41 years since Good Friday Boundary Park mayhem

Always find it difficult to find footage or pics from that crazy day at Notts County 85, so if anyone has any it would be greatly appreciated if you bang them up on the City pics thread
 
The Stockport Iniesta said:
Oldham and Blackpool were two that were always off the scale for City taking the piss.
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Blackpool was mayhem in the Fa cup when bits of roofing was used has frisbies by both set of fans chucking at each other
City fans ended up on the pitch & game was stopped if i remember right ?
 
vicblueman said:
Yes i remember this game to in that open end
Was sunny has fuck before the game
Absolutely lashed it down think it was in August or September .
Couldnt concentrate on the game .
City fans soaked to fuck walking like penguins after the game out of the ground
Got to my car with my pals & stripped off to our undies driving back home lol!!
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An Oldham summer. In the CLL we used to mop the wicket up with enormous sponges and wring them out through a roller. And play 5 mins after it stopped raining. And 5 mins before it rained again
 
TCM said:
No they weren't the best of times. It was fucking sad, fucking pathetic and fucking desperate.

I was at the Oldham, I lived close to the ground. It was embarrassing, our entitlement we showed that day was dipper levels that we call out today.

Don't be proud of this blues, it was pathetic and thankfully we are better than that now.
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Wow.

All we had was footy. It was truly the working class game in those days. No phones, no interweb twatter stuff, just us against the world. Yes, we took the piss and yes, some stuff went OTT. But, no-one carried blades, no-one died and certain rules applied to any ruck.

I've told this story on here before. Walked into the wrong pub that day, the main no-go Oldham boozer. Nearly got battered by Oldham lads, so made a quick exit, then nearly got battered by City lads who thought we were Oldham lads. Only answering correctly Sullys (RIP) City quiz saved us.

Fucking brilliant.
 
vicblueman said:
Blackpool was mayhem in the Fa cup when bits of roofing was used has frisbies by both set of fans chucking at each other
City fans ended up on the pitch & game was stopped if i remember right ?
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Was it Blackpool where we were all wearing sheepskin coats that were liberated the night before from a truck?
 
I went to that game in the same jacket I'd been wearing the night before to the pub, it was only when I saw that the police were frisking people that I realised I still had my darts in the pocket - luckily they frisked the guy in front and behind me.
 
Gazza said:
I went to that game in the same jacket I'd been wearing the night before to the pub, it was only when I saw that the police were frisking people that I realised I still had my darts in the pocket - luckily they frisked the guy in front and behind me.
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Can't fool me.
You were one of the dart throwers back in the day.
Bless you.
 
First time I’d ever stepped foot in Oldham probably. Despite a full day of absolute carnage, my abiding memory is getting off the train and being amazed that the station was called Mumps.

Still am actually. It’s a disease isn’t it?
 
TCM said:
No they weren't the best of times. It was fucking sad, fucking pathetic and fucking desperate.

I was at the Oldham, I lived close to the ground. It was embarrassing, our entitlement we showed that day was dipper levels that we call out today.

Don't be proud of this blues, it was pathetic and thankfully we are better than that now.
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Out of curiousity and if you don't mind me asking your age - by all means tell me to mind my own business

But as others have said, it was different times back then and whilst in todays world it would seem ridiculous what happened in those days, it truly was the norm - maybe not the Oldham Notts County games as they were extreme, but it happened ona aweekly basis, by lots of fans of clubs, up and down the country.

Not glorifying it, but they were the times......and in those times, City certainly knew how to embrace those days!!
 
happy said:
Good old Ice Station Zebra. The ladder first appeared outside the ground and was taken in by City fans, I saw one blue get bitten on the arse by a police dog much to the amusement of just about everyone 'queueing' to get in.

Notts County away was, if anything worse. or better depending on how you view these matters. 3 sides of the ground full of blues barely a fence left standing and if memory serves, we were 3 nil down after about half an hour. There was also an impromptu kick about on the forecourt of a petrol station about 10 miles from the ground, it looked about 100 a-side.
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That was the game disgruntled Blues got in the dressing room at halftime if memory serves me right
 
TheGhost said:
My first away day aged 8
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Me too. Was in the Oldham family stand with my brother and dad (brother an Oldham fan) I ended up getting shoved over three rows of seats (I was 11!) and smashed my head on the floor and ended up in hospital with stitches and concussion. Dad vowed never to take me to an away game again - and didn't. So to those rock hard dicks on here who are saying 'what a great day' no it fucking wasn't you brain dead pricks!!!!! Waited 41 years to get that off my chest haha. Would love to meet up with one or two of those now!
 
jimharri said:
Quick question, if you don't mind. You've been on here 13 years, and you have 60 posts; how come you haven't contributed more to the forum, particularly given the phenomenal period we've enjoyed since you joined? It's not against the rules on here (we have a lot of lurkers on here who rarely post, so you're far from being on your own), but I find it strange. Just had a quick look at your post history; nothing from you before sept 2020, so nothing about the Centurions or Fourmidables seasons. Precious little about the treble season, or the 4peat. Yet you felt the need to complain about crowd trouble at a game from a totally different era. Okay; that's your choice. So be it. Re your point; Society, and the match going public in particular, is a totally different beast to what it was back in the 70s/80s. It's very rare now that you get reports of major violence, inside or outside of the stadia.
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Yet the knobs on here who put me in hospital as an 11 year old glorify it like they are rock hard. And stopped a fellow City fan going to another away game for 7 years! Sad pricks
 
TCM said:
Because I don't have the need to reply to every single post. I enjoy reading and don't need to post unless motivated to. I guess the complete opposite of someone who posts continuously, they remind me of gobshites you find in pubs, who won't shut the fuck up.
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How dare you not spend your life posting on here. And your saying you're not rock hard and naughty at football games!!! Be off with you. Only hard nuts on here lol
 
wattle said:
How dare you not spend your life posting on here. And your saying you're not rock hard and naughty at football games!!! Be off with you. Only hard nuts on here lol
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I suspect you may have had a drink wattle.

Nobody is glorifying deliberate violence against kids. I'm sure that every single one of the posters on here reminiscing fondly about this away day would share your outrage had the 11 year old kid in question been their child but that doesn't preclude them from enjoying, in most cases vicariously, the extreme anti social behaviour of the City fans at Oldham. It was largely humorous high jinks, certainly judged by the standards of the time, and if the occasional accidental injury resulted well that's just bad luck. One person having their own bad day does not stop everybody else's day being great.
 
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