Lowest away following.

50 at most. No special. Just a small end in the corner with a butty bar in the middle. We won 1-0. Checked our head to heads with Millwall and we only won there 1-0 in the 80's once, so I must be correct with the date. Hired a car and 4 of us went. Asked a copper where to park when we were right at the front of Millwall's ground, it looked shady loads of Millwall around, the copper said causally just park hear you'll be alright, like fuck we did. We drove around for a while and came across the away car park right behind our away section. Went in watched the match with the other 50 City who had bothered to turn up and drove home without any hassle. I went to Birmingham away in the mid 70's and that was also a bad turnout. Went with Fieldsends coaches from Salford precinct as I was still at school. Had to go in the seats opposite their end. Apart from them 2 games it was decent away turnouts.

I think we’re up to about 50 just on this thread who were there mate. Nothing wrong with admitting you’ve remembered this one wrong. I’d say for certain there were an absolute minimum of a thousand there.
 
There was definitely a Special for Millwall Away in 87-88 because I was on it. Adcock scored the winner at the far end with a sliced chip/cross that drifted over the stranded keeper.

I can still remember the Police Escort to New Cross after the match and all the blues whistling the BRIDGE OVER THE RIVER KWAI theme
At New Cross, there were two groups of City fans: those waiting for the Special and those looking for Millwall
That is correct I was on the special.
Guvno’s has a coach parked up on the approach asking lads to get on it.
 
I went to Ayresome Park, Boro away, in the 80's.

If there was ever a god forsaken place on earth, the city and the ground, that was it.

City were shit!

We took a couple of hundred if that.

 
There was definitely a Special for Millwall Away in 87-88 because I was on it. Adcock scored the winner at the far end with a sliced chip/cross that drifted over the stranded keeper.

I can still remember the Police Escort to New Cross after the match and all the blues whistling the BRIDGE OVER THE RIVER KWAI theme
At New Cross, there were two groups of City fans: those waiting for the Special and those looking for Millwall
There was definitely a special as me and my mate who lived in London tagged on to it and there was a few hundred on it. I would say there was around 800 or so there that day in that corner. It was a small section though looking at the pics so may have been a few less. Remember that pylon in the middle of it. Not many in the seats though unsurprisingly! There were at least 200 or more at London Bridge after.
 
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I went to Ayresome Park, Boro away, in the 80's.

If there was ever a god forsaken place on earth, the city and the ground, that was it.

City were shit!

We took a couple of hundred if that.


What score was it mate? I missed very few games in that era.
 
Palace away league cup - January 1995.

Wednesday night in the depth of winter. We lost 4-0. There were 16.5k in the ground. No idea how many city.

City broke my heart that night. Went to a high flying Newcastle in the previous round and won 0-2. My old man promised me we’d beat Palace and were on our way to Wembley so went to the game so excited.
Got stuffed 4-0
 
Palace away league cup - January 1995.

Wednesday night in the depth of winter. We lost 4-0. There were 16.5k in the ground. No idea how many city.

I went to that one in a car with 3 lads from work.
From what I remember there was a reasonable turnout.
 
City broke my heart that night. Went to a high flying Newcastle in the previous round and won 0-2. My old man promised me we’d beat Palace and were on our way to Wembley so went to the game so excited.
Got stuffed 4-0

For that Newcastle game I went in a mini bus from The Volunteer in Sale for some reason. I only knew one other lad on the bus. After the game we ended up in a pub in Durham and I noticed that the driver didn’t seem to be shy about going to the bar and was wondering whether he was going to drive home pissed or someone else was taking over?

Anyway, it gets to kicking out time and he suddenly announces that he’s too pissed to drive home so is kipping in the bus and driving back in the morning. Another lad claimed he was sober enough to drive but the driver said only he was insured to drive it and with that let himself in the back and crashed out, leaving the rest of us looking at each other in a pub car park in the middle of the night, wondering if this was the best idea we’d ever had.

Ended up finding a student pub that was open for another couple of hours and then hanging around the train station waiting for the first train home in the morning.
 

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