Blues in the Stretford End ‘92

JASR said:
When did
A) the kenilworth gain it’s wall of TV’s
B) the kenilworth lose its wall of TV’s
C) cop26 blame the kenilworth wall of TV’s for the
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JASR said:
When did
A) the kenilworth gain it’s wall of TV’s
B) the kenilworth lose its wall of TV’s
C) cop26 blame the kenilworth wall of TV’s for the start of global warming?
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A) 85 I think. Blue landlord moved out. Rag landlord moved in.
 
I went with a mate that night paid on the gate. Ended up near the bottom right corner of the Stretford end towards the end of the game where the blue numbers had started to swell. When we got the pen and scored we both ran down and joined in the open celebrations. Felt like a king for a few minutes till some rag threw a pie at me, exploded all over the back of my head it was a sureal evening that.
 
Only time I've been in the raggy part was the Stretford Paddock at the end of '76, the game was played after they'd lost to Southampton. I'd got my ticket after that defeat.

The original idea was that as we'd won the LC both trophies were going to be paraded around the pitch....that didn't happen ;)
 
dad1971 said:
I went with a mate that night paid on the gate. Ended up near the bottom right corner of the Stretford end towards the end of the game where the blue numbers had started to swell. When we got the pen and scored we both ran down and joined in the open celebrations. Felt like a king for a few minutes till some rag threw a pie at me, exploded all over the back of my head it was a sureal evening that.
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I got hit with a meat and potato that night as well. Saw a load of rags in there that I knew but fair play to them they didn’t say anything. I couldn’t help going up when Curle scored, that’s when the pies rained down on me.
 
like someone said earlier, it always seemed easier to get tickets in their end than ours and i probably attended 3 or 4 OT derbies and sat in K Stand
 
I was up in the seats in the corner of the main stand with my dad, the utd fans in the exec boxes got dogs abuse from us but what a great performance from the lads that night, city fans everywhere as well.
I've been in their end loads of times and never had any trouble from the cunts including the 3-4 game sat just along from Gary Owen, I was up for all 3 goals, Gary wasn't!
 
marcus said:
Its current landlord is a huge blue , think hes been there 20 years. My memory of how long between him and tommy is gone
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Correct. The pubs never been the same since Tommy or Peter had it. Same with the George and dragon they both went to.
Full of tin pot gangsters on coke now is the kenny.
 
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Jam Tomorrow said:
I remember TC acknowledging the mob of City fans as well. Before the game we bumped into another blue we knew really well, he had a small City badge on, the reds around us also knew we were blues but were fine. That could never happen today.
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I think that's more to do with where you were as opposed to what things were like at the time. Stretford Paddock wasn't really where United's livelier element gathered. If you were in United Road or K Stand you might've come unstuck. That said, United were going for the league and City had seemingly handed the title to them on a plate 3 days earlier after beating Leeds 4-0 so I'm surprised that 1) Their fans weren't more up for it atmosphere-wise considering the circumstances, and 2) Their fans weren't more hostile towards us blues given that it was such a big game for them and they ended up dropping points
 
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Kippax77 said:
I was one of those in the seats at the top of the Stretford End that day, C stand if I remember correctly.
There was about 20 of us from Heywood and when we were Chanting "City City" the Stretford end starting singing " C stand sort em out, C stand, C stand sort em out".
We knew the risks and were prepared for battle but can honestly say not 1 rag had a physical go at us.
Ps Hendrie scored their goal, not Giggs.
Hated the way he got the glory for it
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We were in the Stretford seats that day along with a lot of other City fans, I remember the chant C stand sort them out, not a single fuck was given, I vividly remember singing a Barcelona chant as well, we also took the piss before the game in the pub where the bishops blaze is now situated, can't remember it's name, and they have the cheek to say we've never shown up at the swamp.
 
red 2 hats said:
We were in the Stretford seats that day along with a lot of other City fans, I remember the chant C stand sort them out, not a single fuck was given, I vividly remember singing a Barcelona chant as well, we also took the piss before the game in the pub where the bishops blaze is now situated, can't remember it's name, and they have the cheek to say we've never shown up at the swamp.
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Think it was called the Dog And Partridge?

A mate of mine was on the Stretford End that day of the 1-0 defeat in '91 and he distinctly remembers the City chant going up from the Stretford End seats. He said it was piss funny seeing the Rags around him going off their rockers "Them fucking blue bastards are in our seats again!"
 
Didsbury Dave said:
There were alway blues in their end back in those days because you got tickets from your mate or a tout. In the derby where Giggs scored on his debut there was a chant of “City” went up from the Stratford seated area which was hilarious because they were all looking round going mad trying to see where it came from but we were spread throughout the stand.
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That could have been us. 3 of us were together giving it them.
 
marcus said:
This ridiculously crap screen shot off youtube is a 16 year old me in the main stand paddock after Brightwell ‘just wellied it’.
Instinct made me shoot my arms in the air.
Fear made me put them right down.
Bravery made me shoot them back up when i realised there was quite a fee blues around me.
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Yeah I was sat a couple of rows behind you and if my memory is correct there were quite a few blues dotted around us that day. No bother of the rag fans I think the brightwell goal just stunned them.
 
gloryhuntersince85 said:
like someone said earlier, it always seemed easier to get tickets in their end than ours and i probably attended 3 or 4 OT derbies and sat in K Stand
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Can’t remember the year but we drew 2 v 2 and I was in k stand. Got the ticket off a rag work mate. Don’t know how I got outta there alive as I was threatened after celebrating first goal and did a repeat performance on our second goal.
 
marcus said:
Its current landlord is a huge blue , think hes been there 20 years. My memory of how long between him and tommy is gone
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Yes John his name is ex seaman and a big Blue I knew him years ago, we used to drink in the Snooty Fox on Princess Parkway. We were having a drink in there before the Charlton 5-1 promotion game and Alan the manager at the time gave us free hospitality tickets in the Maine Stand as the brewery were sponsoring it. He was also in Porto for the champions League final.
 
paulchapo said:
Yes John his name is ex seaman and a big Blue I knew him years ago, we used to drink in the Snooty Fox on Princess Parkway. We were having a drink in there before the Charlton 5-1 promotion game and Alan the manager at the time gave us free hospitality tickets in the Maine Stand as the brewery were sponsoring it. He was also in Porto for the champions League final.
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Fuck me the snooty fox use to stop there before matchs few games of pool and beers of course must be years since it went.
 
its a Barm said:
Fuck me the snooty fox use to stop there before matchs few games of pool and beers of course must be years since it went.
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Yes a great pub back in the day, 14 pool tables upstairs, used to have live bands on and DJs in its prime. Sadly now a McDonald's and petrol station.
 
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