70's awaydays

[jus moochin]

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 .

This was the first away match I went to with a mate. £3 on the Special, not much of a match but afterwards when we were half way down the street outside the local plod directed us -and many others- down the parallel street back to the station. This was full of Derby and it was total mayhem, it was going off all over the place. The Derby cops were always a bit clueless, a few seasons later there was almost a riot outside the ground and it was only stopped by the Manc cops who'd traveled down with the fans and who 'cracked a few heads.'

 

[nw42]

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.

My memory's shot mate, I'd rewritten history in my mind, apologies on that.

Some great old tales on this thread, I was at most of the games mentioned.

Someone mentioned the Midway mob, Kippax tasties was painted on the bridge on Crowcroft Rd, some rags had painted over it to read Tampax tasties, strange the stuff that sticks in the mind eh.

At that Leeds cup game when we beat them I won £50, something like golden goal or whatever, this meant a trip round to the main office after the game to collect my winnings, got my money but also took a few clumps along the way.

I know all the mither was wrong but I'm so glad I grew up through those times, feel sorry for those who have only ever known today's sanitised version.