Away day memories (6 Viewers)

[rupert_bear]

After doing the 51 years thread I got to thinking about the early Sky Blues away days and some of the characters. There was a little guy, Reggie who led the chanting sat on somebodys shoulder, does anyone remember the two lads who travelled to away games by tandem, midland games mainly but I seen them as far north as Rotherham and down at Bournemouth and the next day at Bristol Rovers, you played 2 games in 2 days then.
Also the two guys who used to stand on the perimeter wall with their scarves around their heads turban style doing some hokus pokus chanting with replies from the Sky Blue army of the day and the two brothers who lived right out Corley way and had to walk miles to the Shepherd and Shepherdess for the bus to town, they went to every match home and away without fail. I remember one match at Chelsea when some Chelsea tough guy and his mates tried to pick a fight with them and they absolutely battered them, unfortunately it is the rise of the hooligan that seemed to end these characters, frog marches to grounds and coaches by police etc.

 

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[ccfcway]

Oldham away in some cup.

Coach didnt get there till nearly half time. After 5 mins of us arriving Wegerle swore at the ref and got send off. We lost 2-0 to 2 x Darren Beckford goals IIRC.

SBA didnt stop singing for a single second, including all of HT.

 

[Steve.B50]

Stoke City in the 87 cup season, the police horses trying to control us getting out, remember what it felt like to take a police baton on the back from some copper on a massive horse.

 

[EastLancsCov]

Oldham away in some cup.

Coach didnt get there till nearly half time. After 5 mins of us arriving Wegerle swore at the ref and got send off. We lost 2-0 to 2 x Darren Beckford goals IIRC.

SBA didnt stop singing for a single second, including all of HT.

I was there that night and also only arrived right on kick off. Weren't we there in a league game a couple of weeks previous or later??
I didn't remember the score, vaguely remembered Wegerle being sent off but I certainly remember the continual support and singing through half time.
What year would that have been?

 

[edgy]

Coldest away day. MK Dons at the National Hockey Stadium. Like watching football on Neptune.

 

[Terry Gibson's perm]

I was there that night and also only arrived right on kick off. Weren't we there in a league game a couple of weeks previous or later??
I didn't remember the score, vaguely remembered Wegerle being sent off but I certainly remember the continual support and singing through half time.
What year would that have been?

I think I was there as well and it was the coldest game I have ever been at.

Remember going to Norwich in the cup when the club put on loads of free coaches I was still at school at the time so left school early to go.

Saw us at Sheff Weds when we had Debec in goal think we got beat 5 v 1

 

[Monners]

Coldest away day. MK Dons at the National Hockey Stadium. Like watching football on Neptune.

Wom 3-0 I believe. And the word cold doesn't do it justice.

 

[Brighton Sky Blue]

A few years ago I was doing some summer work in Coventry and got along with one of the other guys who was there and was talking about going to the Morecambe League Cup game. I bought tickets for the game and the coach going up and he said he'd offer a lift for us both to the Ricoh. On the day of the game he never showed up and wasn't answering his phone, so I missed the coach and had to book some last minute train tickets up to Morecambe. Got into Morecambe about half an hour before the game and met a few other fans at the station so we ended up going to the game together. The game itself was horrendous and we lost 2-0, but then I had to try and get on the coach back down since no trains were going back that late.

The guy in charge of the coaches wasn't going to let me on because he'd given away the seats on the way up, but thankfully they had a spare seat on a different one and I got back to the Ricoh car park gone midnight. Never heard from the bloke again, and it must've cost me something like £130 in taxis/trains/tickets and so on.

 

[EastLancsCov]

I think I was there as well and it was the coldest game I have ever been at.

Remember going to Norwich in the cup when the club put on loads of free coaches I was still at school at the time so left school early to go.

Saw us at Sheff Weds when we had Debec in goal think we got beat 5 v 1

We took about 35 coaches down to Norwich and I had the luck of being on the one that the windscreen wipers stopped working. Rain was coming down so the driver said he couldn't go any further. He was politely told to carry on and carry on he did.

 

[ricohroar]

Remember turning up at Oldham at half time...

Remember the cup game at WBA. Ndlovu scoring late in to win the game... 1st game at high field road kicked off at the end by the exit to west terrace... Remember the whispers building up to the replay about revenge attacks... Remember some guy stood on a tiny bit of corner Kop having a small tussle before ko... After the game we all came out and Baggies at the bottom of a hill. Everyone charged down the hill but didn't see much else I was just a kid back then following a crowd, but remember it well..

Remember guys like Pongo at most away games... Remember Chelsea away when Stuart Robson win us the game... Not many of us there and in them days locked in a pen as tattooed faced Chelsea walked past, city fans chanting 1-0 lol thank god for them fences....

Another few. Ndlovu hatrick at Anfield

QPR being filmed outside and in for some tv program

 

[robbiethemole]

Coldest away day. MK Dons at the National Hockey Stadium. Like watching football on Neptune.

away at Scunny a couple of years ago, minus 7 on the way there, Sheffers throwing snowballs, Marlon scoring off Murphy's arse and the bloody car freezing up on the way home!!!

Proper away days and good memories unlikely to come back til SISU are gone.

 

[chiefdave]

Coldest away day. MK Dons at the National Hockey Stadium. Like watching football on Neptune.

Remember standing on an open terrace in the freezing cold and pouring rain before the Forest League Cup semi final. Kick off kept being delayed as it was being televised and it was the day Mandela was released.

 

[ccfcway]

I was there that night and also only arrived right on kick off. Weren't we there in a league game a couple of weeks previous or later??
I didn't remember the score, vaguely remembered Wegerle being sent off but I certainly remember the continual support and singing through half time.
What year would that have been?

Just googled it

Oct 1993

3rd Round of league cup

to this day that's the proudest i have been as a cov fan in terms of supporting the team.

 

[Gaz71]

Stoke City in the 87 cup season, the police horses trying to control us getting out, remember what it felt like to take a police baton on the back from some copper on a massive horse.

I remember the police horses keeping us penned in at the end and Stoke fans chucking bottles over the wall, great game and atmosphere in that end behind the goal, shit pitch and weather if I remember right?


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[Irish Sky Blue]

Stoke City in the 87 cup season, the police horses trying to control us getting out, remember what it felt like to take a police baton on the back from some copper on a massive horse.

I remember that. Pre-hillsborough and so despite being hemmed in by the police at the front and pushed into the horses by the crowd from behind, you felt everything would be alright in the end because it always was. Scary at the time and events a couple of years later showed that things didn't always turn out alright. A night League Cup tie at Forest was even worse. City fans corralled into a pen on the terrace opposite the Trent end (before the new stand behind the goal was built). The adjacent pen was empty but the police on that side of the fence wouldn't open it to begin with despite our fans shouting through to them. Eventually they did open it up but not before it had become very uncomfortable in there. Fans treated like animals (although to be fair, some behaved like animals too).

 

[skybluepm2]

Coldest away day. MK Dons at the National Hockey Stadium. Like watching football on Neptune.

Yes!! I remember it well. One of the most surreal games with fans running on the pitch when we scored, down from the temporary concert style seating. Think it was 3-0. Good day despite the Arctic like conditions!

 

[skybluepm2]

away at Scunny a couple of years ago, minus 7 on the way there, Sheffers throwing snowballs, Marlon scoring off Murphy's arse and the bloody car freezing up on the way home!!!

Proper away days and good memories unlikely to come back til SISU are gone.

This could well be a close second to the MK Dons game. I remember wearing no socks for some absurd reason. Singing that murphy didn't have any mates and he stunk of piss. 6 months later he was our number 1.

 

[Steve.B50]

This could well be a close second to the MK Dons game. I remember wearing no socks for some absurd reason. Singing that murphy didn't have any mates and he stunk of piss. 6 months later he was our number 1.

Oh yes I rember that one.

 

[letsallsingtogether]

West ham away in the league cup semis;
our coach got a puncture got there late west ham skinheads in our end, and then the mayhem when we came out showered with bottles and bricks.
City fans upturning a Mini Metro and using the parts off it to chuck back.
Had them on the run once they ran out of Ammo even pulled them out of the pub window once it had been put through, Nearly every coach had its windows smashed if I remember rightly, wow scary moments but they get engraved on your brain. Seemed to be more passion in those days.:slap:

 

[letsallsingtogether]

Coldest away day. MK Dons at the National Hockey Stadium. Like watching football on Neptune.

Coldest away game for me was Boltons Burnden Park around 95-96 Brrrrrr

 

[Astute]

Coldest away game for me was Boltons Burnden Park around 95-96 Brrrrrr

Grimsby away for me for new year game. I went in with the home fans as I know it is the coldest ground around in winter....especially for the away fans. The North sea wind cuts straight across the away end as there is nothing between the stand and the sea. People knew I was at the game but couldn't find me. That was until we scored. I was the only one in the whole stand jumping up and down like a lunatic

 

[Sky Blue Pete]

So many as a teenager. Three spring to mind. Nuddy's hatrick at Liverpool! 5-2 win away at Blackburn and a half time sky blue army in the top tier at goodison park in a 1-1 drawer. Great times to be a city fan

 

[Citysince47]

Remember being at the Old Den Millwall and seeing Ronnie Farmer miss a penalty. I,m still convinced he did it on purpose to save our fans a battering

 

[EastLancsCov]

Newcastle away in midweek. Arrived up there on the SBA coach about 2.00 to shortly learn that it was called off. Given choice to head home for pub opening hours or stay up there til 10.00 when the coach was due to take us back. Stayed up there on the beer all day, watching Inter Milan v Norwich in a Eufa cup game kicking off in the afternoon? We felt there was some underhand stuff going on to get the game called off as Newcastle were missing a few of their big names so the local radio turned up to get the feelings of 50 disgruntled Cov supporters. A good day on the beer but a long way to go for it.

 

[torchomatic]

Full Members Cup at the Victoria Ground in 1985. There were 16 of us in the away end. On the way back my mate took the wrong exit and we were heading North rather than South.

Going up to Scarborough mid-week in the League Cup was also rubbish. And a long way.

 

[Voice_of_Reason]

I went to the Peterborough game all those years ago with my brother. Due to heavy traffic, we got into the ground 30 minutes after kick-off by which time we were 1-0 down. The following week we went to Milwall wher Ronnie Farmer missed a penalty - Ronnie never used to miss, but he did that day. I think the score was 1-1.

 

[letsallsingtogether]

Then there was Blackpool in the cup we were on the old terracing, itbnever stopped raining got completely soaked.

 

[tisza]

chelsea away about 83-84 when the hooligan things were bad. just getting to the Bridge was mad enough - roads closed, police helicopter. on that open terrace only about 250-300 city fans. I'm pretty sure we went 2 up and we thought we wouldn't get out alive. proceeded to lose 6-2.
then got my new coat ( which mum had told me not to wear) "taxed" off me by a group of chelsea on the tube. should have taken the kicking as mum's reaction to losing the coat was far more scary!!

 

[Travs]

Cardiff away at Ninian Park, a couple of years before they moved to a new ground.... a manhole cover had collapsed on the road down to the M4, hundreds of city fans got there late, we didn't get there until half time.... we were 1 up by then, atmosphere on that terrace was awesome with Cardiff fans next to us..... then they missed a last minute penalty, the fans in the side stand were going mad, walking outside a can of strongbow went flying past my head with Cardiff fans waiting at the bottom of the steps, the stewarding and policing was pretty non-existant, could have been dodgy....

Blackpool the weekend before xmas when we lost 4-0 and Kevin Kyle got sent off after about 10mins..... went up on the Friday night and got smashed, back in Yates before 11am, staggered to a freezing ground on that temporary terrace to see a shocking game.... went back to the pub in a foul mood and got straight onto the spirits, didn't get in til 4am and my brother had to drive us home the next day....

Worst away game for me was Gillingham away under Peter Reid, between xmas and new year.... 4 hour journey, shocking performance, the ground was terrible, the venom aimed at Peter Reid after the final whistle was something to behold....

I remember my first trip to Villa Park, mid 90's on an evening, I was shitting it, luckily it passed off pretty peacefully as we lost 2-1.... but a few of the games after that, particularly the Moldovan game and our relegation were more than a bit lively.....

Coldest away ground I've been to is Peterboro on that terrace behind the goal.... although Blackpool, Preston and Burnley have all came close!

 

[M&B Stand]

Reading away ZDS cup semi. Lost after being 2-0 up on penalties. Thousands of Cov there

 

[The Lurker]

Cardiff away at Ninian Park, a couple of years before they moved to a new ground.... a manhole cover had collapsed on the road down to the M4, hundreds of city fans got there late, we didn't get there until half time.... we were 1 up by then, atmosphere on that terrace was awesome with Cardiff fans next to us..... then they missed a last minute penalty, the fans in the side stand were going mad, walking outside a can of strongbow went flying past my head with Cardiff fans waiting at the bottom of the steps, the stewarding and policing was pretty non-existant, could have been dodgy....

Same as us buddy. We got there at half time but what a 2nd half. Sure we were top of the league after that. We got legged after the game by 15 welsh blokes, only 4 of us lol. It was dodgy but all fun lol

 

[lewys33]

Same as us buddy. We got there at half time but what a 2nd half. Sure we were top of the league after that. We got legged after the game by 15 welsh blokes, only 4 of us lol. It was dodgy but all fun lol

We got the train so actually made it on time. I remember going mental when they missed the penalty. Not much happened after the game but it looked like it could get "fruity" at any time.

 

[rupert_bear]

I went to Millwall in 1963 before they earned their reputation and we drew 0-0, won the replay and went on a decent cup run finally losing out to Manchester United in the quarter-finals. Large contingent of City fans there, I would guess well over 5000 and I remember our lot being mixed with the local fans and giving plenty of vocal support out. Next round went to Lincoln away on a Monday night, won 5-1 and then Portsmouth away which we drew, then drew the home replay 2-2 and went to Tottenham for the second replay, neutral grounds is what happened in those days which we won 2-1, again thousands of Cov fans there for that.

 

[skybluepm2]

Cardiff away at Ninian Park, a couple of years before they moved to a new ground.... a manhole cover had collapsed on the road down to the M4, hundreds of city fans got there late, we didn't get there until half time.... we were 1 up by then, atmosphere on that terrace was awesome with Cardiff fans next to us..... then they missed a last minute penalty, the fans in the side stand were going mad, walking outside a can of strongbow went flying past my head with Cardiff fans waiting at the bottom of the steps, the stewarding and policing was pretty non-existant, could have been dodgy....
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I didn't make it....stuck on the road for 4 hours, eventually decided to give up and turn round, managed to get local frequency in the 90th minute to hear the penalty smashing against the bar. I think it was Darren Purse the meathead! Gutted I didn't make it for that one. I went to Ninian Park a year later and Eastwood scored a brilliant solo effort which to this day I still don't know what for. Cardiff then went up and scored at the other end.

 

[skybluepm2]

West Brom away a few years back, I think we won something like 4-2. Mifsud was on fire after being sent off against them earlier in the season in the cup where we got smashed 0-5 at a packed Ricoh!