PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

EricBrooksGhost said:
Interesting, in that my uncle on my Dad's side who was born in the twenties never went near the place unless it was supporting City, same for another uncle from my Mum's who was 10+ years younger.

Neither had any time for that lot and certainly didn't go to watch them specifically.

I wouldn't say he was out of order.
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So despite watching City for over 60 years, having a season ticket for over 40 years, watching City away at over 100 grounds I am a wrong un.
Thanks for confirming that I would never have known.
 
Spurs quarter 69 said:
My dad would watch both teams at Maine Rd in the late 40s. He would go to Maine Rd one week OT the next in the 50s prior to his military service. It was common among his generation with away travel difficult and Saturday morning working. By the 60s he would only go to OT for the cricket and by the 80s hated them with a passion. There are places this still happens Forest fans will go on Notts County saving their animosity for Derby. Some of Blackpool mates happy to go on Fleetwood with me though less so in the last few years. Would feel much less animosity towards the rags if their fan base was solidly Mancunian
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Yep. I’ve been to a few Notts County games recently and most of the Forest fans I know from work go there quite often. A lot of it is they’ve never really been of a similar level. That and there’s a sense of pride for people from Nottingham in general of County being the oldest football team.

There’s a mural of Brian Clough and Jimmy Sirrel not far from Meadow Lane, both sets of fans are proud of both.
 
Kakhaber The Great said:
Hi, Shirley. My dad had a spell going one week to City, next to the rags with his mate. Both Blues. When I asked him about it many years later, he explained they went because of the City link with Busby and the ‘babes’ were a good team to watch. But he also noted it was a different atmosphere at OT, less humour, a little more ‘intense’. I don’t recall him ever saying anything about actual violence.

When the Munich air crash happened, he said attendances went through the roof and it was a lot more difficult getting in. Think they went twice more and sacked it off; just City from then on.

Not a 'myth', but pre-60's though so maybe different...
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There’s absolutely no way I can even contemplate having that.
 
EricBrooksGhost said:
The point of my original response was to counter it was "common place" to visit both so I take back your neither a "wrong un" or "sensitive one" but more an odd one
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A difference of ages.
Also before Joe Mercer and after his arrival.
I would contend that blues going to the swamp was common enough up to 1965, but not after.
 
Shirley said:
To add to this, the rivalry and violence was at its worst between both sets of fans.
Not having it all.
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I don't know for certain but I certainly think most of those who returned home in 1945 had seen quite enough shit and violence to last them a lifetime. Equally, many might have enjoyed 90 minutes of screaming at a bag of leather - no matter who was kicking it - rather more than say, sitting at home, nursing memories. Also, because of their horrific shared experienceof war and loss, hostilities between rival fans simply couldn't have been the same.

I'm not for one minute taking away from your own lived experience. You saw what you saw and I believe you but...if my guess is right, it'd then be probable that some of that generation were still going to both grounds on alternate weekends during the 60s.

The thing us, the older generation can often be kind of invisible to youngsters. Equally, they probably had no interest in engaging with the generation that invented teen angst (not that that isn't a real thing but well, after what they'd seen in their formative years...).
Perhaps it's possible that they were all around you but - through no fault of your own other than your youth - they simply weren't on your radar?
 
My old man would go with his mates to OT regularly in the 50s, didn’t think anything of it. Was also stationed on Isle of Wight for awhile and would often go to Arsenal or Spurs
 
My dad was in the merchant navy after the Second World War and I remember him saying about being in England for a number of months,and going with 3-4 others to Maine rd one week the rags the next whoever obviously was at home,they stopped going to old Trafford and just went to City due to feeling for whatever reason a lot more comfortable at Maine rd,I never did ask him to elaborate on that,oh and my dad was a Chelsea fan with a soft spot for City ..
 
Shirley said:
I was a regular at Maine Road in the 60’s and I can honestly say I never met one of these fans who went to Maine Road one week and the swamp the next.
Perhaps it’s a myth.
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From the many replies most went to both grounds in the 50’s rather than the 60’s.
Perhaps not a myth then but well done those who stopped going to the swamp!
 
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