lancs blue
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Fowlers Penalty Miss said:lancs blue said:Fowlers Penalty Miss said:It was an experience that few people would put up with today.
I think back at what happened when I went to games then, and it seems like ancient history.
The world has moved on.
Forget the idea it was fun going to away games then. It wasn't fun at all. It was a test of brains over brawn.
You always dreaded the question 'Have you got the time'.
When that question came your way you were in a spot of bother.
That really depended on where you went and how many City took. If we were in a decent sized group inside the ground it wasn't bad, you could have a sing-song and get behind the team and if there was trouble it was usually going to be after the match in those circumstances. The worst ones were those already described on here where the City fans were scattered about in ones and twos and had to watch their backs as well as the match for 90 mins and then again on the way back to the transport.
I agree that most fans today probably wouldn't put up with the general experience, the herding around by coppers from the station to the ground used to get on my tits even then so in time I stopped using the specials and went down on the service trains just to avoid it.
But there were only a couple of hundred of us there in those days. Thosands travel all over the country now, but that wasn't the case back then. You must have been posh to travel by service trains!
Not always, we took good numbers to Leeds and the Sheffield grounds, Bolton, Stoke, Derby, Villa, West Brom, Forest to name a few.
I wasn't posh, student railcard, 50% off. ;-)