Biggest Villa away following?

[Handsworth Wood Villa]

What's the biggest Villa away following you've been apart of?

Obviously not including Cup finals at Wembley and the like...

[Andy Poole]

Has to be Highbury, 1981, dosent it?

[LeeB]

I think probably Man Utd in 1988.

They were expecting about 2k to turn up, it was more like 10k in the end.

[luke25]

Not sure off the top of my head, maybe the Quarter final at Reading.

[Nev]

I think probably Man Utd in 1988.

They were expecting about 2k to turn up, it was more like 10k in the end.

Same here. The night of the fog.

[Chris Smith]

Sheffield Wednesday when we were promoted under Saunders, about 20 thousand I reckon. Took over the home end just through weight of numbers. On a Wednesday night.

[Bent Neilsens Screamer]

I think probably Man Utd in 1988.

They were expecting about 2k to turn up, it was more like 10k in the end.

Same here. The night of the fog.

What was the score in that game? I ask as I remember visiting OT for a night game probably around that time and I think we went down 2-0 and Mark Robins got both goals.

[Andy Poole]

I think probably Man Utd in 1988.

They were expecting about 2k to turn up, it was more like 10k in the end.

Same here. The night of the fog.

What was the score in that game? I ask as I remember visiting OT for a night game probably around that time and I think we went down 2-0 and Mark Robins got both goals.

I thought the score was 1 each? Sid for us?

[Rudy Can't Fail]

Sheffield Wednesday when we were promoted under Saunders, about 20 thousand I reckon. Took over the home end just through weight of numbers. On a Wednesday night.

That was a magical night. Every car going up the A38 seemed to have Villa scarves out the windows.

I'd say Highbury 81 was the biggest and best for obvious reasons. Old Trafford in 88 was a scream.

Smallest Villa following I've seen was when we played Benfica here a few years ago in a pre-season friendly. I was there on my own in a crowd of 35,000. I later found out there were more Villa fans at the game and the police put them in the press box.

[Andy_Lochhead_in_the_air]

Dont know if it was the biggest but the one that comes to mind was Notts County away 1971/72 in the 3rd division.
The crowd was 34,000, well over half were Villa. There was no M42 then, the route to Nottingham and indeed to a lot of games Yorkshire direction etc was the road through Tamworth, Measham, Ashby, Castle Donnington.
The traffic jams started around Tamworth, you knew it was all Villa because everybody always had the scarfs out the window.

Smallest was when I hitched to watch a couple of pre season games in Yugolsavia at Ljubijana and Rijecka in the mid 70s. As far as I could tell I was the only one. John Gidman saw me with my Villa scarf and said something along the lines of "What the f**k are you doing here ?".

[Handsworth Wood Villa]

Not sure off the top of my head, maybe the Quarter final at Reading.

In 09/10?

How many did we take?

[bertlambshank]

Middlesborough in the league cup in 87.If there was 200 we were lucky.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

Middlesborough in the league cup in 87.If there was 200 we were lucky.

You're right. I was at that one as well, though only had to travel from Leeds.

[spk]

everton may 1990,last game under GT mark 1,easy 15k,2 stands full 3 3 draw in the sunshine

[Bent Neilsens Screamer]

everton may 1990,last game under GT mark 1,easy 15k,2 stands full 3 3 draw in the sunshine

That's my favourite ever away day and will be hard to beat.