crazyg said:I thought "champignones" was Spanish for mushrooms - like the French "champignons"
No wonder the Rags fans shout it - at their ground they're kept in the dark and constantly showered in shit -just like the real thing!
robsta said:80,000 ? Where did that figure come from. I think over the years it might have been said that 80,000 claimed to have been there on the day. And I'm one of them but then I've got photographic proof that I was.
The atmosphere you could cut it with a knife and take a piece home with you. At the end of that game my nerves were shot.Never watched a game like that since ,i dont think my nerves could stand it .City and Newcastle fans all mixed together which at the time i was a bit worried but i didnt hear or see any trouble which i thought was fantastic considering football violence then was worse then than it is now .Coming home on the train the fans were carrying lumps of turf from the pitch they must have dug half the field up.mancunial said:That day will live in my memory for evermore traveling up on maines coach from dukinfield on the morning if the game, I was in the open end but city were in every stand mainly in the leezes end, the sound of champions all around the ground with score at 4/ 2 with city fans all on the edge of the turf only for Newcastle to make it 4/ 3, it was the most gut wrenching I have ever felt, knowing we had to win it, then the final whistle with the sound of cliff Richard singing congratulations coming out of the loud speakers, it didn't matter that united had lost city were champions, when I came out of the ground I decide to walk around the ground, city fans were everywhere all sat on the pavements drinking out of cans, not one ounce of trouble, their had to be at least 30 thousand there, I got the impression that the Geordies enjoyed it as much as city, the league game the year after was a totally different story. The ecstasy that season was complete. I want it again.