70's awaydays

[mancityvstoke]

Was in the seats for that one, took my dad RIP) was horrible at the end cos they let us out before the City fans who were stood up, was happy to get away alive

yep and we were locked in the lowfield rd paddock getting bottles etc chucked over the wall......we wanted to get out to join with the seat lot who were dads with kids etc

 

[mancityvstoke]

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!

There were loads of ambush places all over the shop that's why....many away fans got followed to where they parked etc

 

[paulchapo]

There were loads of ambush places all over the shop that's why....many away fans got followed to where they parked etc

One of the top Chelsea boys who wrote one of those hooligan books said Maine road was one of the places he feared going to the most,an awful place full of alleyways and back streets where they were constantly attacked.

 

[big blue balls]

One of the top Chelsea boys who wrote one of those hooligan books said Maine road was one of the places he feared going to the most,an awful place full of alleyways and back streets where they were constantly attacked.

Dog Shit alley being one of them!

 

[mancityvstoke]

 

[mancityvstoke]

Some fans used to check out tax disc holders for where it had been stamped.....Liverpool? Over the car went

 

[sir baconface]

Don't forget that Maine Road was also too scary for away fans .... :)

I grant you we didn't always give a cordial welcome to those on the following list:

- Ragtards
- Scouse gits (no such thing as dippers in those days)
- Sheffield and Leeds scum
- Cockney wankers.

Most others were tolerated as long as they didn't give it large.

Sometimes.

 

[big blue balls]

I grant you we didn't always give a cordial welcome to those on the following list:

- Ragtards
- Scouse gits (no such thing as dippers in those days)
- Sheffield and Leeds scum
- Cockney wankers.

Most others were tolerated as long as they didn't give it large.

Sometimes.

The rope separating Blues from the rag scum down the Kippax one game, it lasted about 2 minutes after kick off!!

 

[sir baconface]

The rope separating Blues from the rag scum down the Kippax one game, it lasted about 2 minutes after kick off!!

Don't remember the rope but do remember a stretch of "no man's land" between us and the scum, with each group lined by coppers. People chucked bottles at the girders above the other lot so the glass smashed over them. Derby matches at Maine Road were a battle zone, thanks to the Kippax housing both sets of hard lads. A bit less so at the Swamp as we were in different stands.

 

[remember arthur mann]

That game at Luton was crazy! Sunny day and I stood in the 'big' open Kenilworth Road stand where it was mixed so remember it going off in places. Rodney had a strop for being subbed and took his shirt off and marched with the band at half-time and then sat outside the dug-out with some kids if I remember correctly? Afterwards a big pitch invasion and plenty of charging back and forth with Luton, City and the Police.....outside was mad too. I stood there with my Dad (bless him) while all the fun was going on in the ground and on the streets and round the Arndale car park.....Happy days!!!

Could be the same Luton game, that in the early hours of the following morning, my mother had a knock on the door to be informed by our local bobby that my younger brother was in Luton General Hospital after having a hammer blow to the back of the head. Apparently his only escape was to roll under a parked car !!