My best away trip was Omonia Nicosia. Wasn't that bad City took nearly a 1000. We booked on a plane called XL airways which went bust a few days before luckily Easy Jet stepped in and we got our money back and had an extra nights stay in Cyprus for no extra cost, the only downside was I had to drive down to Gatwick to get the flight.I remember that I was literary on my way.
Yeah its the only time I've been to Selhurst Park and it was a pain to get to.It was an OK turnout. Just one that will always stick in my mind as an awful away. Palace has to be one of the hardest grounds to get to being south London. Especially midweek.
Wasn't the 2-0 at Carlisle in the 80s a defeat? I recall a crap performance and a missed pen, but I can't remember which side missed. We got in a "closed" pub by going down an alley and in a delivery door.We played at Carlisle two years running. A 2-0 win and the 0-0 you mention. I get them mixed up but at one of them there was a rumour went round that some City had travelled up on the Friday night and a local had been stabbed. It was probably bullshit but it resulted in every nutter in the area out at the crack of dawn on the Saturday morning, looking for any City for revenge. Was a lively day. Have no recollection of how many were there either time though. I can’t even picture the ground now, even though I went both times.
Wasn't the 2-0 at Carlisle in the 80s a defeat? I recall a crap performance and a missed pen, but I can't remember which side missed. We got in a "closed" pub by going down an alley and in a delivery door.
I went on the special too..we got 2 double decker buses to ground and when we were getting off the buses there were about 30 Torquay fans and one of the coppers jokingly said ..that's Torquays crew waiting for you..Didn’t we beat them 6-0 in second leg? Jamie Hoyland?
Tolmie missed a penalty and Nicky Reid was sent off.Wasn't the 2-0 at Carlisle in the 80s a defeat? I recall a crap performance and a missed pen, but I can't remember which side missed. We got in a "closed" pub by going down an alley and in a delivery door.
One coachload of Gornik were allowed to travel from behind the iron curtain. We swapped little paper flags like you get for the sandcastles at Blackpool.The Polish fans were not allowed to travel - as an Eastern Bloc country travel restrictions were limited back then so it was City fans and locals only.
Sadly it pissed it down all day so even the locals gave it a miss.
One rag twat I know gleefully reminds me often that it was the lowest attended Euro final ever. However I am quick to remind him that it was the biggest support an English team had taken abroad at the time.
Was that the one we lost 2-1 and the police and stewards were acting as complete arseholes all game?Lincoln away. A Tuesday night, piss wet and a miserable following I should have counted the blues, nothing to watch on the pitch. My abiding memory is the rain swirling in the floodlights.