sage owl Posted April 6, 2015 Share Posted April 6, 2015 Op must have a brilliant memory l was at most of those games and can't remember all the details but can remember huge numbers of us landing in places around the country and usually having a great day out. Only one thing puzzles me having met the op a couple of times you were still at school in the eighties ? did your school have a 6th,7th & possibly 8th form 😊ðŸ˜ðŸ˜. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lanzaroteowl Posted April 6, 2015 Share Posted April 6, 2015 I remember our return to the 2nd division in '80/81 around September time West Ham away Chelsea at home Newcastle away Playing with the big boys! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roscoe P. Coltrane Posted April 6, 2015 Share Posted April 6, 2015 I remember our return to the 2nd division in '80/81 around September time West Ham away Chelsea at home Newcastle away Playing with the big boys! Happy days UTO Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lanzaroteowl Posted April 6, 2015 Share Posted April 6, 2015 Happy days UTO Scary days too! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roscoe P. Coltrane Posted April 6, 2015 Share Posted April 6, 2015 Scary days too! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Deleted member Posted April 6, 2015 Share Posted April 6, 2015 Op must have a brilliant memory l was at most of those games and can't remember all the details but can remember huge numbers of us landing in places around the country and usually having a great day out. Only one thing puzzles me having met the op a couple of times you were still at school in the eighties ? did your school have a 6th,7th & possibly 8th form . Booooooooooooooooooo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ibbo48 Posted April 6, 2015 Share Posted April 6, 2015 Went to both semis. Great days out ruined by mediocre performances by the team. Remember some great banter in a pub with some Everton fans at Villa and the weather being glorious at Highbury Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baldrick Posted April 6, 2015 Share Posted April 6, 2015 Only ever present season for me and a mate was 86/87 including night matches at West Ham and Southampton! I have no idea how we did it as we were still at school. Must have delivered thousands of papers to fund that season and told a few porkies to get the afternoon off Remember every home game buying the match tickets for the next away game and the Inter City Owl coach. London trips were £5. We were always delighted when we got Coach number 1 with the big boys. I think a guy called Steve Lindley was number 1 fan in those days, never missed a game Highlight that season as a 16 year old was sitting next to Leslie Ash at Oxford when she was married to Chapman Happy Days Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Iron Hunter Posted April 6, 2015 Share Posted April 6, 2015 Only ever present season for me and a mate was 86/87 including night matches at West Ham and Southampton! I have no idea how we did it as we were still at school. Must have delivered thousands of papers to fund that season and told a few porkies to get the afternoon off Remember every home game buying the match tickets for the next away game and the Inter City Owl coach. London trips were £5. We were always delighted when we got Coach number 1 with the big boys. I think a guy called Steve Lindley was number 1 fan in those days, never missed a game Highlight that season as a 16 year old was sitting next to Leslie Ash at Oxford when she was married to Chapman. Don't tell Shandypants about the Chapman/Ash bit!! Happy Days Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Iron Hunter Posted April 6, 2015 Share Posted April 6, 2015 Only ever present season for me and a mate was 86/87 including night matches at West Ham and Southampton! I have no idea how we did it as we were still at school. Must have delivered thousands of papers to fund that season and told a few porkies to get the afternoon off Remember every home game buying the match tickets for the next away game and the Inter City Owl coach. London trips were £5. We were always delighted when we got Coach number 1 with the big boys. I think a guy called Steve Lindley was number 1 fan in those days, never missed a game Highlight that season as a 16 year old was sitting next to Leslie Ash at Oxford when she was married to Chapman Happy Days . Don't tell Shandypants about Lesley and Lee! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geedee Posted April 7, 2015 Share Posted April 7, 2015 Cardiff away 1984 , is without doubt my favourite ever ' Wednesday ' Day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flat Owl Posted April 7, 2015 Share Posted April 7, 2015 (edited) Probably stood with most of you all at Furnival Road or the station waiting for the ICO. Derby away - first away match of the 83-84 season. I bought an airhorn specially - IIRC it was a Tuesday night match and finished 1-1. Remember walking along that gennel with 8ft high walls either side from the station to the Baseball Ground kettled in by police horses front and back of the 600 - the police horses stopped us halfway along when bricks started coming over the walls from the other side - nowhere to escape the barrage. The bricks stopped and horses moved off again - almost as if the police wanted us to receive a welcome. Sat up in the top tier with wooden seats and let the airhorn rip several times with a ' The Wednesday' belted out after burst. Copper behind said to me if that goes again I'll have it. Let another burst go and the bloke next to me said 'gi it ere lad' - the airhorn was then passed all the way along and from front to back with the coppers trying to catch it between more bursts. Thought I'd lost it when the final whistle went but just before I got back on the train, a random bloke said 'ey, young'un - ere's horn back safe! Wednesday away that year in the league and cup was brilliant despite the Stanley knives at Liverpool, The cable drums and pallets of old veg at Newcastle, the train breakdown at Portsmouth and the first loss away at Palace in November. Highlights for me were : - Brighton away with 5000 shouting seagulls in a high pitched voice with a complimentary limp wristed Larry Grayson wave. The 'we will be be back' at Liverpool. Tonking Oxford away 3-0 when expecting to be turned over. Stoke away in the cup with the police in the open van at the front inviting the escorted fans to start something to make their Saturday afternoon. Man City away on the Kippax. Loads and loads more including the semi vs United, the cup finals and Cardiff but that season was the best in my lifetime. Still time for a few more! WAWAW Edited April 7, 2015 by Flat Owl Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest JohnWest Posted April 7, 2015 Share Posted April 7, 2015 Your gunna get your fukinghead kicked in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OhForAnotherShez Posted April 7, 2015 Share Posted April 7, 2015 Inter City Owl trains, nothing better!!!!!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Fedor Posted April 7, 2015 Share Posted April 7, 2015 My first away game was Barnsley away 0-0 think it was 82/83 season. Went to Cambridge, Burnley and Highbury. Also Leeds on a tuesday night a week or two after semi- final. Very enjoyable 2-1 win. Never forget the Brighton game, was stood next to some orange Wednesday fan in a yellow away kit, a daft striped hat and some of those ridiculous Wednesday jeans. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CHRISTIANxOWLx44 Posted April 7, 2015 Share Posted April 7, 2015 Dad always goes on about his first ever away game to Chelsea for a 3-2 defeat in 1985 ish? on the wino express from the gate? what exactly was this and does anybody have any stories from the Gate coach trips? He told me how everybody got off the coach in Chelsea and there was a long line of blokes pi$$ing down the side of the coach when it pulls away leaving them all just stood in the street! He followed this with trips to Liverpool for the cup game (Zulu game?} then off to Blackburn on the wino all within 10 days or so. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lanzaroteowl Posted April 7, 2015 Share Posted April 7, 2015 Always went on the Wino First from The Ball in Ecco Then from The gate when no coaches would pick us up from The Ball again. We had exhausted all those from Sheffield, Rotherham and Barnsley even when we payed upfront We ended up bribing the driver (Keith a striking miner doing it for pin money) so 'we do what we want' What happened on The Wino stayed on The Wino, you just had to be there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bpmber Posted April 8, 2015 Share Posted April 8, 2015 Can remember going to Cardiff around that time or maybe late 70s , not sure. someone walked down the touch line holding up a platter with a real pigs head on it adorned in a red and white scarf, quality!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eguin Posted April 8, 2015 Share Posted April 8, 2015 Halifax Town back in 1975/6 was my first away game and worst ground I've been up to this day Been hooked ever since me too, but I was living in Halifax at the time and went to see the Wednesday as i only lived a few hundred yards away and have supported them ever since ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Utah Owl Posted April 8, 2015 Share Posted April 8, 2015 I'm a decade earlier, 70's. My first away game (other than Utd) was away at Middlesborough in 73/74. We lost 8-0 and I got beaten up after the game. I was 14 years old. Made me nervous about away games for quite a while afterwards. Having said that had some fantastic games to, many of which have already been mentioned. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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