Maine Road For Visiting Fans

[urmston]

What a load of shit lol

Did you ever go to Anfield, Chelsea, West Ham, Everton, Utd, Leeds etc etc etc etc (70's/80's)

Easy places like Leicester away, Derby away or Coventry maybe but none of the others

Yes I did.

In my opinion and experience it was very easy to avoid any trouble in those days.


As a City fan since 1963 I can honestly say the worst thing I've personally experienced is a Newcastle fan trying, unsuccessfully, to grab my dad's scarf after the 5-0 defeat at St James Park in 1983.

Thuggery and violence at football has never affected the majority of fans. It's always been confined to a few mindless idiots.

I really wish you'd been there when I was getting bricked by Leeds, nearly stabbed by scousers and kicked to fuck by Spurs lol


You could have told them right off....little scallywags

I was there when we were being bricked over the wall by Leeds fans.

Storm in a teacup.

We all got home OK.

I feel you need to over-dramatise the past to make it seem exciting.

To me excitement comes from the football, not the antics of a few brick throwing or knife wielding yobs.

 

[mancityvstoke]

Yes I did.

In my opinion and experience it was very easy to avoid any trouble in those days.


As a City fan since 1963 I can honestly say the worst thing I've personally experienced is a Newcastle fan trying, unsuccessfully, to grab my dad's scarf after the 5-0 defeat at St James Park in 1983.

Thuggery and violence at football has never affected the majority of fans. It's always been confined to a few mindless idiots.

I really wish you'd been there when I was getting bricked by Leeds, nearly stabbed by scousers and kicked to fuck by Spurs lol


You could have told them right off....little scallywags

I was there when we were being bricked over the wall by Leeds fans.

Storm in a teacup.

We all got home OK.

I feel you need to over-dramatise the past to make it seem exciting.

To me excitement comes from the football, not the antics of a few brick throwing or knife wielding yobs.

lol How do you know EVERYONE got home safe? I know at least 3 who didn't and 4 who were arrested.
Who the fuck is glorifying anything........Show me where I've glorified it.

My point is that these things happened (not in your world but in others worlds) It wasn't nice either.


I'm glad you think dodging bottles and bricks was nothing. Snide punches nothing and stabbings.

Parallel universe.

 

[hateutd]

Yes I did.

In my opinion and experience it was very easy to avoid any trouble in those days.


As a City fan since 1963 I can honestly say the worst thing I've personally experienced is a Newcastle fan trying, unsuccessfully, to grab my dad's scarf after the 5-0 defeat at St James Park in 1983.

Thuggery and violence at football has never affected the majority of fans. It's always been confined to a few mindless idiots.

I really wish you'd been there when I was getting bricked by Leeds, nearly stabbed by scousers and kicked to fuck by Spurs lol


You could have told them right off....little scallywags

I was there when we were being bricked over the wall by Leeds fans.

Storm in a teacup.

We all got home OK.

I feel you need to over-dramatise the past to make it seem exciting.

To me excitement comes from the football, not the antics of a few brick throwing or knife wielding yobs.

this is the truth.....!!!!!!!!!

 

[cyberblue]

Stories of violence and general 'aggro' from the 70s and 80s are usually exaggerated.

I was there, and walked through a lot of it.

In the main it was just immature posturing by rival groups of a few young men who fancied a fight.

I can remember loads of matches where fans from both sides walked peacefully past silly fights by this idiotic minority.

Well you have different memories from me .my first time at anfield as a 16 year old in 1970 3 scousers tried to steal my Harrington jacket while i was wearing the fu*ker . on the way back to the train station a group on 10 city fans about 100 yards in front of me minding there own buisnes were brutaly atacked by a gang of about 40 scousers . i could spend all day recalling similar stories from the 70s

 

[NPBlue]

I'd love to sympathise but I saw City at Gruesome Park a few times and it wasn't very pleasant.
Their new ground isn't as bad but it's been dumped between a railway line and a rive so it's a bugger to get away from.
And the area is, as my mate would put it, "a post-apocalyptic, chemically-scarred wasteland".
But the Transporter Bridge is quite interesting.

'Pull your blinds down when we pass through Eaglescliff' said the ticket collector.

Jeez, there was a hail of bricks and heaven knows what else when we went through there.

A few windows were put through, and I remember one lad picking at the shattered remains of the window and getting a piece of glass in his eye.

Not nice.

The thing is, we stayed in our seats with a howling gale blowing all over the carriage as as we returned home, and it was a cold night.

British Rail put up with a lot back then.

 

[Blue Streak]

Lets not kid ourselves? for a certain generation Maine Road was a terrifying place to visit especially for fans of London teams. Read Bill Gardeners book as a cited example. I don't think the surrounding area especially helped. I remember talking to a fella a few years ago from Wigan who is an Everton fan who attended the 1981 FA QF Replay at Maine Road and he told me he was petrified after the game with the violence that was happening.

Sign of the times for most inner city stadia.

 

[urmston]

I think it's about time people stopped all this rubbish glorifying the hooliganism of the 70s and 80s.

It was perfectly possible in those days to go to any football ground and avoid trouble.

The violence was almost entirely confined to a few immature idiots.

It was very easy to avoid, and never even happened at most matches.

I went to all the supposed dangerous grounds in that period, and never suffered as much as a scratch, and I expect most visitors to Maine Rd could say the same.

Any dull old bore who has tales of his times fighting at football back in the day is probably thick as plank and fancied a fight.

 

[mancityvstoke]

I think it's about time people stopped all this rubbish glorifying the hooliganism of the 70s and 80s.

It was perfectly possible in those days to go to any football ground and avoid trouble.

The violence was almost entirely confined to a few immature idiots.

It was very easy to avoid, and never even happened at most matches.

I went to all the supposed dangerous grounds in that period, and never suffered as much as a scratch, and I expect most visitors to Maine Rd could say the same.

Any dull old bore who has tales of his times fighting at football back in the day is probably thick as plank and fancied a fight.

more bollocks

 

[EL APACHE TEVEZ]

I think it's about time people stopped all this rubbish glorifying the hooliganism of the 70s and 80s.

It was perfectly possible in those days to go to any football ground and avoid trouble.

The violence was almost entirely confined to a few immature idiots.

It was very easy to avoid, and never even happened at most matches.

I went to all the supposed dangerous grounds in that period, and never suffered as much as a scratch, and I expect most visitors to Maine Rd could say the same.

Any dull old bore who has tales of his times fighting at football back in the day is probably thick as plank and fancied a fight.

What a crock of shit.

 

[Bilboblue]

I think it's about time people stopped all this rubbish glorifying the hooliganism of the 70s and 80s.

It was perfectly possible in those days to go to any football ground and avoid trouble.

The violence was almost entirely confined to a few immature idiots.

It was very easy to avoid, and never even happened at most matches.

I went to all the supposed dangerous grounds in that period, and never suffered as much as a scratch, and I expect most visitors to Maine Rd could say the same.

Any dull old bore who has tales of his times fighting at football back in the day is probably thick as plank and fancied a fight.

If I don't agree with stuff being posted, I will occasionally post a simple reply, then not bother coming back to the thread, thank the Lord for people like St. Urmston.