RIP Donald Farrar

Tried to get a group off us to fight Millwall at main rd. It was the year they wrecked Stockport on the way in.
We hung around the Sherwood for 5 minutes and about 50 Millwall lads came running down Claremont rd, I looked at our group, there was about 8 of us and thought fuck this and legged it.
Everyone else did the same and you could hear Donald shouting hold the ground. The guy didn’t give a fuck.
RIP you mad bastard.
 
mancityvstoke said:
ha them cool cat leaflets.

Forget the train come with us

no runnars

FORGET THE TRAIN



TRAVAL WITH US



COACHES TO ALL AWAY GAMES



STORE STREET UNDER PICCADILLY STATION

​

NO RUNNARS

yes we know that was Donald Francis coaches
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I used to go on Donalds (Francis) on his selecta coaches, from a small booking office on Hyde Road. He had brought me back from Middlesbrough after I met him and the Mayne Line Motorway Service Crew in the Police Station after I had got arrested in 84 and was on my own. There was no windscreen in the van just a union jack across the passenger side. Really wild days following football back then.
 
lee one pen said:
Tried to get a group off us to fight Millwall at main rd. It was the year they wrecked Stockport on the way in.
We hung around the Sherwood for 5 minutes and about 50 Millwall lads came running down Claremont rd, I looked at our group, there was about 8 of us and thought fuck this and legged it.
Everyone else did the same and you could hear Donald shouting hold the ground. The guy didn’t give a fuck.
RIP you mad bastard.
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He must have a thing about Millwall as at Leicester one year he tried to rope me and many others into catching a train to meet them on their way back from somewhere, can't remember now. But I do know wherever he wanted to go was in the opposite direction to Manchester!
 
Blue2112 said:
I used to go on Donalds (Francis) on his selecta coaches, from a small booking office on Hyde Road. He had brought me back from Middlesbrough after I met him and the Mayne Line Motorway Service Crew in the Police Station after I had got arrested in 84 and was on my own. There was no windscreen in the van just a union jack across the passenger side. Really wild days following football back then.
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Might be an urban myth, but I'm sure there was a story about DD at Boro, involving a Boro meathead, a gun and a police dog.
 
lee one pen said:
Tried to get a group off us to fight Millwall at main rd. It was the year they wrecked Stockport on the way in.
We hung around the Sherwood for 5 minutes and about 50 Millwall lads came running down Claremont rd, I looked at our group, there was about 8 of us and thought fuck this and legged it.
Everyone else did the same and you could hear Donald shouting hold the ground. The guy didn’t give a fuck.
RIP you mad bastard.
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Are you telling us you’re a Runnar
 
Dodge said:
Might be an urban myth, but I'm sure there was a story about DD at Boro, involving a Boro meathead, a gun and a police dog.
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Honestly nothing that happened back then would surprise me. On the day I got arrested and the subsequent meeting with the Mayne Line I could write a load of stuff about just that day and the journey back. I remember our coaches being shot at coming away from Millwall one night game. May just have been an air rifle but the coach windscreen had a crack running from top to bottom. Remember the days of bricks smashing against the windows as well. I remember Daft Donald telling everyone the infamoust story of City meeting Millwall at London Bridge I think it was.
 
mancityvstoke said:
Wasn't there a newspaper article about him following England and going to kill a kraut?
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Also I remember the story of him get stopped by the police on the way to Birmingham away.
They found a Stanley knife on him and when they asked him what it was for, he said ‘cutting up the Brummies’
Donald has Balotelli levels of stories : )
 
TShed said:
RIP

My best memory was Blackburn away we got a very early train from Victoria to avoid police
Donald turned up with sunglasses and tapping a white cane as he walked down the platform

Donald’s logic was the police won’t recognise him if he was blind

Legend
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I can vaguely remember this , great days
 
TShed said:
RIP

My best memory was Blackburn away we got a very early train from Victoria to avoid police
Donald turned up with sunglasses and tapping a white cane as he walked down the platform

Donald’s logic was the police won’t recognise him if he was blind

Legend
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If that was the promotion game, I was with him on way back on the train. Train stopped at Horwich and Bolton had a little welcoming party waiting, all off he shouts, we had it with em for a minute or 2 then we ran em off. We both ended up with a pair of sunnys we'd grabbed off em, his were Armani and mine were some 10 bob snide make. On getting back on the train I said "Hey Donald these glasses I've just got are mint,proper designer, I'll swap you for the ones you got". He replied, "Fuck off! I'm daft not fuckin stupid!" Legend.
 
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