That would be 83/84 season, if I remember rightly Easter game Good Friday/Easter Monday, score was 2-2. Official crowd was around 20k (yes, at Oldham!). Nobody knows how many were really there, loads of Blues just climbing in/rushing turnstiles. Our fans had a ladder up into the Oldham main stand and were climbing up there 1/2 hour before kick off whilst players were warming up. I stood in the away end, could see all the Blues in the chaddy end, especially near front, non stop trouble the whole game. Absolutely wild away game, those really were the days, went to loads of aways and for any local ones 5-10,000 Blues was commonplace.
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City's best ever goal mouth scramble.... 29 years ago today!
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That would be 83/84 season, if I remember rightly Easter game Good Friday/Easter Monday, score was 2-2. Official crowd was around 20k (yes, at Oldham!). Nobody knows how many were really there, loads of Blues just climbing in/rushing turnstiles. Our fans had a ladder up into the Oldham main stand and were climbing up there 1/2 hour before kick off whilst players were warming up. I stood in the away end, could see all the Blues in the chaddy end, especially near front, non stop trouble the whole game. Absolutely wild away game, those really were the days, went to loads of aways and for any local ones 5-10,000 Blues was commonplace.
I think that was the first time we had played them for a long time and at a time when the FA Cup meant something. Utter carnage that day as thousands of City invaded the place. The OP video was from a few years later when everyone thought surely we won't lose again to them. The trouble wasn't as bad this time as the police was a little more switched on than five years previous...
I remember a night game there in the late 70's I think, must have been a cup game again, was another mad day out, can't remember the result but I've a feeling they beat us. Perhaps it was a league cup game being midweek, anyone?
its a Barm
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Yes remember that well, so many great away days in the 80s taking over towns and pubs, remember going in the pub at blackburn minds gone blank you all know it packed to the rafters couldnt get served barmaid tells me to come and help so i did such a laugh all my mates on free beer until every drop of beer gone empty bar drunk dry, if i remember right some scally wag went upstairs and robbed the takings, remember going to boro stopping at services on coach place full of blues place got emtied no body paid a penny, very naughty but very funny, anyone go FC twenty late 70s did the same there in a bar serving all the lads and was there when the van or caravan with scarfs and stuff got turnred over and empied, that was a rum night, no chance of stuff like that happening now, great memorys could carry on but ive got work to do.That would be 83/84 season, if I remember rightly Easter game Good Friday/Easter Monday, score was 2-2. Official crowd was around 20k (yes, at Oldham!). Nobody knows how many were really there, loads of Blues just climbing in/rushing turnstiles. Our fans had a ladder up into the Oldham main stand and were climbing up there 1/2 hour before kick off whilst players were warming up. I stood in the away end, could see all the Blues in the chaddy end, especially near front, non stop trouble the whole game. Absolutely wild away game, those really were the days, went to loads of aways and for any local ones 5-10,000 Blues was commonplace.
lancs blue
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Yes we played there in the League Cup in the late 70s, drew 1-1 and won the replay. That end behind the goal still had a roof on at that time, half of it blew off later in a storm so they had to remove it completely.I remember a night game there in the late 70's I think, must have been a cup game again, was another mad day out, can't remember the result but I've a feeling they beat us. Perhaps it was a league cup game being midweek, anyone?
Yes we played there in the League Cup in the late 70s, drew 1-1 and won the replay. That end behind the goal still had a roof on at that time, half of it blew off later in a storm so they had to remove it completely.
Thanks for that, I was in the side stand but got ejected near the end and carried out a one man assault on that little paddock in the home end, got battered but it never seemed to hurt back then, mad days.
I think it was the FA Cup defeat was when the said pylon was dismantled, along with various other parts of the away end.
The keepers name was Steve Cherry? Had all his worldies in one game..
And Colin Wanker was their (unknown) manager
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"Those were the days my friend
We thought they'd never end
We'd sing and dance forever and a day
We'd live the life we choose
We'd fight and never lose
Those were the days, oh yes those were the days
La la la la..."
Was it more fun, or were we just younger?
We thought they'd never end
We'd sing and dance forever and a day
We'd live the life we choose
We'd fight and never lose
Those were the days, oh yes those were the days
La la la la..."
Was it more fun, or were we just younger?
jimharri
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Mary Hopkin(s); Opportunity Knocks, wasn't it? Christ, I'm old. Back on topic, a scramble like that just wouldn't be allowed to happen these days. The ref would blow up on the pretext of some non-existent foul having taken place."Those were the days my friend
We thought they'd never end
We'd sing and dance forever and a day
We'd live the life we choose
We'd fight and never lose
Those were the days, oh yes those were the days
La la la la..."
Was it more fun, or were we just younger?
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Wow. That brings back some memories.
I was just 16 at the time and travelled up there with a mate on the Friday night. We got chatting to 3 blues from Glossop (or maybe Mossley) at Victoria Station who were doing the same thing. I remember the train pulling in and as we were waiting a while, one of these lads prised the doors and held them open with his foot so we could get on before anyone else. Problem was the whole platform followed our lead and he ended up stuck there for a good 10 mins holding the doors for everyone else.
Got to Blackpool and dived in the first B&B we found opposite the station, and the 5 of us crammed into a room usually meant for 3 people. Friday night around Blackpool started off really bad as i kept getting refused entry to the pubs as i looked well underage. Eventually got let into a pub called something like the 'No.3' or similiar and had a decent night. Staggered back from there via a few chippy's being knobs and asking where we could find the 'Bisons' (supposedly the name of Blackpool's main crew).
Day of the game, set off in the wrong direction and only realised our mistake when we ended up at the North Pier instead of the South Pier. Had to trek all the way back along a freezing prom.
Eventually got to the ground, where there was loads of blues who had been refused entry due to dodgy tickets. Apparently there was loads of counterfeit tickets knocking about that day.
We were in the seats next to City end and when that goal went in it looked like absolute carnage in stand.
Great Day & Good memories
I was just 16 at the time and travelled up there with a mate on the Friday night. We got chatting to 3 blues from Glossop (or maybe Mossley) at Victoria Station who were doing the same thing. I remember the train pulling in and as we were waiting a while, one of these lads prised the doors and held them open with his foot so we could get on before anyone else. Problem was the whole platform followed our lead and he ended up stuck there for a good 10 mins holding the doors for everyone else.
Got to Blackpool and dived in the first B&B we found opposite the station, and the 5 of us crammed into a room usually meant for 3 people. Friday night around Blackpool started off really bad as i kept getting refused entry to the pubs as i looked well underage. Eventually got let into a pub called something like the 'No.3' or similiar and had a decent night. Staggered back from there via a few chippy's being knobs and asking where we could find the 'Bisons' (supposedly the name of Blackpool's main crew).
Day of the game, set off in the wrong direction and only realised our mistake when we ended up at the North Pier instead of the South Pier. Had to trek all the way back along a freezing prom.
Eventually got to the ground, where there was loads of blues who had been refused entry due to dodgy tickets. Apparently there was loads of counterfeit tickets knocking about that day.
We were in the seats next to City end and when that goal went in it looked like absolute carnage in stand.
Great Day & Good memories