March 1968. United 1-3 City. Crowd trouble?

[SaddleworthBlueRhino]

I was in the United Rd Paddock. Stayed behind at the end to try and avoid the trouble. Was very hard being a Blue that night hiding - the smug feeling that we had just won the league.

 

[sir baconface]

March 1968!!! You old bastards, I wasn't born for another 16 months.
I do like reading and hearing the stories from our more mature blues from that era tho...

What a nice young man. Unlike that disrespectful toma hooligan.

 

[Bluep*ss]

Not 1968 but in 1970 was in the scoreboard end for League Cup Semi-Final. City scored first , Rags got it back to 2-1
the the "famous " equaliser - Indirect free kick - might have been Franny - Stepney touched the ball and Buzzer whacked it in,. 2-2. Stepney got grief for trying to stop the indirect free kick. City on to Wem - ber - lee. to win against WBA.
Four of us - 3 lads and one girlfriend - set upon - at junction of Warwick Road/Chester Road - pinched my mates scarf.
scum - can.t take defeat. We were chuffed to bits.

 

[crazyg]

Remember the night well.

After 37(?) seconds, Best scored, and the Stretford End started singing "where are the BBC?".

Then Colin took over, and the rest is history.

I was in the open end that night, just behind the goals, but didn't see any trouble.

"When it was 3 - 1, all you could hear round the ground was "City" - I suppose a bit like the present day matches there!

 

[I'm no cynic but...]

One big difference between then and now is that ticket allocations then were far greater than they are now. I reckon there must have been at least 15,000 blues in there that night and as the above poster reminds us, it was all "City, City, City" chants at the end of the game.

 

[scotty123]

I was at the 'Law backheel game' and remember the rag morons coming steaming down the pitch and trying to get into the scoreboard end, there were 2 nutty Blues at the time called Slack and Slim real handy lads and they were shouting at the scum ''come on get in here we know where the City fans are'' as the rags jumped the wall saying ''where'' they both shouted ''here'' and leathered them, might sound old fashioned now but then it was 'happy days'

 

[urmston]

I was at junior school at the time and that derby was my first trip to OT and my first ever City away match. I was with my dad behind the scoreboard end goal, right at the front behind the little wooden fence that was there in those days.

I can't remember any trouble.

In 74 my dad and I were in almost the same place for Denis's backheeler. On that day my dad got a punch on the back of his head from a bitter red as he rushed past us to join the hugely enjoyable pitch invasion.

 

[christened at st marks]

I was in the scoreboard end at that game never noticed anything inside the ground does bring song memories back

United1 and City3
Geogie Best has got VD
He was born in a lava try

Were our songs made up by six year olds in those days?

No extremly mature people that never carried razors and never carried lead, but sometimes carried hatchets

 

[scotty123]

I was in the scoreboard end at that game never noticed anything inside the ground does bring song memories back

United1 and City3
Geogie Best has got VD
He was born in a lava try

Were our songs made up by six year olds in those days?

No extremly mature people that never carried razors and never carried lead, but sometimes carried hatchets

To bury in their heads

 

[bobbyowenquiff]

Didn't go to the 3-1 in 68 but have vivid memories of the cricket riot. Younger fans don't realise how the rags have always been total scum. For me the Law backheel match was the worst but I couldn't stop laughing outside..even after being punched in the face by a thug. Another hairy night was the aftermath of the League Cup 4-0 in 76 (when King Colin was injured) A rag moron spat in my face and headbutted me. It always makes me laugh when modern-day supporters complain about Munich songs etc. They have no idea how bitter the rivalry was in the 60s and 70s. If they had seen what we saw then they might take a different view.