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

I think back in the day criteria was 1st year to 5th year season ticket holders who could get a ticket for away games , no one struggled if you wanted to go away you’d get a ticket for virtually every game. I never missed out on a brief . To go to West Ham now you need 28,000 pts back then you’d need at least 280 lads .
 
Only time I've been ashamed to be a City fan was back in about 1969 after Leeds game.
Somewhere near Oxford Rd towards University there was about 30 young City fans walking towards town, I was tagging just behind them with my scarf on heading into town. There was a lad sat at a bus stop and he appeared to have a United scarf on, he was just sat there waiting, looked very harmless, probably a student as he looked like Syd Barrett from Pink Floyd... and every one of them gobbed on him more than once. he was absolutely covered in gob.
It was fucking horrible, I was praying they weren't gonna kick the shit out of the poor sod. They didn't.
He looked like he was fucking terrified.
Never forgotten that.
 
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Paul Simpson's left peg said:
They got off the train at Stockport because there were united fans getting coaches down to Nottingham outside a pub on the other side of the station. Not sure if they got put back on the trains or were marched up from Stockport, but there were loads of them of them getting a police escort up Claremont road, with riot vans and helicopters above. They weren't cowering though in fairness to them
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They were cowering at the back of the Kippax after the game alright there's footage of it on that documentary, but yes elsewhere they had a go. Maybe cowering is too strong a word, they were ducking the bricks and bottles being thrown and the police were on the scene by then.
 
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paulchapo said:
They were cowering at the back of the Kippax after the game alright there's footage of it on that documentary, but yes elsewhere they had a go. Maybe cowering is too strong a word, they were ducking the bricks and bottles being thrown and the police were on the scene by then.
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Is it City behind the police cordon where it shows Mcintyre shitting himself on his own?
 
BufordUSABlue said:
We had a lucky escape after the match in a Chesterfield boozer
Their main man came in and called over one of his “captains’ who had been amicably chatting to us for a while and told him that the 3 ‘Manc twats’needed to leave ……. NOW !!
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Was that the league Cup game in 77/78, or the league game in 99?
 
Fordyboy46 said:
He just seems to be stood on his own though mate, you can hear bottles etc smashing down around him
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Well I wasn't stood with him obviously but he was trapped with some Millwall fans that's why stuff was being thrown in that direction. I was at the game and at the night game against them too.
 
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