1970's MCFC

mancityvstoke said:
My fondest memories of following home and away were the 70's.

The old Kippax, the kit/scarf colours, transit vans and specials. Dog shit alley, windy corner, stinking bogs, infiltrating the away section and escorts, waiting at Piccadilly or the Brunswick.
All the old characters.

As I get older I find myself thinking about them a lot (blue tinted specs) Big fat football hooligan*, Trumans for steel, Freddie Pye, all the boozers.

Loads of youtube vids of matches I'm watching from then.

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* Nowt to be proud of there.

I was going in the 70's and myself and the Lads I use to go with always said they were Pricks and ruined it for every other fan and to this day we still have the cunts festering the game ...

But apart from that, yeah great memories ...
 
moggymoz said:
* Nowt to be proud of there.

I was going in the 70's and myself and the Lads I use to go with always said they were Pricks and ruined it for every other fan and to this day we still have the cunts festering the game ...

But apart from that, yeah great memories ...
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thanks for that.

You do know it referred to "Helen is a big fat football hooligan" yeah?

If you went then you'd know that
 
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manclad said:
I believe that Futcher (I think it's Paul but not 100% sure) is the uncle of that little Scouse apologist Danny Murphy.
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tbh, wasn’t sure which Futcher it was, but couldn’t think of any other of those players who had died. Went through them one by one too.

It was a process, however flawed, of elimination.
 
gordondaviesmoustache said:
tbh, wasn’t sure which Futcher it was, but couldn’t think of any other of those players who had died. Went through them one by one too.

It was a process, however flawed, of elimination.
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My thought process was that Ron was only at City for a season or two, but that Paul stayed a while longer.
But it was over 40 years ago,so I may well be wrong.
 
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Even with all the success and amazing football we are able to witness today, there is absolutely nothing like reminiscing and being able to look back on harder times and in particular what we have gone through as custodians and supporters of this great club.

My memories of city especially growing up as a teen through the 70’s is just so so special. Many on here may know me dad Vinny in his blue inva noddy three wheeler car going into the Platt Lane via the sliding door entrance on a match day with me and about another 3 kids or adults hidden under a blanket or coat, whom he had taken to the game in a vehicle only allowed to have the driver in!

In the late 60’s early 70’s he could park the noddy on pitch side and we used to sit in the noddy watching the match, with the ball occasionally hitting the invacar. Me dad took many kids off the streets to the game and they became lifelong blues, imagine him doing that now he’d be nicked for kidnapping! So many memories of me and me dad going to games, he passed in 2002, but he was with me at 93.20 in spirit and we all lived for that moment especially, but our making as blues had been kindled in us years before through those times mentioned here. Check out the photo below that shows the noddys next to the pitch!6467E8D2-DB34-49EA-849A-626AFD1BB957.jpeg
 
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mancityvstoke said:
My fondest memories of following home and away were the 70's.

The old Kippax, the kit/scarf colours, transit vans and specials. Dog shit alley, windy corner, stinking bogs, infiltrating the away section and escorts, waiting at Piccadilly or the Brunswick.
All the old characters.

As I get older I find myself thinking about them a lot (blue tinted specs) Big fat football hooligan, Trumans for steel, Freddie Pye, all the boozers.

Loads of youtube vids of matches I'm watching from then.

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Yes, Transit Vans! Hours on end bouncing and sliding around in the back of a transit. Pissed, pissed wet, freezing, couldn’t hear a thing. Madness what we went through.
I got promoted to a seat later on. More like 80s for me. Happy days.
 
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