My first away game

[Rusty view]

Going to Preston away on Saturday looking forward to it. My first ever away game as well, got tickets for my birthday can’t wait. Come on your blades. Hope Brewdog starts for his hard work for the goal.

Enjoy. Hopefully you end up on the Team Bus on way home like I did on my 1st away day

 

[jono_t2000]

Going to Preston away on Saturday looking forward to it. My first ever away game as well, got tickets for my birthday can’t wait. Come on your blades. Hope Brewdog starts for his hard work for the goal.

If there was one game I would say not to go to it would be this one. Your challenge for this would be not to fall asleep in what will likely be a very dull and boring affair.

 

[Silkblade]

If there was one game I would say not to go to it would be this one. Your challenge for this would be not to fall asleep in what will likely be a very dull and boring affair.

Yeah . Preston have played 9 games, scored 3 and conceded 2

 

[Silkblade]

If there was one game I would say not to go to it would be this one. Your challenge for this would be not to fall asleep in what will likely be a very dull and boring affair.

Enjoy. Hopefully you end up on the Team Bus on way home like I did on my 1st away day

That’s an amazing experience

 

[Silkblade]

Enjoy the day Will. Like others and your old man have said, it’s a totally different experience and regardless of the result I’m sure you’ll catch ‘the bug’. I took my daughter as a teenager to Notts County for her first away game and she’ll be with me again tomorrow and she’s fast approaching 50 grounds! Never hold it against ya Dad for turning you into a Blade. The ride will be bumpy but inside he’ll be bursting with pride every time you watch them together just like I do

Thanks for the comment mate. Hopefully we win

 

[Cappy]

I do enjoy it when this video pops up in my YouTube feed. Must have watched it 5 or 6 times since the actual game.

Not just the result, but the fabulous representation of the typical football fan’s in-game commentary

 

[Flumps]

I was about 15/16 when I went to my first away match. Reading away at the (then called) Madejski we lost. Intact I think that season we had terrible away form and didn't win till almost mid season. Such a bland place and ground but it was my first away match with my mates on our own. Loved it. Now I look back I've no idea how we afforded it but after that we went to absolutely loads. Eventually we saw some wins but we enjoyed the days out regardless.

Fondest memory was easily going to Bolton. Got the coach and went for a mooch around when we got there. About half an hour before kick off we nipped back to the coach to put drinks away etc and a mate of mine lost his ticket. 5 minutes of him not believing we hadn't took it to wind him up...and us winding him up about losing it we had to say "well sorry but we ain't missing the match" and had to leave him. 5 minutes before kick off the lucky twat comes walking down to aisle and proceeds to tell us how a fan handed in his lost ticket at the club shop.

 

[RecordBreakers]

Enjoy the day young en, my kid loves away days we get to most infact I love em probs more than him

 

[Silkblade]

Enjoy the day young en, my kid loves away days we get to most infact I love em probs more than him

Yeah can’t wait for tomorrow

 

[Rusty view]

That’s an amazing experience

Well I had to survive 2 supporter coaches crashing 1st.

But it was bloody amazing. Players were fantastic. Invited us to play poker with them

 

[Silkblade]

Well I had to survive 2 supporter coaches crashing 1st.

But it was bloody amazing. Players were fantastic. Invited us to play poker with them

That’s unreal. Great experience

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

Can't remember exact day and year of my first away game (help out @Silent Blade) , but it was early to mid 70s at Filbert Street and it finished 1-1. Stood on a woodenvterrace down the side of the pitch. First time I saw Blades fans threaten to deck a copper outside after the game, the copper scampered off quickish.

Enjoy it, nowt like a decent away day

 

[MagnifiqueShorehamStreet]

you going tomorrow as well?

Oh yes!
Hope you have a great day tomorrow.
First away day is always special.

 

[TakeTheHighRoad]

Taking my son to his first away game tomorrow. He's 10 and has been going to the Lane since the Adkins season. He's so excited, and I've already warned him to not repeat most of the language he'll hear

 

[BladesOnToast]

Yeah . Preston have played 9 games, scored 3 and conceded 2

Don't make any assumptions.

Last season we'd scored just once in our first 5 games when Peterborough came to visit.

 

[bladestrivia]

My 1st away game 65p on the football special Donny Rovers in League cup 1979 pitch invasion and we took Donnie's side kop ,never seen anything like it

 

[Gareth Kay]

First away game for me, 1-1 draw at Mansfield Town 1977

Mine was Mansfield away 89 I think. Peter Duffield pen in a 1.0 win. To this day I've never known worse weather at a match.

 

[Wapping Blade]

Mine was Bury on 27 Apr 82 with King Keith scoring a last minute equaliser (cue broken wooden benches we were sitting on), followed a few days later by a 3-2 away win at Crewe, then the legendary Darlo 2 weeks later. We were taken to all those by my mate’s dad in his car (with his “fruity tobacco” pipe).

Reckon first “solo” trips were either Hull or Wigan the next season.

 

[Bert]

Mine was Bury on 27 Apr 82 with King Keith scoring a last minute equaliser (cue broken wooden benches we were sitting on), followed a few days later by a 3-2 away win at Crewe, then the legendary Darlo 2 weeks later. We were taken to all those by my mate’s dad in his car (with his “fruity tobacco” pipe).

Reckon first “solo” trips were either Hull or Wigan the next season.

Bert was at that Bury game, so was Len Fairclough sat just behind Bert.

 

[Going t lane]

First away game for me, 1-1 draw at Mansfield Town 1977

Same here mate.

 

[103SecondsOfMagic]

Preston was my 2nd away fixture, I was a 15 year old gobshite in August 2000. Two of the stands were still wooden terraces. It kept kicking off with the stewards for suggesting that maybe smoking in a wooden stand wasn't an optimal idea.

We were shite and lost 3-0 thanks to a goal from Michael 'The Future' Appleton and a brace from Jon Macken, who made us look very foolish all game.

Still my favourite Lancashire club though....if I really had to choose.

for 'The Future'

 

[JJBlade]

My first away game proper,
ie, unsupervised by a responsible adult,

Mansfield 1979-80 season

Me and a mate decided on Friday night that we were going to hitch hike it

Saturday morning we were stood on the parkway thumbing a lift

I got bored after a while and went to Pond Street and got the service bus, my mate carried on hitching

I bought a return ticket so thought I'd be okay

On the way to Mansfield almost every single bus was smashed to shit.

I arrived in Mansfield, and bumped into my mate who had successfully hitch hiked it

We won 4-3 and went to the top of the League.

Total carnage all day, the figure given was 7,000 away fans, but that was a massive understatement

I went back to the bus stop and all buses had been cancelled because of the damage done on the way

I had no money left, I paid for a return ticket, and now there was no return buses, I had maybe 20p on me.

So, a large group of fans decided to walk from Mansfield to Chesterfield and get the bus or the train from there.

I had no choice as a young kid, I had to follow them, or end up being lost in deepest, darkest Nottinghamshire

We all set off walking and every shop and other establishment on Chesterfield Road was plundered and wrecked

The police turned up, rounded everyone up and took us to the police station.

104 fans shared a single police cell for 10 hours, stood up, absolutely crushed, tired, hungry, and almost passing out with dehydration

They let us go at 4 00 in the morning and dropped everybody off in Sheffield City Centre

On the way back in the police van I was talking to somebody from Worksop.

The van drove past his house, but they wouldn't let him out and took him all the way back to Sheffield.

I walked from Sheffield City Centre to Crookes on a Sunday morning feeling like shit and still having to negotiate my Mum and Dad who were frantic

That was my introduction to a United away day

 

[Hartley Hare]

Don't forget to try a Butter Pie at half time.

Fascinating experience.



Good luck William, excited for you.

HH

 

[metalblade]

My first proper away day (without parents) was a glorious 2-3 win over Forest when Woodward and Currie ripped them a new arsehole

 

[Edgar Allan Poo]

Bert was at that Bury game, so was Len Fairclough sat just behind Bert.

We're all relieved Bert didn't accept a lift home with him - apparently the character met his end when he crashed his van into a motorway bridge.

Didn't realise that actor Peter Adamson himself lived in Welton and died in Lincoln county hospital!

 

[A_Bladesman]

Have a good day, Will.

 

[Digger]

Bert was at that Bury game, so was Len Fairclough sat just behind Bert.

 

[1889]

Bert was at that Bury game, so was Len Fairclough sat just behind Bert.

I hope he didn’t invite Bert to go swimming

 

[Selly]

Yeah my dad said atmosphere is class at away games

He's not wrong.

Ask him about Leicester away in 1996. Class day out that was...

 

[Silkblade]

Thanks mate, currrently in the car now

Have a good day, Will.