40 years ago today

tregyblue61 said:
Barry Davies:

"For Manchester City, another chapter in their extraordinary history of brushes with fate"

How true.

RIP also to Bradford City and Lincoln City.
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Also child killed at Birmingham v Leeds,a wonderful day for us but the bad news just kept coming.
 
I remember sampling a barley wine that night after the game.
WTF is that shit?
Never again I said and I've stuck with it for 40 yrs
 
KS55 said:
The Bradford fire created a hero that day. Dr David Sharpe led the team treating the victims. The demand was so great that he had to wing it, inventing new techniques on the fly. He realised afterwards that knowledge of burns was lacking and so founded a new research body which developed ways to speed up recovery by reducing scarring and pain. These are used all round the world now benefitting thousands who have suffered major burns, He was awarded the OBE for his efforts.
Professor Sharpe, as he became, operated on me for a cancerous growth inside my lip. I looked like Cliff Pilchard afterwards with a strange tic in the corner of my mouth. His plastic surgery on me meant I returned to normal very quickly. The much loved Sharpe died a couple of years ago much missed by his colleagues, his patients and, of course, his loved ones. Google him.
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The Bradford Sling came out of it too.
 
manclad said:
I went into The North Stand expecting to be able to find an empty seat somewhere.
It was that rammed that I had no chance of finding one, so I ended up sat on the terracing,in front of a concrete wall.
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I had my seat behind the goal in the NS. I'd had a promotion at work the year before so we splashed out and moved( upgraded) from Platt Lane to NS.

What a day. What a game. Made up for the misery of 14 May 83.

And how horrendous the events at Bradford. A day of very mixed emotions x
 
burnley blue mcfc said:
I meant it was the least packed part of the ground mate :), blues got moved into it if my memory serves me right? crazy day!!
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Didn't they only have the upper bit of the away part of the Kippax. And maybe that block between the Platt Lane and Main Stand that they used to give away fans for a bit?

I got in through the big blue gate with about 20 minutes left and stood in the open corner of the Kippax next to Platt Lane. There was plenty of room in there, which confused me as the main part of the Kippax looked like it couldn't fit in one more person.
 
burnley blue mcfc said:
I meant it was the least packed part of the ground mate :), blues got moved into it if my memory serves me right? crazy day!!
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Platt Lane was City from the onset. I’d broken my ankle a few days before the game so was sat there rather than on the terraces. Due to the circumstances I’d got into the ground pretty much when the gates were opened knowing that getting up the stairs to the top part of the stand was going to be a little time consuming for me. It was packed by 30 minutes before kickoff.
On the night before the game my young and foolish self was adamant that I was going in the Kippax despite having my leg in plaster and being on crutches. Thankfully my mates made me see sense!
 
Me and my mate Pete tried to protect the goal post from destruction that day...Thanks for posting. 40 years ago amazing..
 
I got into an altercation with a barman in The Mauldeth before kick off, as I left he shouted 'your cards marked pal'.

I never went back in there, just in case.

It just goes to show, even raw emotion, unadulterated elation and a skin full of ale still couldn't take the edge off my cowardice.
 
Mike_F said:
Didn't they only have the upper bit of the away part of the Kippax. And maybe that block between the Platt Lane and Main Stand that they used to give away fans for a bit?

I got in through the big blue gate with about 20 minutes left and stood in the open corner of the Kippax next to Platt Lane. There was plenty of room in there, which confused me as the main part of the Kippax looked like it couldn't fit in one more person.
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Can’t remember mate?! I was in the main bit of the kippax and like you say it was that packed it was scary
 
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