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

[Scaring Europe to Death]

Unless there’s been another 5-0 that I’ve forgotten about, I think you may be getting your Newcastle trips mixed up mate.

The one near the start of the ‘83/ ‘84 season, where Beardsley scored a hatrick wasn’t a great turn out at all. We had two small pens in the middle behind the net that were both only half full at best. I think the special came in to some station in the middle of nowhere outside the City centre and then bussed in from there.

Although I suppose it’s equally likely that you’re right and I’m getting mixed up.

Definitely the worst I’ve seen there was the ‘77 FA Cup game. Think it’s already been discussed on this thread so won’t bother going on about it again.

I've just been reading this description of the 77 FA Cup game on a Newcastle Website. Funny, because I remember it as an apparent safety issue that caused Newcastle fans to be moved into the City end


"R4: Gordon Lee's pre match motivational talk revolved around telling the players he was off to Goodison to take over as manager of Everton. The weather was as bitter as the mood and fighting fans spilled onto the pitch side forcing the referee to take the players off whilst the police restored order"

 

[awest]

The 5-0 Newcastle game was in 1983. Despite having battered us on the pitch they decided that they wanted to come into our section and batter us! Didn't have many there that day maybe 1,200, memory is a bit sketchy.

I was there and they came in our end offering us out lol. All wearing donkey jackets and boots. Looked like something out of a time warp.

 

[NJMCFC184]

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

Coventry had Leicester with them for some reason

 

[tregyblue61]

I was there and they came in our end offering us out lol. All wearing donkey jackets and boots. Looked like something out of a time warp.

I was in the Platt Lane for the 0-0 game in 1994. 2 of them sat in front of me wearing hob nail boots and donkey jackets. Firmly stuck in that time warp.

 

[NJMCFC184]

Remember it well pal. Police were proper naughty.

2000 the toilets were smashed up and Barnsley Chairman front page of local paper calling City fans animals. Im 45 and had started the doors in 1998 on Roses bar so got to know the lads from the firm at the time, still drink with alot of them at away days , they've grown up now haha, the millennium lads were a game bunch as we rise back through the leagues.

 

[Idesofmarch69]

Millwall get bullied in championship and take no more than 300 away most times….

In the interests of accuracy, their average away attendance last season was 1,077.

 

[NJMCFC184]

In the interests of accuracy, their average away attendance last season was 1,077.

I worked as a steward at Blackburn few year ago , Millwall bought 1300 , mostly families, new chairman tried to change reputation of the club, sadly he's just passed. Most big headlines you see Millwall getting for violence or racism come from the old crew coming back for local derbies especially in Cups when easier get tickets.

 

[Kippax77]

I was at that game. The banana craze was in full flow. There was a really sparse crowd that day and there was a some "Sack The Board" chanting.

The Guvnors travelled to that one in the days when a lot of the main players had been taken out by Operation Omega. They walked to the ground unopposed before the game and some went in the home end. After the game is was a different story when the Zulus stormed into City near the bullring.

Pulled out of a pub before the game with Daft Donald and Co by the police. Some of us got in the ground, a few didn't

 

[Stephen230]

I've just been reading this description of the 77 FA Cup game on a Newcastle Website. Funny, because I remember it as an apparent safety issue that caused Newcastle fans to be moved into the City end


"R4: Gordon Lee's pre match motivational talk revolved around telling the players he was off to Goodison to take over as manager of Everton. The weather was as bitter as the mood and fighting fans spilled onto the pitch side forcing the referee to take the players off whilst the police restored order"

It did start as a safety issue. Their end became that packed that people spilled on to the pitch side. The police decided as the City end wasn’t that full to escort them into the City end.

That of course led to all those who fancied a bit of mither getting down on to the pitch also and ending up in the City end.

 

[bluefish]

Yes I was there. I remember we had to rescue a Barnsley steward caught up in it. Poor lad was terrified

I was on crutches ( broken ankle ) for this game so me and my mates didn't bother going down for a beer.
Remember city fans emerging from the concourse in shock and a short time later St John ambulance giving treatment to city fans on the terrace.
Funnily enough never read about that in the press.