Blootoof
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The walk from the train station before the game. The locals were at their front doors trying to sell us hats with hooligan plastered on the front.
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Weird Away Days
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The walk from the train station before the game. The locals were at their front doors trying to sell us hats with hooligan plastered on the front.
xgorton
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The winter of 63 was one of the worse ever,we had a game mid December then the next game wasn't till end of February. By the way that 3rd round cup match at Walsall was eventually played in March won 1-0.Booked a train for a trip to Walsall in the New Year, 1963. Game was cancelled. Can't remember how long it was before Walsall's ground thawed out and the game could be played.
I remember going to Leeds road Huddersfield 3 Seasons on the bounce when we we're in 2nd Division,63/64,64/65 and promotion season 65/66.
I was probably at those games also but this one may have been a Cup game as there was a really big following. Not sure if my mind is playing tricks now but I seem to remember the City fans walking clockwise and the Huddersfield fans walking anti clockwise, both ends totally swapped.
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Jamie Carragher likes this postMy dad sold a new Sierra Cosworth to Bob Carolgees back in the late 80s and he gave my dad a 'Spit the Dog'. I remember taking it to Filbert Street iirc and he ended up conducting the City fans 'Spit the Dog Spit the Dog Spit the Dog' and then to finish the day off someone dressed as the Pink Panther invaded the pitch. love City.
The number of lads that went to city from midd was quite impressive, plenty of times 6+ coaches full with some odd scarfers mixed in. Heywood was another big catchment area but we didn’t get on with them at the time . Town vs town not city vs city.Few of my older mates used to go on Yelloways from Middleton and Langley
lazza
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OK, so it's not City, but it was the most bizarre game I have ever been to...
A few years ago, me and some mates were in Prague for a stag weekend, and had ended up in a locals pub on the Friday night talking to some Sparta Prague fans. They suggested that we go to Sparta's home game the following day against Banik Ostrava, and would easily get tickets on the door.
SO the next day, after a couple of hours in the pub, about half of us decided to get a taxi out to the stadium and see if we could get in to the game. The other half decided it would be too expensive and the beer would be a rip-off, so stayed in the city centre drinking. The fools....!
We got into the game easily, really cheap tickets for the home stand, to find that half-litre plastic cups of beer were about half the price of the tourist-trap bars in the city centre, and you could take your beers to the seat! Result! But then things started to get really interesting.
There seemed to be a surprisingly high police presence, so we found someone who could explain that the police were expecting riots. Apparently, Karel Poborsky - the club's biggest start - had been dropped from the first team squad a couple of games earlier because he had criticised the manager, and this had incited protests outside the ground a couple of days earlier... which had turned into riots when the Czech police had waded in with batons to break up the crowds! So even before anything particularly weird happened, there were helicopters above the ground and police cordons around the pitch...
The football wasn't particularly eventful, although the Ostrava fans set fire to their seats when Sparta scored.
And then, with about 10 minutes to go to half time, EVERBODY, in every stand, just got up and walked out! We're left sitting there with about a dozen others wondering what the hell was going on! Part 1 of the protest, it seemed, was to show the club that without the fans, the game is nothing, so all the fans (home and away) just left their seats and went to the concourse and bars.
But the second hald, everything kicked off, protest Part 2 was a full-on demo. The whole crowd spent the second half in orchestrated protest and disrpution: turning their backs on the game; unfurling huge protest banners across the stands; pulling out seats and chucking them at stewards; throwing smoke bombs onto the pitch. The game stopped and started again, stopped and started and eventually got to 5 minutes from the end... then 4 huge Tellytubby banners were rolled down the whole length of each block of one stand, each Tellytubby with a single letter on their TV belly: A C A B. And another banner unrolled across another stand: "All Cops Are Bastards". And the whole ground, home and away, just spent the last five minutes chanting "A C A B"!
Amazingly, there was very little trouble after the game... and Poborsky got back in the squad!
But without a doubt, the most weird away day ever (and probably the best £3 I've ever spent on a match-ticket!)
A few years ago, me and some mates were in Prague for a stag weekend, and had ended up in a locals pub on the Friday night talking to some Sparta Prague fans. They suggested that we go to Sparta's home game the following day against Banik Ostrava, and would easily get tickets on the door.
SO the next day, after a couple of hours in the pub, about half of us decided to get a taxi out to the stadium and see if we could get in to the game. The other half decided it would be too expensive and the beer would be a rip-off, so stayed in the city centre drinking. The fools....!
We got into the game easily, really cheap tickets for the home stand, to find that half-litre plastic cups of beer were about half the price of the tourist-trap bars in the city centre, and you could take your beers to the seat! Result! But then things started to get really interesting.
There seemed to be a surprisingly high police presence, so we found someone who could explain that the police were expecting riots. Apparently, Karel Poborsky - the club's biggest start - had been dropped from the first team squad a couple of games earlier because he had criticised the manager, and this had incited protests outside the ground a couple of days earlier... which had turned into riots when the Czech police had waded in with batons to break up the crowds! So even before anything particularly weird happened, there were helicopters above the ground and police cordons around the pitch...
The football wasn't particularly eventful, although the Ostrava fans set fire to their seats when Sparta scored.
And then, with about 10 minutes to go to half time, EVERBODY, in every stand, just got up and walked out! We're left sitting there with about a dozen others wondering what the hell was going on! Part 1 of the protest, it seemed, was to show the club that without the fans, the game is nothing, so all the fans (home and away) just left their seats and went to the concourse and bars.
But the second hald, everything kicked off, protest Part 2 was a full-on demo. The whole crowd spent the second half in orchestrated protest and disrpution: turning their backs on the game; unfurling huge protest banners across the stands; pulling out seats and chucking them at stewards; throwing smoke bombs onto the pitch. The game stopped and started again, stopped and started and eventually got to 5 minutes from the end... then 4 huge Tellytubby banners were rolled down the whole length of each block of one stand, each Tellytubby with a single letter on their TV belly: A C A B. And another banner unrolled across another stand: "All Cops Are Bastards". And the whole ground, home and away, just spent the last five minutes chanting "A C A B"!
Amazingly, there was very little trouble after the game... and Poborsky got back in the squad!
But without a doubt, the most weird away day ever (and probably the best £3 I've ever spent on a match-ticket!)
Burnage Burnsy
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Went to the far East for my 30th birthday. Ipswich away on the Sunday and Norwich away on the Tuesday - plus a Monday night in Great Yarmouth with loads of other City fans. Felt surreal for large parts (if you know East Anglia you know what I mean)
BringBackSwales
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Not VPJB?OK, so it's not City, but it was the most bizarre game I have ever been to...
A few years ago, me and some mates were in Prague for a stag weekend, and had ended up in a locals pub on the Friday night talking to some Sparta Prague fans. They suggested that we go to Sparta's home game the following day against Banik Ostrava, and would easily get tickets on the door.
SO the next day, after a couple of hours in the pub, about half of us decided to get a taxi out to the stadium and see if we could get in to the game. The other half decided it would be too expensive and the beer would be a rip-off, so stayed in the city centre drinking. The fools....!
We got into the game easily, really cheap tickets for the home stand, to find that half-litre plastic cups of beer were about half the price of the tourist-trap bars in the city centre, and you could take your beers to the seat! Result! But then things started to get really interesting.
There seemed to be a surprisingly high police presence, so we found someone who could explain that the police were expecting riots. Apparently, Karel Poborsky - the club's biggest start - had been dropped from the first team squad a couple of games earlier because he had criticised the manager, and this had incited protests outside the ground a couple of days earlier... which had turned into riots when the Czech police had waded in with batons to break up the crowds! So even before anything particularly weird happened, there were helicopters above the ground and police cordons around the pitch...
The football wasn't particularly eventful, although the Ostrava fans set fire to their seats when Sparta scored.
And then, with about 10 minutes to go to half time, EVERBODY, in every stand, just got up and walked out! We're left sitting there with about a dozen others wondering what the hell was going on! Part 1 of the protest, it seemed, was to show the club that without the fans, the game is nothing, so all the fans (home and away) just left their seats and went to the concourse and bars.
But the second hald, everything kicked off, protest Part 2 was a full-on demo. The whole crowd spent the second half in orchestrated protest and disrpution: turning their backs on the game; unfurling huge protest banners across the stands; pulling out seats and chucking them at stewards; throwing smoke bombs onto the pitch. The game stopped and started again, stopped and started and eventually got to 5 minutes from the end... then 4 huge Tellytubby banners were rolled down the whole length of each block of one stand, each Tellytubby with a single letter on their TV belly: A C A B. And another banner unrolled across another stand: "All Cops Are Bastards". And the whole ground, home and away, just spent the last five minutes chanting "A C A B"!
Amazingly, there was very little trouble after the game... and Poborsky got back in the squad!
But without a doubt, the most weird away day ever (and probably the best £3 I've ever spent on a match-ticket!)
BringBackSwales
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Went to the far East for my 30th birthday. Ipswich away on the Sunday and Norwich away on the Tuesday - plus a Monday night in Great Yarmouth with loads of other City fans. Felt surreal for large parts (if you know East Anglia you know what I mean)
Far East LOLWent to the far East for my 30th birthday. Ipswich away on the Sunday and Norwich away on the Tuesday - plus a Monday night in Great Yarmouth with loads of other City fans. Felt surreal for large parts (if you know East Anglia you know what I mean)
blue b4 the moon
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Did Tunisia v Wales before the WC in France.
On hols over there and the rep was a Forest fan and agreed to put a coach on to the game in Tunis along with tickets.
A day before the game I was chatting to an old couple by the pool all afternoon and they had come to go to the game but were going to hire a car, they were well impressed that we'd got a coach laid on, the bloke said him & his wife had come to watch his grandson Ryan play who was the youngest Welsh international..he saved the day by saying he'd made his debut in the previous game (while I'd been on holiday) Ryan Breen/Green can't remember now.
Anyway game day, mixed coach, no beer allowed and off to the game. We had seats equivalent to B/C block at MR. The only stand with a roof in 30+ degrees.
Just before ko a group of 30 or so Welsh lads arrived and were in the block below us, the abuse they gave us was dreadful...we had women & kids in our 50 or so.
All I remember of the game was Hartson being fat as fuck, Wales losing 4-0, us laughing at the Welsh fans and the best part...after singing Men of Harlich for the first 20 mins solid the Tunisia fans decided to sing it back to them all second half while they were getting stuffed.
On hols over there and the rep was a Forest fan and agreed to put a coach on to the game in Tunis along with tickets.
A day before the game I was chatting to an old couple by the pool all afternoon and they had come to go to the game but were going to hire a car, they were well impressed that we'd got a coach laid on, the bloke said him & his wife had come to watch his grandson Ryan play who was the youngest Welsh international..he saved the day by saying he'd made his debut in the previous game (while I'd been on holiday) Ryan Breen/Green can't remember now.
Anyway game day, mixed coach, no beer allowed and off to the game. We had seats equivalent to B/C block at MR. The only stand with a roof in 30+ degrees.
Just before ko a group of 30 or so Welsh lads arrived and were in the block below us, the abuse they gave us was dreadful...we had women & kids in our 50 or so.
All I remember of the game was Hartson being fat as fuck, Wales losing 4-0, us laughing at the Welsh fans and the best part...after singing Men of Harlich for the first 20 mins solid the Tunisia fans decided to sing it back to them all second half while they were getting stuffed.