Hooliganism and Violence Maine Road 80's/early 90's

PeteBeard said:
I Remember Spurs giving it the big one in the Kippax 1977 when they tried to take it
Before getting a severe beating and we stuffed them 5-0 too

Mua ha ha
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Yeah they came in late at around 3.15

Cops had let us in their segregated bit and when they came up the steps into the kippax it was mayhem all game ... cops quickly put portable barriers up between us .... the side streets after the game was mental and spurs were well game
 
Indaparkside said:
Cardiff away in the cup curle missed a pen game, serious shit after that must have been 200 lads fighting on a petrol station forecourt main road etc City put up a great performance off the pitch unlike on it, now that was scary
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Thought we did better than a great performance mate. Cardiff made a big mistake calling it on there... City’s coaches parked 100 Yds away, they got swamped.
 
Ancoats blue said:
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, Millwall 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.
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Forest was dodgy as fook back in the late 70s
 
A57 the snake said:
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Too many to mention but Cardiff away fa cup definitely is up there Millwall cold blow lane and then again at the new den for a night game
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Yep, Cold Blow Lane was a daunting, even creepy, place to visit , and you never felt comfortable there , narrow streets, dodgy characters hanging around in groups, i remember them attacking a City coach before one game there and bricking its windows .... we walked to the ground from New Cross Station, and even though there were a few hundered of us, flanked by coppers, you always felt a bit uneasy and were always looking over your shoulders!

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andyhinch said:
Is it just me but I only really remember violence at away grounds ? It just felt the norm at home
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At home everyone knew the areas to avoid and we were in the majority. If you kept your wits about you and just went home most of the time you were okay. Away was the opposite of all that.
 
Ancoats blue said:
Yep, Cold Blow Lane was a daunting place to visit , and you never felt comfortable there , narrow streets, dodgy characters hanging around in groups, i remember them attacking a City coach before one game there and bricking its windows .... we walked to the ground from New Cross Station, and even though there were a few hundered of us, flanked by coppers, you always felt a bit uneasy and were always looking over your shoulders!

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Is that City mate?
 
mancityvstoke said:
Yeah they came in late at around 3.15

Cops had let us in their segregated bit and when they came up the steps into the kippax it was mayhem all game ... cops quickly put portable barriers up between us .... the side streets after the game was mental and spurs were well game
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Bloody hell I had forgotten this one it was a good un.
 
Ancoats blue said:
Yep, Cold Blow Lane was a daunting place to visit , and you never felt comfortable there , narrow streets, dodgy characters hanging around in groups, i remember them attacking a City coach before one game there and bricking its windows .... we walked to the ground from New Cross Station, and even though there were a few hundered of us, flanked by coppers, you always felt a bit uneasy and were always looking over your shoulders!

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Yes mate I remember it well first visit there for years I got the special down had a escort to the ground but mf and the guvnor’s did there own thing they had a coach parked up at Piccadilly approach in the morning asking for recruits .. I abstained .
 
surprised the Liverpool league cup semi final in 81 hasn’t had more of a mention. I was only 12 but Fuck me after that game I hadn’t seen anything like that before. There were hundreds of City lads going after anything that smelt like a scouser. I believe a fair few had to lock themselves inside shops for their own safety. That was after the Alf Grey shit decision.
 
A57 the snake said:
Yes mate I remember it well first visit there for years I got the special down had a escort to the ground but mf and the guvnor’s did there own thing they had a coach parked up at Piccadilly approach in the morning asking for recruits .. I abstained .
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Yeah , they were previously ciculating leaflets in the kippax asking for 'recruits' who 'wouldn't run' .... rumour has it that they had a 'run in' with Millwall near London Bridge.
 
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