Away Support

[cdward]

After hearing great reports about our away support last night and then seeing this.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-20700529
Can't believe only 1 fan turned up, those Italians are real lightweights.

i wondered when and where did Villa take the least amount of fans to an away game?
I always think we have great away support, possibly to do with being less than 4 hours from any ground.

[Dave Clark Five]

After hearing great reports about our away support last night and then seeing this.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-20700529
Can't believe only 1 fan turned up, those Italians are real lightweights.

i wondered when and where did Villa take the least amount of fans to an away game?
I always think we have great away support, possibly to do with being less than 4 hours from any ground.

I'll start the bidding with the 250 we took to Bury the week before the 1971 League Cup Final but my memory will need jogging as I am sure that I have been in some where we have only taken about 50 but can't remember when, European matches excluded of course. There were 60 on The Special to Bristol one night.

[Holte L2]

I was in Odense for the inter-toto where we took around 300

[Hookeysmith]

I remember Sunderland away back in the dark 80's on a Tuesday night - it was freezing and snowing and there could not have been more than 300 of us

[Chris Jameson]

Ayresome Park in the seventies, barely 100 for one game and not much more for another. I was living in Newcastle in the eighties and was forever being mocked for the size of our away following for a couple of matches at St James Park.

[144 Hard Boiled Eggs]

Matches in the north east  - I remember Sunderland in the mid eighties with 2- 300 there - were particularly poorly attended. Before segregation there seemed to be no Villa presence at some games. I remember getting in to Upton Park just as Andy Gray scored in the first minute in the seventies and not seeing any Villa celebrating anywhere in the ground - there were probably quite a few there scattered about but they just kept quiet!

[Slaphead]

New years day against Sunderland I think 01 or 02 I am sure out attendance was minimal. Remember hearing reports of around 300.

[PGW]

I remember that game at Upton Park...3 of us were sat in the seats above the Chicken run. We didnt celebrate Gray's goal!!!!

[Andy_Lochhead_in_the_air]

I was in Odense for the inter-toto where we took around 300

I reckon it was more than 300, you can count them if you want. We made a noise and it was a good trip all the same.

[Chris Harte]

I have a vague memory of about 100 being reported to have travelled to our game with Penarol in Tokyo in December 1982 for the World Club thingy when it was simply European champions versus the South American equivalent.

I can't imagine it being that high though.

[Andy_Lochhead_in_the_air]

Mid 1970s I hitchhiked to the old Yugoslavia and watched pre season friendlies in Ljubljana and Rijeka, I dont remember seeing any other Villa fan there. 
Also in the 1970s we played  friendlies at St Etienne and Reims in France. Me and three mates drove there, again the following was next to nothing.
In terms of a domestic game, I remember as a kid going on the supporters coach to Bolton in 1967. I think it was just the one coach, and what seemed like a handful of Villa grouped together on the open terrace.
     

[PGW]

Was that Bolton game the one we lost 3 - 2. If so i was on that one coach!!!!

[Leicester_Villian]

Why not change the question to the most away fans others than Semis or Cup finals ....... cant believe that Highbury day we won the title will be beat ! All I recall that afternoon is after about 15 minutes ignoring the game infront of me and listening to the radio with just about everyone else there - what a day

[Mister E]

St James' Park in 1975; we lost 3-0 (SuperMac hattrick). I didn't count up the number of Villa fans, but there couldn't have been more than 100 or so.
The locals in the away end were so bored they were fighting amongst themselves; quite nerve-wracking ...

[Pat McMahon]

Ayresome Park in the seventies, barely 100 for one game and not much more for another. I was living in Newcastle in the eighties and was forever being mocked for the size of our away following for a couple of matches at St James Park.

Chris, I have posted this before but I remember we put the final nail in Newcastle's coffin in Division 1 in a midweek game around 1978.

We beat them 2-0 and there were literally a handful of Geordies there who had travelled down in a transit van. The Mail had a story the next day that the Newcastle players were touched by their loyalty and had a whip round to pay their petrol money. Fast forward four years and they were getting gates of 83,000 with Keegan.

Also, I don't think I ever saw a MIddlesbrough fan at Villa Park until 1981. Literally not one ( that I can remember anyway)