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

Man_City_Loyal said:
Not quite sure what both of your issues are really about the then younger group until the last few years?

If there was no 'Blazin Squad' at the matches, there wouldn't have been much trouble at matches between groups looking for a bit of aggro from 2006 until the last few years.

If you were ITK you would know the name blazin squad was originally given to the younger firm as a p*ss take from some of the older lads, and eventually, the younger lads just went with it and took the name.
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Generational thing boss …. Don’t take it too personally

You’re right though I stopped all that shit in the 80’s so the later years passed me by. Different era and experiences. In the 70’s there wasn’t just the cool cats (Donald Francis etc ) but loads of mobs and small firms that went to city aways taking transit vans , on trains , Coaches etc- robbing , fighting, getting up to all sorts with no CCTV to stop us ….. it was mental with often hand to hand proper fights with weapons etc
Scary shit sometimes and you’d get ambushed often so had to watch yourself hence going mob handed was wise.

Of course most of us loved it I suppose but many fans didn’t get involved at all and just went to games with scarves on etc

It was a crazy era long since dead with us old cunts just trying to remember our past and most is slowly being forgotten or condemned . It was of it’s time and later years I think was very different and on a much smaller scale probably . Now you can’t move without some camera seeing you or some **** filming you .
 
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Out of curiosity (and also because the video got a few dates wrong) I googled the Sheffield United match at Bramall Lane in 1967, which would have predated the Kool Kats/Guvnors

I've never heard anyone mention this match before, but although we played a low key fixture in April 67, I think the narrator means the 3-0 victory the following season (Jan 20th 1968) when 32,146 saw City win 3-0.

Only the Sheffield Derby recorded a higher attendance that season, so presumably a lot of City fans would have travelled.
 
mancityvstoke said:
Generational thing boss …. Don’t take it too personally

You’re right though I stopped all that shit in the 80’s so the later years passed me by. Different era and experiences. In the 70’s there wasn’t just the cool cats (Donald Francis etc ) but loads of mobs and small firms that went to city aways taking transit vans , on trains , Coaches etc- robbing , fighting, getting up to all sorts with no CCTV to stop us ….. it was mental with often hand to hand proper fights with weapons etc
Scary shit sometimes and you’d get ambushed often so had to watch yourself hence going mob handed was wise.

Of course most of us loved it I suppose but many fans didn’t get involved at all and just went to games with scarves on etc

It was a crazy era long since dead with us old cunts just trying to remember our past and most is slowly being forgotten or condemned . It was of it’s time and later years I think was very different and on a much smaller scale probably . Now you can’t move without some camera seeing you or some **** filming you .
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very true on this. Was certainly a bigger element of the days out back in the 70s and 80s. Even when I was forced to stop we would be having a camera put in our faces a few times a game.

Not worth it no more, but we have the stories
 
Different days , different gravy it’s not for everyone but for someone who went all over back in the 80’s and 90’s believe me you was happy to see the lads on most aways you got to know them and vice-versa. No social media pricks . Proper lads who’d see you right and safe. The fashion was superb as well loved it
Going into work on a Monday was a breeze knowing you was off down the smoke on the rattler on the Saturday. Great days never to be returned nor never to be forgotten.

Footnote that video belongs on Disney channel.
We did NOT get pasted at either Stoke or Millwall. Fact.
 
youngbob said:
Cracking reading, this thread. Getting into fights and scuffles at football games is the opposite of how I like to experience it but the tales are really evocative.
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Different days Bob different society, the heart rate going up 5:40 was something else especially on away days. Not saying these days were brilliant because they wasn’t but I suppose it’s because I was in my teens to 20s to 30s it’s part of my history watching the club.
Not just the violence but the fashion and music all added to the days.The football was a poor distant third at most.
 
I think back in the day criteria was 1st year to 5th year season ticket holders who could get a ticket for away games , no one struggled if you wanted to go away you’d get a ticket for virtually every game. I never missed out on a brief . To go to West Ham now you need 28,000 pts back then you’d need at least 280 lads .
 
Only time I've been ashamed to be a City fan was back in about 1969 after Leeds game.
Somewhere near Oxford Rd towards University there was about 30 young City fans walking towards town, I was tagging just behind them with my scarf on heading into town. There was a lad sat at a bus stop and he appeared to have a United scarf on, he was just sat there waiting, looked very harmless, probably a student as he looked like Syd Barrett from Pink Floyd... and every one of them gobbed on him more than once. he was absolutely covered in gob.
It was fucking horrible, I was praying they weren't gonna kick the shit out of the poor sod. They didn't.
He looked like he was fucking terrified.
Never forgotten that.
 
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Paul Simpson's left peg said:
They got off the train at Stockport because there were united fans getting coaches down to Nottingham outside a pub on the other side of the station. Not sure if they got put back on the trains or were marched up from Stockport, but there were loads of them of them getting a police escort up Claremont road, with riot vans and helicopters above. They weren't cowering though in fairness to them
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They were cowering at the back of the Kippax after the game alright there's footage of it on that documentary, but yes elsewhere they had a go. Maybe cowering is too strong a word, they were ducking the bricks and bottles being thrown and the police were on the scene by then.
 
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paulchapo said:
They were cowering at the back of the Kippax after the game alright there's footage of it on that documentary, but yes elsewhere they had a go. Maybe cowering is too strong a word, they were ducking the bricks and bottles being thrown and the police were on the scene by then.
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Is it City behind the police cordon where it shows Mcintyre shitting himself on his own?
 
BufordUSABlue said:
We had a lucky escape after the match in a Chesterfield boozer
Their main man came in and called over one of his “captains’ who had been amicably chatting to us for a while and told him that the 3 ‘Manc twats’needed to leave ……. NOW !!
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Was that the league Cup game in 77/78, or the league game in 99?
 
Fordyboy46 said:
He just seems to be stood on his own though mate, you can hear bottles etc smashing down around him
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Well I wasn't stood with him obviously but he was trapped with some Millwall fans that's why stuff was being thrown in that direction. I was at the game and at the night game against them too.
 
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