Lowest away following.

[exiled-blue]

I was there! Jimmy Frizzell's first game as manager and David White's debut (from the bench)

You've got a far better memory than me. Shit match and hardly any away fans is the extent of what I remember

 

[fallowfield]

Couple that stick out

Newcastle away 86 ish. Lost 3-1. Had 2 pens in the open end and was plenty of room.

Chelsea away on a Monday night early/mid 90s, freezing and we had fuck all there.

 

[BillCarlisle]

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.

I was at that one too. Me & my mates got tickets in the Kemlyn Road Stand for the same reason. As I recall there were plenty of empty dipper seats around us as well. A real nothing game. In those days it was usually easy to get seat tickets from the home club and pick up on the day of the game. It was often better than being herded about like cattle to and from the away section.

 

[Big Swifty]

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?

Correct - it was indeed Mario's debut, August 19th 2010, and he did get the only goal ofthe game.

Well remembered.

 

[Mhh1960]

I thought we had a poor turn out in Dublin 2011 with Inter Milan,AirticityXl and Celtic for the Dublin Super cup.Considering the games were over the weekend we probably got a few hundred at best.From getting on the plane at Manchester me and the lad just ended being surrounded by Celtic fans throughout but maybe it was the size of the stadium and we only saw our fans together in the bottom corner when we won it against Milan.

 

[raininspain]

Right, here’s one that has to be the winner!

Two of us (yes, just two: yours truly and Andy Shaw, originally from Wythenshawe) travelled all the way to Warsaw for Kaz Deyna’s testimonial. September 1979. There were no other blues there.



I’ve promised Doctor Gary James a full account of an epic trip.

City lost 2-1, with Deyna playing one half for each team.

 

[Roachy]

If we get to the match where 1 fan went surely that will be the end of the thread.

 

[blue b4 the moon]

Hard to tell from some of the more distant games as segregation didn't always happen but personally in modern times probably Aalborg think we had 400 tickets in total for the game.

 

[blue b4 the moon]

was that the game when it was foggy all night and you couldnt see the halfway if so 4 of us from donny

Was funny cheering every time we attacked our end in the fog as though we'd scored.

 

[Scaring Europe to Death]

It was easier to go in the old days, but strangely it was also easier to not go
I remember Newcastle bringing more than 10,000 to Maine Road for a Second Division game in 83-84, but less than 3,000 for a First Division game, just a few seasons later.
City were no different, particularly during the mid 80s, often taking 10,000 to Leeds Road, but less than 1,000 to Craven Cottage or Ayresome Park.
I recall a 2-1 defeat at Boro when City scored first (Kinsey), not dissimilar to the FA Cup defeat under Reid in 92.
The match attendance was only 7,000 and I would guess only around 600 City max

 

[Big Swifty]

Am I the only one to have watched City at Park Avenue, Bradford? (NOT Valley Parade -wrong club)

 

[BillCarlisle]

Am I the only one to have watched City at Park Avenue, Bradford? (NOT Valley Parade -wrong club)

I would think most likely !
As a young kid I saw Bradford PA play Oldham at Boundary Park the season they dropped out of the league, same with Gateshead. I must have been a jinx :-)

 

[fitzy blue]

If we're including friendlys in this, some of our pre season games at distant places would be on the list.
In 2009 we played in South Africa the year before the world cup there. We had 3 games there in what they called the Vodacom Challenge.
The first game was in a place called Polokwane north of Johannesburg, there couldn't have been more than 20 or 30 of us there who travelled from the UK.
The stadium was fairly full with locals and I seem to remember they celebrated in their own way the birthday of Nelson Mandela.

 

[IOWBlue]

What years were both games?

Charleroi was 2007 i think. Wrexham in the 90's.

 

[Mad Eyed Screamer]

If we're including friendlys in this, some of our pre season games at distant places would be on the list.
In 2009 we played in South Africa the year before the world cup there. We had 3 games there in what they called the Vodacom Challenge.
The first game was in a place called Polokwane north of Johannesburg, there couldn't have been more than 20 or 30 of us there who travelled from the UK.
The stadium was fairly full with locals and I seem to remember they celebrated in their own way the birthday of Nelson Mandela.

 

[Didsbury Dave]

Saw a photo of our EDS game away somewhere last week and there was a cordoned section with 23 blues in it.

 

[Corky]

Game at Darwen there were about 10 blues visible, plus Frizzell and his Wife. Was told it was a going to be a strong team, but only Dibble played who you would call first teamer. 1989 I think, got beat.

 

[TheRubberRing]

shakthar Donestk in Khariv. the club said there was 111 of us but there definitely wasnt, more like 70-80 and the majority were overseas blues

 

[dennishasdoneit]

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?

Forgot all about that game!
I watched it on tv/stream ?

 

[Jesus H Gabz]

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 ?

Was that Richard Edgehill’s debut? Remember watching us lose there 1-0 around that time (on tv) commentator waxing lyrical about him, think it might of been Ian Darke, probably the last reasonable comment he made about us