Mid 80's v West Ham and loads of them going in the Main Stand doing the Oakie Cokie. They then congregated after the game at the far end of Maine Road and then marched / charged up Maine Road chanting Irons Irons Irons..... Kicking City fans all over the place.
The following season they tried it again and after the game the biggest City crew I'd ever seen was outside waiting. Half of Moss Side's young males were there, chased and battered the Hammers. They stood out like a sore thumb mostly wearing yellow Slazenger jumpers.
I walked from town to the ground with Mickey Francis's boys that night, absolute mayhem, Chelsea had thousands there because they were celebrating promotion, it was like a scene from warriors getting through moss side that night.Yep, and i was on a bus on Portland Steet in the city centre about 6 o'clock , and there was City and Chelsea fans fighting in the middle of the main road there!
When we were in div2 etc we were always the big club in town so even the small clubs came a few handed when we visitedThere was some really bad places for hooliganism in the 70's/80's ..... Middlesbrough, Everton, Liverpool, Leeds, West Ham, Chelsea, Wolves, Newcastle, Spurs, none of them were good places to go .... Portsmouth and Cardiff also provided challenges to us whenever we had to go there in later years.
We had loads of trouble when we played at Forest t in an early 70's FA Cup tie .... and we also saw loads of troub9e in another FA Cup tie at Newcastle in the 80's ..... The league game at Old Trafford during the rags relegation year (early 70's) was also a really bad day for football hooliganism, and it kicked off bigtime in the scoreboard paddock after the pitch invasion.
On a personally note, despite going all over the country with City for 25 years, i only experienced any real trouble at Spurs and Leeds, but you always had to have your wits about you as in those days trouble could happen literally anywhere, but they certainly aren't days that i'd ever want to see again .... even if , as a few on here have said , there did appear to be far more of a 'buzz' to going to games back then.
When we were in div2 etc we were always the big club in town so even the small clubs came a few handed when we visited
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There was some really bad places for hooliganism in the 70's/80's ..... Middlesbrough, Everton, Liverpool, Leeds, West Ham, Chelsea, Wolves, Newcastle, Spurs, none of them were good places to go .... Portsmouth and Cardiff also provided challenges to us whenever we had to go there in later years.
We had loads of trouble when we played at Nottingham Forest tin an early 70's FA Cup tie .... and we also saw loads of trouble in another FA Cup tie up at Newcastle in the 80's ..... the league game at Old Trafford during the rags relegation year (early 70's) was also a really bad day for football hooliganism, and it kicked off bigtime in the scoreboard paddock after the pitch invasion.
On a personal note, despite going all over the country with City for 25 years, i only experienced any real trouble at Spurs and Leeds, but you always had to have your wits about you as in those days trouble could happen literally anywhere, but they certainly aren't days that i'd ever want to see again .... even if , as a few on here have said , there did appear to be far more of a 'buzz' to going to games back then.
Wish I could give you 2 likesI’d go back in a heartbeat
Fuck modern football match day experiences
Having a go at taking the Boothen End at Stoke with Donald and co. That was fun. Would have been in the late 70s.
When we were in div2 etc we were always the big club in town so even the small clubs came a few handed when we visited
The 67/68 game against Everton was a Monday night game, last home game of the season, Book and Coleman scored in a 2-0 win, vital for the title chase. Think it was also the night the rags lost 6-3 at West Brom which boosted our title hopes.Yes but the North Stand hadn't been built in 67/68 . It was still the Scoreboard End and away fans sometimes went in there.
I remember Everton fans piling out of there at a Good Friday game. I was about 12 at the time so it could have been that 67/68 season.
Ok fair enough. We are talking about games from over 50 years ago so it is easy to get seasons mixed up. I have just said the same in a pm to Cyberblue.The 67/68 game against Everton was a Monday night game, last home game of the season, Book and Coleman scored in a 2-0 win, vital for the title chase. Think it was also the night the rags lost 6-3 at West Brom which boosted our title hopes.
Yep , i can recall going down to Southend for a league cup tie in a 70's or 80's night match, and even they had a few hundred yobs that were hellbent on giving us grief all night , and trying to get at us outside the ground .... as you say we were the biggest scalp for those clubs that we visited in those days.
Ok fair enough. We are talking about games from over 50 years ago so it is easy to get seasons mixed up. I have just said the same in a pm to Cyberblue.
My normally good memory is starting to fade a little bit these days.
Yep , i can recall going down to Southend for a league cup tie in a 70's or 80's night match, and even they had a few hundred yobs that were hellbent on giving us grief all night , and trying to get at us outside the ground .... as you say we were the biggest scalp for those clubs that we visited in those days.
Luton was a bad place to go, they were always up for ambushes .... even trips to Blackpool had their moments, they hated us for some reason!
That Texaco cup game - Law's last match for City (not the derby, as many believe).Yeah Blackpool had a proper hard on for us..... maybe that texaco cup game did it?
One cup game , night match, a mob we came across all brought blades out .... which surprised me .... scary night.