Leeds Vs Man City FA Cup Jan. 7th. 1978

uncle fester said:
Was just surfing through Youtube looking for something else (not porn honest) when this popped up

You tend to forget football used to be like this - Gordon McQueen takes out Peter Barnes - No Penalty!

Then McQueen punches his own keeper! - cue stern talking to from Ref

Oh, and a full scale pitch invasion - Enjoy

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You just can't beat the wonderful feeling of the wind flapping around your flares when invading the pitch!!!
 
Prestwich_Blue said:
Great day that. I was in the main stand with two former uni flatmates, one a Blue (Steve) & the other a Leeds fan (Tony). The mates I’d travelled over with were standing behind the goal so we split up when we arrived and I waited for Steve & Tony.

As I’m waiting, quietly minding my own business with no colours showing, a bus pulls up full of Leeds fans. Fuck me if the first one off wasn’t another of our flatmates. Normally I’d have gone to speak to him but I knew he’d be pissed up, would tell everyone I was a Blue and I’d get a kicking. So I hid & hoped he wouldn’t see me and he didn’t so I got away with that.

After the game, the City fans behind the goal were kept in, which just gave the Leeds fans time to get round from their end and chuck bricks into the ground where the City fans were. I’m strolling nonchalantly round to meet my other mates to go back to Manchester scarf tied securely around my waist under my jumper. Then they let the Coty fans out and they charged the Leeds fans en masse. I wasn’t bothered, after all I was a Blue but as they charged towards me I realised they wouldn’t know that and again I was risking a kicking but from my own fans. So I hurriedly fumbled under my clothes, got my scarf out from under my jumper and was waving it around as they got close. The kids of today have no idea what away games used to be like.
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What a story. Also how the fuck was that not a penalty.
 
After coming out of the ground my mate and I were walking back to the station with the City fans when bricks started raining down on us. When it stopped, I turned to my mate but he'd disappeared. So had all the other City fans. Next time I saw him he was running down the street with a posse of Leeds fans chasing him. He was banging on the back of a black maria and shouting "let me in you bastards, let me in". I'm ashamed to say I didn't rush to help him.
 
went to that game, was stood in the lowfields about halfway line, it was fucking stupid b4 the game parked in the city bus park, glad I didn't have any colours on but walking up eland rd it was kicking off all over. after we won decided to get out asap but when the 2 of us got to the exit there was leeds fans coming in, but they soon fucked off then every 1 was coming out. there was leeds at 1 side and us at the other side of the road, then some buses came and all hell broke out with bricks and bottles going over the buses from each side. hundreds of city was going to the bus park so we went with them and there was loads of leeds in the rugby ground opp us but loads of city ran at them, glad I got to car and away, but even then going back to Doncaster on M62 [ we had our scarfs out then] a couple of leeds cars was trying to force us off the rd, but as I had a fucking old car I decided to ram them, they soon stopped trying to force me off. then when we got to Donny, I parked in centre and my mate went to get the sports paper in the arndale centre, good job he can run as leeds fans who got off the train ran at him as he still had scarf on, I could hear him shout to me as he opened the car door to go,we did looking back could see leeds fans running down the rd after us,
 
I was chatting to a Leeds Service Crew veteran this afternoon who said he always went armed with 2 milk bottles and stones in his jacket pockets to throw at away fans. He recalls being chased into a coffee shop in Leeds by a gang of Blues but couldn’t recall it it was that game.
 
Oh I remember this one. Always a feisty affair both Leeds home and away on and off the pitch. Remember a league game at elland rd with loads of us being late for the game . We were on a service train..turned up outside the away end and being met by Leeds finest.
 
Ardwick Green Blue said:
Football was a war zone in those days BUT you could generally choose to join in or not. I was going all over from the age of 16 in 1970 as I was working and could afford it and went to all the worst grounds. The fact was there were loads...OT, Leeds,Liverpool, Everton, Birmingham, West Ham and basically any other ground.

I enjoyed it but you have to say it was fucking crazy and not something that could last forever.
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Oh yes we had some receptions at these grounds. Brum was very tasty night match. I ended up catching a lift off Alan Potters coach. You saved my bacon Cheers Alan.
 
i kne albert davy said:
Drew forest in next round when they we're a top side first game called off waterlogged pitch rearranged mid week lost 2-1 Newcastle 1-3 was season before that it was a day far more memorable if you were in our end.Now I wonder what happened yesterday.
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Fuck me mate, I'm not sure which day was the worst one, I think Newcastle may just edge it tho. :)
 
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