Lowest away following.

Prater70 said:
Still my greatest BBC football radio commentary , FA cup at Roots Hall . Southend battered us on a mud heap but we snatched a 1-0 may have been Joe Hayes.
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Sand & shells off the beach to soak up the water on the pitch, according to the book on City's '56 Cup run. But bugger me, had no idea till now that it was on the radio or what I'd have been doing that Saturday afternoon. 66 years later you tell me this?? Feels like i forgot to look when Aguero scored.
 
Went to a midweek game probably early 90's v Wimbledon, late October I think (maybe early November), at Selhurst Park, there were only a couple of hundred there, I think it finished 0-0, or 1-1.

It was utterly miserable, I think it was my daughters first away game, I doubt she'll remember it fondly either, she was 4 or 5, it was bloody freezing, did I mention miserable ?
 
Postman Pep said:
Chelsea in September 88 when away fans were banned. Not sure how many were there because keeping a low profile was the wise move .... which proved a challenge as we won 3-1.
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I Remember that Tues night match.Paul Moulden scored a belter.
In the top tier of the then pretty new Chelsea West stand.
Blues kept low profile as u say , we finally revealed ourselves when the 3rd went in...Iirc the away fan ban was due to rioting m' Boro fans at the end of the previous season.

The attendance was something pathetic like 9,000...

Altho it's fair to say Chelsea brought thousands to Maine rd in the return fixture..filled the Platt Lane end and were very loud...beat us 3-2 but the scoreline didn't reflect their superiority on the day.
 
johnnytapia said:
The season we beat Huddersfield 10-1 and beat them over 3 ties in FA Cup; we took a surprisingly small number to the away league game. We lost one nil. Think they’d been relegated by then and we were well off getting promoted. I went though !
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Most folk were prob sick of Huddersfield by the time of the away fixture the
After the 10-1, the 2-2 away cup tie,the 1st repay at Maine rd nil nil (which I missed)..then the 3nil win in the pouring rain 2nd replay at their place.
I missed the away league fixture.sounds like loads more did too.
 
cleavers said:
Went to a midweek game probably early 90's v Wimbledon, late October I think (maybe early November), at Selhurst Park, there were only a couple of hundred there, I think it finished 0-0, or 1-1.

It was utterly miserable, I think it was my daughters first away game, I doubt she'll remember it fondly either, she was 4 or 5, it was bloody freezing, did I mention miserable ?
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I was at that one. Horrible.
 
dennishasdoneit said:
I Remember that Tues night match.Paul Moulden scored a belter.
In the top tier of the then pretty new Chelsea West stand.
Blues kept low profile as u say , we finally revealed ourselves when the 3rd went in...Iirc the away fan ban was due to rioting m' Boro fans at the end of the previous season.

The attendance was something pathetic like 9,000...

Altho it's fair to say Chelsea brought thousands to Maine rd in the return fixture..filled the Platt Lane end and were very loud...beat us 3-2 but the scoreline didn't reflect their superiority on the day.
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Yes Chelsea rioted after losing in the play offs (wasn't it Sunderland?). As a result the Shed and away end terraces were closed, only the two stands running the length of the pitch were open
 
cleavers said:
Went to a midweek game probably early 90's v Wimbledon, late October I think (maybe early November), at Selhurst Park, there were only a couple of hundred there, I think it finished 0-0, or 1-1.

It was utterly miserable, I think it was my daughters first away game, I doubt she'll remember it fondly either, she was 4 or 5, it was bloody freezing, did I mention miserable ?
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O. O
 
johnnytapia said:
Season United gave us zero away tickets. Scholes header 1-0 to them. Was sat in their end. Horrible
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I was also at this derby. There was another derby when we lost 2-1, Quinn scored for City. We only got allocated around 500 tickets in the scoreboard end. I was in the united road on my own but sat on a row full of city fans.
 
bridgeblue said:
Other than Luton away, (the first year of the away fan ban) it would be Birmingham away 1979 probably less than 200, most of us got legged onto the pitch or into the stand to the right of the Tilton road end. No segregation back then. Horrible place!
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2-1/ there were 6 people on a Finglands coach
 
I remember being in the West Stand (seats) at Chelsea for a midweek game, there was only 3 of us, me and a lad with his girlfriend being glared at by a few hundred Chelsea fans. Decided to go and merge with the Chelsea fans as it would be safer. Only problem was I had to stand and clap all the Chelsea goals. we got beat 4 - 1 that night. There was a few hundred stood up behind the goal though. think that was around 1971, maybe later, not sure.

As an aside to the above, I got to Chelsea late for one game and cut across the grave yard at the other side of the rail lines. went in the wrong direction and got locked in, had to climb over the iron gates to get out and the were enormous. Got in during half-time only to find we were 1 - 0 down and Tony Coleman had been sent off.
 
Was at that in the main stand front row and
cleavers said:
Went to a midweek game probably early 90's v Wimbledon, late October I think (maybe early November), at Selhurst Park, there were only a couple of hundred there, I think it finished 0-0, or 1-1.

It was utterly miserable, I think it was my daughters first away game, I doubt she'll remember it fondly either, she was 4 or 5, it was bloody freezing, did I mention miserable ?
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headed the ball ( again ) from a clearance and got round of applause, think Edghill debut maybe and the second lowest premier league attendance fixture that season lowest being Wimbledon v Coventry I think. Re West Ham last game 1987 we all got locked up at snow hill and released after the game. Just slept in the McDonald's fast food at Düsseldorf airport overnight and due in Dortmund in half an hour CITY CITY CITY.........
 
Shaktar away last time think we took 114 ,we all ended up in hospitality after I kicked off about the players blanking us
 
Anfield 81, about a week after losing the FA Cup final replay. Very few of us there that night and we lost 1-0.
We went in their main stand rather than act like dartboards.
 
City & Blue Brazil said:
Went to Porto for a pre season friendly when Malcolm Alison was in charge, saw two other city fans. Ian Niven gave us free tickets. Thrilling nil nil draw! Was on a special to West Brom same night rags won fa cup semi final at goodison early 80s, no more than 30 on board and got back to loads of rags celebrating in Piccadilly Gardens, grim as we had lost 4-0.
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I also went to Porto for that game (by train)! Down through France, all the way across Spain to Tuy and then down to Porto. All for a 0-0. Great times!
 
Timisoara away, Europa league, August 2010. Probably about 100 of us there. Think it was arranged very late as we qualified through fair play. There were no official trips. Won 1-0, Mario scoring on his debut?
 
Postman Pep said:
Chelsea in September 88 when away fans were banned. Not sure how many were there because keeping a low profile was the wise move .... which proved a challenge as we won 3-1.
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There were a few familiar faces milling around in their old East Stand. I ended up in the same Row as Ken Bates and c12 seats away!
 
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