IIRC plenty of Blues got in by breaking down one of the gates in the corner of the Rochdale Rd end, I reckon the crowd was way past 20k. The antics with the TV ladders was one of the funniest things I've seen at a football match.Over 20,000 there I think. Don’t think they got that many in the PL
It was a crazy day. Those ladders were from the TV gantry opposite stand. It was like a keystone kops thing when the City fans legged it across the plastic pitch with them. They then put them up in the Main Stand paddock and climbed into the directors box.
I‘ve often wondered if the guys in the TV gantry ever got them back to climb down from!
Afterwards Joe Royle was asked about the mayhem and he said something jokey like ‘we’d be happy to have that every time if it brings us as much money in as the game did’
Wasn’t plastic pitch.It was a crazy day. Those ladders were from the TV gantry opposite stand. It was like a keystone kops thing when the City fans legged it across the plastic pitch with them. They then put them up in the Main Stand paddock and climbed into the directors box.
I‘ve often wondered if the guys in the TV gantry ever got them back to climb down from!
Afterwards Joe Royle was asked about the mayhem and he said something jokey like ‘we’d be happy to have that every time if it brings us as much money in as the game did’
Correct. Don't think they got that put in until around 87ish. My first away game when I was 11(apart from Wembley) and I loved watching all the mither and the ladders scene. It was fuckin bedlam !! I was in the stand facing that. I remember it going off outside before the game and some poor collector of some kind got chinned and his money went everywhere. Crazy game!!Wasn’t plastic pitch.
Well yes, but it won't Good Friday then will it ;)Good Friday 1984. It was actually 20th April 1984 though, so not quite the 39th anniversary just yet Phil
The ladders went up on the stand to the right of the away fans, the Main Stand was to the left - unless they did the Main Stand as well and I missed it.It was a crazy day. Those ladders were from the TV gantry opposite stand. It was like a keystone kops thing when the City fans legged it across the plastic pitch with them. They then put them up in the Main Stand paddock and climbed into the directors box.
I‘ve often wondered if the guys in the TV gantry ever got them back to climb down from!
Afterwards Joe Royle was asked about the mayhem and he said something jokey like ‘we’d be happy to have that every time if it brings us as much money in as the game did’