Its been great reading this thread.
When we got relegated after playing against Liverpool in 1996. Police took a battering outside the Sherwood. Empty beer crates were lined up across the road with empty Beer bottles and the police and were bombarded. Further down outside the Welcome. A United fan decides to have his Cantana flag waving outside his sunroof only for his car to be stuck in traffic, City fans come come flying out of the Welcome and tip the Car on its side, P**s in his car and set fire to his flag. Then a coach went past with Liverpool fans giving the V's, again City fans come flying out and manage to get in the fire escape of the coach and set about the scousers.
Police actually saved us after the 3-1 Last derby game at Maine Road. We was in a pub called the Abbey in Hulme after the game. A couple of hours after the game the pub had more or less emptied. Then my mate who knew the landlady, got told to go upstairs and look outside. He come flying down and told us to arm ourselves with anything we could get our hands on. United's lads were walking down all masked up (as per usual) to ambush the boozer. Must have been a hundred of them. Luckily the police come out of nowhere and saved us. We would have had a right pounding with only about 20 of us left in the pub.
Coming back after our first derby win at the swamp for decades. 2-1 Benjani game. We was on our way back to Droylsden. Funnily enough we was driving down Ashton New Road past our ground when a Van passed our mini bus and threw a bucket of piss at us. The Van stopped at the Traffic lights and a few of our lads got out to confront them only for their back doors to fly open and a load of United fans tooled up with hammers etc... attacking us and the bus. Mental!!
Another one against United. Was when Howey scored for us and I think we drew 1-1. We walked back from Old Trafford to Maine Road with a few nutters who said there was a planned meet around near the Sherwood. It was chaos all the way back. Whitworth Park was a war zone. Lads fighting everywhere. The police were on to it though Riot vans everywhere.
As we all know. Stoke away game when relegated was carnage. We arrived at 5 mins to kick off and got rushed by a handful of Stoke nutters who got their comeuppance. I had a few mates in the Stoke end. One got arrested, another got thrown out and managed to get back in the ground 3 times . The car park at the end was bedlam. Just rocks and tree stumps raining down at us.
