70's awaydays

[cyberblue]

Anyone remember when boro came in late in the corner between the Kippax and the North stand. The next thing all hell let loose and they're was fighting in the corner and then down in the courtyard behind the Kippax.

Yes it was a bank Holiday game

 

[cashmereundies]

Anyone remember when boro came in late in the corner between the Kippax and the North stand. The next thing all hell let loose and they're was fighting in the corner and then down in the courtyard behind the Kippax.

Remember Birmingham City around 1972, first game of the season and they had been promoted the season before.waiting outside the Kippax for the turnstiles to open,Really loud singing coming from near the North stand and around the corner come about 500 Brummies. They went into the Kippax and were chasing us early arrival kids all over the terraces.The big boys eventually came in but the b/ham mob were surrounded by police and allowed to stay at the top of the Kippax with hundreds of angry blues trying to get at them which they succeeded in doing after the game. Stoke tried it a couple of seasons later but were chased out of the stadium and then Spurs in the late seventies,not as many as Brum and think they realised they were onto a kicking,made their escape but were trapped in the Platt lane corner ( I think Danny Kelly has mentioned this game a few times on talkshite ).

 

[xgorton]

Yeah bit of a crush in their end started putting kids at the front of us you could see them getting bigger and bigger well went off got a Ben shaws bottle on my napper can't remember what flavour haha

Was at that Newcastle one as well. 12 of us in a minibus and we shat it when the police told the driver he couldn't drop us off at the ground but had to go up to the coach park a mile away. We got out and jumped on a bus full of Geordies and kept our mouths shut. Me and a couple of others had seats in the Main Stand and the City fans were in a corner of the Gallowgate end. Their part was overcrowded and they started shifting people out and into the area where the Blues were. At first it was kids and women but the hooligans soon cottoned on and piled in. It kicked off and I remember City fans were dropping off wall at the back over a tunnel to escape.

The match was stopped and the police piled in, plus they formed a line across the middle of the pitch to seal the area off. Some loon came charging out of the Leazes end, thinking there were loads behind him and flunge himself on one of the coppers. The trouble was it was a lone cavalry charge and about half a dozen coppers laid into him.

We got back to the bus OK and met up with some of the Blues who were caught up in it at the services on the A1. They all had black eyes, bruises and cut lips and apparently it was like something out of The Warriors getting back to the station.

It's all so quiet these days.

Yes what a day that was,I was on the football special

Unsure if you are confusing things there, we played Newcastle away after winning at Leeds, 77/8? and won 3-1, it was a rough day on the Gallowgate end as you say.


The rope, how ridiculous was that, also the copper on the raised platform, he was just cannon fodder.

Sorry mate but your wrong after we beat Leeds away 2-1 77/8 we played Forest away and got beat 2-1,we had some fucking tough draws in those days.

 

[mcfc1632]

Never knew that, gone up even higher in my estimation ! Anyhow, Leeds in the 70s FA Cup I think, kicking off with the Leeds fans, said to my older brother who was slightly concerned, "No problem, the police have this under control" only to watch one be dragged off his horse, mayhem !! Leeds fans were complete nutters, saying that so were their players, check out Hayley's dad at 1 min in.

Enjoyed that - took me back.

Happy days

 

[mancityvstoke]

Ahh. The Belle Vue bus stop boys. Happy days.

Hiding behind that low wall at The Lake Hotel...Utd fans looking to see as they got off the 53.....then fucking wham

Geezer, Jap et al


Poor red cunts

 

[mancityvstoke]

Wolves away around '77/78. Ended up taking a spare seat on the Donald Francis organised Cool Cat's coach. Up until then, I'd been round the periphery of football hooliganism, largely at Derby games and the occasional ambush of Utd fans coming off the 53 bus at Belle Vue. This was very, very different. I was like a goldfish in a tank of basking Piranha's. The fighting started when the coach stopped (on purpose), so everybody could pile off and lay into Wolves fans outside a pub. It was more dangerous to stay on the coach than it was to get off - anyone who stayed on was guaranteed a kicking whereas if you got off, you at least had a chance of avoiding one. A couple of more similar 'combat stops' happened, then it went off on the coach car park and to top it all, the there was a battle with Cardiff fans at Sandbach services. Back in Manchester, Donald gave a pep talk to the coach and congratulated them on their 'performance', particularly against Cardiff, then it was into Piccadilly Gardens to catch the remaining Utd fans who hadn't yet caught their train back to London. Never forgotten it and I can assure anyone that by comparison, pretty much anything you see today is like a a group of 12 year old girls having a playground spat. The MIBs on steroids wouldn't have lasted 30 seconds against this lot.

sounds about right................did you get a free bin bag for the SHOPPING?

Another of the Cool Cat away day activities

 

[prestonibbo_mcfc]

Yes what a day that was,I was on the football special

Sorry mate but your wrong after we beat Leeds away 2-1 77/8 we played Forest away and got beat 2-1,we had some fucking tough draws in those days.

Was that the one at Forest that got fogged off and was played Wednesday.

 

[totallywired]

Hiding behind that low wall at The Lake Hotel...Utd fans looking to see as they got off the 53.....then fucking wham

Geezer, Jap et al


Poor red cunts

Yep, still see Geezer and a few of the others.

 

[totallywired]

Anyone remember when boro came in late in the corner between the Kippax and the North stand. The next thing all hell let loose and they're was fighting in the corner and then down in the courtyard behind the Kippax.

Yes, that was the FA Cup 3rd round. Boro fans were begging to be let back out!!

 

[ndjsleftnipple]

Remember coming home from Leeds with no windows left in the coach. I bit chilly mid-December.
Also got chased back into the ground at Birmingham, managed to cadge a lift back with a mate's Dad. All my mates on the coach thought I was in hospital.
Also remember the Spurs crew invading the Kippax, windmillin' into everyone then leggin' it away into the Platt Lane end. Certainly got the adrenelin flowing before kick off.

Many great and hairy memories.

 

[Tbilisi]

Was that the one at Forest that got fogged off and was played Wednesday.

Yes it was,City fans were next to the trent end if I remember

 

[mk. harborough manc]

hello boys. just a few of my memories from the late 70s. me and a few mates from blackley used to go on yelloways coaches from middleton. some really funny lads from mddleton. leeds away one of the best . coventry away last game of season. coach had to reverse back up a spiral entrance to coach park, being chased by barmy cov fans . thanks for the memories lads.

 

[Broken Biscuits]

My first home game on my own was Spurs the season after the 81 Cup Final. It was the first and last time I've seen City fans chasing the away lot with pick axes.

 

[doctor whites]

Hi blues was reading some comments about the blue who went for it in Seville the other night I remember one guy introducing himself as one to be respected the battle of keel services don't like using names but johnny c take a bow the guy took on that many stoke nobody else could get near them

 

[xgorton]

Was that the one at Forest that got fogged off and was played Wednesday.

That's the one,we were all stood down the side that night if I remember correctly.

 

[hateutd]

One of the top Chelsea boys who wrote one of those hooligan books said Maine road was one of the places he feared going to the most,an awful place full of alleyways and back streets where they were constantly attacked.

I have to agree with a chelsea scam,just for once in my life....

 

[mancunial]

We took the boothen end that day then at five to three their older lads, men came in it went fucking mental

That's exactly what happened, they had sheepskin coats on they just waded in and didn't stop for about 15 minutes, what I couldn't understand when we walked from the station their were loads of city some right head cases but these guys in the boothen just kept coming.

 

[penalty spot]

Remember this one very well,playing at Derby County away and having a reasonable run and playing some good football. April 1977 ,myself and 3 others tight inside an old Triumph Herald running a little late we park up some side street really near to the ground and head inside. The pitch was terrible just brown sand a total mess just like the team that day. We lost 4 nil there was a dispute over the penalty spot as the lines on the pitch were not to be seen. We head off back to the car to find that we were facing the wrong way in a dead end street. We were wearing our scarves and as we start the car derby fans start hurling bricks at the car from a half collapsed wall. I drove at full tilt towards the end of the road in second gear the engine was screaming,i executed my first ever hand brake turn which was perfect and now heading 180 degrees the way to safety we were still being hit by bricks . Straight ahead appeared police horses and I drove straight through a gap between them. Stopping at a motorway service station we saw the red brick dust embedded on my White triumph, the bonnet would never shut properly again, but the windscreen was our saviour that day .

 

[Mr Ed (The Stables)]

Never knew that, gone up even higher in my estimation ! Anyhow, Leeds in the 70s FA Cup I think, kicking off with the Leeds fans, said to my older brother who was slightly concerned, "No problem, the police have this under control" only to watch one be dragged off his horse, mayhem !! Leeds fans were complete nutters, saying that so were their players, check out Hayley's dad at 1 min in.

Me and rammyblues were in the paddock to the right alongside the pitch as the camera views it. If my memory serves me, we had been beaten by Leeds a few weeks earlier in the League, and the draw was live on the radio as we travelled back from that game, to say we would be playing them again in the cup.

I remember Gary Owen coming over to us when they invaded the pitch to stop us invading the pitch and having a go.

Outside was a "Gauntlet" of bricks and now as I look back I think "wow". But back then I was 21 year old, 6 ' 2', been prepared to scrap all my life if someone had a go at me or our kid. I was fearless and perhaps that arrogance/confidence got us through.

On a lighter note, I remember going to Ipswich around then on the special train. They used to bring board games round and I remember having a 6 hour marathon game of monopoly on the way down, we lost 1-0, and I think I slept most of the way on the back.

Happy happy days, the rock groups weren't bad at that time either:

Black Sabbath, Rainbow, Pink Floyd, Led Zepellin, with new bands to come through Iron maiden, Judas Priest, Scorpions.

It was a special time in my life.

Funny enough I have a chance to savour those halcyon days, for real, at the end of this month once more.

Watching City in the afternoon (Southampton), and then going to the Apollo to watch Judas Priest

I just can't wait.

 

[blue b4 the moon]

Also does anyone remember an away match at Leeds when we won 2 0 pretty sure it would have been 1970's, one of the best away performances I have witnessed by City

That would be 76/77 we went 2-0 up early and it was total domination.

I was 12/13 at the time stood behind the goal a' what to my spotty youth eyes' was a georgous blonde probably about 20 or so lifted my up to watch paet of the game, put more than a smile on my face.

Numerous awayday stories from Leeds, dipperland, rags etc.

Went on Woods coaches to Stoke Friday night game, think it was due to the roof blowing off their stand. Coach parked behind the wrong end but managed to get in unscathed. Game awful 0-0. On the way back driver and 1/2 the coach did a beer stop, his knows where we were. 4/5 of us kids stayed on the coach, others decided to play kick a door in and run on the local estate.

Coppers turned up, it was 5.00 in the morning when we got off the coach in Ashton.