Scariest away day following City

Leeds away in 95 or 96, Gerry Creaney scored for us. We had to walk in complete silence to the train station which aroused suspicion. One guy kept turning round and and sniffing then said "I can smell mancs". We were certain we were gonna get it. Made it to the train station in one piece and then, when we thought we were clear, we spotted a few lads looking in the station pub, they walked out and then all of a sudden all we heard was "we are Leeds" before they came steaming in and went for anyone in the pub, including women.

Absolute fuckers, only lasted about 30 seconds but they left a scene of carnage and crying women.
 
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Although not part of the violence itself, cos we were locked in the ground for over an hour after the final whistle, Millwall away in 97/98 had to be seen to be believed. A full blown riot had left the place looking like Beirut, and there were still pockets of little dickheads trying to get at us as we were given a police escort back to the station at quarter to 11 at night!
 
Exeter Blue I am here said:
Although not part of the violence itself, cos we were locked in the ground for over an hour after the final whistle, Millwall away in 97/98 had to be seen to be believed. A full blown riot had left the place looking like Beirut, and there were still pockets of little dickheads trying to get at us as we were given a police escort back to the station at quarter to 11 at night!
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I was there that night.
Stuck on the Supporters Club coach watching the police try to keep the Millwall fans at bay.

I’ll never forget as we got near the ground looking out the window of the coach and a guy was sticking his head out of the window of a pub with a noose round his neck.

Got home about 4am and had to be in work for 8am.
 
nw42 said:
Great point about the tube, I'd forgotten how dodgy that could be, your post brought it all back, virtually every time the train slowed into a station you were on your wits, for me West Ham seemed the most prevalent at turning up unannounced.

There's been some great memories revived in this thread, love the tales of getting the specials, they were hardly ever problem days because of the numbers landing all at once, then again I do remember there being 39 of us on one special to Sunderland, late 70's, all the pubs on the mile or so walk to the ground tipped out when our escort came by, fortunately they just laughed at us and gave us a pass. It was a bit bleak on that open end that day.
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Think there were about twenty of us on the special to West Brom one night match. Was the same night rags beat Liverpool at goodison and town was full of them when we got back from our 4-0 stuffing at the baggies.
 
WestGorton said:
Most actual street fighting I saw was as a young kid when City had nearly half of Elland Road when Trevor Cherry scored in 1976. City destroyed them. Other notable was Forest in the cup 1978. Forest were hard that day and bizarrely Peterborough in 1981. Gypsy gang on the bridge.
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Those gypsys were probably the hardest blokes I've ever seen in a fight, no matter what who or what hit them, they always got back up again.
 
Not sure if already mentioned.... Saturday, December 19th 1998. York away, need I say more? 15 million city fans all trying to get in that tiny ground. I know we were all there but that was the day I truly feared for my life, claustrophobia doesn’t begin to describe it!
 
Exeter Blue I am here said:
Although not part of the violence itself, cos we were locked in the ground for over an hour after the final whistle, Millwall away in 97/98 had to be seen to be believed. A full blown riot had left the place looking like Beirut, and there were still pockets of little dickheads trying to get at us as we were given a police escort back to the station at quarter to 11 at night!
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Vivid memories after the game of coppers being carried back to their vans, bricks and rubble all over the place and old women shouting from low rise flats "fuck of back up North, you ****s".
 
Eds said:
Millwall thought it would be a walk in the park but it wasn't
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Gotta admit thought that was it when they all came screaming down them stairs at London Bridge after the game when we got off the train from New Cross
City certainly went for them, I was only 17 thought I was dead tbh
Chaos !!!
 
GornikDaze said:
Not sure if already mentioned.... Saturday, December 19th 1998. York away, need I say more? 15 million city fans all trying to get in that tiny ground. I know we were all there but that was the day I truly feared for my life, claustrophobia doesn’t begin to describe it!
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The charlton game in ‘85 must’ve ran it close? good job there was “only” 47,000 on eh?? ;)
 
Leeds In the FA Cup in the 70’s on both occasions. However we had a big support with us and gave out as good as we got.
Never liked going to Scouseland, always thought that as soon as you stepped out of Lime Street, people were staring at you.
Bradford away when we got promoted, kicked off big style in Manningham Lane.
 
Saw a mob of blues and Sheff u fans having a right brawl in 1984 outside the away end. Went with my mate and his dad, sat in the home stand, we wanted to stay and have a look from a distance but his dad wanted us in the ground, lol.
 
bluebrother55 said:
Leeds In the FA Cup in the 70’s on both occasions. However we had a big support with us and gave out as good as we got.
Never liked going to Scouseland, always thought that as soon as you stepped out of Lime Street, people were staring at you.
Bradford away when we got promoted, kicked off big style in Manningham Lane.
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I was at Bradford away and didn't have a problem. I was in the stand that got rebuilt after the fire. Frank Newton of the banana's craze getting me a ticket and membership which you needed to get in. The Blue's who went into their end behind the goal though were attacked and were getting leathered until they fought back and backed Bradford off. The only friction in our end was some pissed up half wit Blue taking the piss out of the fire on the concourse at half time. Their main man and his mates were justifiably angry but the half wits own mates took him to task and it calmed down.
 
Exeter Blue I am here said:
Although not part of the violence itself, cos we were locked in the ground for over an hour after the final whistle, Millwall away in 97/98 had to be seen to be believed. A full blown riot had left the place looking like Beirut, and there were still pockets of little dickheads trying to get at us as we were given a police escort back to the station at quarter to 11 at night!
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What made me laugh was when the train got back to London Bridge there were two lines of cops in full riot gear with batons drawn waiting for us as if we'd been causing the trouble.
 
Maccblue said:
Gotta admit thought that was it when they all came screaming down them stairs at London Bridge after the game when we got off the train from New Cross
City certainly went for them, I was only 17 thought I was dead tbh
Chaos !!!
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I was 18. Remember it well. They were game I’ll give em that cos there were a lot of City on that platform after the train pulled in and don’t remember there being too many of them coming down the steps. Maybe 30 or so. Might have been more though.
 
paulchapo said:
I was at Bradford away and didn't have a problem. I was in the stand that got rebuilt after the fire. Frank Newton of the banana's craze getting me a ticket and membership which you needed to get in. The Blue's who went into their end behind the goal though were attacked and were getting leathered until they fought back and backed Bradford off. The only friction in our end was some pissed up half wit Blue taking the piss out of the fire on the concourse at half time. Their main man and his mates were justifiably angry but the half wits own mates took him to task and it calmed down.
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I was in the Main stand at Bradford that day..can remember looking to my left at terrace behind the goal when it kicked off as you described...a fairly large group of City had bunched together in the top left hand corner of the terrace...and this group became isolated as the home fans backed off around them after City started fighting back....that day was mental,lots going off .
 
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