Remember, remember member..... 36 years ago today....

[Dave Ewing's Back 'eader]

Fucking hell, I can still remember sheltering under the north stand roof next to the shit green netting in the kippax, we were second best until the first goal too.....37 years wow.

Seem to remember a couple of days later beating Plymouth in the Zenith? thing 6-2 where we only tried for about 60 mins, should have been 10 again.

Sheltering under the roof? I watched many a game on the North Stand where the only shelter was the fuckin' clouds that were sending the piss down on us!

 

[blueste41]

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Match was 07/11/87 so it was 36 years ago today not 37?

 

[BillCarlisle]

I lived near Halifax at the time. 2 lads in my local were Huddersfield fans so I gave them a lift to the match and they stood with me in the Kippax. Not the best decision they ever made :-)

 

[plattlanebenches]

They deserved to get a beating for wearing that kit!

 

[Scaring Europe to Death]

That was a crazy period with 4-2 and 4-3 wins at Bradford and Swindon, and I'm pretty sure that we were also 3-0 up after 25 minutes v Birmingham at Maine Road.
It's still one of my favourite seasons despite the crap attendances and the cup runs impacting on our promotion chances.
In no particular order: Adcock's winner at Millwall,.last gasp equalisers in the FA Cup at Huddersfield and Blackpool,.Nixon's stupid red card v Palace, biblical downpour at Oldham, Mcnab's penalty miss at Shrewsbury

 

[Kippax77]

About 17,000 I seem to remember. Which was about standard. for a run of the mill home game of that time.

It would have to be a big game to break 20,000 and the less popular, midweek one’s especially were more likely in the 15,000 region.

Not many point whores knocking about back then.

Heysel didn't help football much back then

 

[GortonBlue62]

I was a bit nervous when they pulled it back to 9-1 with Andy May's penalty.

It was incredibly disappointing when they scored and it went to 9-1.

It was irrational then and it's irrational now but that's how I felt.

Our tenth lifted the gloom obviously.

 

[york away to this!]

Wasn't at this one, as I was doing a year out in London.

 

[bluesince76]

Didn't have a season ticket back then, so we used to go to a few games a season depending on when my dad was working. He asked if I wanted to go to this one and I said no, thought it would be a crap, dull game...

 

[Zapcity]

I was there. When City scored 10 .

Was it something like ' Re mem, mem, Remember when ,when, City scored 10' we used to sing, or something like that!?
What memories!! 'udders' were well on top at the start from memory. Mcnab scored with our first attack and the we couldn't stop scoring!3 hatricks, 3 different players.
When that 10th went in there were good celebrations on the Kippax. Quite possibly the only time we will get to see City hit double figures (though we did go very close against Burton Albion a while back).
The crowd was quite small as has been pointed out which was standard for the time(I knew someone who chose not to go as he thought it would be a dull goalless draw, think he regretted that!)
Obviously the actions of Liverpool fans at Heysel didn't help the general perception of foitball fans with English teams being banned from Europe. The country was in a bit of a state financially/politically (sounds familiar!) . However ,a lot of people were also put off going to football due to violence still being fairly commonplace and the fact that it seemed that pretty much ALL football fans were seen as wild animals and needed to be caged!!!
Inspite of all that, so pleased I made the effort that day....I certainly had some 'classic' days out/piss ups watching us but this is one of the few actual games that could be described as a 'classic' from those days!