City and West Ham fans

I remember them charging us outside the main stand at Maine Road. As a kid of about 10 it scared the crap out of me. Never seen so many police, dogs and horses descend so quickly. Never really trusted them since that day.
 
I want em to win the trophy tonight,as much as I want us to win the feckin C.L.
 
Didsbury Dave said:
There footage I’ve seen and it’s more than 2k. Let me have a look. It’s a small end but absolutely rammed. City’s lads did get detained and never even got there.
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Just watched 10 mins of footage from the game.( May 1987)
Checked official attendance 18,413..if that's correct I don't see now whu would have had only 15k home fans for an end of season match where Billy Bonds and Mark Ward were presented with awards..Whu were a half decent team ,the fans cheered the team off at the end and were still on the pitch when the home players came up into the stands to show their thanks

You can hear chants of City City, quite loud ..if I were to guess,the whu rush on the away end happened well after the pitch invasion to applaud their own players,and that must have taken half hour at least.

I'd say 2k ,maybe just over is about right and West ham were not the sort of club to pander to away fans 're ticket allocation anyway.

I did use to know a lad who worked on their turnstiles tho,he never seemed short of cash lol ;)
 
Zapcity said:
Fulham away, now that was a wake up call.
After going to the opening day win with
30, 000 there against Blackpool I thought ,like many 'We'll coast this division', half time 3:0 down at Craven Cottage we all felt a little different
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Wasn’t it just, they had a German striker called Dirk Lehmann who ripped us apart in the air, scored 2 all season it seems, game before us and the one against us, typical :-).
 
Nebuchadnezzar said:
Whilst I see what you mean, do you think our resident Hammer will ever wind his neck in if they pick up a European trophy and we don't?
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I'm currently on the train to Prague from Vienna with wife who's a West Ham fan. We're off to Istanbul tomorrow. I so want them to win but if they do and we lose I may just stay in Istanbul for a year or two. And I was there in 87 so soft spot
 
intheshed said:
I'm currently on the train to Prague from Vienna with wife who's a West Ham fan. We're off to Istanbul tomorrow. I so want them to win but if they do and we lose I may just stay in Istanbul for a year or two. And I was there in 87 so soft spot
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For the hammers.
 
Nebuchadnezzar said:
Whilst I see what you mean, do you think our resident Hammer will ever wind his neck in if they pick up a European trophy and we don't?
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I dont care,im just talking for myself only....and after all, I ll not die if they loose tonight,instead of a possible defeat of us after a few days in the final,which may tear my stomach once again.....
 
Mad Eyed Screamer said:
The previous 2 games at Maine Road saw some of the worst trouble at the ground.
The first year West Ham had a big mob in the Main Stand doing the oakie cokie and congas.
They then congregated at the Platt Lane end of Maine Road and then charged at City and basically took liberties.
They tried it the following season only to find half of Moss Side turning up at full time and got the hiding of their lives
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I was there in 1982 when the ICF were all in the main stand doing the okey cokey etc and away terrace only a third full, probably the same game?
Outside had to walk through a fight
 

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