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

[Blue Feather]

Yes 83/84 season,Newcastle put 5 past us at there place.I remember going to watch us at Cambridge that season 0-0 just over 5,000 attendance,got to be the lowest league crowd I have ever been in.

Geoff Lomax at right back and a Scottish band to make all the City lads feel at home :) Just before Christmas if I remember correctly?

 

[DTKOAG]

I said precious, must he hard for you ger fams to even imagine what it was like

Even towards the late 80s and into the 90s and 00s when police had a handle on the organised violence , there was still fighting that you cant really imagine happeing todat.

1989 v united , the 5-1. The scrapping in the north stand and a massive bunch of red cunts being escorted out past the main stand and into the platt lane corner to a huge chorus of YOURE THE SHIT OF MANCHESTER.

Coventry at hone when a sizeable bunch of them stormed the main stand. Probably thinking it was full of old cunts, only to be met by enough lads to send them oacking.

Middlesborough getting into the north stand at the final whistle and it going off big time. I think city were caught too unawares

All fams visiting maine road knew they were in for a battle if they wanted it.

Im not glorifying any of it. Its what it was at that time

Todays sanitised version of footy hoolies is a million miles away. Even the above instances which were mild compared to a lot that went on is unimaginable in todays game… which is obviously a good thing

Middlesborough did enter the north stand but that was when that part was also the family stand..
Summed them fookers up TBH.

 

[Bluesince1979]

Was at all the games pal. Coventry were truely put too sleep.

I used to sit at the back of the main stand and as a big softy wouldnt have got involved but i had the perfect view of blues just chasing the daft bastards back out the ground

 

[citymad]

Love hearing about all those memories Back then you had to have your wits about you even at Maine Road. I loved traveling to away games with City. I was usually by myself most of the time so I could avoid the trouble but I couldn't help feel the excitement and nervousness before and after the game. Having seen the footage the game I wished I'd have been to was the infamous Leeds FA cup game. It was a battle on the pitch I can't imagine what it was like off it.

 

[Oils]

Was at all the games pal. Coventry were truely put too sleep.

Same, still say that trouble before the 5-1 disrupted united and gave us a lift…not only did they get a good kicking but they were part responsible for the team getting one also

 

[Blue Til Death]

I remember being in the Kippax in the 70’s and the dippers were wrapping paper around bricks,, lighting em and lobbing em over to us, you could hear em hitting the steel rafters all over the place … Horrible cunts…!

 

[dennishasdoneit]

Was at all the games pal. Coventry were truely put too sleep.

Happy (blurry eyed) memories of the old abbey, every time you post
Which is not often,but it takes me right back to the late 80s
Was out with a few who used to go the abbey couple weeks back.
Top Juke box. Back in the day.

 

[CotswoldsBlue]

Mid 80's v West Ham and loads of them going in the Main Stand doing the Oakie Cokie. They then congregated after the game at the far end of Maine Road and then marched / charged up Maine Road chanting Irons Irons Irons..... Kicking City fans all over the place.

The following season they tried it again and after the game the biggest City crew I'd ever seen was outside waiting. Half of Moss Side's young males were there, chased and battered the Hammers. They stood out like a sore thumb mostly wearing yellow Slazenger jumpers.

That was 1982 was in the Platt Lane next to the Oakie Cokie ICF, left early and was dodging fights everywhere

 

[Spurs quarter 69]

Same, still say that trouble before the 5-1 disrupted united and gave us a lift…not only did they get a good kicking but they were part responsible for the team getting one also

How did so many of the bastards get tickets for the North Stand in the first place ?

 

[blue44]

I remember being in the Kippax in the 70’s and the dippers were wrapping paper around bricks,, lighting em and lobbing em over to us, you could hear em hitting the steel rafters all over the place … Horrible cunts…!

I was a kid during the 70's , I remember our lot would throw glass bottles from our end of the Kippax to smash and shatter from the roof over the away fans , seen that done many times .