 

[Thunder Bolt]

Chelsea 1967.

 

[Worried Man Blues]

Away to Walsall sometime in the 70's after a few 0-0 draws when you didn't have penalties but just kept replaying. Can't remember the result or the match, just remember standing under the motorway.

 

[Return of the Rev]

pompey away 72 a bit noughty

 

[Poyningsgull]

Chelsea 1967.

You weren't with the Stanmer School crowd were you.?

 

[hans kraay fan club]

Saturday 1st Dec 1991 v Oldham. We lost 6-1.

Coldest. Shittest. Day. Ever.

(Great consolation goal, mind)

 

[Return of the Rev]

away to walsall sometime in the 70's after a few 0-0 draws when you didn't have penalties but just kept replaying. Can't remember the result or the match, just remember standing under the motorway.

played walsall 6 times 69/70 at fellows park,goldstone,hawthorns craven cottage,and at coventry

 

[Thunder Bolt]

You weren't with the Stanmer School crowd were you.?

No, I left school in 64. I travelled up on the train with some mates.

 

[Reinelt12]

Not counting the FA Cup Semi and Final in 1983... Middlesbrough away in 1991 the year we got into the playoffs... 0-2 and I can still to this day hear the announcer... STUAAAARRRRT RIIIPLEY!

 

[Eric Youngs Contact Lense]

Grimsby , around 1976/77 I think! It was pure coincidence that we were visiting my Uncle who lived in nearby Immingham - genuine coincidence as my Dad was never a footy fan. We stood in the Grimsby end, and as a 7/8 year old I couldn't see a thing. Brighton apparently scored 1st, and I was lifted on my Dads shoulders and and it took me a while to realise we were not in stripes but in green away kit! We lost 2-1 but I didn't see any of it!

 

[Uncle Buck]

Woking, FA Cup second round replay in 1992.

We won 2-1, The Football Genius scored off his backside.