Your first Clarets away game.

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Your first Clarets away game.

Post by RammyClaret61 » Wed Jan 25, 2017 4:31 am

What was your first AWAY game following the Clarets?

Mine was Boxing Day 1970 at Blackpool. A 1-1 draw. I was 9 at the time, I think we went in the South stand paddock, but not sure.

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Re: Your first Clarets away game.

Post by Dazzler » Wed Jan 25, 2017 4:47 am

Same here :D
I ran onto pitch at half time to get Ralph Coates autograph.The only one I hadn't got.could never catch him arriving at turf.
My dad went loopy.

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Re: Your first Clarets away game.

Post by jdrobbo » Wed Jan 25, 2017 6:10 am

Lincoln away, 1-1

Brian Reid header.

We were awful that day!

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Re: Your first Clarets away game.

Post by MG70 » Wed Jan 25, 2017 6:13 am

Preston 1987, we lost 2-1. Derek Parker scored a screamer.

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Re: Your first Clarets away game.

Post by ayrshireclaret83 » Wed Jan 25, 2017 6:13 am

Oldham during the waddle season was postponed

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Re: Your first Clarets away game.

Post by RammyClaret61 » Wed Jan 25, 2017 6:30 am

Was that Oldham game the 3-3 when replayed?

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Re: Your first Clarets away game.

Post by LongSider75 » Wed Jan 25, 2017 6:53 am

Port Vale in FA Cup 1977/78. lost 2-1
We took approx 10,000 from what I am led to believe (I was too young to gauge it in those days)
Think my first away win was Mansfield in the Anglo Scottish Cup the year we won it.

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Re: Your first Clarets away game.

Post by Claretmatt4 » Wed Jan 25, 2017 7:17 am

My dad took me on what I thought at the time was Stoke but it could've been Forest. I was about 12 so it was a few years into the Ternent era. Don't know the score, think it was a draw.

Saw us win away for the first time at Preston last year =0

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Re: Your first Clarets away game.

Post by LawsCanalJump » Wed Jan 25, 2017 7:21 am

First one I got took to when I became 'old enough' was a 2-1 defeat to Crewe Alexandra in Aug 05
Gifton Noel-Williams scored

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Re: Your first Clarets away game.

Post by claretblue » Wed Jan 25, 2017 7:30 am

Ralph Coates - '...could never catch him...'

neither could most defenders Dazzler! :D

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Re: Your first Clarets away game.

Post by PWBFC » Wed Jan 25, 2017 7:41 am

January 95 away at Pompey. Freezing cold 2-0 defeat and Marlon got sent off for handball.

Happy times.

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Re: Your first Clarets away game.

Post by karatekid » Wed Jan 25, 2017 7:42 am

Penrith, 17 November 1984, 9 nil to the clarets. I remember we actually scored direct from a corner too.
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Re: Your first Clarets away game.

Post by Transpennine » Wed Jan 25, 2017 7:45 am

Bristol rovers, October ish, 1993. The game was played at Twerton Park and we lost 3-1. We'd left long before Rooster Russell scored our late and useless consolation. I think my second 'away' game was Wembley at the end of the season. Turned out alright in the end....

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Re: Your first Clarets away game.

Post by Duffer_ » Wed Jan 25, 2017 7:52 am

Bury 26 Jan 1980 (4th round FA Cup). A 1-0 defeat.

UTC!

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Re: Your first Clarets away game.

Post by MACCA » Wed Jan 25, 2017 7:58 am

Cannot remember mine.

My sons was the Friendly at Accrington about 7/8 seasons ago. Just before his 2nd birthday.

His first proper away game was Villa away ( think in the cup ) he was about 4.
Was a long night as Villa played in claret & blue and trying to explain what was going on, who was who to him and why we didnt want the claret ones to score was a nightmare.

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Re: Your first Clarets away game.

Post by claretburns » Wed Jan 25, 2017 7:59 am

Barnsley away 2007 drew 1-1, think Andy Gray scored for us, no idea of the Barnsley scorer.

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Re: Your first Clarets away game.

Post by Woodleyclaret » Wed Jan 25, 2017 8:07 am

Mid sixties Spurs away .hitched hiked got there at half time.let in for free as theyd cashed up.
Push my way down to the front just in time to see Andy Lochhead leap like a salmon and score. 1-0 to the Burnley.We won and qualified for European adventure the following season It took me hours to get home finally arriving just in time for Sunday dinner at1pm.
It's true you never forget your first games.
Unfortunately I have never seen a league win at the Lane.
But I did see Marvin Sordell score, a very rare sight

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Re: Your first Clarets away game.

Post by minnieclaret » Wed Jan 25, 2017 8:33 am

62 or 63. At Deadwood. We won, as usual, 3-1. Crowd was so big us kids were allowed to sit in front of the wall behind the goal. Jimmy Mac scored a pen at that end. Brilliant.

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Re: Your first Clarets away game.

Post by Culmclaret » Wed Jan 25, 2017 8:44 am

ipswich 73/74. Lost 2-3 but Taffy scored a cracker. Ŵe were flying high at the time but were second best in a very good game between two footballing sides.

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Re: Your first Clarets away game.

Post by lancastrian » Wed Jan 25, 2017 9:11 am

Against Huddersfield in the early fifties, it was one of Billy Elliott first matches for the clarets and resulted in a 3-1 victory

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Re: Your first Clarets away game.

Post by Buxtonclaret » Wed Jan 25, 2017 9:22 am

Nov '63
Stoke 4-4 Burnley.

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Re: Your first Clarets away game.

Post by claretfern » Wed Jan 25, 2017 9:29 am

Blackpool - Feb '67 2-0 win. Both goals from Colin Blant. Jimmy Robson & Emlyn Hughes played for Blackpool that day...Hughes left for Liverpool not long after.

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Re: Your first Clarets away game.

Post by Steve1956 » Wed Jan 25, 2017 9:34 am

claretfern wrote:Blackpool - Feb '67 2-0 win. Both goals from Colin Blant. Jimmy Robson & Emlyn Hughes played for Blackpool that day...Hughes left for Liverpool not long after.
Colin Blant...I wonder what happened to him,I used to deliver his Racing Post as a paper boy back in the day ....nice fella.

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Re: Your first Clarets away game.

Post by ClaretTony » Wed Jan 25, 2017 9:36 am

Sadly mine was at Ewood in 1961/62 - we took the lead with a Ray Pointer goal but sadly were beaten 2-1.

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Re: Your first Clarets away game.

Post by Silkyskills1 » Wed Jan 25, 2017 9:57 am

Mine also at Ewood Park in the title winning season of 59-60. Lost 3-2 and one of our goals was an og scored by Bryan Douglas,their English international winger. Sat in the Riverside stand towards the Blackburn End with my dad.
The 4-4 draw at Stoke, mentioned earlier by Buxtonclaret, was I think the first game I'd seen us play not wearing Claret shirts and of course had Jimmy Mc playing for them.
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Re: Your first Clarets away game.

Post by Goddy » Wed Jan 25, 2017 10:09 am

Blackpool in the cup mid-seventies. I'd be about 12 years old.

I remember them scoring from a corner. Gerry Payton turned round to pick the ball out of the net and caught my eye. He had a look on his face which seemed to me to say 'sorry, I did my best'.

Lost the game 1-0 but remember that look which made me think 'they care almost as much as I do' - ha ha. :o

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Re: Your first Clarets away game.

Post by RingoMcCartney » Wed Jan 25, 2017 10:24 am

Semi final of the fa cup 1974 at Hillsborough v Geordies. Leppings Lane end.

When macdonald headed his 2nd I burst into tears!

There were some young geordies lads on the other side of the fence that oined me all the 2nd half.!!!

My uncle who wouldn't go on motorways drove back on A roads

The silent drive back thru Halifax, hebden bridge and tod was grim to say the least.!

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Re: Your first Clarets away game.

Post by lakedistrictclaret » Wed Jan 25, 2017 2:17 pm

My first away game as a committed Claret was New Years Day 1966.

Blackburn 0 Burnley 2.

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Re: Your first Clarets away game.

Post by Ashingtonclaret46 » Wed Jan 25, 2017 2:32 pm

11 October 1952 we lost 2-4 at Blackpool with Billy Elliott and Les Shannon scoring for the Clarets.

My son's first away match was 16 December 1972 when we lost 0-1 at Bristol City. I was in the RAF and stationed in Somerset at the time so it was an easy journey.

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Re: Your first Clarets away game.

Post by RalphCoatesComb » Wed Jan 25, 2017 2:34 pm

City (Maine Road) 1968.

We lost 7-0 :(

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Re: Your first Clarets away game.

Post by JohnMac » Wed Jan 25, 2017 2:35 pm

Bolton in a friendly around 1970. We lost and I missed the coach back after being chased around for what seemed like hours.
Not a good day.

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Re: Your first Clarets away game.

Post by HendricksHair » Wed Jan 25, 2017 2:43 pm

Mine was Barnsley away on Boxing Day in 2006. Lost 1-0 amd think the ref missed a blatant handball in the box just as it was going through to Gifton

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Re: Your first Clarets away game.

Post by Silkyskills1 » Wed Jan 25, 2017 2:51 pm

lakedistrictclaret wrote:My first away game as a committed Claret was New Years Day 1966.

Blackburn 0 Burnley 2.
The day Ralph Coates sat on the ball inviting the opposition to come and get it. Another victory on their patch.
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Re: Your first Clarets away game.

Post by jedi_master » Wed Jan 25, 2017 2:52 pm

Bury, we lost 1-0 - think it was about 1996.

Terrible.

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Re: Your first Clarets away game.

Post by whentheballmoves » Wed Jan 25, 2017 3:51 pm

Ewood Park in ?1983? You know, the one where our fans "removed" some of the roof?!

I think I was in the stand down the side of the pitch though...I was about 8 or 9 and proper scared that day.

I think the players / teams were taken off and Dobbo or someone similar had to appeal to the fans for calm.

And we lost 2-1! :-(

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Re: Your first Clarets away game.

Post by ClaretTony » Wed Jan 25, 2017 4:04 pm

jedi_master wrote:Bury, we lost 1-0 - think it was about 1996.

Terrible.
It was 1996 - I think that was the first time Adrian Heath played after coming back as manager and did Ronnie Jepson score the goal?

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Re: Your first Clarets away game.

Post by Steve1956 » Wed Jan 25, 2017 4:10 pm

I'm Amazed at some of you guys can remember your first away game,I haven't got a clue when mine was,all I can remember is the Bob Lord stand wasn't there when I first started watching the Clarets it was a type of enclosure if I remember rightly,was the stand on that side two tiered ....I can't remember what I did this morning nevermind 40 odd years ago.

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Re: Your first Clarets away game.

Post by RocketLawnChair » Wed Jan 25, 2017 4:10 pm

Oldham away during the 79/80 relegation season lost 2-1 Tony Arins scored our goal. Seem to think it was a screamer. We were defo in all yellow I remember that.

I wasn't a frequent away traveller in the 80s a couple a season maybe and I am fairly certain the first time I saw us win away was at Preston in the Sherpa Van Northern Area Final.. Oghani were going to Wembey Oghani

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Re: Your first Clarets away game.

Post by edlass » Wed Jan 25, 2017 4:15 pm

I had to go back and check the fixtures. Turns out my first away game was preston 2-3 Burnley vs my former favourite player Kurt Nogan (1997? I forgot to check)

I remember it not for being my first away match but for seeing us score in injury time and going crazy.

I was young and asked my dad a few embarrassing questions about what we were chanting at Nogan.

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Re: Your first Clarets away game.

Post by Dazzler » Wed Jan 25, 2017 4:18 pm

RingoMcCartney wrote:Semi final of the fa cup 1974 at Hillsborough v Geordies. Leppings Lane end.

When macdonald headed his 2nd I burst into tears!
So did I when the kin geordies were oining us as we walked back to the coaches.

No headed goals though.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2e65Sm_6Tew

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Re: Your first Clarets away game.

Post by Top Claret » Wed Jan 25, 2017 4:21 pm

My first away game I can actually remember was Wolves away 1965, we won 2-1 and it took us another 40 years to get a win there.

Only could attend Easter games and night matches until I started going properly in 1971, and have been going home and away ever since. My dad had a shop and had to work Saturdays, until he sold it in 1971.

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Re: Your first Clarets away game.

Post by Wilsdenclaret » Wed Jan 25, 2017 4:21 pm

FA Cup semi final at Hillsborough as well

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Re: Your first Clarets away game.

Post by Walton » Wed Jan 25, 2017 4:26 pm

Mine was Bradford away in October 92 I think.

Sat in the home end, possibly in the press box. A Scottish bloke in front of us clocked that we were Burnley fans and launched into a tirade, and was removed from his seat by a steward.

Lost 1-0.

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Re: Your first Clarets away game.

Post by bob-the-scutter » Wed Jan 25, 2017 4:27 pm

1967 Man City, we lost 4-2 and I was a gutted 11 year old!
This was my 1st away game on my own with a mate (Stewart Nuttall, Lionel St jnr School)
Imagine...11 years old and going to an away match on the coach???
I also remember from the same year Everton away 1-1 & Man United 1-1 (Coates) although I did go to lots of away games back then with a clarets mad uncle & siblings but maybe a half dozen on my own.
:)

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Re: Your first Clarets away game.

Post by joey13 » Wed Jan 25, 2017 4:31 pm

Ewood away lost 2-0 in a friendly think it was 1970 or 71 not a very pleasant experience but my big brother looked after me.

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Re: Your first Clarets away game.

Post by ayrshireclaret83 » Wed Jan 25, 2017 4:41 pm

RammyClaret61 wrote:Was that Oldham game the 3-3 when replayed?

Sure was remember being in the home end for the rematch and getting put in the away end after we went mental at 1-0

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Re: Your first Clarets away game.

Post by gc14 » Wed Jan 25, 2017 5:28 pm

Duffer_ wrote:Bury 26 Jan 1980 (4th round FA Cup). A 1-0 defeat.

UTC!
Same as above .. 20,000 on the Gigg with more than half from Burnley .. Dodgy goal as well

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Re: Your first Clarets away game.

Post by Quickenthetempo » Wed Jan 25, 2017 5:33 pm

Doncaster 91ish in an FA cup replay I think. We won 3-1 but I couldn't see much as they had a cage up in front of us. I had blagged my mum and dad I was at a mates but bumped into one of my dads best mates in the ground.

I'm sure my dad did much worse haha

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Re: Your first Clarets away game.

Post by Autobahn » Wed Jan 25, 2017 6:00 pm

Darlington 1990, lost 3-1, I was 8. Can only remember being sat in a cowshed.

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Re: Your first Clarets away game.

Post by Smallpaul » Wed Jan 25, 2017 6:16 pm

Sherpa van trophy final vs Wolves at Wembley 1988

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