My first away game

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DaveBassettsgoneonholiday said:
I have a vague idea mine could be Notts County although for certain I remember the 4-3 win at Mansfield in September '79.
The Notts match could have been an Anglo Scottish Cup game in '77 or the League game in '79. Definitely a night match and I remember it being really cold. We were sat on wooden benches in the stand (Dad always preferred to sit whenever possible) and to the left were our supporters.
I remember them starting a fire in the middle of the terrace, because it was bloody freezing, then the coppers moved them all away & stood round it themselves,keeping warm, until it died down.
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Anglo Scottish Cup replay? We lost 3-0
 
QPR away October 1975, lost 1-0. Dearden hit the post but another defeat in a depressing season. Amazed at the running battles on the open end at Loftus Road, watched a gang of cockneys run past us to get at a crowd of Blades, then couldn't believe seeing grown "men" cry after getting battered and running back up the terrace.
 
Sadly United vs Wednesday, Hillsbrough, Boxing Day 1979. Enough said...
 
Bristol Rovers at their Eastville Stadum in November 1978. Lost 2-1. A complete shithole of a ground that was nothing more than a run down greyhound stadium. Therefore the Blades there that day were at least a hundred yards away from the action as Steve Finnieston (remember him?) scored one of his only four goals for us. At 25 years old, he never played competitive football again after he left us.
Tony Pulis played full back for them that day - I wonder what happened to him?
Transport courtesy of a coach hosted by Dot.
 
First away Chester Sealand Road. Remember an asphalt kop, warm weather and a pre Match ice cream by the river (how my pre match preparations have changed)

First on own was on football special to Crewe in 83. First time on a football train and first time I learnt of the intricacies of certain sexual acts, listening to the older Blades across the aisle.

A lot of growing up done around Sheffield United away games...
 
Swillsborough. Monday 12 April 1971. Drew 0-0 on the way to our glorious promotion. Two of us went from Donny. We were 14 years old. I don't remember much about the game tbh. I think we bounced a shot off the crossbar. John Hope made a great save.
 
SW12 to S12 to S18 said:
One of the topics raised the other day was about how many ground have you visited. Got me thinking about such stuff and was remembering my very first away game.
It was Derby County on 28/10/72. We lost 2-1 with T.C. Scoring for us.
For any young ones reading this, in those days there was no segregation, you just turned up and paid at the turnstiles and took pot luck with where you were in the ground until you got to know your way around a bit.
I remember going on the coach from Pond Street on the S.U.T. and just being dumped near the ground and ended up standing on what they called the Pop Side along with what seemed like a couple of thousand other Blades. I seem to remember quite a lot of punch ups going on with very little policeing.
I was still at school at the time so had to save my paper round money to fund away trips so had to wait until the end of the season before my next away game at Ipswich, 1-1 draw.
What memories do you all have of your first away games?
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Hillsborough, some time late in 1979.

Don't think about it too much, thanks for the reminder though
 
Great thread!
Birmingham 1975. 0-0 & therefore no European football.
On a coach from Sheaf Valley baths with my Dad for the first and only time. Too young and naive to feel intimidated but I remember the coach in front got bricked in the car park after the game.
Can't remember anything of the game at all.
 
Leeds utd around 1990 ish we were three nil down at half time went four nil down early in the second half and then started to play. We pulled it back to 4-3 with a few minutes to go and really had em on the rack. I still think to this day a few more minutes and we'd have got a draw. It was the game where Phil Kite was penalised for carrying the ball outside the area from a kick out of his hands. Leeds scored from the resulting free kick....Replays later showed he was inside the area.

My overiding memory is coins raining down on the assistant referee who gave it everytime he came down in the corner.

Actually came out the ground buzzing even though we lost. Then some scummy Leeds fan tried starting a scrap with me and my mate...we were about 15 at the time and he was in his 40's. Ran a mile when some older Blades lads appeared and had a go back.
 



Tyler Durden said:
Port Fail, March 2000.

Marcus Bent scored in a 3-2 win (might even have been a brace). We were chanting "Thank you for Marcus Bent" at the Vale fans, also heard the longest "Oh when the blaaaaaades go marching iiiiiiiinnnn" in history, seemed to last the entire 2nd half.

Also recall thinking that Burslem wasn't so much a place as merely depression in solid form. It's the greyest most soul-destroying doghole I've ever been to.
Anyway, went season too. Nowts changed, except now there's more smackheads.
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I was just thinking that the first away game I can remember (though I knew I went to a few before this) was beating the pigs 2-1 at the sty on April Fools' Day 2001. But now you've posted that I remember the "Thank you for Marcus Bent" chants very clearly. A much more enjoyable day than the last time I went to Vale, on boxing day the other year...
 
ForgeBlade said:
I was just thinking that the first away game I can remember (though I knew I went to a few before this) was beating the pigs 2-1 at the sty on April Fools' Day 2001. But now you've posted that I remember the "Thank you for Marcus Bent" chants very clearly. A much more enjoyable day than the last time I went to Vale, on boxing day the other year...
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I know a few who went to that one. Took 'em about 7 hours to get home!
 
September 24th 1966

Another 2-2 draw,

Went with my father sat in the open seats at the side. Rival fans sitting together. Their kop was a mixture of Wendy at the front and Blades at the back. Fans used to have masses of banners in those days, made for a great spectacle.

We raced into a 2-0 lead and they pulled it back, can't remember the scorers
 
HeCanDoMagic said:
Nottingham Forest v Sheffield United, 01 April 1991 - cant find anything else about the game other than we lost 2-0.
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Remember sat high up in the Brian Clough Stand that day with the Forest Mongs. If I remember rightly a certain Mr Nigel Clough scored the second goal? Not a great day. Despise Forest.
 
Leeds away, Tuesday night April 1976. United already relegated but win 1-0. Dad had got free tickets off a Leeds st holder, so we were in their west stand across from the Lowfields. If I remember correctly Blades fans were behind the goal, south stand side. Woody scored.
 
My very first away game came less than 6 weeks after my first home and to this day is still the most away goals I've ever seen United score.
Think it was Christmas time ish away at Cardiff in the 77/78 season when we thumped them 6-1. I thought all away matches would be the same and here I am 40 years on and never bettered it! Bit of a blur now but I'm sure Bobby Campbell got a couple and Woody got one. Maybe Cliff Calvert but I'm guessing now. I'm sure Silent will put me right
 
Mansfield away October 77, we drew 1-1, can't remember who scored but remember loads of trouble and the plod wading in to the away end behind the goal on numerous occasions.
 
Villa Park in 1993 – me & my uncle in the away end, my dad & brother (Villa fans) in the home end. Bit of a miserable game – Guy Whittingham got the only goal right in front of us in the 2nd half.

The only other thing I can recall was Mark Bosnich got a lot of abuse in that first half – did we end up giving him a trial during the early Warnock era? Feel sure he was training at the club one month.
 
Piddie said:
My overiding memory is coins raining down on the assistant referee
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Has anyone ever ever referred to them as that, apart from politically correct commentators?

It's LINESMAN!
 
1961, season we got promotion.
Wagged it off school to go to Lincoln
afternoon kick off,losing 1-0 at half time,murdered them in 2nd half won
5-1 can't remember scorers though.
 



cahill said:
September 24th 1966

Another 2-2 draw,

Went with my father sat in the open seats at the side. Rival fans sitting together. Their kop was a mixture of Wendy at the front and Blades at the back. Fans used to have masses of banners in those days, made for a great spectacle.

We raced into a 2-0 lead and they pulled it back, can't remember the scorers
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Woodward and Jones gave us the two goal lead in the 1st half. McCalliog and an own goal levelled the matters

Think the below goal is the own goal

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