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George Hunt
So, in what will come as a massive surprise to you, I found myself tangenting and wittering on and on (and on !) with Grays1980 in a political thread (avoid if you don't already read it, 'tis a dirty, dogged affair for the hearty and foolish hahahaha)...I started wittering on about how much I love away days. So let's have it. Come on. A few of your favorites. They don't necessarily have to be successful, just memorable, the ones you think and talk about whenever "away days" comes up...I'll kick it off with an oldie...
April 1982, @ Highbury...a 3-1 win which looked to be launching us ever closer to the title. We did them properly, Crooksie was in form and they were brick. Absolutely heaving. There have been a few NLDs which have been fun, one I remember was a 1-1 draw in the early 90s (night game) where they'd had there tiles done in the bathrooms and thus there was a conga line leading into the bogs singing "lets all smash the toilets"...not clever, but, well, I still remember it.
March 1995, @ Anfield...that 2-1 QF win. Just magic. Sheringham's goal was a thing of absolute beauty. At full-time, I was meeting some Scouse mates outside briefly, I saw them, I was bursting to scream a big YESSSS and my mate's Dad grabbed me round the shoulder and said, "Go 'ed lad, you were great today, let it out!" So I did, and all passers by were great too, most saying well done and what not. No aggro. Never had any with them in 9 visits there.
August 2002, @ Goodison...2-2 opening day of season, this was the first time I saw the fire in my son's eyes for it rather than just "going with his Dad to games"...we'd bought the new Kappa away shirt from the shop before boarding coaches which had broken A/C, were lucky to get there in time due to a horrendous accident on the motorway, adrenaline was racing and when Etherington fudging smashed one from 25 yards or whatever off the underside of the bar, we absolutely lost it, and I swear, the look in my son's eyes as we jumped like looneys was when I knew he was all in...
I'll stop. There are loads. Share yours and make me forget this fudging pandemic!!!!
April 1982, @ Highbury...a 3-1 win which looked to be launching us ever closer to the title. We did them properly, Crooksie was in form and they were brick. Absolutely heaving. There have been a few NLDs which have been fun, one I remember was a 1-1 draw in the early 90s (night game) where they'd had there tiles done in the bathrooms and thus there was a conga line leading into the bogs singing "lets all smash the toilets"...not clever, but, well, I still remember it.
March 1995, @ Anfield...that 2-1 QF win. Just magic. Sheringham's goal was a thing of absolute beauty. At full-time, I was meeting some Scouse mates outside briefly, I saw them, I was bursting to scream a big YESSSS and my mate's Dad grabbed me round the shoulder and said, "Go 'ed lad, you were great today, let it out!" So I did, and all passers by were great too, most saying well done and what not. No aggro. Never had any with them in 9 visits there.
August 2002, @ Goodison...2-2 opening day of season, this was the first time I saw the fire in my son's eyes for it rather than just "going with his Dad to games"...we'd bought the new Kappa away shirt from the shop before boarding coaches which had broken A/C, were lucky to get there in time due to a horrendous accident on the motorway, adrenaline was racing and when Etherington fudging smashed one from 25 yards or whatever off the underside of the bar, we absolutely lost it, and I swear, the look in my son's eyes as we jumped like looneys was when I knew he was all in...
I'll stop. There are loads. Share yours and make me forget this fudging pandemic!!!!
