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

[andyhinch]

Cheers pal only 1 year out not baf as 50 odd years ago

Is it just me but I only really remember violence at away grounds ? It just felt the norm at home

 

[WestGorton]

It's much better now. The good old days are only good because they have gone

 

[A57 the snake]

A lot more togetherness in them days 100%. I’m more worried about getting a slap from one Of our own these days.

 

[VP81]

Bring back bulldog.

Seeing that medical. Science has progressed so much over the years could someone explain why he always had cotten wool in his ears?

 

[paulchapo]

Seeing that medical. Science has progressed so much over the years could someone explain why he always had cotten wool in his ears?

Yes I often wondered that too.

 

[mancityvstoke]

I Remember Spurs giving it the big one in the Kippax 1977 when they tried to take it
Before getting a severe beating and we stuffed them 5-0 too

Mua ha ha

Yeah they came in late at around 3.15

Cops had let us in their segregated bit and when they came up the steps into the kippax it was mayhem all game ... cops quickly put portable barriers up between us .... the side streets after the game was mental and spurs were well game

 

[levets]

Cardiff away in the cup curle missed a pen game, serious shit after that must have been 200 lads fighting on a petrol station forecourt main road etc City put up a great performance off the pitch unlike on it, now that was scary

Thought we did better than a great performance mate. Cardiff made a big mistake calling it on there... City’s coaches parked 100 Yds away, they got swamped.

 

[levets]

There was some really bad places for hooliganism in the 70's/80's ..... Middlesbrough, Everton, Liverpool, Leeds, West Ham, Chelsea, Wolves, Newcastle, Spurs, none of them were good places to go .... Portsmouth, Millwall and Cardiff also provided challenges to us whenever we had to go there in later years.

We had loads of trouble when we played at Nottingham Forest tin an early 70's FA Cup tie .... and we also saw loads of trouble in another FA Cup tie up at Newcastle in the 80's ..... the league game at Old Trafford during the rags relegation year (early 70's) was also a really bad day for football hooliganism, and it kicked off bigtime in the scoreboard paddock after the pitch invasion.

On a personal note, despite going all over the country with City for 25 years, i only experienced any real trouble at Spurs and Leeds, but you always had to have your wits about you as in those days trouble could happen literally anywhere, but they certainly aren't days that i'd ever want to see again .... even if , as a few on here have said , there did appear to be far more of a 'buzz' to going to games back then.

Forest was dodgy as fook back in the late 70s

 

[Ancoats blue]

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Too many to mention but Cardiff away fa cup definitely is up there Millwall cold blow lane and then again at the new den for a night game

Yep, Cold Blow Lane was a daunting, even creepy, place to visit , and you never felt comfortable there , narrow streets, dodgy characters hanging around in groups, i remember them attacking a City coach before one game there and bricking its windows .... we walked to the ground from New Cross Station, and even though there were a few hundered of us, flanked by coppers, you always felt a bit uneasy and were always looking over your shoulders!

 

[mancityvstoke]

Forest was dodgy as fook back in the late 70s

Saw a forest fan on the bridge got mustard rammed in his eyes taken from hotdog bloke

He was screaming in pain