If you could re-live one game

Quoted from jock dock tower

We had 20,000 plus at Anfield. Had the Anfield Road end, half the Kemlyn Road stand, plus a good few in the Kop - something that had never happened at Anfield previously. When you think how strictly away fans are controlled nowadays, and have been for some time, it wouldn't surprise me if the Town following that day might be the biggest ever seen at Anfield? Everton were playing Aldershot that day, and did try and take it out on Town fans across Stanley Park, ably abetted by the local plod who turned a blind eye.

Consider this....their capacity then was about the 55,000 mark, and they only reached that mark four times that season, against Everton, Leeds, Man Utd and Spurs. There would have been a huge home support for those games, so away fans would have been limited. Town's attendance was 49,000, Liverpool's fifth highest attendance of the season! The following round when they had Bury at home, there were some 32,000 in the ground, and that was virtually a local derby. Shows how big the Town support was that day.

We didn't beat Wolves that season, though only the crossbar kept them in the game at BP. Huge away followings at Molineux and the Baseball Ground (for the 2nd replay) made it a memorable season alongside our promotion to the old 2nd Division as well.

Coventry away in 1972-3 was another huge "away day" with 23,000 making the trip to Highfield Road. If I remember rightly, didn't the Telegraph have the headline "Will the last person out of Grimsby turn off the lights"??? All the spare coach capacity in Lincolnshire had been booked, and over 120 coaches, 2 special trains and thousands of cars made the journey, giving Coventry their biggest home attendance for 4 years!

Such a shame that today's fans will never experience those kind of days again. Anyone who was there will simply never forget them.

Quoted from Lincoln Mariner 56

A perfect summary of those days and why many of us are still addicted to supporting town, I also remember the replay at Norwich and I a night game away at Doncaster in 1971/72 season when we lost 2-1 with massive twon following a hailstorm of bricks during the game. I also received a good kicking in subway after away game at Wolves so not everything was rosy in those days but we all kept going to the matches.Just hope our younger fans get to experience something similar in the future as always made the hair on the back of your neck stick out when you were part of such massive followings.

Quoted from Les Brechin

Yeah, I got started on at the Wolves 1st Replay in '79 too. I was only 15 at the time and some twit just came up to me and punched me in the face and ran off. Needless to say it didn't put me off going to Derby for the 2nd reply.

I can remember the Old Bill escorted a load of us Town fans to the ground at Derby with Wolves fans lobbing stuff at us from the other side of the road.

Quoted from jock dock tower

That underpass in Molineux is notorious for attacks on away fans, and always has been. A bit like Harrington Street and the Promenade in Meggies for away fans?

We had a coach from the Lynton Pub for the 2nd replay at Derby, great day out. Another such good away day (or more specifically, away night) was at Filbert Street, Leicester, for the FAC 2nd replay against Southampton. Another great away following, outnumbering our more illustrious 1st Division opponents easily. I remember a rather feeble attempt when their 4th goal went in at a pitch invasion, in a vain attempt to get the game abandoned.