Lokeren 16yrs today!!

asahartford1 said:
Could you imagine all the blues congregating in Lokeren on that afternoon, before the game, would have been drunk dry before 2. Murrder.

The whole 3 days were , are very hazy. Belgian beer can do that.
In Brussels, the night before a pub near the square, full of young idiots from Stalybridge, I was with a group of much older, refined isiots from failsworth, I left the pub before the trouble. They encountered a Turkish mob later that night on leaving the square.
Match day was memorable for that stand, which I initially would not enter. Still think it was lucky to survive the 90. The train station scene was dreamlike really, thousands of people and no trains.
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We are that mob from Failsworth... Actually Railway Hollinwood
 
Oh my Lord, I was there.....16 years !!! Where has it gone? Refined afternoon in Brussels eating 'as much as you like' in Pizza Express and drinking blonde beer. Thankfully one of the other lads drove to the game, I wouldn't have fancied the wrong side for the steering wheel and road !!! Remember a pretty cold and misty evening and a big fence, scruffy pitch and game, Anelka scoring and for some reason McPointer…..he must have been pointing even more than usual.... There was a spell where the atmosphere changed a little with the City lad getting a kicking
 
colinthewindowcleaner said:
I remember that, if memory serves me right it happened near a food ? unit . Think it was the chap with grey hair that still does lots of away games, and has usually had a drink

Didn’t the lad nearly get sorted on plane back but the air hostesses wouldn’t allow it.
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Yes it was two arseholes that did it, to pick on this Guy was so way out of order.
There were people after them and they didn't come to the Etihad for a few season, maybe don't even go now.
 
Blue Feather said:
Oh my Lord, I was there.....16 years !!! Where has it gone? Refined afternoon in Brussels eating 'as much as you like' in Pizza Express and drinking blonde beer. Thankfully one of the other lads drove to the game, I wouldn't have fancied the wrong side for the steering wheel and road !!! Remember a pretty cold and misty evening and a big fence, scruffy pitch and game, Anelka scoring and for some reason McPointer…..he must have been pointing even more than usual.... There was a spell where the atmosphere changed a little with the City lad getting a kicking
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Was Lokeren fans getting a kicking off Antwerp fans. We thought at the time it was City, but found out later that it wasn’t.
 
TonyM said:

I know it sounds strange but I think I loved City more back then. Or maybe I loved City differently.
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It was more special to be a City fan then. If you were a City fan then you were one for the pure reason of being a loyal fucking nut case with the thickest skin going.

You’d go on your Summer holidays and see another family of Blues and hit it off with them chatting about pubs you’ve been in in each other’s areas.

Now it’s not special being a City fan. Loads of mates have been priced out since then, plus any old **** just seems to turn up and say they’re a City fan. We’re just another fan base like United and Liverpool’s.
 
We stayed in Gent for this one, I remember a large Irish pub in the main square call the Celtic Tower or something like that. It was an excellent pub and the Irish owner/manager gave us good advice on the various ways of getting to Lockeren. On the day of the match I had a fair few in Gent, then in the main square in Lockeren. As we entered the stand I noticed the fence was open at the front so I decided to watch the match with the photographers in front of our fans. All was well, and the stewards didnt seem to mind. However 20 minutes into the game one steward asked me what I was doing so I told him, watching the match. He told me I couldnt watch the match there, and escorted me to the main stand behind the City dug out. Funny thing is a couple of weeks later we played Bolton at home, and I got a text from a friend at the match, he said check out page 4 of the programme, and there I am, sat behind the goal infront of all the City fans. Great trip
 
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