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Post by Mcdanger on Feb 17, 2011 10:40:17 GMT
Shrewsbury 87, on train, arrived just before kick off with a couple of mates, just about managed to squeeze into the packed away end, amazing atmosphere, so different from home games........was hooked from then on!!!!
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Post by Mason_Stokie on Feb 18, 2011 2:35:30 GMT
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Post by johnnypotter on Feb 18, 2011 23:41:59 GMT
Derby 1973-74. We drew 1-1.
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Post by ackney on Feb 22, 2011 14:09:11 GMT
birmingham city v spurs 1972 and 14 years old... intresting walk back to new street station after the game because the local herberts could nt work out where i came from after they asked me the time and i just waffled on trying to use me dads accent ( stoke born and bred ) me born in london ...
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Post by stokiepete7 on Mar 1, 2011 18:29:27 GMT
My dad took me my first away game when i was 15, feb 2008, promotion season. Best Game ever. Stoke 4 Wolves 2. Fuller scored the winner, from a run from the other end of the pitch. Brilliant!
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Post by ProudPotter17 on Mar 1, 2011 18:33:10 GMT
I didn't bother going away matches before we came up.
Blackburn 3-0 Stoke
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Post by eltel60 on Mar 6, 2011 12:28:17 GMT
I think Chelsea away promotion year about 1961 1962 We won 1-0 Jimmy Mcilroy scored. Crowd of 60000 +.No segration. I was about 11 or 12. I think Stan played.
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Post by Mozzaa on Mar 17, 2011 15:42:10 GMT
My first away game was my first game ever; I remember none of it as I was only ripped out of my Mum 5 months before hand in our promotion season it was Exeter; dad told me the story how it took him 2 hours find the ground and he walked around 5 times because he couldn't see it dozy sod ;D; first one I do remember is Chesterfield away in the Promotion season we won 2-1 it was where Peter Hoekstra scored his first goal from out of play, brilliant day it was ;D; then the only next time after was the Blackburn away defeat as Boxxy has mentioned.
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Post by timfielding2001uk on Mar 21, 2011 15:52:17 GMT
1st Away Game
Monday August 26th 1963 vs Aston Villa
Yes I'm that old but we won 3-1 our 1st away win following promotion. This was only two days we'd beaten Spurs at home in the seasons owner on the Saturday.
Can't remember who scored but went to game by steam train from Stone with my Dad.
Heady Days Indeed.
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Post by oldpotter on Mar 21, 2011 16:02:40 GMT
1962/63 promotin year, stan took the free kick and Mcilroy Got the winner 1-0
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Post by oldpotter on Mar 21, 2011 17:51:01 GMT
I remember it well tim, can you recall the return match a few weeks later, we kicked off with 10 men, because eddie clamp was still in the vic, he came on about 15 minutes late, and the first thing he did was to kick there centre half up in the air, i think it finished up 2-2. and don't worry about your age mate i'm almost 70.
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Post by timfielding2001uk on Mar 21, 2011 19:53:49 GMT
Yes 2 all with the Villa a couple of weeks later. You mentioned Eddie Clamp what a legend. I played against him for Joules in Stone a few years later when he was in Drake Hall Prison and he was still a legend then.
I met Eddie Stuart ex Stoke/Wolves centre half a couple of years later, he had a shop in Stone and said that Eddie Clamp was the hardest player he'd ever played with or against. He told me the story about the tough Chopper Harris, being very tough until he met Eddie Clamp.
Happy Days.
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Post by Stafford-Stokie on Mar 22, 2011 16:42:35 GMT
The Brighton beach party the season we went down under Alan Ball. Still up there with the best away day I have ever attended. ;D
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Post by theloudest on Mar 23, 2011 21:35:35 GMT
Burnley 2002
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Post by Deleted on Apr 7, 2011 7:49:18 GMT
Mine was Birmingham City 1973- we lost 3-1.crowd of nearly 40,000 and i remember thinking what a big club the Blues were- made some din too- how things have changed for that club now, seems to have lost its potential. The Wolves game mentioned by Roots in 1980/81 was the game after they won the league cup, about 4,000 Stokies that day- but the most intimidating atmosphere Ive been in at that old ground- most of my mates were thrown out during the game- but ran back in when the gates were opened being run by a load of Black Lads who had gathered on the bank outside looking for stragglers
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Post by andrewcritchlow on Apr 12, 2011 18:43:27 GMT
My first away game was actually a home game. Middlesborough at Vale Park after the roof blew off the Butler Street stand.We won 1-0 thanks to a last minute Ian Moores goal. After that I think it was Preston at Deepdale. I think it was 1977 or 78 we also won 1-0. I remember going on the train from Buxton on my own. I was only 14 and walked round to the home end with all my Stoke gear on.OOPS! Got called something that rhymes with banker
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Post by petrent on Apr 16, 2011 7:06:09 GMT
I remember the Bolton v Stoke FA Cup 5th round tie at Bolton in 1958.Was stationed at Wilmslow for square bashing and not officially allowed to leave camp.Needless to say I found a way out and upon return was awarded 7 days C.B.(jankers)for going AWOL.
Lost the match as well by 3 - 1.Bolton went on to win the cup that year beating Man U.in the final. 2 - 0,think Lofthouse scored both goals.
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Post by Lesalanos on Apr 16, 2011 7:47:45 GMT
West Ham away in 1984, the season we just managed to stay up. We lost 3-0 I think, but didn't have to wait long for a win, as my next away game was Coventry away and we won 3-2.
A regular since. I'm just in the process of moving to the USA now. The main thing I miss is the match day experience.
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Post by draytonstokie58 on Jun 11, 2011 11:12:46 GMT
QPR I think it was 74 season. We drew 1v1 and got bricked to shit after the game!
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Post by str8outtahampton on Jun 12, 2011 9:37:55 GMT
Mine was Wolves away in about 65. My Dad took me on a service coach and in those days it seemed like a journey to a faraway, slightly exotic and mysterious place. So no change there, then. Needless to say we lost. 2-0 I think. I've been to a lot of away games over the years, and if I have seen SCFC win more than 7 or 8% of them I would be surprised.
Many of the above contributions are familiar. I agree with the comments about the Brighton relegation party. Awayday tales are notoriously unreliable, but everything you hear about that day was probably true. Unforgettable.
Plus the game at Deepdale in the promotion season. Again I was with my Dad - in the away end. In those days, SCFC would often have a small splinter group in the home end. There would be a (relatively minor) brouhaha shortly after kick off. Then the renegades would be marched by the police round the perimeter to the away end - invariably to a heroes' welcome, as you might imagine.
On that particular day, the group included two or three of my schoolfriends, and as they passed in front of us my Dad turned to me and said: "Isn't that X and Y?" "Er, I don't think so Dad", was my reply, "But they are remarkably similar, aren't they?".
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Post by thegreedyzebra on Jun 12, 2011 10:57:16 GMT
Pompey away in the league cup, lost 4-0, played shite. Long journey back!
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Post by potter2 on Jun 12, 2011 18:02:10 GMT
aston villa 1981 night match 2 2 we came back after being 2 0 down
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Post by oldgit57 on Jun 20, 2011 21:22:43 GMT
Derby about 69 I guess. 0-0. Might have been 70 come to think of it!
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Post by basingstokie on Aug 5, 2011 11:46:11 GMT
Reading away 01/02 (season we came up from what was then league 2), think we lost 1-0
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Post by stokiejoeofalsager on Aug 6, 2011 21:35:08 GMT
would the 2002 play off final in cardiff count as an away game?? ???
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Post by sihanouk on Aug 8, 2011 10:49:48 GMT
3-0 defeat at OT in the 70s. Was about 6. We were dire to be fair.
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Post by Cyprusdelilah on Aug 8, 2011 15:02:09 GMT
3-0 defeat at OT in the 70s. Was about 6. We were dire to be fair. I also went this match, it was April 77. MY first away match was a couple of seasons before I went the Vic. Visiting relatives down London and Stoke were in town. So me mum & dad being big Stokies took me my first match, at Stamford Bridge, the score 2-2 I think. I was Three years old.
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Post by stokietom1863 on Aug 9, 2011 13:04:56 GMT
Blackpool in around about 2000. Stood behind the goal freezing cold and Kyle Lightbourne pops a header in from 6 yards out. Won 1-0 ;D
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Post by Cyprusdelilah on Aug 24, 2011 7:43:20 GMT
Stamford Bridge in 67/68 score 2-2, only 3, another 3 years before I went the Vic.
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Post by owdfentonite on Nov 9, 2011 13:25:37 GMT
My first away match was in March 1966. Stoke were asked to play a series of games in Hong Kong as part of British Week. Chelsea ( spit,spit) were cup-tied so Stoke replaced them on the four day event. I still have the program,autographed by the players :- Lawrie Leslie,Tony Allen,Alan Bloor,Eric Skeels,Harry Burrows,Calvin Palmer,Peter Dobing,George Kinnell,Denis Viollet,John Ritchie and Roy Vernon. I even got Frank Mountfords autograph! Couldnt persuade Waddo to sign though. After 45 years the program is a bit dog-eared now ( like me lol) but to a fifteen year old it meant a lot to meet his heros of the day. Does this qualify for a distance record for a Stoke away game? :-)
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