Top Five Away Days

[Mortimer's Bear]

Gabbys last minute winner at the sty was pretty memorable.

[Damo70]

Right off the top of my head -

Rotterdam
Swindon
Everton
Sheffield Wednesday

All so memorable I don't even have to name the year as everybody will just know. Then I would go for White Hart Lane in 1989/1990. The night I was sure we would go on to win the league.

[dcdavecollett]

The 3-0 against Newcastle took place as I was doing the C2C walk.

There seemed something odd, reading a Sunday tabloid match report while eating lunch at the idyllic Grizedale Tarn!

[Meanwood Villa]

Ashley Young at Everton. I doubt I'll ever see the like again. Unbelievable.

Everton FA Cup 2000. I remember the semi final draw was done at half time and we knew we'd got Bolton. That'll be easy.

Newcastle 3-0. Goals, sendings off, great stuff.

Boro  05/06. Just like watching Brazil in a dog of a season. One of their fans threw his season ticket at McLaren; few months later he was England boss.

Anfield 2001. Unexpected delight, away end going barmy.

[Chris Harte]

My first three have all been covered.
Everton 3-3 (1990).
Sheffield Weds 3-2 (Big Ron).
Spurs 4-3 (Big Ron sacked week before).

Then:
Albion 2-0 (FA Cup 1990, Daley winner)
Deportivo La Coruna (1993, game nothing special, but a fun trip).

[berneboy]

Two people have said 1975 v Sheffield Wednesday, 4-1.  Wasn't it 4-0?

You are quite right Ian.  I was one of those that posted 4-1.  I thought that it was 4-0 as I was typing but I honestly couldn't remember, such is my memory these days.  I was scratching my head trying to remember when it was during the game and just couldn't remember.  I just took the previous poster's word for it.

One thing I do remember, due to the traffic I didn't get home until the early hours.  Very happy mind.

I was there . 0-4
Massive conga on the pitch. SupeBri

I took my future wife to her first ever match. They're not all like that, my love!

[silhillvilla]

The Spurs 3-4 game, we arrived late and found we were 1-0 up on arrival as we were walking down the steps to our seats we went 2 up (dalian I think) don't think we ever made our actual seats til the second half.
What a brilliant game that was . Have to say Klinsmann was sensational in the second half.

[castlefields_villan]

5A  Any win at the sty (since my first visit there in 1968)

5 - Blackpool 1975 (didn't get to Hillsborouh the following Wednesday)

4 - Wembley 1975

3 - Old Trafford 1977

2 - Highbury 1981

1 - "Oh it must be "AND IT IS"

[Dr Butler]

as I did not go to many away games as I played football myself during the 80's and 90's but here are my favourite 5 in no particular order.

2000 Spurs - 2-4 and 3 goals to grace any goal of the season, Dublin (2) Carbone and Alan Wright.

1978 Spurs - again and my first away game, ticker tape to greet the players O.Ardiles and R.Villa home debut ruined by Evans, Little, Shelton and Gregory.

1986 Coventry - a great day out and although it all got very unsavoury at the end with their cowardly supporters including the walk back to the car, Bruno made it a day to remember.

1980 Cambridge United - not technically an away game for me, but it was great to see that Villa team down the Abbey and all the Cambridge fans telling me it was great to see such a very good side play, it made me very proud. Terry Donovan the scorer

2006 Arsenal  - Mellberg scoring the first competitive goal at the Emirates and all the positivity surrounding the Villa, Lerner and O'Neill...just a brilliant day out with my Brummie mates.

UTV
The Doc

[AVH87]

In no particular order.

Arsenal 1-3 Villa - opening day of the season in 2013, absolute scenes in the away end when 'Tony Moon' aka Luna got our third on the counter right at the end.

Liverpool 2-2 Villa - around 2008. Midweek game, losing 1-0 offering nothing, Harewood comes off the bench to score one and set another up (though may have been credited as an own goal from memory), slightly dampened by Crouchy getting a late equaliser.

Stoke 1-3 Villa - 2013. The Lowton screamer in front of the away fans when we needed 3 points at crunch time in the season.

Everton 2-3 Villa - around 2008. Ashley Young, think we all know the rest.

Liverpool 1-2 Villa - FA Semi 2015 Wembley, what a day. Happy Birthday to you (Stevie G).

[Damo70]

A few games away to Small Heath and Smethwick have been mentioned. It must be something about the atmosphere of evening games as some of both my favourite away days and favourite derbies are the two league cup wins at Albion in the eighties, the first one of which one was my first visit to The Hawthorns (I remember Clive 'The Book' Thomas was ref) and the two league cup wins at the sty in the late eighties and early nineties. Along with the league win at Albion in the early days of SGT.

[silhillvilla]

A few alternative ones

80/81 - wolves away 1-0 win, a lovely Withe header. Win the league win the league
88/89 ? Yanited away 1-1 fog day . Easily 8000 villa there , amazing support . Sid sid sid
78/79 ?- wolves away, I the old crooked stand a Friday night game for some reason. My first ever away 1-3 loss. Carradous for us.
80/81 Stoke 0-0 Victoria Grd , not a classic but a previous point on the way to the title. Stoke being Stoke it kicked off outside.

[b23]

Rotterdam
Arsenal. Won the League
Old Trafford v. Everton. Won the League Cup
Highbury v. QPR. Brian Little Hat-trick
Tottenham. Ardilles/Villa made their home Debuts. But lost.     

[Damo70]

A few alternative ones

80/81 - wolves away 1-0 win, a lovely Withe header. Win the league win the league
88/89 ? Yanited away 1-1 fog day . Easily 8000 villa there , amazing support . Sid sid sid
78/79 ?- wolves away, I the old crooked stand a Friday night game for some reason. My first ever away 1-3 loss. Carradous for us.
80/81 Stoke 0-0 Victoria Grd , not a classic but a previous point on the way to the title. Stoke being Stoke it kicked off outside.

Wasn't Stoke in the title season 1-1? I saw us play out a 0-0 draw there in the promotion season. At least I don't think there were any goals. It was without doubt the worst view I have ever had for a game.

[castlefields_villan]

A few alternative ones

80/81 - wolves away 1-0 win, a lovely Withe header. Win the league win the league
88/89 ? Yanited away 1-1 fog day . Easily 8000 villa there , amazing support . Sid sid sid
78/79 ?- wolves away, I the old crooked stand a Friday night game for some reason. My first ever away 1-3 loss. Carradous for us.
80/81 Stoke 0-0 Victoria Grd , not a classic but a previous point on the way to the title. Stoke being Stoke it kicked off outside.

I remember the "win the league, win the league game at the sty take2 in Feb/March 1981
Tremendous atmosphere on the old South Bank - didn't Andy Gray miss a sitter for them in that match?

1977/78  1-3 away there was as I remember on a Tuesday night and their win kept them in the old first division and cost us a place in the EUFA Cup.  I was in the old enclosure with the girlfriend I was with at the time and I remember it "kicking off" outside - I remember walking past the south bank and heard a couple of Wolves idiots plotting to ambush our supporters as they came out.

1980/81  Stoke away - as you say - at the time a precious point, when a draw was worth more than what is today.