70's awaydays

[xgorton]

Yeah cup replay v wba snowed like buggery couldn't get up the hill it was that slippy first time orange ball was used and wba fullback peter marinello kept trying to set city up he was a big blue lol

Yes what a cold night that was but we won 1-0 Royle scored.Do you remember the next round Newcastle away won 3-1 loads of gordies in city end.

 

[dennishasdoneit]

I am sure Cantello was a City fan and was rumoured to be as hard as nails at the time.

think i remember him being a city fan. but central midfield for albion not full back as another poster said.

 

[doctor whites]

Yes what a cold night that was but we won 1-0 Royle scored.Do you remember the next round Newcastle away won 3-1 loads of gordies in city end.

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

 

[BringBackSwales]

Yes what a cold night that was but we won 1-0 Royle scored.Do you remember the next round Newcastle away won 3-1 loads of gordies in city end.

Was there for that one, the first time I ever can remember getting a police escort (and actually being grateful for it), freezing cold day, you could spot the Blues, we had coats on!

 

[BringBackSwales]

I was definitely there as I went to our best Leeds games in that era but can't remember the slightest thing about it right now. I remember a draw around that time, think Oakes & maybe Donachie bizarrely scored. Oakes' was a trademark piledriver.

I think the midfield that Boxing Day was Hartford, Power, Owen

 

[BrianW]

I remember going to Leicester on my tod in 1976 (I think) because at the time I was working darn Sarf. I had just bought my ticket from the window for the City end (you could do things like that in those days) turned round and noticed a house brick flying through the air, followed by several others. I was literally in the middle with City and Leicester nutters bricking each other! Needless to say, I made a strategic withdrawal to a prepared position. Saw no other trouble at all that day.

 

[BringBackSwales]

Thanks for the stories. Seems like the 70's were a brutal time to go away. Was talking yo my dad about this and he said Maine Road used to get pretty lively during night matches. Running battles with us away fans and the police. He said most away fans hated coming to us as in the middle of a council estate and that we knew all the roads and dead ends fans could corner the away fans and City knew all the escape routes to get away from the police!

I reckon one of the worst I ever saw at Maine Road was the relegation v Luton, the back of the Kippax was like a war zone, police vans being turned over and all sorts, I seem to recall that the Luton fans were kept in for hours, and also the scums special coming back in to Piccadilly was held back for an hour or two

 

[BringBackSwales]

It was xmas 76 Kidd scored both goals,I was sat in the top bit behind the goals with my mate and his dad,we played Liverpool at home couple of days later 1-1 on a icy pitch it was just before we had the under soil heating put in.We finished 2nd to Liverpool that season 76/77.

That would be it, that performance stayed with me for a long time, superb that day

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

Yes what a cold night that was but we won 1-0 Royle scored.Do you remember the next round Newcastle away won 3-1 loads of gordies in city end.

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.

 

[big blue balls]

I was in the Lowfield, remember Daffy and his mates come running out of the north end after taking on some of the Leeds fans but My favourite was 74 and Laws back heel at the swamp.

Daffy, Brian Slater RIP and Scotty with their little mob were brilliant that day, they turned up in a furniture removal van right outside that pub near the ground, the back went up and they all piled out and chased Leeds around the pub grounds and up and down the road they never knew what hit them, don't know why they didn't go home in it but seen them all marching all the way back to the station holding their own against a huge Leeds mob, they were laughing and looked as though they were enjoying themselves, rum fuckers all of them