Weird Away Days

The opening game at the Stadium of Light at the start of 97-98.
The Taxi Driver recommended a pub called the Greyhound, but somehow, we walked through the wrong door, and ended up isupping in the adjacent Sunderland Deaf and Dumb Club.
Even.the Landlord and bouncers wore hearing aids, but somehow we got served.

Totally bizarre.
 
My dad sold a new Sierra Cosworth to Bob Carolgees back in the late 80s and he gave my dad a 'Spit the Dog'. I remember taking it to Filbert Street iirc and he ended up conducting the City fans 'Spit the Dog Spit the Dog Spit the Dog' and then to finish the day off someone dressed as the Pink Panther invaded the pitch. love City.
 
Upton Park early in the 1975/6 season. Got the football special down & we were in the ground about an hour before kick-off. A few minutes later it was absolute carnage so we all decided discretion was the better part of valour, left the ground & headed back to the West End for the afternoon.
 
Blackburn away in the cup under Pearce.
Went down for a piss at HT and about 100 City fans kicking shit out of each other..
10 stewards came down had a look at ran off back upstairs.
Bizzare scene at the time.
 
Not sure of the year, but we played Stockport in a Saturday pre-season friendly and I went along with my lad and his girlfriend. We got to Stockport early so that we could have a few beers before the game. We sat in a boozer in the centre of Stockport thinking it was extraordinarily quiet in there for a match day, albeit a friendly.
About 1:30 we decided to get a taxi to the ground to enjoy the day. Taxi driver seemed bemused that we wanted to go to the ground as the football traffic would be hellish. Turned out it wasn't a 3pm kick off, as we'd assumed, it was a lunchtime kick-off and we'd sat in the pub and missed the whole game !!!!
Note to self: Never assume a kick off time ever again!
 
A sort of double header away day....Brighton at the weekend where it was so hot the sun popped my banana (and that steward ended up getting sacked for heading the ball over the stand roof) & then onto Shrewsbury with a very late Griffiths goal in the snow, couldn't see the motorway markings for quite a few miles travelling home.

That was a weird trip. We set off after last orders on the Friday night and with a couple of stops for the driver to get a quick kip we arrived in Brighton probably about 8-ish before anything was open. The town is a freak show

First thing we saw was some lad on the beach practicing his karate moves by himself like some 2nd rate ninja wannabe. Next thing we saw was some bloke still bladdered from the night before being guided by his mate. He looked like he'd been beaten to a pulp with half his face hanging off. Then for the next couple of hours somebody was following us. Everywhere we went he was there peeping round doors or walls or fruit machines
 
aston villa away then called division one, be about 1980, we got the full end behind the goals and obviously in those days it was stand up terraces. tbh cant remember the result ! I know dennis tueart scored from a pen.

we arrived an hour before KO, already quite a few city fans in the end. The songs where going beer was flowing. Then the Saturday special trains turned up, must have been 7,000 city fans, lots where in the villa end and started to wave at us. Trouble started caused by city fans in the villa end so police escorted them round the edge of the pitch and in to the away end. Must have been 150 or 200 of them.

this was still before KO, the end was packed. We all sang "we shall not, we shall not be moved". But the hilarious thing was we all sat on the floor as we sang, loud and for a long time. We did it a couple of times throughout the game after scoring.

Next the whole end held up the match day programme above their heads with the page open showing I think Roger Palmer ( could be wrong ) and sang "you'll never walk alone". The villa fans at each side where in stitches. Ten minutes later the whole end picked up off the floor any chip paper wrappers, pie tins, any old rubbish and held that up to the song of YWNWA. The sight was unbelievable, the rubbish held in the air and the song echoing round. Again villa fans where laughing away.

was much the same throughout the game, songs belting out, great away day.

Anybody else by any chance go to that game ?

im also pretty sure we sang if you hate man utd long before 1990.
 
aston villa away then called division one, be about 1980, we got the full end behind the goals and obviously in those days it was stand up terraces. tbh cant remember the result ! I know dennis tueart scored from a pen.

we arrived an hour before KO, already quite a few city fans in the end. The songs where going beer was flowing. Then the Saturday special trains turned up, must have been 7,000 city fans, lots where in the villa end and started to wave at us. Trouble started caused by city fans in the villa end so police escorted them round the edge of the pitch and in to the away end. Must have been 150 or 200 of them.

this was still before KO, the end was packed. We all sang "we shall not, we shall not be moved". But the hilarious thing was we all sat on the floor as we sang, loud and for a long time. We did it a couple of times throughout the game after scoring.

Next the whole end held up the match day programme above their heads with the page open showing I think Roger Palmer ( could be wrong ) and sang "you'll never walk alone". The villa fans at each side where in stitches. Ten minutes later the whole end picked up off the floor any chip paper wrappers, pie tins, any old rubbish and held that up to the song of YWNWA. The sight was unbelievable, the rubbish held in the air and the song echoing round. Again villa fans where laughing away.

was much the same throughout the game, songs belting out, great away day.

Anybody else by any chance go to that game ?

im also pretty sure we sang if you hate man utd long before 1990.
1981 I think, remember the holding up of the programmes but thought it was the page with a picture of the city squad
 
1981 I think, remember the holding up of the programmes but thought it was the page with a picture of the city squad

might well have been the picture of city team.. Could be another game I was at with roger palmer. Was it 81 ? I was thinking year before Wembley fa cup, but could be wrong. Was 15 at the time.

Can you remember score ?

Hell of a laugh, the "we shall not be moved while sat on floor" !
 

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