Biggest Villa away following?

[spk]

It was a giggle wasnt it ?

[Fergal]

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.

Didn't we take 20,000 to Blackpool?

[Flamingo Lane]

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.

Didn't we take 20,000 to Blackpool?

Crowd at Blackpool was 20,700.  At Sheffield Wednesday 23,605.

[FrankyH]

Highbury when we won the league,.I actually started the game in the North Bank,when a woman with a pram/pushchair asked a copper if she could through come the a gate which led to the standing area along the pitch as the North bank was overcrowded.Ran through the gate with brother and cousin, even though the stand was still Arsenal if felt much better watching the game in that stand-North Bank to the left,Clock end to the right.

[class-of-82]

for me it has to be blues away in 1974 i think. maybe not he biggest but certainly the best tilton full to the rafters villa on the roof of the tilton hanging from the floodlights to large mob underneath the scoreboard and took over the top tier of the railway end. simply the best

[Bent Neilsens Screamer]

It was a giggle wasnt it ?

Can still remember the chants of Graham Taylors claret and blue army to this day.

[dave.woodhall]

Local derbies aside, the most we've taken has to be either Hillsborough or Highbury, with around 20k. Honourable mentions to Stoke on Boxing Day 1975 and Coventry the Saturday after we won the League Cup in 1977. Old Trafford 1988 was about 7k (it was always easy to work out their away following because there were so many small pens with their own capacities - the bits we were given totalled 7.5k and they weren't quite all full) and Everton 1990 about 8k.

Don't know the smallest but we had a couple in 1985-86, Southampton and Newcastle, which couldn't have been more than 200 and the 300-ish at Manchester City that season was embarrassing for a Saturday game such a short distance away. There were eight of us at a friendly in Fiorentina in 1993. We ended up in the directors' box.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

for me it has to be blues away in 1974 i think. maybe not he biggest but certainly the best tilton full to the rafters villa on the roof of the tilton hanging from the floodlights to large mob underneath the scoreboard and took over the top tier of the railway end. simply the best

I think you mean 1976. They really used to cram us in there. Fun times, once you eventually got in there.

[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.

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

Could anyone shed any light on what year this game was then?

[dave.woodhall]

1989-90.

[The Man With A Stick]

Mark bastard Robins broke my heart that night.

Man Utd in the cup in O'Neill's first season for me.  Huge away following and quite a few of us dotted around the home ends from what I seem to remember.  A pal of mine is a ST holder up there and he asked me on the Friday if I wanted his spare.

[Bent Neilsens Screamer]

Thanks Dave.

[Richie]

Everton in 1990 - sun was shining, great game, unbelievable Villa support.

Will live long in the memory.

Honourable mention also to the opening day at Sheffield Wednesday for BFR's first game.

[villa `cross the mersey]

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.

This has to be up there.

[dave.woodhall]

Of course, none of these come close to the estimated quarter of a million Everton brought to Villa in 1987.