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General Category => Altrincham FC First Team => Topic started by: Paul Cain's Chip Pan on May 22, 2011, 09:30:01 PM
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Can you remember your first Alty match away from Moss Lane?
Mine was Stafford away in 1991. I think I was too young to realise the importance of the occasion at the time but I remember being amazed at the number of Alty fans that were there and assuming that we always took that many fans to away games! I also remember being gutted because I'd got so used to seeing us win nearly every week up until that point.
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Think mine was the legendary Doncaster victory by own goal. Great evening.
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mansfield away 24th october O9 fa cup 4th qualifying round
Remember it vividly - i wasnt even that bothered we'd lost i just loved the day, and someone got run over and died close to to my house
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1980 - almost certainly Vics away but time wipes a little of the memory each day...
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I honestly don't remember the first, but it would be during my first season 1971-2 Aways I remember were at Stafford....their end full of chanting skinheads, a Cheshire Cup final at Edgeley Park,Stockport, Sandbach Ramblers, a frozen off cup game at Rossendale....who are dey....Great Harwood, Buxton, all with my dad.....good days.
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Wigan Athletic at Springfield Park in 1976. No idea what the score was though
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One of my first was, I think about 1969 at Witton, and did Dennis Viollet playfor them in that game?
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Wigan Athletic at Springfield Park in 1976. No idea what the score was though
Went to Wigan away with my dad, parked up ad queued up and very nearly entered the RL ground. Finally arrived at Springfield Park just in time to stand at the terraced end. Odd ground with a main stand straggling the half way line and the opposite end having a small shelter at the top of a huge grassy bank. Difficult accents even so local to Manchester.
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Mine was either Northwich away in 1989 or Chorley away in 1989...
First game of any distance was Wycombe away in 1991 with Jimmy Hardman and Daz Rimmer. We lost 3-0...it didnt look like we'd go 28 games unbeaten after that!
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5-2 defeat to macc, think that was the score anyway, can't remember the year
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Mine was (as mascot) against Skelmersdale.. early 60's
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A game at Loakes Park, High Wycombe late 80's when we were living locally and I was at school in the town. Still scared from that season they went up.....
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Macclesfield about 1961 ? Remember thinking it was a sh*t hole (a view which persists) and we lost 2-0.
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Chorley, either 1989 or 1990
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Guiseley away - can't remember the year but we'd already gained promotion and the players were all a little 'worse for wear' so to speak. About 12 years ago?
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First away match was away Ellesmere Port Town in August 1972. It was a midweek match, we got lost on the way arrived late and saw Alty battle to a 2-2 draw. There were a number of future Alty stalwarts playing for Ellesmere Port that night - Mickey Brooke, Gerry Casey to name but two.
My first Saturday away game came 5 days later at Fleetwood Town, a 1-1 draw.
I didn't actually see Alty lose away from Moss Lane until our 3-2 defeat at Edgely Park to Macc Town in the CSC semi final later that year
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Macc away, must have been around 90-91. It was 0-0 or 1-1 cant really remember much other than thinking that macc was a really weird place and seemed lost in time.
20 years on I can only say that a seed was planted that day and a horrible acidic weed of hatred grew from said seed.
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Guiseley away - can't remember the year but we'd already gained promotion and the players were all a little 'worse for wear' so to speak. About 12 years ago?
We got beat 2-0 but still went up? I remember that game, I was about 7 and a half. Think it was 1999, I'm sure Cult will prove me wrong though... :)
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Guiseley away - can't remember the year but we'd already gained promotion and the players were all a little 'worse for wear' so to speak. About 12 years ago?
We got beat 2-0 but still went up? I remember that game, I was about 7 and a half. Think it was 1999, I'm sure Cult will prove me wrong though... :)
That would have been May 1999, we'd secured promotion by beating Emley 1-0 on the Thursday Night, after which everyone duly got absolutely legless, the game at Guiseley was on the Saturday and we took about 300 over. Other than we lost 2-0 I remember nothing about it. :D
My first away was, like so many others, Macc about Christmas 1988/89. I think we lost 1-0, it rained and they had Alan Zelam in goal, a man I soon grew to hate.
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Assuming Leatherhead in 1978 doesn't count as an away game, then the first away game I remember is the first of the two FA Cup games at Blackpool - Nov 1984 I assume. I was in the home end with my grandad for some logistical reason and we almost got lynched at the end of the game when he started waving his walking stick in the air.
Younger readers may not understand this, but we used to win FA Cup games, even away from home.
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Irlam Town away, pre-season friendly (I presume), 2nd August 1985.
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Runcorn in the FA Trophy semi final second leg in 78. I remember no-one could believe that Runcorn charged the then extortionate price of £1 to sit in the main stand (a metal hut really). A 1-0 win courtesy of Mal Bailey's header took us to Wembley :). I seem to remember my dad driving the wrong way on the Runcorn Expressway after the game and us ending up in somewhere obscure like Widnes
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Fleetwood away pre 1969 although technically it was a home game as we lived in thornton . Cant think of another away trip until the trophy defeat at witton in 71
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Guiseley away - can't remember the year but we'd already gained promotion and the players were all a little 'worse for wear' so to speak. About 12 years ago?
We got beat 2-0 but still went up? I remember that game, I was about 7 and a half. Think it was 1999, I'm sure Cult will prove me wrong though... :)
I have the Match ball from that game.
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Mine was play off final. At the time i had just started liking football and was really pleased but didn't really know what was going on.
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Ellesmere Port in mid 60s! .. probably 66.
My big sister took me.. she used to have to entertain her little brother quite a bit in those days!
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The 'Lee Poland' FA Cup win at Lancaster - great occassion. The next was the awful FA Cup loss at Lancaster!
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Guiseley away - can't remember the year but we'd already gained promotion and the players were all a little 'worse for wear' so to speak. About 12 years ago?
We got beat 2-0 but still went up? I remember that game, I was about 7 and a half. Think it was 1999, I'm sure Cult will prove me wrong though... :)
That would have been May 1999, we'd secured promotion by beating Emley 1-0 on the Thursday Night, after which everyone duly got absolutely legless, the game at Guiseley was on the Saturday and we took about 300 over. Other than we lost 2-0 I remember nothing about it. :D
My first away was, like so many others, Macc about Christmas 1988/89. I think we lost 1-0, it rained and they had Alan Zelam in goal, a man I soon grew to hate.
Idle working mens club
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Vics away in the mid 60's during the Jackie Swindells era. We came back from 1-0 down at half time to tank them 4-1.
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chester away in the facup, paladino was in net 94/95 ?? i think. then as an adult woking away first season back in the premier.
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Oswestry town sometine pre1960 no idea what score though.
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First one I remember was Morecambe away. Easter BHM 2006 - we lost 2-0 I think
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Boxing Day 1972 - Macclesfield Town 2 Altrincham 3. An Eric Shreeves double and an Andy Windsor penalty. Two up at half time, Macc get it back to 2-2 and we nick it in the last few minutes - quality. Got some 'Munich' Subbuteo goalposts for Christmas (the ones with the blue and red nets), flick to kick!
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A game at Loakes Park, High Wycombe late 80's when we were living locally and I was at school in the town. Still scared from that season they went up.....
Which school?
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Telford United - FA Cup circa 1986, defeat. Never looked back....
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That macc game in 72 was the first time I saw Alty win away. It was blowing a gale, and with the winds at our backs we went in 2-0 up at half time. We didn't think 2 would be enough and sure enough it only took macc 10 minutes to even the score. We were under the cosh for the rest of the game until a break away earned us a pen which andy Windsor put through the keepers legs
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Southport away, only a blurred memory, terrible game in blustery conditions, we were awful, Lance Key was in goal and one of his goalkicks was joked to be the teams best effort on goal, 1-0 port maybe, any archivers recall this one, 8/9 years ago maybe.
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That would be the second relegation season we lost 2-0 but got in 0-0 at half time but should have been 5-0 down. Leroy chambers was a poor excuse for a winger and southport missed a hatful of chances.
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Probably makes me sound like a glory hunter but I think it was the Fa cup game at Everton in 1975.
I was at school with Noel White's son and we got on the director's coach and sat in the director's box at Goodison.
Just as a contrast .... Latest away game was at FGR in April ......
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A game at Loakes Park, High Wycombe late 80's when we were living locally and I was at school in the town. Still scared from that season they went up.....
Which school?
RGS
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Daisy was just 1 month old (to the day) when she first saw the mighty Robins!
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A game at Loakes Park, High Wycombe late 80's when we were living locally and I was at school in the town. Still scared from that season they went up.....
Which school?
RGS
Mmmm reasonable.
SWB myself
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SWB?
SWR I know. My parents still live up the road in Penn.
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My son is at John Hampden - doing GCSE's, last Alty match was away FGR.
in this weeks Eng Lit exam, set book Fever pitch, Russell wrote an esay about the differences between him and Nick Hornby:
"the author liked going to Highburyto see Arsenal with his dad, whereas my father drags me to watch Altrincham against my will!"
After last season, i have to say its against my will sometimes as well
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My son is at John Hampden - doing GCSE's, last Alty match was away FGR.
in this weeks Eng Lit exam, set book Fever pitch, Russell wrote an esay about the differences between him and Nick Hornby:
"the author liked going to Highburyto see Arsenal with his dad, whereas my father drags me to watch Altrincham against my will!"
After last season, i have to say its against my will sometimes as well
Nick Hornby as a GCSE topic ? O tempora ! O mores !
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My first was to Macc (March 1 1969) courtesy of good old Altrincham Coachways - we lost 2-1. Still remember going down to their little office opposite the Vine to book - and the fear of losing either the top (for outward travel) or the carbon (for return) copy!
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My first away trip was to Wembley for the trophey final win against Runcorn in 1986. Got hooked watching Alty and have been all over England watching them. Not been to many games recently since moving to Wales.
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Does Old Trafford v Everton count, if not a win at home to Macc late 70's. The strangest being our first visit to Emley.
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My 1st game away was in about November 1978 at Boston United.
We won 4-1 too in the last season of the NPL for us.
I think i remember the game was played in thick fog & nobody could see who had scored.
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indeed i was there it was about 2 days before my 18th and a copper walked in the pub we wre drinking in i thought just my luckk but he just said you may as well stay there lads coz they are not going to kick off on time . landlord bouight us all apint (batemnas xxxb of course) fantastic fish and chips from the chippy opposite . we won we didnt see most of thegame but the fog was good cover as their thugs couldnt find us either.
all in all a great day out
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indeed i was there it was about 2 days before my 18th and a copper walked in the pub we wre drinking in i thought just my luckk but he just said you may as well stay there lads coz they are not going to kick off on time . landlord bouight us all apint (batemnas xxxb of course) fantastic fish and chips from the chippy opposite . we won we didnt see most of thegame but the fog was good cover as their thugs couldnt find us either.
all in all a great day out
That was the game we were all drinking bottled Boddies on the coach and I was desperate for a slash, told the driver somewhere around Mansfield that loads of us needed a toilet and he stopped by a public park and embarrasingly just me got off! I needed another 15 miles on but decided to breath deeply and not mention it.
That was also when they were rebuilding parts of the ground and there were piles of bricks everywhere. We had a bit of bother on the way in (and out I rememberl) and I recall taking a brick with me each time I made further and several visits to the gents. Not big or clever but their fans were always foul.
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SWB?
SWR I know. My parents still live up the road in Penn.
Sir William Borlase, Marlow (on-Thames x)
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Not sure it really counts, but FA Trophy final when we lost to Enfield in the early 80's. I was like 12 or 13 yers old and my parents let me go on the Alty coach on my own, after a big fight as they were worried about whether I would be safe.
Years later, as a parent, there is no way I would let my kids go to Wembley to watch Alty in a Final without me :)
In domestic competition it wa Stafford in the early 90's but can't remember why I went. Kinda remember it being a big match though!
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On that basis Enfield trophy is also my first game - on my sisters 7th birthday. we lived in huddersfield at the time she didn't enjoy her day, especially when it went to extra time!