41 years since Good Friday Boundary Park mayhem

[TShed]

What was the game at Oldham when we were locked on the terraces and it leathered it down for about fifteen minutes? Proper monsoon.

Red hot that morning went in a t shirt and shorts got pissed wet through in the Rochdale Road End

 

[citymad]

What was the game at Oldham when we were locked on the terraces and it leathered it down for about fifteen minutes? Proper monsoon.

Had to travel back to Euston absolutely drenched. Think it was 0-0 too. My one and only trip to BP.

 

[spacecadet]

Game held up for around 25 minutes. City appear led out by Mick McCarthy who applauds the big City following. Fucking halfwit :-)

 

[Return of the Mac]

My first City away game !!!

 

[There is a Light]

 

[its a Barm]

What was the game at Oldham when we were locked on the terraces and it leathered it down for about fifteen minutes? Proper monsoon.

Remember it well 4 of us got soaked to the skin stripped to our undies in a car back to Warrington up the m62 people looking in on us ha ha so funny great away day at Oldham we went in the sportsman's in Chadderton I think from memory great times very much missed.

 

[TheGhost]

One of my first away days

I say away, I lived in Langley then so was closer to Boundary Park than Maine Road

The 59 bus was rammed with City going up

My first away day aged 8

 

[Carlos- the- jackal]

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Trying to clock myself on that in my Tacchini top and Adidas Columbia!!

 

[TonyColemansbagofapples]

Remember it well 4 of us got soaked to the skin stripped to our undies in a car back to Warrington up the m62 people looking in on us ha ha so funny great away day at Oldham we went in the sportsman's in Chadderton I think from memory great times very much missed.

Luckily my sister lived the other side of Broadway from the ground. Complete change of clothes, though my brother in law’s clothes were a bit bigger. Even had to take the pound notes out of my wallet and dry them on the radiator.

 

[Bluesince1979]

I was 10 so not going to away games like that, certainly not on my own, but i know loads of lads a bit older who went, someone mentioned from The Kenny in cheadle hulme, loads from there. Also a few reds on that trip, one whos actually on that photo that i believe was on the front page of The Pink

How did such massive turn outs end up so back then? Before fanzines or social media. Did word just get round that it wasnt all ticket?

As someone said, such days are in a very distant past

 

[Karl8]

I remember there were gangs of blues waiting outside jewellery shops in the town centre,..just waiting for the first one to have the bottle to put the windows through…absolute chaos all over the place !

 

[WestGorton]

I was there. Mental day.

 

[jrb]

As a City fan, that was the maddest away day ever I have experienced. And I’ve experienced some mad ones.

 

[TheGhost]

I was 10 so not going to away games like that, certainly not on my own, but i know loads of lads a bit older who went, someone mentioned from The Kenny in cheadle hulme, loads from there. Also a few reds on that trip, one whos actually on that photo that i believe was on the front page of The Pink

How did such massive turn outs end up so back then? Before fanzines or social media. Did word just get round that it wasnt all ticket?

As someone said, such days are in a very distant past

It was in the programme or the MUEN that it wasn’t all ticket.

 

[Carlos- the- jackal]

I remember there were gangs of blues waiting outside jewellery shops in the town centre,..just waiting for the first one to have the bottle to put the windows through…absolute chaos all over the place !

Amusement arcade got done in Oldham town centre, Mayneline boys strike again!

 

[hallsteve62]

And these days it'd all be on CCTV : (

 

[TheGhost]

I don’t know if it was the following December or the 87 game that thousands got locked out. Got pressed up against the wall of the turnstiles and you could see the wall bowing like it was going to collapse. Police horses had to go into the crowd to take the pressure off the wall. Mental there wasn’t more deaths back in the day. More by luck than judgement I suppose.

 

[johnnytapia]

Had to travel back to Euston absolutely drenched. Think it was 0-0 too. My one and only trip to BP.

Was 1-1. Varadi scored for us

 

[City Raider]

That buzz, miss it so much. Lawless.

 

[mayo31]

Seats we're getting ripped out in that Family stand and lobbed at the old bill, they were like dining chairs heavy as fuck, they were just crazy days, another time comes to mind at Coventry in 85 in FA Cup, they were the first all seater ground in England and we ripped the seats out there and launched em at the old bill and their keeper Steve Ogrizovic!
Just mad days, a totally different world!

Steve Ogrizovic

Met him in Playa Blanca Lancazrote

Spoke to him for a while about City, Coventry etc

Year later I was in Madeira and there he was again. I never spoke to him as did not want to look like a stalker

Tip if you go Madeira. Be careful with local whallop, called poncha

I had a load of it one night, next day throwing up like fuck. Passed out due to dehydration, hit a tree, ended up with 4 stitches in my chin and a missed flight home