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

[blue44]

Well there were the half and half hats with City and Celtic or Rangers colours back then, never understood them myself.

Used to be the half and half chanting too
celtic rangers celtic rangers celtic rangers

 

[Yankunian]

Sure DD lives in Rochdale now or did a few years back

One of the 7 sister tower blocks?

think you're right , i remember him living on Green Lane in Boarshaw back in 90's , my mate at the time was seeing his step daughter.

 

[Mike S]

Used to be the half and half chanting too
celtic rangers celtic rangers celtic rangers

I remember the words to that one :-)

 

[Jack_jones]

Hi everyone,

Not necessarily violence related but early 1990s related. Does anybody on this thread remember the second round second leg game against Torquay United in the league/rumbelows cup at Maine road? Score was 0-0.

I only ask as I have a friend who played for torquay and we were wondering if anybody has any memorabilia/recollection of the game.

Cheers

 

[redater]

think you're right , i remember him living on Green Lane in Boarshaw back in 90's , my mate at the time was seeing his step daughter.

He did live on Green Lane, next door to my girlfriend’s mum at the time. I ended up moving him to the Seven Sisters in Rochdale in my works van about 1995, said he’d sort me out for moving his stuff but ended up giving him a quid as a “borrow”

 

[Eaststander1]

Hi everyone,

Not necessarily violence related but early 1990s related. Does anybody on this thread remember the second round second leg game against Torquay United in the league/rumbelows cup at Maine road? Score was 0-0.

I only ask as I have a friend who played for torquay and we were wondering if anybody has any memorabilia/recollection of the game.

Cheers

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://www.transfermarkt.com/manchester-city/bilanzdetail/verein/281/wettbewerb_id//gegner_id/1218/saison_id//heim_gast//datum_von//datum_bis//day/0/land_id/0/sort/spieltag&ved=2ahUKEwijscal2LKLAxUgSkEAHY1iJKAQFnoECCwQAQ&usg=AOvVaw3SEAs1Y0WA6nhyR9n83rsG

Looks like we won the away leg 4-0 .... before the goalless draw at Maine Road in the 2nd leg .... rumbelows cup, click on the results of both games on here, it mentions the team line ups .... to be honest though I'm struggling to recall it, the only game with Torquay that sticks in my memory was a 6-0 win for us at Maine Road, 7 years earlier.

 

[Stephen230]

Hi everyone,

Not necessarily violence related but early 1990s related. Does anybody on this thread remember the second round second leg game against Torquay United in the league/rumbelows cup at Maine road? Score was 0-0.

I only ask as I have a friend who played for torquay and we were wondering if anybody has any memorabilia/recollection of the game.

Cheers

I vaguely remember it. It was in the Howard Kendall, half a team of ex Everton players era. It was a bit of a non event, as we were 4-0 up from the away leg.

Can’t remember much else. Other than it was a very small crowd. Probably one of the smallest we had outside of the Auto Windscreens and Full Members.

 

[Eaststander1]

I thought it was a night game when it kicked off with Cov, which aligns with 1996. We drew at Highfield Road. The replay was mid week. We knew we had Man U at the swamp the following weekend.

If it was a Saturday then you’re right. My memory is fucked.

It was definitely a Saturday, I remember it well ..... there was hardly any cops on duty inside the ground, they were all moved outside towards the end of the match, and City were relying mainly on stewards to control the crowd ..... it was late on in the game, and a mob of Coventry broke away from their support in the North Stand and headed over the barriers/walls into the Maine Stand just as a few City fans were starting to leave early .... a few got into the Maine Stand and tried to mix it with the City fans who were leaving early, but met resistance .... there was a few punches thrown by both sides, but it was just 'handbags' really, and all over in a few minutes, it didn't really escalate into anything serious ... the Coventry fans soon cleared off back into the North Stand.

 

[Eaststander1]

I vaguely remember it. It was in the Howard Kendall, half a team of ex Everton players era. It was a bit of a non event, as we were 4-0 up from the away leg.

Can’t remember much else. Other than it was a very small crowd. Probably one of the smallest we had outside of the Auto Windscreens and Full Members.

Attendance ...12,204.

 

[Eaststander1]

I thought it was a night game when it kicked off with Cov, which aligns with 1996. We drew at Highfield Road. The replay was mid week. We knew we had Man U at the swamp the following weekend.

If it was a Saturday then you’re right. My memory is fucked.

January 2001 it was, an fa cup 4th round game at Maine Road ... Goater scored the winner in the last minute, which sparked the trouble .... hardly any coppers , they had been deployed OUTSIDE the ground towards the end of the match , and it left about 40 stewards in the ground to keep the trouble to a minimum.

 

[Eaststander1]

what year was this?

2001.

 

[Eaststander1]

Cardiff away in the cup was lively. 1 nil defeat fuckin Nathan Blake. 2 coaches from The Albert on the day stopped in Newport.

You're not kiddin' it was!

 

[Platt Lane 59]

Goater scoted & celebrated in front of the Coventry fans, thats why it kicked off, later Goater said he thought they were City fans & had forgotten that"s where the Coventry fans were !!

That could be true, as the North Stand was given over to Coventry fans, due to the larger FA Cup ticket allocation.
Think Coventry brought a larger than normal support, due to them winning the FA Cup not that long prior to when it was played ?
Don't remember them bringing many for normal League games ?

 

[Platt Lane 59]

Fairly sure anyone wearing a half and half scarf back in the day would be looked at as special and on a day out off a special bus.

Would have been difficult to tell, when City played Coventry ?

 

[Stephen230]

Attendance ...12,204.

Not quite as low as I thought then. 12K is hardly packing them in. But when you consider that some Saturday league games in the late 80s were only getting 15K, it’s not too bad for a dead rubber, midweek against a 4th Division side.

 

[Eaststander1]

That could be true, as the North Stand was given over to Coventry fans, due to the larger FA Cup ticket allocation.
Think Coventry brought a larger than normal support, due to them winning the FA Cup not that long prior to when it was played ?
Don't remember them bringing many for normal League games ?

Don't think they had the entire stand ... about 4,000 of them were there I think.

 

[Platt Lane 59]

Don't think they had the entire stand ... about 4,000 of them were there I think.

Was at the match, but cannot remember their allocation ?
Don't recollect them bringing hardly any fans for League games ?
Went to Highfield Road for a midweek game and it was kicking off a bit after the match.
Seem to remember the area around Highfield Road was a bit grim...

 

[NPBlue]

Don't think they had the entire stand ... about 4,000 of them were there I think.

I remember them kicking off.

I was in the Kippax and as I was leaving an old boy said to me 'why are they so upset? They're just as used to losing as we are'.

From memory, I think they had they had the north stand up to the corner, which is where the trouble was.

 

[Stephen230]

Don't think they had the entire stand ... about 4,000 of them were there I think.

Think it was a semi regular thing for cup games, where they’d swap round the home and away bits in the North Stand. So we’d have just the end bit that was the normal away end, next to the Kippax and they’d have the rest. Liverpool was definitely another FA Cup game where they did that.

Think Tottenham had the whole end on the pitch invasion game though.

 

[pride in battle]

That could be true, as the North Stand was given over to Coventry fans, due to the larger FA Cup ticket allocation.
Think Coventry brought a larger than normal support, due to them winning the FA Cup not that long prior to when it was played ?
Don't remember them bringing many for normal League games ?

Er...Coventry won it in 87...?? Also it was true as Goater said it after the game :)