Compilation of recent aways

I've been busy recently and not found the time to do my blog for the recent aways, but with another trip to Germany in the Pipeline for Febuary again this has motivated me to start finding time for the blog.


I thought I'd post some pictures from our recent away trips. I have only missed Cheltenham & Oldham through family commitments (Hartlepool as well if you count that joke of a competition!). The rest of the group have been at all of the aways!]

One of the reasons why there has been a lack of updates to the blog is because I drive to most games now and therefore don't have time to take pictures as much!

Heres the motor on the m1 to Fulham:
We parked up next to wemberleeee
Mental away end at Fulham
The Foxestalk flag out again
Foxestalk flag
We tried to get a picture with wembley after the match but it didn't quite work

Next up was Leyton Orient,

Me & Dave on the train:The boys
St.PancrasTower Bridge is behind us!

Orient - Brisbane Road
Pub after the match

General Drunk antics on the tubeDamo's Sex AppealAnd the train home!

Colchester on a tuesday night was next for me. Good win but a crap stadium and a right treck.

Me driving

Middle-Of-Nowhere Stadium

The Packed home end
Huddersfield followed. Not many pictures as the group was split up, I stayed the night in sheffield.

Stadium picturesBrighton was the next, another treck on a tuesday night to a shit stadium.

We used a park & ride which was literally a country road that was closed off and people parked on with a bus to the stadium!

Car:Bus:There was some pub action pre-match, Maybes was behind the bar:
Possibly the worst stadium in the Football League:

We met up with Jamie, katy & chris etc at the stadium

Next on the list was Rotherham in the jokers cup on another tuesday night!

We met up with Tom and his carfull at Donny Services which has become a regular thing now!
JoeB was also in the convoy, but disappeared up the motorway but still ended up getting there last!
What remained of the convoy at the stadium

The stadium had a very Italiano feeling about it!

Our away end did all stand untill the stewards waded i
Micky Gets the crowd goin'

Me & Dave

The picture Jimmy Bullard took of us. Was in the programmeOn the way home we stopped off for a KFc, which was closed. We then had to wait about 30 mins to get served at Maccies, Micky tooked into a nice late night ice cream

Swindon was next up, only 1 car was needed for this one. Tom was the driver. (No idea why the pics have gone small here)

Ben & Joe in the back.
Magic Roundabout

County Ground

I ended up in the Stretton Bank whiulst everyone else was in the Side stand. A good piece of stewarding allowed anyone who wanted to stand to go into the Stretton Bank.

Side Stand
Stetton Bank pics

Us:

Tom& his car in the dark!

Scunthorpe followed. We needed 2 cars for this, so less pics as I had to drive!

The casual "No shirters"

Glanford Park:

The Away Days Return - Stockport County

After a fairly comfortable win over Plastic F.C in the first game of the season and our clubs first at this level, our fans hopes were very high going into the game at stockport away. Over 1700 fans made the journey. .As this was the first away day for some considerable time, a big group of us were expected to travel.



Our journey started with an early morning trip to WetherSpoons at 10am. Brinner made the call to have a curry.
Curry at 10am. Quality.









Also joining us in our morning pubbery were, Potter;






C-Man:
And Ramp. Leffe at 10:30 - 6.8% Beer to get us started off. Quality shout. Brinner enjoys some Leffe to wash down the curryMorning drinks:
We set off for the 11:05 Train to Nottingham. We met up with everyone else at the train station, and after sorting out all the tickets, we were well on our way.






Jamie & Ched - Ireland (Ivory Coast!) Flag:


The 3 J's - Jasmine, James, Jamie:

Mikey, Dave, Joe, Cory claim a table:Joe, Jasmine, C-Man: Cory -Potter & Brinner - Feeling the effects of the Leffe already? :]
After getting off the train at Nottingham we had a swift connection to make for the train direct to Stockport. The train was far to small, and was packed to the brim. Not the most enjoyable journey having to be squished for over an hour, we did however, manage to find seats. Eventually.

Ched likes seats!

Brinner:Mikey & Ramp:C-Man, sorry, Potter....
We arrived in Stockport, and after a trip to home bargains to pick up some German lager, we headed to the stadium. Stockport is right next to Manchester airport so there was always a distraction with planes flying very low near the groundThe ground was pretty tidy, with a big home end down the other end of the ground, known as the Cheadle end, which was 3/4 full. This is where their noiser fans sat, and made a fair noise when they got going..
Down one side is the old looking Main stand, which was fairly full.
Down the other side was the Popular side, a former terrace. It was just about empty, with one block housing our additional fans.The away end had no roof, which didn't create a great atmosphere really.

We claimed the section on the far right (No polictal connections please!) of the away end.

Jamie, Ched & C-Man
Some of the boysBert & maybes turned up with with this beautyTeams come out:The Foxestalk flag made an appearnace but there was no where to hang it so we used it as a flyer instead. European Style
The game was dire. Chances few and far between, with both sides wasting them when they came around. No surprise it ended goaless really, although we probably should have taken all 3 points at the end, after virtually dominating in the 2nd Half.
Slice of the action:

The atmosphere was a bit weak, with no roof it was hard, but the players could hear us, and we all managed to have a laugh as well.

After the game it was back to Home bargains to stock up on the ol' Warsteiner for the journey homeThis was situated on Stockports lovely high streetWe Headed back to the station for the 17:55 train home, the wait, provided plenty of time to mess around with Dave's camera.
We boarded the train, which was once again far to short, and therefore very packed. We did however, bump into Macclesfield Town striker Francis Green on our journey. The ex-Lincoln man, is currently banned from driving and was therefore having to catch the train home. We certainly had a laugh and some very interesting conversations with him.Me & Francis -
After some friendly advice from the conductor we decided to get off at Chesterfield, which turned out to be the best decision of the day. We were going to get a connecting train direct home to Leicester from there. On the other platform were a small bunch of Bury supporters, still jubilant after a fine away win at Chesterfield. Obviosuly, the banter commenced.

(Anyone get any videos?)


The train back to Leicester soon turned into Atmosphere train, with the fine Maxi Gradel chant being sung for the first time. Great train ride home.

We met plenty of QPR fans, on their way back from a thumping at Brammall Lane. One of them (Left) agreed with my views on "Sombrero man" at Loftus Road - "Bellend."An old boy walked past us as well, que the chants of Franky Wortho etc

All in all, a fine day out. Hopefully Fulham will provide us with a good night out as well.