Date of your first Villa away game.

[lennythekad]

April 10th 1971. Shrewsbury, lost 2-1. Went on the coach, and all I can remember, is it kicking off in the ground for most of the game. Glass beer bottles being thrown, and iirc, the police dogs being let into the crowd, by the corner flag at the covered end. (They may have been on leads, if time is playing tricks on my memory).

[OzVilla]

Everton League Cup semi final 1st leg, 15th February 1984. The Kevin Richardson 'handball' game for those with a decent memory.

[Flamingo Lane]

April 10th 1971. Shrewsbury, lost 2-1. Went on the coach, and all I can remember, is it kicking off in the ground for most of the game. Glass beer bottles being thrown, and iirc, the police dogs being let into the crowd, by the corner flag at the covered end. (They may have been on leads, if time is playing tricks on my memory).

I went to that one too, and also remember a fair amount of trouble behind the goal, though we were stood on the side.

[frankmosswasmyuncle]

10th August 1968 Sheffield Utd. Lost 3-1.
I was 14 years old and went on my own from Tamworth...almost the first person in the ground and had to walk round the pitch (with the cricket pitch on my left) to get to the other end...I was cacking myself and was so relieved when a few more Villa fans started coming in.
My memory of the game is being incredibly optimistic before kick off, Woodward for them tearing us apart and wondering what I was going tell my family when I got home.
My tea was baked up in the oven....happy days!!!???

[Rudy Can't Fail]

Everton League Cup semi final 1st leg, 15th February 1984. The Kevin Richardson 'handball' game for those with a decent memory.

I was at that one. After the joys of Norwich in the quarter final there was no way I was going to miss it. It was anything but joyful though, starting with the walk across Stanley Park and the welcome from Merseyside's Finest. I can't remember what ignited the Villa fans, I don't believe it was just the handball but it all turned very nasty with Villa fans ripping out the wooden seats in the upper section and throwing them into the Everton fans to the left. 1981 it wasn't.

[wittonwarrior]

What people can’t comprehend nowadays is a that an awful lot of kids would go always by themselves who were 14 or 15. A hell of a lot more bananas than today but we have all lived to tell the tales