The cool cats

[emiratblu]

Strange thing in the late 70s and 80s we travelled with Stotts coaches from Oldham to Elland Road and we would never see any Leeds fans. Just thousands of blues everywhere. The day they opened the South Stand for the first time was incredible.
Worst away trips, Birmingham football special, Newcastle the year after the League Cup final, there were more City fans back at the Cattle Market after half time than there were left in the ground, Boro first year they were back in League 1.
Funniest always Coventry away on the service train, Blackpool pre season friendly and FA Cup. Remember all the nasty hooligan City types following random guys around in a line copying everything the guy did, in and out of shops, hilarious. Any trip to Derby was a laugh and Stoke away
Doesn't happen anymore.
best ever was League Cup final v Newcastle, playing football with the Geordies, 200 a side in a church yard in London.
Memories

 

[buzzer1]

Scouse away night matches in the 80s were fukin' very menacing to say the very least.

 

[cyberblue]

In the 70s i used to go to most London v City games as i was based in Portsmouth quite alot ,some times there was hardly any City fans as it could be fu*king scary at times .after saying that 1971 against Chelsea we took thousands in the Fa Cup & many more in Semis European Cup Winners Cup .been to night game at Villa & hardly any blues there same as at Sunderland .so Mr Nice the onlyway i think you could avoid truble in them days was to stay at home .Nearly got bit by a Police dog as we clashe dwith West Brom fans who didnt give a fu*k about the Police escort then a a couple of years late we got a brick the coach window

You're right, there were some shit turn outs at odd times, I went Sunderland on the special one year and there were 34 on it, the escort from Seaburn was laughable, even the big lumps took pity on us when the mixed in with us, I asked one of them if we were going to get it and he reply was "nah man, there's not enough of you, you'll be fine", fair play. Still got twatted on that open end though...........

There was a Tuesday night match at Luton that was very lively, pissed down all night as well I think, another fairly empty special meant the walk back to the station was fraught. Not sure if we won or not but Luton were turning cars over and having it with coppers.

Luton away was very very dodgy, was there the year they came across the pitch at us, City went wild and fought with the coppers to get at them on the pitch, that walk back to the station that day was like a night out in Dodge

Remember in Mid 70s fighting with Luton Fans on the Pitch i lost me shoe it turned up at half time ha ha

 

[billfromthehill]

Scouse away night matches in the 80s were fukin' very menacing to say the very least.

That edgy feeling some have mentioned has long gone on match nights ,but thinking about it it was a weird kind of
Buzz feeling trying to get in and out of moss side when you are 15 yrs old and in pairs walkin through entry's with mobs everywhere askin you the time ,and occasionally the muggers at the ginnell that led you on to wilmslow rd behind the Sherwood askin wat score it was and then lettin you pass cos you wer a blue I'd be flapping on more than one occasion but you never let your mates no how you felt.
Can you imagine how the away fans felt when they wer shanksis pony FUCK THAT .

 

[whp.blue]

Believe me, turning up to a game dressed like that gets you some right funny looks, I can tell you.

It's even more embarrassing when five or six guys near you are in the same outfit

 

[mancityvstoke]

looks like its back to the stone age Stone Island then........or in my case stone extra wide parallels and docs

I've heard it's warm this time of year.

 

[nobody can eat fifty eggs]

I had a bit of mither with the young governors years back where I was out with a lad from Salford and big utd fan. We was on Market St. in town when a crew of them came walking down and took exception to my mate and obviously thought i was a red too and attempted to cave his head in with a half brick. We managed to get off up Market St where we got tooled up with discarded wine and beer bottles out of a bin and gathered up some courage to run back down at them chucking the bottles and screaming blue murder to which they all dispersed like shit houses. Luckily we fronted it out that time but if they would have turned and challenged us we would have got leathered. I wouldn't have took on the cool cats though!

 

[cyberblue]

I had a bit of mither with the young governors years back where I was out with a lad from Salford and big utd fan. We was on Market St. in town when a crew of them came walking down and took exception to my mate and obviously thought i was a red too and attempted to cave his head in with a half brick. We managed to get off up Market St where we got tooled up with discarded wine and beer bottles out of a bin and gathered up some courage to run back down at them chucking the bottles and screaming blue murder to which they all dispersed like shit houses. Luckily we fronted it out that time but if they would have turned and challenged us we would have got leathered. I wouldn't have took on the cool cats though!

Err what did the Kool kats name change to

 

[buzzer1]

Scouse away night matches in the 80s were fukin' very menacing to say the very least.

That edgy feeling some have mentioned has long gone on match nights ,but thinking about it it was a weird kind of
Buzz feeling trying to get in and out of moss side when you are 15 yrs old and in pairs walkin through entry's with mobs everywhere askin you the time ,and occasionally the muggers at the ginnell that led you on to wilmslow rd behind the Sherwood askin wat score it was and then lettin you pass cos you wer a blue I'd be flapping on more than one occasion but you never let your mates no how you felt.
Can you imagine how the away fans felt when they wer shanksis pony FUCK THAT .

Haha i was only on about the away fans at Maine Rd thing the other day to a mate, must have been sheer fuking hell for em, i never got any mither but my two Everton mates were in the platt lane end with the rest of the dipperz i think in 1986ish, anyway i could see em both from the end of the kippax, to this day i clearly remember one of them with a Royal Blue Campari Ski Jacket on sat on the back of the seat, i think they were still bench seats at that time but i could see 'em both clear as day and when we met at victoria after the game they told me they got a bit of a hiding from their own fans, they got asked the time and being from St.Helens their accents stuck out from the scouse, 2 coppers just stood and watched as they got a bit of a slapping up n down the stairway haha, we were only 14/15 or somert. Think we drew 1 1.

 

[cassyscooterboys]

That everton away game in the cup was my first away! I remember the old bill at edge hill telling all the city fans to keep on the footpath.about 2000 people on a 5foot wide path.when you ventured off the path they set the dogs on you.i got nose butted by a horse in my back and got a copper in an head lock in a melee!! Very eventful first away for a 15 year old.if that happened now id be frightened to death but at the rime loved it