Largest Away Following

[eastmanc]

We did

Peterborough 81 5th round FA cup, thousands of blues there that day and at Goodison Park in the quarters.

 

[Jamshopbridge]

Yep getting out of the coach park was interesting! Stoke fans were furious.

Remember it well. Coming out onto the away coach park directly at the back of the stand and seeing a blue covered in blood holding his head and then being aware of lots of rocks flying in our direction. Staffs plod did fuck all to stop the Stokies either, they just stood there in their riot gear watching us getting bricked...twats.

 

[WestGorton]

Peterborough 81 5th round FA cup, thousands of blues there that day and at Goodison Park in the quarters.

We fought the gypsy gang after Peterborough outside that chippy I went to Goodison too.

 

[eastmanc]

Remember it well. Coming out onto the away coach park directly at the back of the stand and seeing a blue covered in blood holding his head and then being aware of lots of rocks flying in our direction. Staffs plod did fuck all to stop the Stokies either, they just stood there in their riot gear watching us getting bricked...twats.

A bit like in the carpark at Wembley in 81 after the Thursday night replay.

 

[eastmanc]

To counter the lowest away following thread.

I’ll start with Notts County away in 1985.

Promotion game, Bank holiday Monday from memory. Party atmosphere on the special travelling to Nottingham.

3-0 down at half time, pitch invasion and fans in the dressing room. Two Simmo goals brought us back into it but it wasn’t to be.

Train wrecked on the way home

Charlton home game the week after ! Happy Days…..

Notts County average was 6000 that season. 17,000 plus there that day so I’ll hazard a guess that we had 11-12000 fans there.

There were a lot Blues there that day.

 

[eastmanc]

Went to that loads were there

It was the same when we beat them 2 nil in 84, I think, when Clive Wilson scored. Big following that day

 

[Shirley]

Nah, that was total attendance.

There was only a few Gornik fans there that night, seemed to be all City fans from what I remember.
Took a week for us to drive there and back. Sweet memories!

 

[Pezzer2]

Remember it well. Coming out onto the away coach park directly at the back of the stand and seeing a blue covered in blood holding his head and then being aware of lots of rocks flying in our direction. Staffs plod did fuck all to stop the Stokies either, they just stood there in their riot gear watching us getting bricked...twats.

Yep . We got penned in and they had the whole embankment to throw rocks, tree stumps etc… after the game.
We got at the ground close to kick off time and a group of older Stoke fans trying to ambush our coach, we had a coach full of nutters and ran them off .
One of our mates was in their main stand and got kicked out 3 times and somehow got back in again each time and another of our mates ran from that same stand and into our section with the help of the police. He was on the front page of the MEN the next day getting rough treatment from the police .
It was the most hostile game I’ve been to

 

[Vic]

There was only a few Gornik fans there that night, seemed to be all City fans from what I remember.
Took a week for us to drive there and back. Sweet memories!

It was a European Final so a lot of neutrals, and I think we only had one side of the ground (the wettest!), and weren't exactly crowded. The only fans I saw in the city before the game were in the cafe under the Austrian football association offices. At 99 Mariahilfe Strasse.... like it was yesterday.

 

[Stockton Heath Blue]

Probably add the fancy dress Boxing Day game to that one too.

My lasting memory from this game, having just lost, was a guy dressed up as ET trying to get onto the pitch. After much debate with the local constabulary, he proceeded to turn round and gave said PC the extended ET finger ;-)