Your first ever away win

[floyd__streete]

Charlton 1 Reading 2

The day Simon Osborne scored that cracking volley from a corner. The away end was packed and boozed up and I remember it being just a top, top day all round.

Can't really ever beat the immense satisfaction of winning on someone else's turf. Prize will be given to whoever can (sensibly) claim the earliest away win. Mine is above and will no doubt easily be beaten. Main memories:

- Osborn volley, jumping on my seat to celebrate in the throng and falling off the seat, grazing my leg.
- The chant of WHO ARE YA ringing out from the away end towards the Charlton fans.....at the precise moment the smallest man on the pitch heads in their equaliser
- Minibus breaking down on the way home.

As you see from above, it was wild, wild scenes.

[bobbybottler]

Just before kick off, Lambert + McPherson + one other (I forget who) strolled in and took their seats right amongst the heaving throng to cheers all round.

Great day out.

[SLAMMED]

Man City in our first premier league season.

Lita popping up with 2 late goals to send the away end mental.

[Fox Talbot]

Aldershot Aug 1971 - Les Chappell scored 2 in the first 10 minutes and we hung on in a Div 4 derby that I never expected we would ever play in. Great Reading support from the half-way line. Lovely sunny day. No violence that I can recall!

[Ian Royal]

Oxford 0-2 Reading - Carling Cup
Owusu and Goater

I think I had to wait a while longer for my first away league win. Might even have been that 4-0 win against Derby.

[bobbybottler]

Wrexham 0 Reading 3 in 1984

[Terminal Boardom]

Probably Port Vale in 78/79

[old woman]

Took daughter on a whim to Sunderland- Her 1st ever game. Sat in the home end. We won 2-1 Kitson scored and Les Ferdinand came on as a substitute. Spent all my cash on the tickets so had to phone Stadium of Light to order 2 programmes the next week. (We have to have 1 each so we don't fight!!!!
I am a terrible mother as i wouldn't let her have my programme signed by Shane Long-though I offered to leave it to her in my will She got her own programme signed by him at a later game

[cmonurz]

Swindon 0-1 Reading, Cureton hoiking it in from 6 yards. It rained a bit.

[1871 Royal]

Not a bad first away game coupled with first away win.



Blackpool 0 - 2 Reading 11th August 2001

http://www.royals.org/matdoc/110801.html

[jondorv_urz]

Barnet 93/94 - postponed due to bad weather.

Watford 94/95 - arrived late for kick off, had to run through some allotments to get to the ground to find we were 2-0 down.

Snuck off 5 minutes before half time to get a burger and missed Osborn and Lovell score finished 2-2.

First ever away game missed four goals.

Since then I've never left my seat early for any reason!

[Toon Toon Blue army]

First away win for me was away at QPR in 2005, bonfire night, we won 2-1. Great game, great atmosphere

[M-U-R-T-Y]

First away win for me was away at QPR in 2005, bonfire night, we won 2-1. Great game, great atmosphere

Oh snap!

[Maguire]

I honestly can't remember but I suspect it was a Leeds game rather than a Reading one

First Reading away, hmm, nope, can't remember.

[wolsey]

I started watching away games in the early 70's at a point when we seemed to only win two or three away games a season.

The first away win I can remember was a 2 - 0 win at Fratton Park when Gary Peters scored despite having a serious leg/foot injury, and only stayed on because we had used our one sub.

Sure I must have seen one before that though.

[handbags_harris]

Stoke City 0-1 Reading, March 95. Scotty Taylor racing clear from a Holsgrove flick and finishing with aplomb past Carl Muggleton I think. 300 or so Reading fans there, my uncle who took me said the Victoria ground was one of the most intimidating places he'd gone to watch Reading. I remember nothing of the sort

We went to the same fixture two years earlier when Stoke won the league, Stoke City 2-0 Reading. Steve Francis decided to spank the ball against a Stoke forward (can't remember who off hand but would probably have been Mark Stein) and a late free kick saw us off 2-0. That was only my second away game, preceded by Fulham 0-0 Reading a month earlier.

[Alan Partridge]

Swindon 0 Reading 2, 97/98 season, Lovell definitely scored and I can't remember the other maybe Lambert or Parky. Also went to Oxford 3 Reading 0 same season. Colgan with a dodgy leg on top of already being rubbish, 3 rows of 'injured' Ding players sat behind us.

[Schards#2]

Scunthorpe 0-3 Reading (at the Old Show ground)

1976/77 (?)

Gary Peters, Pat Earles and an o.g

[southbank1871]

I wish I could remember, would have to ask my old man. Would have been in the l8 80s early 90s though. First away game I can remember was against Leyton Orient in about 91, but I think that was a draw.

[East Grinstead Royal]

21 September 1974, Exeter City 0, Reading 2. John Murray scored one, might have got both. Don't recall much about the game, but I do remember "Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way, oh what fun it is to see Reading win away" at full time. And Rosko played the new Slade single, "Far Far Away" on Radio 1 while the coach was stopped at a service station on the A303 on the way down.