purplenose
Well-Known Member
I must admit I can relate to alot of posts on this. I am 51 loved football since I was about 4. Followed City through the dark days of getting put out of the cup by Shrewbury and Halifax, travelled miles on shit coaches and even shitter special trains. I recall back in about 1983 we drew Chelsea away in the league cup. Went on the special train which was not a comfortable way to travel. On arrival in London despite a fairly small following it was still an interesting experience getting from the train to the ground without getting battered by Chelsea or indeed the police. Further adding to the ambience of the evening was the fact it was pissing down with rain and the away supporters were naturally on a large exposed terrace. The rain never even hinted at stopping and if anything got heavier.
As for the match it was on a mudbath of a pitch and we got humped 5-1 i think, i seem to remember our goal being a Mcnab penalty?
Needless to say at the end of the game we were kept in for a further half hour before being given an "escort" back to the station, as we were leaving the ground up a dingy unlight passage way leading out of the ground there was an almighty bang and the smell of burning fuel....some twat had tried to lob a petrol bomb at us, but it hit the corrugated iron fence and not landed amongst us. There followed a long piss wet through journey home on the high speed luxury special train back to Manchester......
Now if during the above miserable tour of duty someone had said to me oneday in your lifetime City will be playing in a near 60k space age stadium winning cups and leagues winning more derbies than we lose and being blaze about playing Barcelona, but it wouldnt mean that much to me, or I would rarely be there to see it, I would have not have believed them.
Its not an age thing its not being pissed off with City as such...its the game and how it has gone, and yes how it is quite clearly bent to the degree that supporters are not given the credit of having the intelligence to see when they are having their proverbial pants taken down. In short I have no belief in the game having any real integrity in its upper echelons either here or abroad.
As for the match it was on a mudbath of a pitch and we got humped 5-1 i think, i seem to remember our goal being a Mcnab penalty?
Needless to say at the end of the game we were kept in for a further half hour before being given an "escort" back to the station, as we were leaving the ground up a dingy unlight passage way leading out of the ground there was an almighty bang and the smell of burning fuel....some twat had tried to lob a petrol bomb at us, but it hit the corrugated iron fence and not landed amongst us. There followed a long piss wet through journey home on the high speed luxury special train back to Manchester......
Now if during the above miserable tour of duty someone had said to me oneday in your lifetime City will be playing in a near 60k space age stadium winning cups and leagues winning more derbies than we lose and being blaze about playing Barcelona, but it wouldnt mean that much to me, or I would rarely be there to see it, I would have not have believed them.
Its not an age thing its not being pissed off with City as such...its the game and how it has gone, and yes how it is quite clearly bent to the degree that supporters are not given the credit of having the intelligence to see when they are having their proverbial pants taken down. In short I have no belief in the game having any real integrity in its upper echelons either here or abroad.