[Albion] Your first away game watching The Albion

[thedonkeycentrehalf]

78/79 season 0-0 with West Ham at Upton Park - as a young lad I found the post match environment a little scary to say the least.

I think my next away game would have been the legendary Newcastle game which sealed promotion.

 

[Boys 9d]

31st January 1961 versus Burnley in a FA Cup Replay. I was living and working in Manchester at the time.

 

[Knightsworld]

Fulham 1-0 BHA 28th September 1985. Lost to a Cliff Carr penalty.

 

[Weststander]

23 Nov 76 CP v Albion, FAC 1-1.

With my Dad, I think we sat in the Whitehorse Lane Stand, exactly where Albion fans are sited now.

We used to take huge numbers, 10k?, in that stand and the terrace now Sainsbury's.

 

[GT49er]

That was also my first away game which my uncle took me too, I recall more mud than grass on the pitch and some great hot chocolate from his thermo flask- no memories of the game itself....

Noo problem with bottle (or flask) tops back then, eh? Nor was there a problem with me taking my whole football kit in a duffle bag (remember those!?) without the stewards (what were they?) batting an eyelash! (I'd played for my school in the morning nearby - I think it was in Farnham.).

 

[Guinness Boy]

Wolves 2 Brighton 4 - was definitely an evening game in 89/90. Think we were 4-0 up within the first half-hour.

Home fans not particularly pleasant before or after!

I was there too. Same night Palace lost 9-0 at Anfield.

I have seen us play 3 times at Wolves. I've seen us score 11 goals, concede 5 and pick up 9 points which is why I want them to stay up

 

[Worried Man Blues]

Walsall away FA Cup we had drawn about 3 matches 0-0 in the seventies? Under the M6 flyover. Did we win, haven't a clue! What a match to pick!

 

[Mellor 3 Ward 4]

Swindon away - 76? 77? not sure.

We were 4-0 down and it got abandonned.

 

[Kalimantan Gull]

Man United, FA Cup 4th round, January 93, 1-0 Giggs curler from a free kick. To my memory we competed quite well against the eventual inaugural PL champions, in the way a third tier side would struggle to do so today.

Remember bumping into Terry Christian on the train, who I think was also going to the game. Don't remember a lot else....

 

[JamesAndTheGiantHead]

Two absolutely wank goals and I loved every moment of it

 

[Reagulls]

Fulham away with Nathan Jones in charge, bloody cold, bloody great atmosphere!

 

[Comrade Sam]

Millwall '85ish. They hadn't lost at home for over a year and had just been promoted to division 2. We one 1 nil, possibly Fashanu. They kicked off from the kick off.
There was a non stop conveyor belt of coppers passing from the back of our end of the stand, through several iron fences, into their end, then out again without helmets, teeth and splattered with blood. It was absolutely mental.
At one point glass scuttled across the terrace floor where I stood, someone cried 'they're bottling us!' Fortunately a young Brighton fan emerged clutching his glasses and looking for a lense that had popped out.
After the game we were locked in for over an our, then they chucked bricks at the train and concrete at the coaches.
I was addicted for life after that.
Now it is barely in my top 3 most frightening trips to Millwall.

 

[drew]

Palace, FA Cup 1st round replay 1976. We got there late and missed both goals!!!

 

[kevo]

Southampton away at the Dell. Went with a school mate. Opening match of the 77/78 season. Fighting in the stands and we could only see the far end of the pitch (what an awful dump that ground was). Fortunately, that was the end where that famous Albion legend John Ruggerio scored the equaliser.

 

[Hamilton]

Started following the Albion away when I went to university.

First one I remember was a defeat at Oakwell.

Amazed to find the whole game on YouTube:

 

[Hamilton]

Started following the Albion away when I went to university.

First one I remember was a defeat at Oakwell.

Amazed to find the whole game on YouTube:

Went to some reet proper northern towns too.

 

[Comrade Sam]

Wolves 2 Brighton 4 - was definitely an evening game in 89/90. Think we were 4-0 up within the first half-hour.

Home fans not particularly pleasant before or after!

Palace lost 9 nil to Liverpool and Pompey lost 3 nil at home. I think we went second and had a jolly trip home.

 

[Van Cleef]

There was a tremendous video of the whole away end going bananas after the goal but I couldn't find it with

Might be this one

 

[Van Cleef]

The Palace 5-penalties match, 1989

That was one of my first away games. I remember at half time the groundsman walked up our end and repainted the penalty spot. How we laughed.


- (Actually quite funny to be fair).

 

[Comrade Sam]

The worst toilets at any ground I have ever been to. Basically a windowless brick building - with a good few inches of piss on the floor because no-one really know where the wall drain was. And then at the end of the game the friendly old bill marched us about a mile uphill in the wrong direction from the station, so we missed the first train home as well.

But, as you say - we won!

That would be Chester, four walls a door, no ceiling, walls covered in piss and a massive pile of shit in the corner