First ever Town AWAY game

Mine was at Anfield in 1979-1980 season. We lost 5-0. Half of Grimsby was there that day. Don't remember much about it myself though.

It would be against Hull but I'm buggered if I can remember when.   There were always so many of us on the ferry it almost felt like a home game.

It took me ages to go to an away game, Lincoln when we lost 5-0.

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It would be against Hull but I'm buggered if I can remember when.   There were always so many of us on the ferry it almost felt like a home game.

I did the old ferry trip in '79-80 season. Last gasp equaliser from Drinks. Utterly FANTASTIC away support..

Blundell Park in the early 70s...............................................................think about it...!

Not counting both Wembley games in 98, my Dad never went to away games (and still doesn't really) so never went to any as a young kid until i could go with some mates from school.

Think this was my first one:

http://www.soccerbase.com/results3.sd?gameid=295687

EDIT: just also remembered the Sheffield Wednesday cup game when we lost 7-1 which my Dad took me too.

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It took me ages to go to an away game, Lincoln when we lost 5-0.

Same.  

Scarborough in approx 1990 I think, my 2nd was Wimbledon in the famous Cup 5th round Harry Haddock game

Liverpool, October 2001. Not a bad first one to choose. Been to about 30 since and can only remember a couple of wins off the top of my head.

donny away around 1980

Nottingham Forest away 1993, lost 5-3

A preseason friendly with the Scunts which we won 4-1 David Smith scored one but I can't remember the year, maybe 1999?

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Nottingham Forest away 1993, lost 5-3

Took me ages to go away , southend away 1993-4 ? Livo scored the winner and I got covered in vandal paint climbing the fence to celebrate.  Also remember the kit man taking all the kit off the team bus and it was full of cases of carling black label for the long drive home !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I think mine was Liverpool away in 1997. Lost 3-0 to Michael Owen.

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I think mine was Liverpool away in 1997. Lost 3-0 to Michael Owen.

Remember it well you travelled with some dodgy people that day!

I think mine would have been April 1972. 1-1 draw at Bury to clinch promotion. Clive Wiggington scored?

against Fulham i no absoloutley nothing else about it though

Phoenix Bessemer away in the cup, November 82.

watford absolutely shite refereeing lost2-0

Reading 1965 lost 2-0 at the old Elm Road/stadium ? not many of us there as I remember 'cos it was a midweek game  

Mansfield 2008 won 2-1 with goals from Till and the mighty Boshell.

Probably Scarborough in 89-90 ish. Don't even remember if we won, but probably did. We were good then!

Lincoln away 71/72 season. We got thrashed 3-0. It was a night match, crowd 15,015. We didn't lose many that season but went up under McMenemy.
I remember walking away from Sincil Bank with my old mate Dave Solway (RIP) and a lincoln fan ran past us and nicked my scarf from my neck. Fantastic atmosphere at the ground. How many Div 4 games can attract 15,015 these days eh.

Barnsley, all I can remember is that it was 0-0 and rubbish, was around new year, but I can't remember which year.

Against Boston when we won 6-0. Took me a long time to go to an away match

Took me an awful long time for me to go to an away match considering my first home match was in 1990.

My 1st away match Bournemouth was in May 2009. That if you discount a trip to Wembley.

Sheff Wed 7-1 Town


Can't remember any of their goals, but can remember Oster jinking his way towards goal and chipping in like it was yesterday. I spent most of the match wondering why people would eat their keys   then got a piccalilli sarnie on the way home. Good day.

Sheffield United 3 - Grimsby 1 last day of the season around 94-95 time. I remember Bramhall Lane only being half built as they were building a new stand and it was a fantastic sunny day

Notts County Oct 1980 0-0 draw

At Lincoln 89-90. 1-1. All I remember was the sirens...

Hull City at Boothferry shithole, 1 - 1 if I rememebr right in the second division eg championship. Cant remember the year but it was early eighties.

Lincoln....Jan 1970 lost 2-0

The worst thing about it was getting on a coach from Brighowgate bus station and having some old bloke sitting alongside me smoking a pipe

I was sick about us losing but not as sick as I was from having him next to me!

1964 - Leeds United 3 Grimsby Town 1 - Bobby Ham scored our goal

iam not sure but i think it was watford away, some time in the early 90's . we won 3-0 and there fans invaded the pitch to protest against the board.

The infamous Scunny game when the train got wrecked.I was on the train.Was still at school so it would have been around 74.

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donny away around 1980

Funny you say that, Donny away in Oct 79' was one of my first games watching City. Sir Gordon of Hobson scored the winner in a 1-0 morning kick off victory, in front of 9,693 (of which 3k+ were Imps).

1st ever away game (if you're interested?) was Mansfield away Apr 75' we lost 1-3 in front of 14,392 at Field Mill.

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Funny you say that, Donny away in Oct 79' was one of my first games watching City. Sir Gordon of Hobson scored the winner in a 1-0 morning kick off victory, in front of 9,693 (of which 3k+ were Imps).

1st ever away game (if you're interested?) was Mansfield away Apr 75' we lost 1-3 in front of 14,392 at Field Mill.

allways looked forward to donny away

Was living down south at the time, so the firs "away" game was the Wimbledon cup game - actually got to meet Bobby Gould in the ticket office when we went to get our tickets.

When I moved back to Town, I think was Bolton away when we went 1-0 up, 3-1 down and then scored twice in the last 10 minutes to draw 3-3.

West Brom think it was 95 ish.  We lost 3-1 think Forrester scored.  Was sat in one of the home stands with my parents.  I thought they were gonna disown me when I celebrated our goal!

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Remember it well you travelled with some dodgy people that day!

I think mine would have been April 1972. 1-1 draw at Bury to clinch promotion. Clive Wiggington scored?[/quote

Remember that well Laurie Mac would not let us have a drink after the game even though we had got promotion.
Talk about Capello,the England players today should have met the Big fella
OLDFOOTBALLER

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Lincoln away 71/72 season. We got thrashed 3-0. It was a night match, crowd 15,015. We didn't lose many that season but went up under McMenemy.
I remember walking away from Sincil Bank with my old mate Dave Solway (RIP) and a lincoln fan ran past us and nicked my scarf from my neck. Fantastic atmosphere at the ground. How many Div 4 games can attract 15,015 these days eh.

I can add further to that game, I was taking a throw in and it was at the open side at Sincil Bank and just as I was going to throw the ball a Police guy was taking a Town supporter who I new very well and he had a knife in his back, could not believe it, he ended up alright, bit of a character at the time and now he is one of the most respected people in the Town.
OLDFOOTBALLER

FA Cup away at Coventry, 3rd Feb 1973 - my 7th birthday!  Robbed by a Mick Coop penalty in about the 93rd minute, gutted all the way home in my dad's mates Morris Minor.

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Was living down south at the time, so the firs "away" game was the Wimbledon cup game - actually got to meet Bobby Gould in the ticket office when we went to get our tickets.

When I moved back to Town, I think was Bolton away when we went 1-0 up, 3-1 down and then scored twice in the last 10 minutes to draw 3-3.

if its the same game iam thinking of i was there to. groves scored twice i think. that was my fave season as a town fan. went to loads of away game and mostly traveled by train. good times

If someone can tell me which game came first out of these then that was the one late 70s at a guess?

League Cup Replay match drew with WOLVES then went to Derby for the 2nd replay

2-1 away win at Northampton on a Tuesday evening to win promotion,  I remember standing behind a rope by the sidelines as the old ground only had a stand at one side and 1 end I think.

1-0 away at Everton, league cup

Scunny (I lived there as a kid and teen) I think we drew 2-2, Wainman was in goal.

Lost 1-0 away at Coventry evening cup match

  Halifax away won 1-0

  Old age catching up and I just can't remember the defining moment  

1 - 1 away at Hull... the infamous trip of the almost sinking ferry... what year was that ?
around early sixties... Ron Cockerill was playing I remember that....

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1 - 1 away at Hull... the infamous trip of the almost sinking ferry... what year was that ?
around early sixties... Ron Cockerill was playing I remember that....

It was you that nearly tipped us over rushing to get off first was it?

chuckle... when the skipper took the ferry back into the humber and refused to dock until folk stayed where they were ? ha ha ha I remember being frightened as the thing almost tipped over    

Man City in the league cup,about 1976,Main Road was a rough old place to go, Town lost 2-1,local kids used to take 50p of all the cars to'look after' them. Long journey back across the woodhead pass.

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I can add further to that game, I was taking a throw in and it was at the open side at Sincil Bank and just as I was going to throw the ball a Police guy was taking a Town supporter who I new very well and he had a knife in his back, could not believe it, he ended up alright, bit of a character at the time and now he is one of the most respected people in the Town.
OLDFOOTBALLER

Bonzo?

Northampton Town - at the County Ground in 1979 - Mariners won 2-1 (Cumming, Waters)

Crewe about 1978

1979 League Cup 5th Round replay v Wolves at Derby's County Ground  - we lost and Wolves went on to win the final with a winner by Andy Gray

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Man City in the league cup,about 1976,Main Road was a rough old place to go, Town lost 2-1,local kids used to take 50p of all the cars to'look after' them. Long journey back across the woodhead pass.

It was 78. We gave a group of kids £1.00 to look after the car. When we got back to it they stolen the cassette player but locked the car up again! My mate decided to report it to the Police and on the way to a Police Station we hit a Reliant Robin at an unmarked junction which disintegrated before our eyes leaving the driver holding the steering wheel like something out of a Roadrunner cartoon. Got home at 5 a.m.

17.9.66 Brighton v GTFC. Town won 2-0 (Tees scored both but I admit I had to look that bit up!) We lived down there then so doesn't really count.

First away match back in Grimsby was Lincoln 2 Town 1 in the League Cup in 1970. It was a night match. We went in BenBowers grandads Bedford van!! Town scored first and missed a twice taken penalty. The only other thing I remember is Town fans invading the pitch led by a bugler!!

Stoke Away, early 90's - Town needed to win to get promoted to then 2nd division. We drew and won the last game against Exeter I think.

Abiding memories was of 1000's of Stoke fans invading the pitch and running at us in the away end....

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It was 78. We gave a group of kids £1.00 to look after the car. When we got back to it they stolen the cassette player but locked the car up again! My mate decided to report it to the Police and on the way to a Police Station we hit a Reliant Robin at an unmarked junction which disintegrated before our eyes leaving the driver holding the steering wheel like something out of a Roadrunner cartoon. Got home at 5 a.m.

My mate got hit by a Reliant Robin while walking across a junction down Park St.

It was braking as it approached the end of the street and my mate had time to jump in the air and he landed on the bonnet.The thing just collapsed and my mate rolled off unhurt.

Funny as fook.

1-1 against notts county few years ago, I only recently started going to away games.

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Stoke Away, early 90's - Town needed to win to get promoted to then 2nd division. We drew and won the last game against Exeter I think.

Abiding memories was of 1000's of Stoke fans invading the pitch and running at us in the away end....

Hmmm, I was at that game. Police horses and the lot. I remember them throwing the corner flags at us too.

What was it all about? "Revenge" for what happened at BP earlier in the season?

My first ever away game was at Notts County - David Ellery was the referee (he was shocking!) he sent off Rhys Wilmott and Graham Rodger, we had to put Tommy Watson in goal - he made them retake a penalty which they still didn't score from then Gary Lund popped up and scored against us anyway!! 0-1 defeat.

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Crewe about 1978

you sure

Doncaster  mid 70s ...with uncle ....dad never ever took me to a match.......think it was 0-0.....ended up watching the gliders take off and land

My first away game was at Wembley against Bournemouth in 98!

Leeds in 1996?? FA Cup game lost 2-0.

I was about 10. Me and my dad, god bless him, got tickets in the home end, due to the fact we knew a lot of Leeds fans, I sat there with a GTFC hat on and the stewards removed us.
ended up in the away end!

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My first away game was at Wembley against Bournemouth in 98!

Glory supporter!  

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Hmmm, I was at that game. Police horses and the lot. I remember them throwing the corner flags at us too.

What was it all about? "Revenge" for what happened at BP earlier in the season?

I had moved to Stoke by then, it was funny cos one of the Stokies with a corner flag was a work colleague; I really took the P out of him on the Monday for failing to look hard. I also had to catch a bus home after the game which was a bit worrying but no problem in the end.

Hull City away in about 1985, lost 2-0

Ipswich away FA cup about 1982 lost 2-0 as I recall. First town game for me

dont know what year (long time ago!!) but sheff wed away and we lost 5-0 think it mite have been boxing day and strangely the hardcore were wearing devil masks

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Crewe about 1978


you sure




Yes / no, might have been 76, I had just left 6th form  

Aye it probably was 76 ish thinking about it



This was it

Division 4 19-Nov-1977 Crewe A 2-0 W

Shrewsbury in the cup mates dad took me because i had never seen Town lose dont remember the score. On my own was the Replay against Southampton at Leicester.

I think it may have been Wimbledon in the Cup in 89. Or round about that period. A long wait after my first home game. For 20 years its home games that have been the rarity.

Mine was QPR sometime in the 90's we won.

Wimbledon 3 Town 6 in 1980. Got me hooked on away games after that, not suprisingly. I had the flu before the game but it mysteriously vanished as the goals flew in. We sang at their goalkeeper, "Raymond Goddard is our friend, he let's goals in," all through the second half.

It would be nice to have a few games like that next season...

1979 Sheff Wednesday away - Lost 2-0. Then went to loads away that season in cups and for the promotion push. Mansfield at the end of the season was fantastic - I seem to remeber us filling three sides of the ground.

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FA Cup away at Coventry, 3rd Feb 1973 - my 7th birthday!  Robbed by a Mick Coop penalty in about the 93rd minute, gutted all the way home in my dad's mates Morris Minor.

That was my first away game too.  An epic performance but we were cruly denied by a dodgy refereeing decision. I think Oldfootballer played.

It was never a penalty..........

Actually thinking about it, was the 7-1 thrashing at Hillsborough when John Oster got our consolation in 1996?? If so that was my first and not the Leeds one

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Ipswich away FA cup about 1982 lost 2-0 as I recall. First town game for me

Oh yeah, I forgot about that one. Was it where Trevor Whymark was our great white hope and was carried off within 5 minutes?

Scrub my previous, I went to this one too. I remember Ipswich was a toilet.

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I can add further to that game, I was taking a throw in and it was at the open side at Sincil Bank and just as I was going to throw the ball a Police guy was taking a Town supporter who I new very well and he had a knife in his back, could not believe it, he ended up alright, bit of a character at the time and now he is one of the most respected people in the Town.
OLDFOOTBALLER

Bonzo ...lol

boston 0-6 town never payed much attension to town before that but now am hocked

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1979 Sheff Wednesday away - Lost 2-0. Then went to loads away that season in cups and for the promotion push. Mansfield at the end of the season was fantastic - I seem to remeber us filling three sides of the ground.

this was my first away game as well, can remember we had a section of the wednesday end and had to walk through their fans to get to it, was pretty scary... a bloke next to me got hit on the head with a half brick in the first half & was cut pretty bad.. threw it back but always hated the yorkie scum since

In the 1950's , we won 3-2 at Scunthorpe,  male private Conner scored if my memory serves me well.

I think mine was Liverpool away in 1997. Lost 3-0 to Michael Owen.

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Thanks for the info..

Birmingham in 2001 (lost 1-0), a good five years after my first home game.

Mine all time favorite is DARLASTON TOWN AWAY 3RD...

Lincoln City away September 2007, we won 2-1