City Myths

[J.G.Blue.]

The most dangerous game I have ever attended. Nothing like it before or since. Not even close. How nobody died is a miracle. I was without air for over a minute when the first goal went in. When I got up the people that I had been standing with were about 20 metres away from each other. The Kippax was exciting but terrifying that day.

My mate decided to bring his quite shy & very posh girlfriend to her first ever football game that day, 4 of us squashed onto the kippax, after the first goal it was absolute mayhem, limbs everywhere, I didnt manage to find them again untill after the 5th goal went in but I think she quite enjoyed it & we all went on the pitch at the end!
If anything had gone wrong in the crowd that day Swales would have been in deep shit, I dont know how many were in the ground but it was a lot more than 47,000.

 

[eastmanc]

The most dangerous game I have ever attended. Nothing like it before or since. Not even close. How nobody died is a miracle. I was without air for over a minute when the first goal went in. When I got up the people that I had been standing with were about 20 metres away from each other. The Kippax was exciting but terrifying that day.

The Kippax was swaying sideways as well as up and down. It was packed.

 

[superwatsonwatson]

City relegated United

City didn’t relegate utd, is the real myth. Utd knew if they lost to City they were down. They lost, they were down. No need to check any other results.

 

[old blue]

If a fairweather fan looked at the fixtures pre season and picked just one away game for a day out, good chance he’d have picked York.

Ground very few had been to.
Saturday afternoon KO.
Easy short train ride.
City famous for being a good piss up.

Only for the fans not the team.

 

[big gaz]

My mate decided to bring his quite shy & very posh girlfriend to her first ever football game that day, 4 of us squashed onto the kippax, after the first goal it was absolute mayhem, limbs everywhere, I didnt manage to find them again untill after the 5th goal went in but I think she quite enjoyed it & we all went on the pitch at the end!
If anything had gone wrong in the crowd that day Swales would have been in deep shit, I dont know how many were in the ground but it was a lot more than 47,000.

And. this reads like an Escort mag, so what happened FFS ;-)

 

[KS55]

I was reading about historical racism in English football, on some shitty web site, and was gobsmacked that our penchant for inflatable Bananas was referenced as an extreme example. That was a particularly nasty/false reinterpretation of nothing but harmless fun, tbh not seen it spreading, but will not be surprised if the City haters try to meme into a myth....There's something about football that makes certain people lose their frickin minds...

Our inflatables were much worse than the shed at Chelsea pelting Alex Williams with bananas. We are just all racist cheats.

 

[KS55]

City didn’t relegate utd, is the real myth. Utd knew if they lost to City they were down. They lost, they were down. No need to check any other results

Before ko it would have taken a series of bizzare results for the rags to stay up. The tiniest mathematical chance.

 

[horlock_was_super]

And my old mates said I was mad for wanting to stay in my seat the Main Stand rather than going in the Kippax that day...

Lightweights. The only thing that got crushed in H block that day was my meat and potato pie.

My late brother got us tickets for the North Stand for some bizarre reason, we always went in The Kippax. Very similar experience to you except I didn’t have my pie squashed. I didn’t get the full match day mayhem like you did mate. Respect.

 

[blue by birth]

Try Torquay away league Cup first leg. Tuesday night 1983 0-0, took forever to get there.

I went to that on the football special..about 300 on it..we got special buses to the ground and as we got off the old bill said Torquay mob waiting for you...there were about 20 of them and they ran off before we could all get off the bus.
We won 2nd leg 6-0 if I remember correctly

 

[MCFC Wirral]

I hope Imre Banana didn’t buy houses every time he signed for a new club.