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Your first away game

Baldybonce
Baldybonce Posts: 9,709
in General Charlton
Mine was to the old den, aged about 8/9 with my Dad. An unpleasant experience even then.
The first proper one. Gillingham away in the Kent cup, aged about 12, with my mates. A packed train from Charlton both ways i'm sure was rocking!.
Those were the days.
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  • cashncarry
    cashncarry Posts: 981
    My first with my dad was Millwall 68-69.My first on my own was Waford 71-72 we won 3-0 ,think it was om the Lewis coaches
  • RedPanda
    RedPanda Posts: 5,020
    Watford with my dad in the 91/92 season. I was 4 and so barely remember it, I think we played well but lost 2-0 as a young David James played a blinder.
  • chester_conrad
    chester_conrad Posts: 738
    Wimbledon 1987. Lost 4-1.
  • shirty5
    shirty5 Posts: 19,425
    Ipswich away FA Cup 1981
  • Charlton_Stu
    Charlton_Stu Posts: 3,898
    Chelsea 1981 2-2 (think it was midweek)
  • E_cafc
    E_cafc Posts: 2,617
    Fulham away 1976-77 season. 1.1 draw

    First away outside London was Bristol Rovers 5-5 draw November 1978. Went on the Lewis coaches, what a game!
  • Addickted
    Addickted Posts: 19,456
    edited September 2014
    A 3-2 win at Stamford Bridge. Christmas 1975.

    Apart from Hales's goals I remember it being bloody cold on that open terrace.

    Feck me, that was nearly 40 years ago. Whatever did I do in a previous life?
  • The_President
    The_President Posts: 14,280
    Addickted said:

    A 3-2 win at Stamford Bridge. Christmas 1975.

    Apart from Hales's goals I remember it being bloody cold on that open terrace.

    Feck me, that was nearly 40 years ago. Whatever did I do in a previous life?

    I remember that game - the pitch was like an ice-rink, and it seemed Killer, as usual, was the only person who could stay upright in the conditions.
  • cashncarry
    cashncarry Posts: 981
    Yes remember that game midweek I think.I got there late after going straight from work stood in the shed for some reason.Was hard to keep quiet
  • bolloxbolder
    bolloxbolder Posts: 8,045
    Fulham away in 1969. Lost 1-0, so got a good grounding as to how it would be for the next 45 years (and counting). Main memory was the tube train rocking violently as our fans sung knees up mother brown - I was only 8.s

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  • CHG
    CHG Posts: 4,534
    Southend away, 93 or 94, Leaburn scored an epic goal, one on one, waited for all the defenders to get back, beat then all then rolled it in, loved him ever since. We won 2-0, Colloymore didn't get a sniff from Webbo all afternoon.
  • cafcfan
    cafcfan Posts: 11,234
    A Football Combination match at Ipswich. I guess I must have been about 7/8 years old, so around 1959/60? I can't recall the opposition or the score! I went solely because my Dad was the ref. The only things I remember were that it seemed to take forever to drive there from Greenwich and that the Portman Road pitch was absolutely immaculate. I asked my Dad about it and he said it had a reputation for being the best pitch in the country apart from Wembley.
    I'm hopeless at remembering stuff from when I was a kid and am always sceptical of people's memories from when they were 5 or 6 years old. (I just think they are really remembering what relatives told them happened later on!)
    Anyway I must have gone to other games too but the first one I can really remember things about is the 1965 FA Cup final between Leeds & Liverpool. (My Dad got tickets courtesy of a Millwall director he knew, a bloke called Bill Nelan.)
  • falconwood_1
    falconwood_1 Posts: 7,369
    Fulham away 1983

    Won 1-0

    Paul Curtis goal

    First away win for 18 months I think it was.

    The good old days!
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,301
    edited September 2014
    September '72, a Friday night game at Roots Hall. Southend 1 Charlton 1. I don't remember a thing about the game, but was probably bored as I didn't get taken to another one for ages. The only thing I can remember (and this might not even be correct) is that there was a display of model aircraft over the pitch. Two planes had streamers tied their tails and they had a dogfight where the aim was to cut the other's ribbon of using the propeller. I say it might not be correct because I was taken to another event at Roots Hall around that time - a bonfire on the pitch for Guy Fawkes night - seems incredible doesn't it. The display of planes might have been at this, rather than the match.
  • Shrew
    Shrew Posts: 5,758
    bolloxbolder said:

    Fulham away in 1969. Lost 1-0, so got a good grounding as to how it would be for the next 45 years (and counting). Main memory was the tube train rocking violently as our fans sung knees up mother brown - I was only 8.s

    The same match aged 6. There must of been a load of dads with their young sons supporting us at that time.
  • Ormiston_Addick
    Ormiston_Addick Posts: 8,818
    chester_conrad said:

    Wimbledon 1987. Lost 4-1.

    Same as mine! We led 1-0 too!
  • Kessell7
    Kessell7 Posts: 158
    That famous Day at Highbury in 2001, aged 9, still thank my dad to this day for taking me!
  • Taxi_Lad
    Taxi_Lad Posts: 3,806
    Maidstone Utd FA Cup reply in the 1970s. Remember not having a ticket so my dad bunked us in through a hole in the fence (along with hundreds of other likeminded addicks)
  • DaveMehmet
    DaveMehmet Posts: 21,752
    Palace away, Boxing Day around 81/82. Drew 1-1. First one outside London was the 7 0 at Brighton.
  • DaveMehmet
    DaveMehmet Posts: 21,752
    falconwood_1 said:

    Fulham away 1983

    Won 1-0

    Paul Curtis goal

    First away win for 18 months I think it was.

    The good old days!

    I'll never forget the look on your face when the crowd in the tube station after the game pushed the old wooden ticket counter over and looked like it would land on you.

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  • Redandwhiteinmyviens
    Redandwhiteinmyviens Posts: 160
    Port vale 97 would prob be mine
  • cashncarry
    cashncarry Posts: 981
    DaveMehmet said:

    Palace away, Boxing Day around 81/82. Drew 1-1. First one outside London was the 7 0 at Brighton.

    Was at that 7-0 game was living in hastings by then ,went with a Brighton supporting mate begged him for his car keys so I could wait back in the car .Think it was 7-0 with 20 mins to go.Was relieved the here it was only 7 when he got back
  • Greenie Junior
    Greenie Junior Posts: 3,881
    Yeovil. We won 1-0 with a bwp header. Don't know the year though. Either 2010/2011 season or 2011/2012 season
  • letthegoodtimesroll
    letthegoodtimesroll Posts: 10,789
    Fairly sure it was the Palace away 68/69, the league game (did the cup as well)...3-3...dont recall going to one before that...thought it was great that they gave up their home end for us...
  • Friend Or Defoe
    Friend Or Defoe Posts: 18,182
    Reading 95/96 a 0-0 was good preparation for the following 20 years.
  • _MrDick
    _MrDick Posts: 13,148
    QPR circa 70/71 and we won 4-1. Me and dad stood in the Loft. Charlton everywhere causing havoc
  • SE7toSG3
    SE7toSG3 Posts: 3,140
    A 3-1 away win at Plough Lane in 83? with Charlton fans in the home end and being escorted around the pitch to the caged pen they should have been in, all very exciting and like a scene from a different world now
  • paulbaconsarnie
    paulbaconsarnie Posts: 9,436
    Colchester away in the cup. Can't remember what year but was early 80s.
    We won 1-0 with an own goal I think.
  • Clem_Snide
    Clem_Snide Posts: 11,810
    Colchester Away in the league cup Aug 1978. Won 3-2. 4 years old. Think the wooden terrace collapsed.
  • NomadicAddick
    NomadicAddick Posts: 2,117
    edited September 2014
    Utd away, 2000/1 season, I was just coming up to 6 years old.

    The picture was from 2002/3 season when we went to Old Trafford again. Such great memories I have as a kid going through the Prem years.

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