What/when was your first away game

[aberdare seagull]

Orient away august 92

 

[atfc village]

With Aldershot ,Bristol City 1984 2 1 defeat .All the usual hassle you always got on a visit to The Teds,i still despise them more than any Club. With Brighton a 2 0 defeat at Darlo March 97.

 

[mac04]

Portsmouth in the mid 70's in the Third division I thnk. We lost 1-0, but about 75% of the huge crowd were from Brighton. Hardly anyone cheered when they scored.

 

[Blue Valkyrie]

That was a GOOD day out.

2-0 up and (I think) Keith Dublin got sent off?

It was a good day. I vaguely remember thinking a draw was a bad result at the time, but then Walsall ( ? ) didn't win a game in hand ( or something like that... ), the result proved to be a good one in the end, and we finished the league in 2nd place.

 

[perseus]

Chelsea 1967.

 

[perseus]

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.

How many Albion fans at Aldershot in the incessant rain?

 

[Buckley's Mad Eye]

v Portsmouth 1988. We lost, my mate was ejected and had to return to Brighton in a mail cage on the train for joining in on a surge (as if he had a choice). Warren Aspinall scored against us with a deft back header from a corner, he stood out as the best player on either side. Alan Knight got a lot of abuse

It felt a bit dodgy walking to/from the stadium, quite an eye opener. Loved it though and was hooked.

Happy days.

 

[the wanderbus]

Charlton 4 Brighton 3 October 1977

 

[Kuipers Supporters Club]

York 0-0.

 

[trancing]

Wycombe 1 - 1 think it was 2001 midweek Nathan Jones scored 5 mins in

 

[Gregory2Smith1]

just double checked

Derby league cup replay was a month before Stamford bridge palace game

so the Baseball Ground it was

 

[Seasidesage]

Palace in 76, first beer too!

I was 11, think Licencing laws may have tightened up somewhat since

 

[Gazwag]

Ipswich away 1988...we won 3-2

Mine was Ipswich in January 1983 we lost 2.0

 

[Guinness Boy]

Southend 1987/88 season. We lost. In fact I've only ever seen us lose at Southend. Didn't put me off though and by the end of that season I'd also been to Gillingham, Brentford (twice) and Chester. Each of those trips was about as far removed from the current set up as it's possible to be.

 

[borowha]

Luton 78 I think new years day, game abandoned when one down on seventy six minuutes ,Got chased through the streets after the game. Went with a colleague of the then wife who a few weeks later left me to join him,

 

[wallyback]

walsall at fulhams ground fa cup 2nd replay phil parkes of walsall played a blinder
1969 i think

 

[wallyback]

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

my 1st away game was that one at craven cottage

 

[El Turi]

Reading away when they won the league in 1994. We had loads there that day. The Reading fans all invaded the pitch after they scored their very late second goal so I don't think the game restarted after that but I may be wrong.

 

[Prince Monolulu]

walsall at fulhams ground fa cup 2nd replay phil parkes of walsall played a blinder
1969 i think

Wow, that reminds me that, oddly imho, there were two high profile 'keepers during the 70s sharing the same name.



As Harry Hill might say, what are the chances?

 

[Poyningsgull]

How many Albion fans at Aldershot in the incessant rain?

Don't know the numbers but it was a lot. The stand behind the goal was packed with our fans. I remember chucking my old soaking wet duffel bag and seeing it wrapped around some guys head.
It was really funny at the time.