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

Cheesy said:
I strongly believe that football hooliganism in the 70's / 80's was a form of homo-eroticism.

All those young men struggling with their true feelings, not being able to come out as gay as it just wasn't accepted back then meaning they turned to violence to get all that stress out.

They probably engaged in a bit of mutual masturbation after a good scrap too.
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Speak for yourself cheesy
 
youngbob said:
This is slightly tangential but was anyone in this thread at the Sheffield United cup game in 2008? The balloon match. My first ever away day. Was 12 going on 13 at the time. Got taken by my mum and dad as a bit of a post-Christmas treat. The game was shocking (if memorable) but the aftermath properly scarred me and put me off away games for years. We got kicked out of the away end by Sheffield United stewards and saw that it was properly kicking off about 20 yards away - dozens of blokes battering each other on the A621, some lads scrapping on the ground while police horses jumped over them. We tried to get back in the ground and asked the stewards if we could take cover until it passed but they wouldn't let us back in. We'd parked the car on the south side of Bramall Lane - looking at the map we'd parked it on the edge of the industrial estate that's nearby, on Edmund Road or St. Wilfrid's Road. It was just miles and miles of fighting between us and the car. We made the decision to head north, back towards the city centre, and then find our way back around. Only ended up doing Leicester away (Neil Young scarves game), Bolton away, and Blackburn away during the Mancini years after that. Just not my scene.

Another incident I remember from our days at the Etihad was against Birmingham in the early Mancini days. The game was a proper dud, a 0-0, bit bad tempered. Me and my mum have sat in the North Stand since we moved to Eastlands and we've always parked on that side of the ground. The abattoir next to the cemetery, all around Bradford Road, Asda, etc. But one season we found a good car park behind Guvnor's pub that used to sit just off Alan Turing Way on the way to Ashbury's station. We walked round to the away end and met loads and loads of Birmingham lads who were about to square off with a big City lot. The Brum fans were on the pavement right outside Mary D's and the City lads were on the opposite side just coming out the green gates of the coach park. And me (about 16 by this point), my mum, and my little cousin who was 10 at the time, were slap bang in the middle of the A662. 80-100 Brum lads vs. about 80-100 City, getting closer and closer to each other. We honestly thought we were done for until a group of about 30 police officers ran in and formed a cordon that stopped the Brum fans from getting over the road. We had to scarper and get to Alan Turing Way fast as we could while the police were waving us on.
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There was definitely one game around that time ( and by that time I mean somewhere between the end of the 80s and today ) where it kicked off in that pub on your left as you walk from the station to the ground. And it all snowballed from there.

Loads of City tried steaming their end behind the goal and even though I wasn’t there at the time, there were stories that they were behind the other goal dishing out slaps to City scarfers at the same time.

After the game it kicked off in that pub just behind The Crucible near the station. And a bit of handbags on the station itself but too many SYP for it to get out of hand.

There was a Good Friday evening game aswell, which probably was 80s, where it got a bit lively in the afternoon a bit away from the main City Centre pubs. But can’t remember where exactly.
 
Bill Walker said:
Only time I've been ashamed to be a City fan was back in about 1969
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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Spot on and this little tale sums up the character of 99% of ” hooligans” whether they’re City fans or not. Virtually none of em have any bottle and in any one on one situation would be cruelly exposed for the unskilled fannys they truly are.
 
Maybe people were just wound up by the eternal anti-City bias? Classic example here go to about 4 mins in and its Big Joe had been involved in 25 Derbies - won 9 drawn 9 ........ couldn't actually say that meant lost only 7..... I mean when people were punching down Blues could only punch up..... figuratively and literally

 
bluestevei said:
i think that was the 25 years of the birmingham zulu fans, and that they was in force at city, i came out of mary ds and about 20 was standing there baiting city fans until pub empted and they got run all over
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He was probably one of them. They were trying to break into the City section in the South stand concourse at one point.
 
Axel Freed said:
Spot on and this little tale sums up the character of 99% of ” hooligans” whether they’re City fans or not. Virtually none of em have any bottle and in any one on one situation would be cruelly exposed for the unskilled fannys they truly are.
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Bollocks.

Pure bollocks.
 
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