Newcastle 1968

[dennishasdoneit]

Great memories... We were in the Gallowgate by about 1:00. They had to open the gates to let the crowds in. Most of the geordie regulars were locked out by 2:30. If you were in the pub at 2:30, you had a wasted journey!

I used to wonder how many people got in when they opened the gates 15 minutes from the end... There were as many people on the pitch as there were still on the terraces.

It's a f*ckin hell of a long way to jump on Sunday if any Blues decide to re-enact the 1968 celebrations!

Likewise. We got there early and went into the stadium as soon as the gates opened.

During the pitch invasion, I grabbed a piece of turf and later planted in our garden back in Cheadle Hulme. It may still be growing there now!

As I was driving I couldn't drink too much after the match but it was a great celebration. Fortunately my Fiat 500 behaved itself, for once, and we got there and back without mishap.

good post. i love hearing the tales of that day in may in newcastle..just out of interest, have you viewed footage of the match since, on you tube..or even on BM.?..
glad your fiat 500 held out on the day and i suppose the drink driving laws were a little different in those days ?!!

 

[dennishasdoneit]

Be nice if we did. My Mum (RIP) Dad and Godmother were all in the Leazes End that afternoon.

I was in there with your Mum and Dad, one massive memory all the way through my life, we took over the ground that day, the old barcodes never forgot it, history will repeat, and Swansea will get a 0-1 win it will be repeated can feel it

hope your right mate. come on you blue boys!

 

[bluereid]

Great memories... We were in the Gallowgate by about 1:00. They had to open the gates to let the crowds in. Most of the geordie regulars were locked out by 2:30. If you were in the pub at 2:30, you had a wasted journey!

I used to wonder how many people got in when they opened the gates 15 minutes from the end... There were as many people on the pitch as there were still on the terraces.

It's a f*ckin hell of a long way to jump on Sunday if any Blues decide to re-enact the 1968 celebrations!

Likewise. We got there early and went into the stadium as soon as the gates opened.

During the pitch invasion, I grabbed a piece of turf and later planted in our garden back in Cheadle Hulme. It may still be growing there now!

As I was driving I couldn't drink too much after the match but it was a great celebration. Fortunately my Fiat 500 behaved itself, for once, and we got there and back without mishap.

good post. i love hearing the tales of that day in may in newcastle..just out of interest, have you viewed footage of the match since, on you tube..or even on BM.?..
glad your fiat 500 held out on the day and i suppose the drink driving laws were a little different in those days ?!!

What a never to be forgotten day out that was, reading these posts brings it all flooding back. Definitely a nervy 1st half,as each time we scored they seemed to instantly reply,2-2 at half time. The second half though was a walk in the park. I'd still like to meet the Geordie b*****d who at half time bet me a £1 we wouldn't win, a £1 seems like nothing now but taking into account that at the time,my season ticket in the Platt Lane End cost me £6-50 it was certainly the cost of a good night on the pop.
I might just get the train down to Newcastle on Sunday and watch it in a pub and enjoy the craic before and after the game.

 

[suscom]

I went to a Newcastle/ City game as a kid, we won 4-3, Joe Corrigan got kicked in the head by John Tudor, kicked the ball out then collapsed, you could see the shiner from the half way line. Still supporting City now and just pray we can beat the toon on Sunday, it's the biggy - I think we will have the adrenaline to do it after 44 years of waiting!

 

[jp90]

a scabby flukey 1-0 win with a deflected goal off Zabba's arse will do for me

THIS!

 

[cavendishblue]

I was at Newcastle too and I thought we won pretty easily even though it was 4-3 in the end,

On a slightly different point I also went to the 3-1 win at OT that year - I was 17 and went with united supporting friends on the united supporters coach from North Wales. I was in the Stretford End with my City scarf and roared my head off for the whole match without any problems. I know things got a lot nastier not long after that but sometimes I wish it could go back to being less mindless hostility between fans as it is in many sports - and I say that having had our car kicked and a brick chucked at it by some "delightful" united fans while stuck at traffic lights on the way home after Monday nights game

 

[Seosa]

I honestly believe we will win it at Newcastle.

I think a deflated scum will lose to Swansea.

been thinking the same, its up to us though to win our game before they play.

If we win the Rags will obviously know about it playing after us, and it's that deflation that I'm praying could let Swansea in, especially if Rodgers has 'em fired up after Bob's comments.

 

[sambrookonthewing]

I was there in '68 and although it was high scoring, as others have said, we all felt City would win. That was what City were like then under Mercer & Allison. It was a feeling of we will score as many as it takes.
It was also nice to beat Newcastle in a key game. Prior to that day, they seemed to beat us when it mattered. I'm thinking FA Cup final 1955 and a 5-4 win at Maine Road after we had led 3-0 in FA 3rd round replay in January 1957. If I remember correctly Len White scored 3 for them, Bobby Johnstone scored twice for City.
Incidentally scorers in the 4-3 were Young 2, Lee & Summerbee

 

[Ding Dong]

Picture the scene -
Me, aged 10 stood on Oldham Rd, with my eldest brother. When his 4 mates turn up in a ford banger with scarfs n banners hanging out of every window.
"Today is not a day for young un`s" he says as he climbs aboard.And off they go to Newcastle.
2 days later he returns home still drunk and a chunk of St James`s pitch in his pocket.
It was only years later, when I began doing aways with my mates that I understood what he meant.

44 years later its my turn. But as my lad is 28 and been all over europe with CITY, I`m hoping he will look after me and stop me digging up The Sports Direct Arean`s pitch,and get me home within 2 days.

 

[Wilmslow Road]

Be nice if we did. My Mum (RIP) Dad and Godmother were all in the Leazes End that afternoon.

so was i with 3 mates from brooklands......made our own way down there
(bulllocks coach) but we were only 13 years old!!!
The Leazes was Newcasle's end......but we took more than a third of it and there was no way they could get us out ...they never even tried .

I was right at the back to the right of the goal as you look at the pitch.
It was split down the middle (but maybe they had the corners)
It did go off a bit in fact one Newcastle lad pulled a knife, it was more of
a penknife really but a knife nevertheless.
Anyway the cops spotted him and hauled him out.
There was a bit of a skirmish before this but after he was booted out it
calmed down.