Smallest City Away Support you've ever been in

[northstander]

for me has to be Faroes + timosaora about 120 at each game, probably two of the best trips for me, tour of south africa probably about 40 blues plus a few south african blues

 

[Anonymous]

We never took any fans to London in the 70s for some reason.

We appeared to take very few , although in fairness during the days of little or no segregation it was very difficult to stand together in numbers without attracting the attention of home hooligans at places like Spurs , Arsenal , West Ham and Chelsea ...... we took quite a few fans to places like QPR , but in general London grounds weren't popular destinations with travelling City fans.

It's probable that places such as Leeds , Stoke , or Derby saw our largest travelling support back in the 70's .....

 

[lancs blue]

We never took any fans to London in the 70s for some reason.

We appeared to take very few , although in fairness during the days of little or no segregation it was very difficult to stand together in numbers without attracting the attention of home hooligans at places like Spurs , Arsenal , West Ham and Chelsea ...... we took quite a few fans to places like QPR , but in general London grounds weren't popular destinations with travelling City fans.

It's probable that places such as Leeds , Stoke , or Derby saw our largest travelling support back in the 70's .....

Yes, we'd often take 10,000+ to Leeds in the 70s, but Stoke in the FA Cup in 1976 was probably the largest City away following I saw (excluding semis and Finals obviously). It was a Wednesday night but there must have been 20,000 blues there in a crowd of 38,000 - the big open end at the old Victoria Ground was absolutely rammed and lots went in the Boothen End and along the side-stand paddocks. I remember Shilton had a blinder and we lost 1-0.

 

[awaydayblue]

for me has to be Faroes + timosaora about 120 at each game, probably two of the best trips for me

Agreed, they were quality trips. Faroes we sold 250 tickets, but as you say only half of that made it (other Blues just bought tickets for the points). Again in Romania, we sold more than actually made it, I suspect it was less than 100, most of whom went straight into the party in that posh house with a big garden right outside the ground! Can't see Moscow being much more than 100 -150 maximum, fully understandable given the circumstances, just wish the club could help travelling fans a bit more for the harder ones, in terms of, we are sponsored by an airline etc, surely they could help subsidise a one day trip to all european aways to give more Blues the opportunity to go and help some of us who are forced to go independent (nothing wrong with that of course but nice to have an option especially when time off work is an issue for so many of us nowadays). ctwd

 

[Bigg Bigg Blue]

Truo away in 87 or 88 when we did all the travelling in one week Ipswitch Plymouth wednesday and again on the Saturday.
We stayed in Newquay on the Saturday and then went to watch City play in a friendly at Truo on the Sunday.

 

[phil31]

Not many blues in Thailand for the preseason tour when joey did the cigar trick.

I was there, funnily enough bumped into a few lads I knew in soi 6 Pattaya the night before and night after the game, cannot for the life of me think why they would be there!

I just booked for the week in Bkk ended up staying for nearly 6 months!!!! Long story that one!!!!

 

[baildon blue]

Burnley in 1999 . The match was over after 1st leg . Not many City supporters at Turf moor that night . It was the night Shaun Wright Phillips made his 1st team debut .

 

[Doncaster Blues]

Went to three of the zenith data systems games in the early nineties, the turn out for them was pretty poor (no great surprise).

Remember one at bramall lane been especially poor and stood on the old away terrace with a few hundred hardy souls for company.

Also went to hillsboro' and saw colin hendry play up front, he played out of his skin and got sold not long after!

 

[Doncaster Blues]

Scunthorpe reserves away, 1990ish

I was one of 2 City fans there and remember chatting to Mike Sheron who was a sub.

Saw the reserves at Bradford away, I worked in leeds at the time and went after work. Played at their actual ground which was unusal (saw city reserves play leeds in wakefield and york around this time!).

There was only about 30 there.... Me and 29 bradford fans!

 

[joenorth]

1974 we played arsenal and spurs away in the same week, arsenal we got beat 4-0 , i think kiddo got a hatrick there was only about 200 city in the old clock end, three quater time arsenal kept inching there way towards us, but by full time 200 people had vanished ,we had to do that a lot in them days especially in london, Spurs in the week, we beat 2-1 bell and booth scored, cannot remember any group of city fans celebrating until a fight broke out in the famous shelf stand, a gap appeared and there was only about 15 city fans standing their ground.