| Best and Worst Days at the 'Famous Old Grounds' 23:59 - Feb 14 with 17347 views | bonymine |
Man City = Maine Road very intimidating when I went there as a 16 year old in 1981 1st Div Season in middle of Moss Side and we lost 4-0.
Liverpool = Just after Shankly died and Tosh wore a Liverpool shirt under his Swans tracksuit. Game was 2=2 but like the Wild West outside after the game.
West Ham = FA Cup Rd 5 1981 thought we'd claimed a replay before David Cross scored winner .. stabbed by WHU fans with knitting needles and pelted with golf balls.
Burnley = What's the time Taff?
Oh what joy it was to follow the Swans then.....we used to get a bus from Burry Port which stopped at the Uplands and then Skewen with Huw & Gordon to take us on our travels.....oh what happy days............ |  |
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| Best and Worst Days at the 'Famous Old Grounds' on 21:10 - Feb 20 with 1951 views | bonymine |
Bump....those were the days ðŸ‘😉💪 | |
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| Best and Worst Days at the 'Famous Old Grounds' on 21:22 - Feb 20 with 1950 views | Catullus |
Yeah the Liverpool game, we made an uneventful walk through Stanley park. Whn we got to our bus we found out several coaches had been bricked. Two Scousers tried to brick our windscreen but as they did a group from the bus in front came and grabbed them, some old heads on our bus got off and gave them a good kicking. All very entertaing to a naive 14 year old me.
Aston Villa in 82 (I think) I got butted by a police horse on the way out, the bugger left his teeth marks on my head and I had a banging headache for days, that's the only match I ever got hurt at, apart from the times I fell over drunk! |  |
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| Best and Worst Days at the 'Famous Old Grounds' on 22:48 - Feb 20 with 1891 views | swan65split |
Hoskings , hell of a goal fair doos. |  | | |
| Best and Worst Days at the 'Famous Old Grounds' on 22:49 - Feb 20 with 1889 views | Thrasher6 |
Been to most of the "events" talked about on the thread over the years and loved every minute of it....most of the time from the moment we left Swansea...especially in the eighties...it was seat of your pants stuff. Not phased by much now because of it tbh... [Post edited 20 Feb 2020 22:50]
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| Best and Worst Days at the 'Famous Old Grounds' on 23:11 - Feb 20 with 1876 views | Thrasher6 |
Funniest day was Shrewsbury away one year in a bus full of skinheads from Llanelli way. Had to wait by the cop shop so a few could "sign out" for the day as they were on probation....hit a country pub in the middle of nowhere on thd way up. Barmaid..on seeing us lot scrabbling at the bar for a drink...shouts for assistance. "Sally"..."Sally" we all started singing "Pride of our alley" on mass instantly. Surreal and very funny..
As we approached Shrewbury the bus stopped so we could all have a slash....on the start of a bridge. My mate jumped off the bus and on to the wall of the said bridge. Someone decides to push him off...ends up crumpled up 30ft below. We left a mate with him and headed off to the match. At half time...we could see this figure.. on crutches... gingerly heading towards the away end...on the touchline. He got a raptuous ovation from the Jacks...funny as f#ck.
Those days are a distant past sadly... [Post edited 20 Feb 2020 23:21]
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| Best and Worst Days at the 'Famous Old Grounds' on 23:54 - Feb 20 with 1843 views | dobjack2 |
Had some interesting days over the years
Some of the worst
Rotherham
Palace at scum
Man City at Maine road yep during the game, after the game keeping an eye out in case anyone came running down an alley. Looked just like the set off coronation street.
Liverpool - Wild West doesn’t get close to what happened after the game.
Merthyr in the Welsh cup, newport in a pre-season friendly with 3 sets of supporters in the ground.
West Ham, missed the delights of the cup game but in a league remember us scoring and looking around to see who was standing around me before reacting.
Millwall when there was the pitch invasion. Nuff said about that day.
Arsenal with both sides of the clock end wanting to say hello after the game
Spurs - being walked through the estate behind the ground after the league cup loss. The police escort was sh!tting it and they weren’t on their own
Burnley and stoke - just horrible places and people.
Wolves - went into a pub and was talking to a lad who said he had only been to Wales once - usk. Didn’t stay long there.
Leeds - fecking freezing on a Tuesday night and the locals definitely weren’t friendly
Darlington and gillingham - both sets of fans on same bank led to differences of opinion in the ground
Scum or the wurzels if we lost.
Some of the Best memories
Preston win - downside it kept scum up
Wembley wins
Promotion wins
Torquay- I had a denim jacket and no waterproofs so that was the wettest I’ve ever been
scum when we won or didn’t lose - apart from the game of Buchanan’s goal
Sunderland- watching a group of kids running down a side alley to brick the 3rd coach in the convey. Finding out there were only 2 coaches and the look on their faces when they realised they were going to brick a police van
Portsmouth when we got relegated and got hammered by mark hateley - great support all game
Bournemouth on a Tuesday night - our first away win for over 2 seasons
Going to Hartlepool and not getting hanged
Aldershot and thinking wtf
Getting on buses for overnight trips to the north east and east anglia and for New Year’s Day games, waking up and thinking wtf am I doing here.
Going to a pub in Norwich, the police wanting us out and the landlord wanting us to stay.
Going to friendly places like bury and orient
The best thing was even through bad times on the pitch, good company and having a laugh off it. | | | |
| Best and Worst Days at the 'Famous Old Grounds' on 00:28 - Feb 21 with 1825 views | dobjack2 |
Never thought anything of Lincoln until after I went there.
Pretty sure we played them on New Year’s Day. Everyone had had a skinful before we went up and we were drinking in their clubhouse before the game. Most of us went in no trouble but some of the lads ion the bus stayed there until the last possible minute.
As they were staggering to the ground they bumped into the LTE. By this point in time they could barely stand. Apparently the LTE couldn’t bring themselves to give them a kicking because of the state they were in and just wished them a happy new year. | | | |
| Best and Worst Days at the 'Famous Old Grounds' on 00:41 - Feb 21 with 1822 views | dameedna |
I feel the congestion part, been there a few times. |  | | |
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| Best and Worst Days at the 'Famous Old Grounds' on 08:03 - Feb 21 with 1742 views | globus10 |
Worst( but great looking back) last game of season 1976 i think , my first ever away game. Cambridge away. I think they had already won the league and we had to beat them to stand any chance of going up. 2k jacks.They invaded the pitch , skin heads everywhere . Off course we did beat them 3-2 (typical swans). I was only 15, first time i had seen fighting in a game really . Remember Buller jumping on pitch and about 20 circled him . But he didnt budge and they backed off. A legend was made!
Best .. The Michu Arsenal game. Had money on him to score . Up on train , lots to drink in baker street. The perfect away day | | | |
| Best and Worst Days at the 'Famous Old Grounds' on 08:46 - Feb 21 with 1722 views | bennytheblue |
| Best and Worst Days at the 'Famous Old Grounds' on 08:03 - Feb 21 by globus10 |
Worst( but great looking back) last game of season 1976 i think , my first ever away game. Cambridge away. I think they had already won the league and we had to beat them to stand any chance of going up. 2k jacks.They invaded the pitch , skin heads everywhere . Off course we did beat them 3-2 (typical swans). I was only 15, first time i had seen fighting in a game really . Remember Buller jumping on pitch and about 20 circled him . But he didnt budge and they backed off. A legend was made!
Best .. The Michu Arsenal game. Had money on him to score . Up on train , lots to drink in baker street. The perfect away day |
Boro’s old ground was an eye opener late 80’s early 90’s time, as was stokes. |  | | |
| Best and Worst Days at the 'Famous Old Grounds' on 09:36 - Feb 21 with 1694 views | dna |
A couple of 'famous old grounds' and a couple of 'not'
Arsenal, 2-0 at Highbury - Ray Kennedy goal!!
Portsmouth in the FA Cup - great day out & result
Oldham - lost 2-1 but you could see it was the start of something really good
Kidderminster - day of the tsunami - Gurney sent off, 4-0 win
Stoke - 2-1 win, Gary Stanley winner to go top of the old Div 1 |  | | |
| Best and Worst Days at the 'Famous Old Grounds' on 10:51 - Feb 21 with 1655 views | 34dfgdf54 |
Love reading these threads.
My first away game was the 4-0 loss to Rushden in 02, scariest i've ever found an away game was sheff utd when there was some fighting by the busses and me and my old man had walk back through sheffield united lot, nothing close to what you guys encountered back in the day fair dos, sounds mental. |  | | |
| Best and Worst Days at the 'Famous Old Grounds' on 11:56 - Feb 21 with 1624 views | sainthelens |
The 3-0 loss at Newcastle in the cup ( Frankie Burrows as boss) was hell of a day.
Arrived at a pub in Consett at 8am, great craic with the Geordie heavies in there....took to us fir travelling overnight to see our team.
But total opposite after the game with hell of a brawl near the bus. |  | | |
| Best and Worst Days at the 'Famous Old Grounds' on 12:02 - Feb 21 with 1621 views | 3swan |
| Best and Worst Days at the 'Famous Old Grounds' on 10:51 - Feb 21 by 34dfgdf54 |
Love reading these threads.
My first away game was the 4-0 loss to Rushden in 02, scariest i've ever found an away game was sheff utd when there was some fighting by the busses and me and my old man had walk back through sheffield united lot, nothing close to what you guys encountered back in the day fair dos, sounds mental. |
Good thread.
Brings back quite a few memories as I was at a large number of the games mentioned.
Things were much different 'back in the day' As an exile and travelling by car the days in the lower divisions were interesting to say the least. Pre segregation it was eyes open inside the ground. With segregation and being kept in after games it was fairly obvious being an away fan leaving the ground. Didn't help when fans turned right to the away buses and needing to go left to the car 
I've seen worse back in the lower divisions where the police had no idea.
We played Oxford City away in the cup twice. Oxford Utd fans in a non segregated ground and non stop fighting until police reinforcements were called.
Hard to pick a worst/best day.
Maybe Lincoln away where I first met Darran.
I'll leave you decide if it was worst or best
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| Best and Worst Days at the 'Famous Old Grounds' on 12:08 - Feb 21 with 1612 views | pencoedjack |
| Best and Worst Days at the 'Famous Old Grounds' on 12:02 - Feb 21 by 3swan |
Good thread.
Brings back quite a few memories as I was at a large number of the games mentioned.
Things were much different 'back in the day' As an exile and travelling by car the days in the lower divisions were interesting to say the least. Pre segregation it was eyes open inside the ground. With segregation and being kept in after games it was fairly obvious being an away fan leaving the ground. Didn't help when fans turned right to the away buses and needing to go left to the car
I've seen worse back in the lower divisions where the police had no idea.
We played Oxford City away in the cup twice. Oxford Utd fans in a non segregated ground and non stop fighting until police reinforcements were called.
Hard to pick a worst/best day.
Maybe Lincoln away where I first met Darran.
I'll leave you decide if it was worst or best
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Hayes away in the FA cup was tasty as well 86/87 ish
Loads of Chelsea there.
Boro away in the FA cup at Ayresome Park ..... Never leave a minibus with SW van hire logo parked on the street in Boro likely to return to see it with no windows.
Ah memories. |  | | |
| Best and Worst Days at the 'Famous Old Grounds' on 12:11 - Feb 21 with 1606 views | Captain_Sham |
We broke our winless away run at Bournemouth 3 weeks before we beat Cambridge. |  |
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| Best and Worst Days at the 'Famous Old Grounds' on 12:17 - Feb 21 with 1595 views | Captain_Sham |
What he said... | |
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| Best and Worst Days at the 'Famous Old Grounds' on 12:19 - Feb 21 with 1593 views | Jackanapes |
| Best and Worst Days at the 'Famous Old Grounds' on 12:11 - Feb 21 by Captain_Sham |
We broke our winless away run at Bournemouth 3 weeks before we beat Cambridge. |
What he said... |  |
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“The stupidest thing she knew was for people to act like they knew all about the things they knew absolutely nothing about.†|
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| Best and Worst Days at the 'Famous Old Grounds' on 13:35 - Feb 21 with 1556 views | dobjack2 |
| Best and Worst Days at the 'Famous Old Grounds' on 12:11 - Feb 21 by Captain_Sham |
We broke our winless away run at Bournemouth 3 weeks before we beat Cambridge. |
On the way back from Cambridge one year we saw a load of Bristol City coaches at Heston services that had been bricked big time coming out from the Den.
That was the season Swans went on the Millwall bank and Millwall rioted at Luton. | | | |
| Best and Worst Days at the 'Famous Old Grounds' on 14:20 - Feb 21 with 1326 views | theloneranger |
| Best and Worst Days at the 'Famous Old Grounds' on 12:11 - Feb 21 by Captain_Sham |
We broke our winless away run at Bournemouth 3 weeks before we beat Cambridge. |
... And it was the 1984/85 season, plus we lost 2 away matches and a home match in between the Bournemouth and Cambridge away wins. |  |
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| Best and Worst Days at the 'Famous Old Grounds' on 21:51 - Feb 21 with 1164 views | Catullus |
Do I remember right, wasn't Bognor Regis in the FA cup a bit tasty?
I went to Bristol City on a Tuesday night with the Queens boys, we stopped in Cardiff for a beer on the way and so arrived late in Bristol, we were a goal down before we got in and after the game there was Bristol fans everywhere in the car park and fights breaking out all over, the General got on the bus and told everyone get off and fight or I'll give you a kicking myself just as the police horses arrived, the riders having those long batons and they were clubbing everybody. The car park soon cleared.
We stopped at a services on the way back, most of us went in but a few stayed on the bus, several of us had to stand all the way back then because someone had taken a leak on a few seats.
Monaco away, had a fantastic few days travelling the length of France and the day itself was brilliant. The local fans loved us I seem to remember though my memory isn't entirely trustworthy!
Panathinaikos at home, was in the Queens when the police came in to clear the pub, they got a beer shower but the beer was still in the glasses, I sat there and watched maybe a dozen pints fly over my head. Crazy days. | |
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