37 Away Games Without A Win Run Ends…

[Corky]

Maybe my memory is playing tricks, but didn't that win at Villa (on the day of the poll tax riot) end a long winless sequence on the road as well?

That was the Div 1 winless aways streak broken.

 

[johnnytapia]

I went to that with the London Supporters Club lot on the train. Spent the first 20 mins of the game in the pub we were that bad. Think it got a bit better after that. Was that the Swindon 4-3 win season? Good day out that one from memory!

Yep. Absolutely pissing down. I was at Portsmouth Polytechnic and got train on my own up to watch that game. Think Swindon tried it on with minibus of City that day and came badly unstuck when that minibus emptied with the Young Guvnors

 

[johnnytapia]

Live on ITV, Sunday afternoon. Blue shirts and maroon shorts

Strangeways went tits up that day too

 

[LongsightM13]

Certainly did. Also running battles on the dual carriageway after
How that ground has changed since
Think only 1/2 stands were open
Stood on that big open terrace
Most of it was condemned

Wolves was always a moody awayday back then. Remember the mad main stand that wasn’t even straight to the pitch, on a diagonal?

 

[johnnytapia]

First started watching City away properly in ‘86. Then went to Portsmouth Polytechnic and saw us win fuck all away in my first year. QPR on the plastic, drew 1-1 at Southampton, Graham Baker header, West Ham relegated 0-2. Went to loads next season Hull 0-1 opening day, Shrewsbury 0-0, thinking I’d never see us win away. Was on Pompey Pier in the Albert night club when I rang home to see how we’d got on against Wolves, me dad answered about midnight and bleary eyed told me we’d won 2-0 to win 3-2 on aggregate. Going berserk in the phone box. Loved those days. Especially midweek of not having a clue how we’d got on. No internet, ringing home. Trudging back utterly deflated. Spent the next year in France / Germany, opening a box on my 21st birthday in Pau in the Pyrenees and my mum and fad had sent me the maroon striped away kit plus The Complete Manchester City Record Book by Ray Goble. And a packet of mint Matchstick chocolates. Listening to Paddy Feaney world service hoping and praying for an update on city. Only getting half times and full times. Kicking hole in the door when we were 2-0 down away at Oxford in ‘88 going for promotion then nearly tearing the thing off its hinges hearing we’d won 4-2.
Great days.

 

[aguero93:20]

This is the period when the song "We never win at home and we never win away" was born.

Tbf we never did Dave. We were fucking awful. Good times though and we stayed up at least.

 

[aguero93:20]

Currently on a run of (I think) 22 away PL games without defeat (Spurs on the opening day of last season). If we can go unbeaten on our travels this season, we'll beat that landmark.

Alfie's little lad accepts the challenge.

 

[Zabbasbeard]

Remember McNab missing a last minute pen at I think Shrewsbury and the City end singing “Will we ever win away?”

Definitely Shrewsbury. I was there!

 

[Zabbasbeard]

He did score and just like Huddersfield in the FA cup a few months later it was an injury time free kick. The game would have gone to extra time otherwise.
I remember the special getting a few windows put through on the way back.

Some poor lad had his head smashed against the metal fence by a copper as well celebrated Gidman's late late free kick equaliser in the Cup at Udders.

 

[Zabbasbeard]

It was Valley Parade. We never played them at the rugby ground

Special night out at Valley Parade. My specs went flying onto the terrace as we po-goed after David White scored! Oh what a night....