Favourite away ground no longer with us.

[Dave Cooper please]

Two I really liked were the aforementioned Roker Park and also up that way Darlington's ground at Feethams.

Up in Scotland the travesty that is the franchise Inverness Caledonian Thistle were responsible for the demise of two excellent old school Highland League grounds in Inverness, both demolished to pay for that soulless out of town shite hole built on a rubbish dump.

[joe_c]

Looking forward to my last ever visit to Upton Park. In a "Thank God I'll never make this journey again" style.

[The Laughing Policeman]

The Den. Only went once and that was for a midweek match in 1975, we won 3-1 and me and my mate had ended up in amongst the Millwall fans. When we scored our first we both let out a strangled "yesss" two blokes standing next to us looked at us and one said 'don't worry we're Spurs we've come to see who we've got to play next season.' Fair play to them they even saw us safely back to our coach down that scary barely lit road.
Needless to say, we were just thinking we'd got away with it when about a mile from the ground the coach was bricked and two windows went in. 

[wittonwarrior]

The best one they raised was Maine Road, pity the Citee fans  weren't all in  there when the bulldozers did their job, never liked them.

Funny enough for  pure atmosphere we played Southampton at the Dell in a midweek and it was tremendous.

[simon ward 50]

Indeed JD favourite away ground has to be Highbury.

Worst extinct away ground? Tough choice between Ayrsome Park or Plough Lane?

[oldhill_avfc]

Baseball Ground, crap view on the Pop side, but good atmosphere

Filbert Street, I think Health & Safety would now close that corner that we used to get herded into, better when we had half the other end.

Victoria Ground, 1976, Balloons , everywhere in a good sized away end,  &

Regarding the Victoria Ground, does anyone remember being severely crushed in a pen in the mid-late '80s?  Was all the more bizarre as the rest of the ground was nearly empty.

[Richard E]

Maine Road or Highbury.

[E I Adio]

Not a favourite ground, but it was pretty unusual. Bramhall Lane in the 1960's. Quite amazing in that it also doubled as a cricket pitch. In fact it started life as a cricket club and they allowed the footballers to use it a few decades later. In those days it was possible to change ends at half time by walking around the boundary of the cricket pitch. My only visit there in the '60's saw Villa win. Sheffield had a player called Keith Kettleborough sent off (an extremely rare occurrence in those days) for flooring Ron Wylie with a shocking tackle.

[Charlie8182]

Baseball Ground, crap view on the Pop side, but good atmosphere

Filbert Street, I think Health & Safety would now close that corner that we used to get herded into, better when we had half the other end.

Victoria Ground, 1976, Balloons , everywhere in a good sized away end,  &

Regarding the Victoria Ground, does anyone remember being severely crushed in a pen in the mid-late '80s?  Was all the more bizarre as the rest of the ground was nearly empty.

If it was our visit to the Victoria Ground in our 2nd division season of 1987/88 then yes, my only ever visit there and my feet hardly touched the ground for 90 minutes.

[ADVILLAFAN]

Would have been quite cool watching footy and having the cricket ground next door.

Suppose Leeds has a similar thing with the rugby ground being next door to Elland Road.

[Kingthing]

Always found the baseball ground interesting -  that 3 tiered end behind the goal. Also remember getting crushed there once as well, not long after Hillsbrough.

I'd go for Highbury and Maine Road.

Worst I've been to have to be Ayresome Park

I was at the game at the Baseball ground, I think it was Cascarino's first game, baking hot.   

[frankmosswasmyuncle]

Great pics of Bramhall Lane EIA!
It was the first ground/away game I went to on my own in about 1966/7...paid to get in at one end and walked all the way round the cricket pitch to get to the other end...I was very relieved when a few thousand Villa fans turned up to join me later! So, fond memories!
The Dell (and Fratton Park) - the atmosphere always seemed to be intense and intimidating - my older cousin took me several times on the Lions' Club coaches when I was about 9/10/11...it always seemed to be Easter-time...and I thought I was the luckiest boy in the world...my ManU/ManC/Leeds supporting schoolmates had never been to a proper game, never mind exotic away games!
Highbury had proper ends and was a special place to be on a certain day in May 1981...Baseball Ground - we always took a good following and it was only a few stops up the line from my home at the time in Tamworth.

[E I Adio]

Great pics of Bramhall Lane EIA!
It was the first ground/away game I went to on my own in about 1966/7...paid to get in at one end and walked all the way round the cricket pitch to get to the other end...I was very relieved when a few thousand Villa fans turned up to join me later! So, fond memories!
The Dell (and Fratton Park) - the atmosphere always seemed to be intense and intimidating - my older cousin took me several times on the Lions' Club coaches when I was about 9/10/11...it always seemed to be Easter-time...and I thought I was the luckiest boy in the world...my ManU/ManC/Leeds supporting schoolmates had never been to a proper game, never mind exotic away games!
Highbury had proper ends and was a special place to be on a certain day in May 1981...Baseball Ground - we always took a good following and it was only a few stops up the line from my home at the time in Tamworth.

Well, apart from The Sty and The Hawthorns, Bramhall Lane was my first away game as well, I guess it was probably 1963. Five of us mates crammed into an ancient Morris Minor which took us hours to reach Sheffield (no motorways in those days) and two of them although they were Baggies fans cheered for the Villa as much as the rest of us. Happy days.

[Andy_Lochhead_in_the_air]

I can remember going to the three sided Bramhall Lane in the late 1960s for a Villa game. Very unusual.
Another 3 sider was Northamptons old ground. We played there in the run to the 1971 League Cup final, 1-1 draw then brought them back to Villa Park.
Bramhall Lane was completely open across to the cricket pavillion with no spectators. At the Northampton v Villa game, there were spectators packed along the open side that night. Don't know if they always did this or if it was because the Villa were in town and so a much bigger than normal crowd.

[somec]

This may sound like a daft question but which cricket team played at Bramhall Lane at that time?