Just ask any old time Leeds or even Huddersfield fans what they thought of City fans at Maine rd back in the day...."you may find yourself" (Gabriel)...... halfway to a balanced and productive discussion.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.
I lived in Darlo for 12 months. It was one of the toughest towns I have ever been in. I worked in a pub there for a while. It was like the wild west at night with gangs of sqauddies from Catterick and other camps plus lads from the pit villages around Durham. Even the women were fighters. I grew up in Manchester and thought I had seen it all till I went there in the mid 80s.Yep.we have spoke before re Darlo
I do know Darlo...back in the day.
He is the only blue in the family.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.
In the old days loads of City used to go to as Friday night was County night.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.
I lived South London at the time when we played Chelsea in 83. Jimmy Tolmie scored a beautiful free kick. We were drinking at Paddington at 11 pm with the London branch and got bottled by a few Chelsea fascists who were still hanging around. Absolute nobs they were at that time.
No I was back home by then but knew a lot of the branch. Rob... Irish Jim from the Shankill Road....etcDid you go Sheff Utd away with London branch about 85? Train got in about 1pm and there were about 3 lads between 17 and 30. The rest seemed like families or older blokes. Soon as you come out of station there is a pub on corner with their lot watching whose arrived. Copper sent us down one road towards ground, whilst watching about 30 of them head off downthe road next to, it to cut us off. Almost as both roads meet we saw Sheff utd and everyone ran. We could then see the ground and there were some Blues in the distance. Me and another Blue slowed down and he turned and asked them to come on then. Some jumping about but they went back to the pub. Maybe it was cos we werent a crew, or cos it was now closer to the ground im not sure.
I was at that match. Still fuming about that cheat Crosby. Ref didn't know the fucking rulesA 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.
Agreed. No team fancied the Moss. We were not the biggest..the best...the hardest.. . the best organisation.. but we were game.
Fucking Courtney...if Dibble had requested n with the ball under control on his palm he'd have done him for steps....Twat.I was at that match. Still fuming about that cheat Crosby. Ref didn't know the fucking rules
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
Fucking Courtney...if Dibble had requested n with the ball under control on his palm he'd have done him for steps....Twat.
Also at that game and don’t think ref saw what happened. Nobody knew what was going on and how they managed to score. Think Crosby tried it on and got away with itI was at that match. Still fuming about that cheat Crosby. Ref didn't know the fucking rules
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.
I went too, was a good day out, so were the finals against Port Vale & Burnley. Did you go to the play off semi at Stoke around the same time, that walk back to the station was edgy whoever you followed away at Stoke.I went with County to the autoglass in 91 with Stoke. That was interesting too.
That day was certainly one of the worst, our coach from Macclesfield broke down in the car park after the game so we were stranded for about half a hour so missed the police escort out. The local dibble laughed and said you should watch Macclesfield instead. ( macc had just been promoted) amazingly despite passing loads of stokies giving us death treats and our coach not being able to go above 20mph up hill we didn't get bricked. Didn't Nick Hancock from TV attack blues that day as wellStoke away 97ish when we won 5-2 and both got relegated . Got punched three tines from three different dickheads. Once when i was sat in the car FFS
Terrible ref, but you cannot blame him for that.