PHOTOS: Away Fans in the Stands – 13th November 2021

Time for photos of away fans in the stands, we’ll be taking a look at all the different ones at this weekend’s English football matches.

There is yet another busy schedule for the EFL as well as non league, so lots of travelling supporters attending fixtures and filling stadiums up and down the country.

After a very difficult time for everyone, clubs are welcoming back full crowds and get back to hearing some noise to make what football is all about.

Some clubs were briefly allowed limited crowds during last season – but for others, August will see them play in front of their own supporters in a competitive match for the first time since early 2020.

The opening few weeks of the season had plenty of emotion for thousands of fans up and down the country as they returned to places that mean so much to them.

The away day experience is one of the very best parts of following your own team, and although your alarm may be set for times of the day that, frankly, should never be seen, you still excitedly cram onto coaches or overpriced trains, and the whole experience, regardless of result, is still one you’ll always remember.

As long as trains and buses are on time, the pre-match pint and grub is a vital part of the whole match day experience.

It may be tough to find a pub without hostile home fans, but it’s always possible to duck into a nice little ‘boozer’ for a bevvy before kick-off.

While much of the ‘away day’ experience takes place out of the stadium, the ground itself always plays a big part.

The days of old in which away fans were in roof-less terraces being battered by the elements are becoming a distant memory – albeit they are still a problem at some settings – with modern stadia now spacious and comfortable.

CREWE ALEXANDRA fans at Bolton Wanderers

(Total amount of miles between each club – 50.5, round trip – 101 miles, 2 hours and 1 minute)

PLYMOUTH ARGYLE fans at Accrington Stanley

(Total amount of miles between each club – 309, round trip – 621 miles, 10 hours and 17 minutes)

NEWPORT COUNTY fans at Hartlepool United

(Total amount of miles between each club – 286, round trip – 566 miles, 9 hours and 31 minutes)

BRADFORD CITY fans at Port Vale

(Total amount of miles between each club – 85, round trip – 171 miles, 3 hours and 16 minutes)

CAMBRIDGE UNITED fans at MK Dons

(Total amount of miles between each club – 49.1, round trip – 98.9 miles, 2 hours and 5 minutes)

BARROW fans at Carlisle United

(Total amount of miles between each club – 84.9, round trip – 170 miles, 3 hours and 11 minutes)

PORTSMOUTH fans at Wycombe Wanderers

(Total amount of miles between each club – 84.5, round trip – 169 miles, 3 hours and 12 minutes)

LEYTON ORIENT fans at Rochdale

GILLINGHAM fans at Sheffield Wednesday

CHARLTON ATHLETIC fans at Burton Albion

GILLINGHAM fans at Sheffield Wednesday

GRIMSBY TOWN fans at Aldershot Town

MANSFIELD TOWN fans at Stevenage

OXFORD UNITED fans at Ipswich Town

WREXHAM fans at King’s Lynn Town

HARROGATE fans at Walsall

A big thank you to the 141 Town supporters who made the trip today 💛 🖤#ProudToBeTown pic.twitter.com/wHBij5S5Wc

— Harrogate Town AFC (@HarrogateTown) November 13, 2021

SUTTON UNITED fans at Tranmere Rovers

Great support from the 146 @suttonunited travelling fans. Safe journey home #TRFC #SUFC #EFL2 pic.twitter.com/wMafz2SQfk

— MerPol Tranmere (@MerPolTranmere) November 13, 2021

WOKING fans at Southend United

AFC TELFORD UNITED fans at Kidderminster Harriers

The beckoning floodlights
still work their magic,
late October’s comforting chill,
scarf snug round the neck.
Blood pulses through arteries,
moving as it should. Heart lifts
with every step towards the stadium.

An old pal texts me from
another game up north.
The name rings a bell.
He’s at a club where my job
was to phone over a few pars
for the Saturday Pink
from a kiosk outside the ground.

Games that I didn’t give a toss about,
dictated to a bored copy taker,
wishing I was somewhere else,
roaring my own team on to promotion.
But then, I remember Larkin’s sigh
it wasn’t the place’s fault I didn’t care.
A goalless draw can happen anywhere.

Poem by Greg Freeman