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

gordondaviesmoustache said:
He was never popular. Think he was tolerated up to bringing Big Mal back, because those were decent years. So he became widely unpopular in about 1980 I’d say. What a fucking disaster that was btw. Bringing Malcolm back. Swales should have gone for that fucking abortion alone.

Dreadful human being. In so many ways.
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You can trace dropping into the 3rd tier right back to that appointment.
 
johnnytapia said:
Didn’t he score with one of Bobby Mac’s boots?
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Steve used to coach us at Platt Lane and as he lived in Withington near the Old House at Home on Burton Rd used to drop me off after training. He was my hero as a 13 yr old in the Platt Lane that goal will never be forgotten, he told me his boots split after the goal and he threw them in the bin, I was desperate for it as souvenir but too late. Had a Saab sponsored car. Haha remember them days
 
gordondaviesmoustache said:


Great goal.
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My first derby. 7 years old and in the bottom corner of the Kippax where it met the North Stand. It was fuckin rammed! The biggest memory of that day was watching thousands of rags on the pavement walking up Yew Tree road surrounded by old Bill. I shit myself! All I could hear was Y'nitet! WANKERS! I've despised them ever since.
 
Norman kneejerk said:
I think you are right
I have just been watching City v Spurs from Feb 83, a 2/2 draw on you tube and Dennis Tueart was playing.

Another interesting point they mentioned that I didn't remember was Bond had been followed by private detectives probably arranged by the club (Swales).
There were also quite a few Swales out banners even then.
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77lost by a point said:
I think around 1969/70 it was around 20p I do remember in 1973 it being 25p F**King he'll I am a FOC.
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It was 2/6d in the scoreboard and 3d in the Kippax for a junior. If you were in the scoreboard end it was pissing down and you wanted to escape it, you could pay the extra 6d and transfer into the covered Kippax through the transfer gate. Me and my mate used to get there as soon as the gates opened about 1pm, pay into the scoreboard, walk right to the corner, jump over the wall and into the Kippax and save ourselves 6d. No stewards in those days and the police didn't start to drift out until later when the ground started to fill up.
 
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