Scariest away day following City

nw42 said:
Who were Darlo Vagabonds? I remember seeing them away at Scarborough and a banner with that on it.
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Sent a note to my mate in Darlo, heres his reply re Vagabonds:

Yes. I was a member. It was a small group of Darlo fans who didn't live in Darlo. Formed by a lad from Redcar. We used to take a minibus to away games. We even had our own song.
To the tune of Those Were The Days

" Those Vagabonds again
Those Vagabonds again

Those Vagabonds
Those Darlo Vagabonds
We live the life we choose
We love to shag and booze
Those Vagabonds
Those Darlo Vagabonds "

Happy days
 
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Tbilisi said:
Sent a note to my mate in Darlo, heres his reply re Vagabonds:

Yes. I was a member. It was a small group of Darlo fans who didn't live in Darlo. Formed by a lad from Redcar. We used to take a minibus to away games. We even had our own song.
To the tune of Those Were The Days

" Those Vagabonds again
Those Vagabonds again

Those Vagabonds
Those Darlo Vagabonds
We live the life we choose
We love to shag and booze
Those Vagabonds
Those Darlo Vagabonds "

Happy days
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That's brilliant mate, thanks for finding out, some things just stick in your mind and that little mob was one of them.
 
Tbilisi said:
County fans might disagree lol
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I've always thought of Hereford as being decent in terms of turn out. I think it has something to do with Garrison towns, Colchester was also a lively town to visit considering the lowly status of the football club, probably to do with having to deal with pissed up squaddies every weekend, sharpens the minds of the locals I'm sure.

As for County, they had deep seated rivalry with Burnley, there were stabbings and slashings on both sides late 80s. One of my first experiences of mither was when Bradford came to Stockport, early 70's, they brought thousands, they came out of the pop side onto the Railway end and virtually cleared it, I got a kick up the arse from a big fucker in silver Docs and a butchers coat. The Everton League cup game was another lively evening.
 
nw42 said:
I've always thought of Hereford as being decent in terms of turn out. I think it has something to do with Garrison towns, Colchester was also a lively town to visit considering the lowly status of the football club, probably to do with having to deal with pissed up squaddies every weekend, sharpens the minds of the locals I'm sure.

As for County, they had deep seated rivalry with Burnley, there were stabbings and slashings on both sides late 80s. One of my first experiences of mither was when Bradford came to Stockport, early 70's, they brought thousands, they came out of the pop side onto the Railway end and virtually cleared it, I got a kick up the arse from a big fucker in silver Docs and a butchers coat. The Everton League cup game was another lively evening.
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Yes remember the stories about Bradford at County.

Darlo get a few attending some games from Catterick and some continue following after they have left the army.
 
Just reading the book 'ninety', the foreword is by Tony Donnelly the founder of Gio Goi clothing. Didn't realise he was involved with City's mob, and Utd's by the sounds of it.
 
Tbilisi said:
Never been to Monkeys ground as tended to do more aways but did a game at Feethams v them mid 80s. Jesus.
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Ive never bin the monkeys ground...that match was at Feethams...late 80s pre season friendly......it kicked off.My first and only trip to the ground..one of me best mates at the time was a Darlo fanatic..i was best man at his wedding.met all his family up at Darlo before that pre season game.such warm friendly humble people......bit different to the monkey hangers we came across later that day, my mate had his elderly Dad with him and we were very lucky that day........
I remember walking round the opposite end at half time at Feeethams,late 80s.how cool is that?
And having the cricket pitch behind the ground....times change.
David Currie was the best player i saw for Darlo...tho Gary Worthington (related to Frank) was a neat composed striker i recall.Happy Days.
 
This isnt really scary but sums my dad up lol ...I got tickets for our 81 fa cup final (£3.50 per ticket) anyway we travelled up from margate on the train , I dont remember any of the journey, but this I remember....Anyway we get into Wembley very early in fact the first in our section because my dad wanted to stand with his back against one of the barriers to stop us being pushed forwards. So we did within a minute or so a Wembley steward told us to move to the front right against the fence. My old man said "no pal I want the barrier against my back". The twat of a steward wouldnt have it and the row got very heated. Remember we are the only ones in this part of the ground !. The steward went and got a cop to throw us out. The copper basically said we have to do what the steward wanted.
So there we are the only people in Wembley with our noses pressed up against the fence at the front. Nearly getting thrown out an hour and a half before kick off. My dad was now in a bad mood.
After about 20minutes the area started to fill abit and than that same copper came up to us and said some like "now that steward cant see you you can go and stand were you want" . So we went back to where we were to start with !.
I can remember thinking my first fa cup final aged 20 and my dad is going to get us kicked out an hour and a half before kick off lol
 
A funny story for me and a couple of my mates anyway was the Forest/City game when Crosby headed it out of Dibble's hand. We went with a few Forest fans on the train, and met them at the station after the game, we were only a couple of minutes in to the journey when this big black guy appears in the carriage and says " right any Forest fans on here are getting chucked off", we showed him our City tops whereas the three Forest fans were literally bricking it all the way back. We never did understand why this guy with a Manchester accent was on our train, he said he didn't know what station he was getting off at.
 
peoffrey said:
Why would I want to? I found Huddersfield just as vile and backwards. I’ve known some utter ****s from West Yorkshire who know nothing aside from being confrontational. They’re inbred.
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Maybe it's just me but if I overheard an ongoing conversation and the subject was something I neither understood or had any interest in I wouldn't go sticking my oar in by making snidey comments, I'd probably just move along and find somewhere else to butt in.
 
burnley blue mcfc said:
You did well not to see any trouble at everton mate!! not so bad now but in the 80’s & 90’s it was a war zone everytime i went, wether you wanted trouble or not
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I think that by going by car most of the time to away games, that's why I didn't see much apart from leeds that day
 
dennishasdoneit said:
Ive never bin the monkeys ground...that match was at Feethams...late 80s pre season friendly......it kicked off.My first and only trip to the ground..one of me best mates at the time was a Darlo fanatic..i was best man at his wedding.met all his family up at Darlo before that pre season game.such warm friendly humble people......bit different to the monkey hangers we came across later that day, my mate had his elderly Dad with him and we were very lucky that day........
I remember walking round the opposite end at half time at Feeethams,late 80s.how cool is that?
And having the cricket pitch behind the ground....times change.
David Currie was the best player i saw for Darlo...tho Gary Worthington (related to Frank) was a neat composed striker i recall.Happy Days.
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I went to darlo when Doncaster played there, rovers took hundreds and when we went into the ground first thing I saw was the cricket pitch, rovers 1 side darlo the other side of the cricket pitch then all the nutters from both teams ran on the cricket pitch,
 
Most of the away matches in the 80s offered some kind of welcoming committee, violence was rife up and down the country.

Some of the bigger games were always interesting, Utd, Everton, red dippers, chelsea, west ham etc but at that time we were a yoyo club so we became the fans that all the smaller teams wanted to make a name against, every local idiot would come out coz City were in town.

I remember going to Carlisle, it was winter time coz it was snowing, I recall Nicky Reid getting sent off, we found a pub in the town centre before the game and the landlord and bar staff were warning us that all week the talk of the town was about City coming to town and all the locals were gonna come out in force to do City. There was only about 50 of us at this time, me and my mates were clicking the fruit machine, the rest just stood around, when someone shouted there here, coming around the corner, Carlisles loonies had turned up, more skin heads than football casual looking lads, hard to judge numbers but they easily out numbered us, we just said fuck it let's have it, we went outside and the Carlisle lot were about 30 yards away, we just ran at them and every single one of them scattered without a punch or kick exchanged, we all went back in the pub and the look on the landlords face was priceless, that bit of exercise was the only thing that warmed me up that day, freezing.
 
bluestevei said:
I went to darlo when Doncaster played there, rovers took hundreds and when we went into the ground first thing I saw was the cricket pitch, rovers 1 side darlo the other side of the cricket pitch then all the nutters from both teams ran on the cricket pitch,
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Just as an aside....i,ve never really liked cricket("oh no!)
In fact i hated it(yawn) but id always fancied playing my neat ,short passing game on a flat smooth quality surface..rather than the virtual mudbaths i had to contend with being a journeyman sunday league player decades ago...same with bowls,ridiculous game played by old men,what a waste of a quality peice of flat ,rolled grass!
This country went to the dogs years ago..imo
 
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