41 years since Good Friday Boundary Park mayhem

mayo31 said:
Steve Ogrizovic

Met him in Playa Blanca Lancazrote

Spoke to him for a while about City, Coventry etc

Year later I was in Madeira and there he was again. I never spoke to him as did not want to look like a stalker

Tip if you go Madeira. Be careful with local whallop, called poncha

I had a load of it one night, next day throwing up like fuck. Passed out due to dehydration, hit a tree, ended up with 4 stitches in my chin and a missed flight home
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Not called "The Maderia Mule" for nothing!
 
Mike N said:
My first visit to Oldham. Was in three different stands that day and on the pitch twice!

How many blues were there that day? Must have been double the Oldham fans.
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Crowd was given officially as 19000 but loads jibbed in, that Rochdale road end was a doddle, i'd say there was at least 15000 City.
 
GMP messed up that day. They clearly thought the usual number of cops would manage just fine!
 
Remember being stud opposite the main stand with the ladder watching blues climbing up nicking all the season ticket holders seats then the big double gate behind us got wedged open and a load of blues pilling in until it got shut again. Utter chaos everywhere but pretty normal back then.
 
TonyColemansbagofapples said:
What was the game at Oldham when we were locked on the terraces and it leathered it down for about fifteen minutes? Proper monsoon.
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I remember it being rammed and wondering why it was so empty at the bottom of the stand. I realised later when I saw what looked like a boating lake
 
Scaring Europe to Death said:
Patrick Barclay (Daily Telegraph)

"The match had not been made all-ticket, and so few officers were on duty that segregation was impossible. The massive City following spread to all parts of the ground. and an alarming proportion seemed intent on causing tear among the scattered groups of locals.
Some even commandeered a ladder which they used to clamber into Oldham’s so-called family stand, built some years ago with the reward for winning the Ford Sporting League. There the gleeful mob ripped up an advertising board, and used the bits to bombard a couple of lonely policeman. In another area, a policeman was struck on the head by a lump of concrete and
treated in hospital.
A police spokesman later revealed that 30 fans had been arrested"
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Hope most of that’s not true, it made us look like morons.
 
Carlos- the- jackal said:
Seats we're getting ripped out in that Family stand and lobbed at the old bill, they were like dining chairs heavy as fuck, they were just crazy days, another time comes to mind at Coventry in 85 in FA Cup, they were the first all seater ground in England and we ripped the seats out there and launched em at the old bill and their keeper Steve Ogrizovic!
Just mad days, a totally different world!
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"Shout.. Shout.. rip the seats out...we're Man City and we don't fuck about" lol
 
its a Barm said:
Remember it well 4 of us got soaked to the skin stripped to our undies in a car back to Warrington up the m62 people looking in on us ha ha so funny great away day at Oldham we went in the sportsman's in Chadderton I think from memory great times very much missed.
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haha did the same 5 of us back to w/shawe
 
We must've had a bad reputation around that time because the fences at the away end nearly came down at Derby April 84. We were in their main stand witnessing it after City had a perfectly good goal disallowed
 
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