Hooliganism and Violence Maine Road 80's/early 90's

[paulchapo]

Remember a massive rumble with Chelsea outside the Brunswick near Piccadilly in 85, was very early in the season City had just come up from Div 2,they made the game an 11am KO on a Saturday morning,2 absolutely huge crews goin toe to toe after the game,how 2 such big crews bypassed the police was baffling looking back especially when the game was switched to such an early start to try & avoid this...

I remember a rag telling me one night game at OT they took pure liberties, walking around the ground like they owned it, even the Stretford end.

The cup winners cup game at our place in 1971 was quite a night too, scrapping all over the ground, loads at the top of the kippax.

 

[AJ71]

I seem to remember in the Coventry game they filled the North Stand on a bit of a day trip and we scored that late most had gone home in not that big a crowd anyway. I remember some coming out afterwards in a sort of act of surrender. Shithouses

They brought 4k, so about 2/3 of the North Stand, which is about 3,800 more than they would normally bring. As you say, bit of a day out for them.

 

[TheCentralScrutinizer]

They brought 4k, so about 2/3 of the North Stand, which is about 3,800 more than they would normally bring. As you say, bit of a day out for them.

Remember playing them in a cup replay at Maine rd about 96 when some genius thought it would be a good idea to allocate 400 travelling fans the whole North stand,who made them decisions back then ffs?

 

[mancityvstoke]

Remember a massive rumble with Chelsea outside the Brunswick near Piccadilly in 85, was very early in the season City had just come up from Div 2,they made the game an 11am KO on a Saturday morning,2 absolutely huge crews goin toe to toe after the game,how 2 such big crews bypassed the police was baffling looking back especially when the game was switched to such an early start to try & avoid this...

Loved drinking outside The Brunswick.....oh look .....it's the Utd special.....from that London.


Miss the 70's

 

[ShaunMCFC]

I remember watching Man City v Arsenal in 2020, and the striker we had at the time savagely attacked the assistant referee who was also female.

Thank God we live in a better time than back then.

 

[Deleted member 77198]

My feelings exactly Purplenose. I am 64 now,so would have no chance in a scrap with a younger guy and I cant run very fast either.
But the match day experience is garbage now,compared to the 70s and 80s. Too many happy clappers and tourists for my liking.

Very true.

I’d love to have the same numbers of lads (and I don’t mean these throwbacks wearing Fila and posturing, just the lads there for the craic and the game) going to the match en mass these days, without the violence but just for the edge and atmosphere.

There’s a massive lack of big groups of 20-40 year olds at City compared to other clubs. I always look at the Everton and United away ends (moreso than other clubs) and always notice how their main element is groups of 20-40 year old lads. At City, our demographic is very different. I remember the last time I went to Newcastle (two years ago I think, might be three, recent years before the pandemic seem all muddled to me at the moment) and I was with two other lads my age, late 30s, and we all commented on how old everyone around us was (and we’re not even young!).

I started going as a young kid in 1989 so missed the worst years but I always remember still feeling the edginess to a match day that I enjoyed even as a kid. The thought of a match day experience with Moonbeam firing t-shirts into the crowd or getting on stage with Pike and Fanzone would have seemed like a fucking joke to me back then even as an 8 year old.

 

[Kippax BB Lower]

Not really old enough to remember much of the eighties. The first bit of serious trouble I saw at Maine Road was after the Liverpool relegation match in '96 - quite a few Scousers' cars getting smashed up with the occupants still inside along Claremont Road towards The Sherwood

The Leeds FA cup game in 2000 was lively, I think they had the full North Stand that day. Most vans/minibuses with a Leeds phone number on it was overturned, running battles seemed to go on for ages...

The most amusing one I saw was when a group of Chesterfield fans came walking past The Sherwood giving it the big un' after the game, they must of lasted no more than a few minutes at best!

 

[yeseye]

Was that after they had been battered?

Yep.
They weren’t very happy and I thought I’m definitely getting a slap here!
All City were on Oxford Rd by this time iirc.

 

[yeseye]

One if the worst outbreaks of trouble at MR was when Warrington played Wigan in the Challenge Cup SF. That was a day and a half that one.

I remember it well, they were going at it on Princess Road and in the Platt Lane.
I saw one of the mobs and it looked like 200 Rugby players ffs!

 

[yeseye]

Yeah that's the one.

Around the time they made the ‘Hooligan’ documentary.
I’m sure Utd were at home the same day and City and Utd were to join forces to give it the Cockneys
but a few City decided it would be more exciting to do Utd instead!
All around Piccadilly Gardens was hundreds of lads everywhere !