Scariest away day following City

Blue and still suffering said:
Got chased out of Molyneux in 1975 which was a bit of an eye opener for a 15 year old. Leeds in the cup in 78 was pretty scary walking back to the coaches as well. Was told that the cup games against Newcastle in 77 and Everton in 81 were no picnic either. Take my hat off to anyone brave enough to go to Millwall, Brum or either of the Scouse teams in those days.
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I was at Leeds cup matches in 77 and 78 and Newcastle 77 and Everton 81 and although they were pretty hairy at times,there were big City turnouts at these games and we generally gave as good as we got.
 
Not an away game, but I remember a few 'unsettling' incidents during a home game against Newcastle, when a group of 4 of us got chased twice by the same group of Geordies on the way to Maine Road. Not sure, but probably 72/73.
 
Late 60s early 70s Chelsea, Arsenal, Leeds, had my head kicked in a few times but lived to tell the tail, not proud of it but got our own back a lot of the time
 
Stoke away sept 72 lost 5-1, fights all over the place it even kicked off on our coach after the game loads of stone fans jumping on the coach, I remember some of them in white dungarees thinking they were out of Clockwork Orange.
 
Blue and still suffering said:
Got chased out of Molyneux in 1975 which was a bit of an eye opener for a 15 year old. Leeds in the cup in 78 was pretty scary walking back to the coaches as well. Was told that the cup games against Newcastle in 77 and Everton in 81 were no picnic either. Take my hat off to anyone brave enough to go to Millwall, Brum or either of the Scouse teams in those days.
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had a rumble after that Everton game near the park,gave as good as we got but one of my mates got slashed luckily not too badly,wasn't just the red dippers that were dirty fuckers in them days....
 
Leeds 77 and 78 remember a sizeable City crew giving it a go in the Leeds end before the 77 cup game and my pal got a dart in the side of his head and didn't even know !!
 
Worst was Leeds in the cup when they invaded the pitch, the trip back to the railway station as a 15 year old was scary as fuck.

Only ever managed to get twatted once which was Everton away probably '79ish, was on a coach as the trains were cancelled/on strike and was battered by 4/5 adults (I'd be about 16), as I got up loads of blues were running from the coaches to help & the 2 Scouse cops on horses they were just behind me had apparently split around me being punched and carried on in front of me.
 
Millwall - 2 fa cup replays in 1990 at the Old Den. The first I was in with the Millwall fans.

Then the one at the New Den in 1996? when we scored a winner at the end and got kept in for an hour after the game while the Millwall fans rampaged outside.
 
maccieblue said:
Tolka Park Dublin for the pre season "friendly" against Celtic 1992. Maybe not the worst but was up there
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that was serious shit,remember being ambushed on a bridge near ground & a lad nearly got his eye took out by a flying bottle,the Guardia basically just fucked off the other way,no idea how we got out of that in 1 piece...
 
Luton in League cup 1977 as a 15 year old came out of the ground and Millwall teamed up with locals and ran at Blues scattering everywhere,ended up getting a lift back to Piccadilly in a strangers car as lost my mates and couldn’t find our coach.
 
TheCentralScrutinizer said:
that was serious shit,remember being ambushed on a bridge near ground & a lad nearly got his eye took out by a flying bottle,the Guardia basically just fucked off the other way,no idea how we got out of that in 1 piece...
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Wasn't it the same day as the hurling final in Dublin so there wasn't meant police at Tolka. Genuinely feared I was about to get a right spanking in the toilet at half time till a few scots saved me, it wasn't the Scottish causing the mither it was the Celtic from Northern Ireland. Didn't help our cause that a few blues took Union Jack's to the game and to the plough before the game
 
DTKOAG said:
Spurs away around 1977
3 Finglands coaches parked up in a cup de sac and after the game got attacked by Spurs.
I’m sure even Helen got a slap that day from them.
Wankers.
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75/76 season possibly? 2-2 draw, Dave Watson headed a late equaliser, similar coach parking arrangements and a group of their nutters turned up and started chucking bottles etc and then chased a group of us waiting near the coaches (ours was locked for some reason). That was definitely scary for a bit until a van load of cops arrived.

Another notable away was the 4-1 loss to Forest in the Cup in '74, no real segregation and it kicked off all over the place before during and after the game.

Otherwise any visit to Leeds in the 70s plus Boro now and then and that Newcastle cup tie in '77. Those Millwall games in the late 80s/early 90s were fine for me as I just parked up in that dirt car park more or less behind the away end, easy getaway afterwards. Trips to West Ham and Chelsea were no picnics either, had a few coach windows put through at both grounds. On Merseyside Goodison always seemed worse than Anfield for trouble in those days.
 
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Walked into the wrong bar at the wrong time ... and this was the night before the game.. honestly thought I was not gonna get out of there alive !!
 
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