Your first away match

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bornablade said:
I suppose my first away game was at Hillsborough but I cannot recall a year. Didn't go to the one referred to earlier when Sherman got a brace.

First away game from Sheffield was the Leeds quarter final in 1968. After beating West Ham away in the previous round I really felt that 1968 would be our year and I could look forward to my first ever Wembley visit.

Unfortunately we lost and the only thing I had to look forward to was my first ever relegation.

Never fail to let you down.
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2-2 (Woody and Jones put us 2 up, McCalliog and own goal saved them a point) in Sept 1966 or 1-1 in Jan 1968 (Mick Hill equalised Fantham's opener)
 



spongebobblade said:
My first away match was back in the late 70s away to Cardiff. I'd not long since started watching the blades and was hooked. We won 6-1 and I've never seen a better away result since!! Think Bobby Campbell got a couple and my hero Woody definitely scored. The rests a blur. Remember the return match and being a young lad I thought we would get a cricket score....... typically I'm sure we lost! (Silent?)
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Calvert, Campbell (2), Kenworthy, Hamilton and Woody.

Yes we lost 1-0 in the return game. Either Steve Grapes or Phil Dwyer scored
 
Although I'm an old bugger and had been to Bramall Lane in the late 60s, my first away game and the one that got me hooked was v Bradford City 3 March 1990. We won 4-1 and i was utterly and completely hooked. The analogy I use is a born again football fan, as it hit me so hard. Both my sisters and brothers in law are born again Christians, so it is particularly apt. :)
 
bornablade said:
I suppose my first away game was at Hillsborough but I cannot recall a year. Didn't go to the one referred to earlier when Sherman got a brace.

First away game from Sheffield was the Leeds quarter final in 1968. After beating West Ham away in the previous round I really felt that 1968 would be our year and I could look forward to my first ever Wembley visit.

Unfortunately we lost and the only thing I had to look forward to was my first ever relegation.

Never fail to let you down.
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We've a lot in common. "First away game" is a subject that comes up quite a lot and this is a previous post I made on the subject:

"My first away game ever was at Wednesday on March 12, 1966, a 2-2 draw. I was seven and went on my own!

It seems unbelievable now but my dad (who had virtually stopped going to matches by then) took me to the ground in the car and we went to a South Stand turnstile together. He paid for me to go in and then he went off to Firth Park to visit his mother, my grandmother. He told me where to be after the match and he picked me up there.

We did exactly the same thing later that year on September 24, another 2-2 draw.

The next Hillsborough Derby was on January 6, 1968. I was nine by this point and clearly didn't need any more mollycoddling because he just ran me down to Meadowhead, gave me the bus fare and the price of entry and told me to take care, and then I got either a 42 or 53 bus straight through to the ground. I sat in the stand behind the Leppings Lane goal and saw another draw, this time 1-1. Eleven days before this, on Boxing Day 1967, I'd gone with my uncle to Hillsborough to see Leeds play Wednesday. He lived in Leeds by then and did some work for Radio Leeds and some one had given him a stand ticket. He asked if I wanted to go and paid for me to stand on the Leppings Lane end in a crowd of 51055. It ended either 0-0 or 1-0 to Leeds but I remember being as interested in the electronic scoreboard regularly flashing up goals from our game at Southampton, a 3-3 draw. Again, he simply told me where to be after the game but, looking back, I'm a bit surprised my dad hadn't taken me down to Pond Street and given me the fare to Southampton instead.

My first away game anywhere other than Hillsborough was that FA Cup quarter-final at Leeds on March 30, 1968. It was my tenth birthday. I went with a bloke from across the road who took me to all our home games at the time. His son, about four years older than me, also went together with a schoolmate of his. We all had tickets to different parts of the ground so we split up and simply arranged a place to meet afterwards. I can't remember much about the match itself but I do have a recollection that I was on a really massive bank of terracing and I struggled to see one end of the pitch. The crowd was 48322.

I appreciate I'm beginning to sound like a bit of a Billy No Mates but I don't think any of the other kids who I used to stand with at home matches were allowed to go to away matches at this stage. If my parents were ever worried about me going, I certainly wasn't aware of it.

The first away game I remember going to where any of my own friends were there was Mansfield away in the FA Cup third round on January 4, 1969. Another neighbour took me and three or four others in his car. Tudor put us a goal up but Mansfield came back to win 2-1. Dudley Roberts scored at least one of their goals. I remember a wall collapsing at one end and United supporters spilling on to the pitch and I also remember Tony Currie was the sub as he was coming back from illness/injury and the fans were calling for him to come on for what felt like ages.

Finally, I got to go to an away match outside Sheffield with no adult involvement on February 24, 1973. I went with a lad from school to Leicester City, a 0-0 draw. Jim Bone made his debut. Tom McAlister made a brilliant save from an Alan Birchenall shot and Peter Shilton took an enormous amount of stick from United supporters on the away end, which was very close to the pitch. We were singing "the monkey wants a banana" to the tune of "for he's a jolly good fellow" and he didn't like it one bit.

As others have said, I would never have let my own kids go to matches on their own at the same age. They were very different times."
 
An absolute thriller:

Stoke 0-0 Blades in 2002/2003. Special mentions to Steve Kabba for missing a chance from 2 yards out.
 
H;boro - 12/04/1971 - Owls 0, Blades 0

Stood in an aisle on the kop - absolutely jam packed.

and as posted before - the ref denied us (bottled it) a penalty right in front of me..........twat. That would have been the double.

UTB
 
Birmingham last match 1975 thought we'd took there End
Wrong!
 
villa away ( went with my da and a load out of Felbrigg ) 4-1 defeat in the cup , they had a very good up and coming team and got promoted that season I think .
On my own Forest away lost that fucker 6-1 ,
 
The Sty for the ZDS cup (89/90).
He who laughs last, laughs loudest for that particular season .
 
Fulwood Blade said:
H;boro - 12/04/1971 - Owls 0, Blades 0

Stood in an aisle on the kop - absolutely jam packed.

and as posted before - the ref denied us (bottled it) a penalty right in front of me..........twat. That would have been the double.

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My 1st away game was Palace at Wembley 96/97. Not the best memory to have as a first game l, was in tears at the end! Loved the build up though and remember the atmosphere on the tube to the stadium clear as day.

My next away game was at the Stadium of Shite lost 2-4 Jan98 ish. We were at the start of a terrible away run which lasted about 12 months, so not an easy start as a blade on the road!

I was at Oxford on the open terrace where it pissed it down all day when we ended that run in October 1998, we were still wet when the buses pulled back in to Sheffield that night. I vaguely remember a picture of the away end that day in the green un' or star marking the fact we'd won for the 1st time in a year and I could just about pick me and mates, so was buzzing.
 



Went to Hillsborough to early sixties derby games but they don't really count as away for me. So 1st real one was at Man U in 1965. We lost (surprise surprise) but for me the revelation was seeing the genius that is George Best for the first time. He bagged a couple of course.
 
I am claiming the oldest one so far - depressing thought! Notts County away, Feb 1957. I was 9 at the time, and it is only looking back you realise what you owe your family. My older brother had started going to away games, my Dad worked Saturday mornings, and I was pestering to start traveling. My mother and grandmother volunteered to go on the train to Nottingham with us, and they went shopping while we went to the match. United were 2-0 up, Jim Iley missed 2 penalties, and we ended up drawing 2-2. Oh to be able to remember glorious triumphs! When we got back to Sheffield, it had started snowing, and we had to walk home. After that, I was aloud to travel alone! And it got worse - my next one was a 1-0 defeat at Donnie. But we were happy!:mad:
 
Aug 1989 Rotherham, league cup 2nd leg, lost 1-0 on night and 2-1 on aggregate. Rotherham celebrated as though they'd just won champions league
 
Coventry away, last away match of 1991. Drew 0-0, terrible match, but as an impressionable 12 year old, the atmosphere, the pre-match pub, the fancy dress, and the whole trip was amazing.
 
Donny away for me, in the cup run of 87-88.

Was an eye opener going to belle vue, fenced in behind the goal with a grass bank next to us. Still the worse ground I've been too
 
Wembley '93 for me, other than that, Oldham away in 94, last week of the season - drew 1-1, went down 4 days later...
 
HuddersfieldBlade said:
Still the worse ground I've been too
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You never went to Burnden Park did you? A superb view of the supermarket wall and floodlight pylon.
Or Saletgate with the cinder filled steps that meant everyone went home with orange jeans.
Or Plough Lane with the open end where the ball went sailing out of the ground every 5 minutes.
Or Millmoor with the dangerously narrow 'Millers Way' alley. Scrapyard on one side and 2 police horses side on just crushing you in.

The cage at Belle View was luxury, 'Shoebox in't middle ot roard' and all that.
 
2-1 defeat to Barnsley in 1986. Recall going 1 up and Burridge saving a penalty in the 1st half before going on to capitulate in the 2nd. Remember my old man couldn't find the ground so we picked up a random Barnsley fan on the way and gave him a lift in exchange for directions!
 
knockoffnigel said:
My next away game was at the Stadium of Shite lost 2-4 Jan98 ish. We were at the start of a terrible away run which lasted about 12 months, so not an easy start as a blade on the road!
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I went to that game too. We definitely lost 4-2. It was either that or losing 3-1 to Barnsley that season that was my first away day.
 
Leeds away mid-seventies. Lost 5-1. My uncle and grandad took me on their Kop (because it was safer???). Trapped my finger in the turnstile on my way in and it bled throughout the match. Small wonder I can't stand them.
 



Rotherham, county cup 76, Hull Anglo Scottish cup, then Luton , Old Harry Haslam said in his programme notes the first match was always "the last of the friendlies"
 
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