What's the most trouble you've witnessed following City?

[mancunial]

Ask any of the older guys about forest away 69 to mid 70s, been on some scary trips there, but their again Leeds stoke were great training for the military?

 

[totallywired]

Leeds away in the FA cup in the 70's, we were 2 up and they invaded the pitch, ended 2-1. The road past the dog track to the coaches was littered with shoes that fans had lost in the mayhem. When we got under the bridge City were waiting and as Leeds came through they got their comeuppence.

You were lucky I went on the service train.....fucking nightmare.

The worst for me was the Quarter Final in 81 at Goodison....Everton were on the platform when got off at Lime Street with a welcoming commitee, just total mayhem all day....I was just relieved to get home in one piece.

Yep that was a lively day, especially after the game. Remember about 300 hundred Blues getting off at Lime St. the scouse welcome committee got the biggest shock of there lives. Absolutley mullered. They ran for there lives.

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

Newcaste away about 1974 city had about a thousand lads in the open gallowgate end with no segregation at all, just as the match kicked off all their nutters piled in and i remember they were all dressed the same donkey jackets and steel toe capped wellies and boots.
They completely surrounded us about two thousand of them and it kicked off good style they thought city were going to run and crap it they were wrong a well known city lad from them days called Shamus Bell RIP stood on a crash barrier and launched himself right into the middle of them absolute mayhem followed all the first half with the coppers doing nothing to stop it, half time city were kept on the terraces geordies allowed at the back to refuel on beer.
Second half was just as bad but city again held their own right to full time when we all came out city split in two coaches and train i was on the train lucky enoughas most of citys hard cases were on the train, it was one mass running brawl all the way to the station again city never took a backward step and even piled into the huge pub opposite the station and took on the geordies in there they were amazed as nobody ever went up there and did what city did that day.
When we finally got on the train most lads had blood on them or torn clothing iv never seen anything like that day before or since

Was that the FA Cup game?

 

[scotty123]

Newcaste away about 1974 city had about a thousand lads in the open gallowgate end with no segregation at all, just as the match kicked off all their nutters piled in and i remember they were all dressed the same donkey jackets and steel toe capped wellies and boots.
They completely surrounded us about two thousand of them and it kicked off good style they thought city were going to run and crap it they were wrong a well known city lad from them days called Shamus Bell RIP stood on a crash barrier and launched himself right into the middle of them absolute mayhem followed all the first half with the coppers doing nothing to stop it, half time city were kept on the terraces geordies allowed at the back to refuel on beer.
Second half was just as bad but city again held their own right to full time when we all came out city split in two coaches and train i was on the train lucky enoughas most of citys hard cases were on the train, it was one mass running brawl all the way to the station again city never took a backward step and even piled into the huge pub opposite the station and took on the geordies in there they were amazed as nobody ever went up there and did what city did that day.
When we finally got on the train most lads had blood on them or torn clothing iv never seen anything like that day before or since

Was that the FA Cup game?

Im not dead sure prestwich it was that long ago but now you mention it im pretty sure it was as city didnt really take biggish mobs away in them days but did in cup games

 

[Dexter Morgan]

It was 1977 at Newcastle, we beat em at wembley the previous year and the Geordies were sporting about it. My dad let me go to this FA cup match thinking it would be like wembley and when he went up to see us clinch the league. Obviously it wasnt and i was glad i was in the seats. Awful wall back to the coaches, was shitting it. Wasnt far but seemed to take ages. Geordie mobs everywhere,. Big thing about it in the Pink the next week.

 

[u2fme2]

No question. In watching City for 46 years the worst violence was the second leg of the League Cup semi at Anfield in 1981. Fought our way back to the coach to find it on its side with all the windows smashed in. Three people on our coach stabbed. Anyone who was there that night will never forget it. God knows what would have happened had we won!

remember well i was 16 at the time and 3 windows on our coach smashed.
so bad never been back there all theses years later

 

[Bluemanc1968]

Boro at home in the 90s (cup game I think), so much mither on Claremont Road. I seem to remember about 30 Boro lads trying to pile into a shop/bookies to save themselves from a proper kicking.

Not sure if it was the same game but i walked straight into about 40 of them in a side street , near to the Sherwood pub , before the game ....... cops on foot and in vans trying desperately to bring them under control ........ apparently they'd just wrecked the Clarence pub on Wilmslow Road!

Can't remember the year maybe 86ish but we had Blackpool away in the FA cup, I was about 13 me and my dad had to get escorted round to the other side with the rest of the other kids/women after the asbestos roof got punched through and the shards used as missiles.

I remember 5 minutes before behind us two teenage girls with their dad all looked very happy when it all kicked off. I turned round and saw one of the girls heads absolutely covered in blood and she was screaming her head off. Coins raining down everywhere.
I ended up coming home about £8 up I was picking all the change up from the pitch as we walked round!

Grim day though and I think we lost 2-0 as well.

That was real bad day at Blackpool ..... i , along with my son , and many others , landed up on the pitch trying to escape all the trouble in the side stand , missiles being thrown everywhere ... then the cops shoved us on the terracing behind the goal out of the way.

so many to mention late 70's early 80's, young blues and twenty somthings have no idea what following a football team was like back then, fucking dangerous as alot have mentioned liverpool, leeds, millwall, birmingham, chelsea, alot of the samller clubs wer bad in the div 2 and many more followed city everywhere back then Oldham game was somethng else! City fans took three side of the ground and half there end behind the goal, non stop battling, I swear City reduced the home fans to one section near the corner flag the famous use of the fence as ladders to get into other sections of the ground, never seen any photo's of that day, although I'm sure the MUEN had a few pages of it, Boro was always a nightmare home or away! I was in the Clarence when Boro attacked the pub in the cup game and to be really honest if they had come to the pub earlier then they would of got a serious twating but hey hit the pub 20 min before the game started and there was about only 20 blues inside the pub and the same at the back in the car park, they attacked the front entrance first on wilmslow rd I got a half a brick in the chest just missed my head lucky there was two blokes holding them off at the doors a big fucker with curly hair from Ardwick, and his mate, can't remember his name a regular in there back then was banging fuck out of them as they were trying to smash the door through, I shit myself and if I'm being honest I was under the table as the windows were being smashed, if they had got in they would of killed us I'm sure then the silence when it was over for us the pub was fucked they went around the back and caught a few blues there to honest there was blood allover the doors and windows if you new the clarence there was no way out at the back of the pub so you had to fight or get battered!

 

[OxBlue]

Millwall away in 99 I think was living in London at the time - horrible area, horrible fans, broken glass everywhere, fire, injured police and marched flanked by dogs to London bridge station. Huge amount of violence and in truth it didn't really involve the city fans as we were locked in for a very very long time. Over 30 Met officers ended in hospital!

Bizarre thing was when we equalised for 1-1 I barely celebrated as I thought we were 2-0 down as I thought a disallowed goal for them had stood and I couldn't understand the celebrations

I remember that game..... Locked in for over an hour then when we came out of the ground it was like a battle had taken place, bricks and stoned all over the streets

This game was completely different for me.
Through a twist of fate ( being mass deported from Lille during France 98 with a load of Millwall and Bermondsey Chelsea) I knew some of their Nutty Turn Out.
Met some lads from Ancoats at London Bridge as I traveled from Oxford and went in the Music Cafe which unbeknown to us was their main meeting point.
Basically they recognised me and could not believe that 5 of us had walked in to their main boozer. Got chatting they were fine with us and we got our own private escort to the ground by their hoolies. The police at Surrey Quays and next the ground look very confused to say the least.
I'm pretty sure if they hadn't known me they'd still be cleaning pieces of us up now.

 

[Wheresthepies]

Any trip to Leeds in the 80's was scary,as was West Ham and Millwall.
Stoke is a horrible place - their 'crew' are all grandfathers in their 50's who haven't heard that football violence is passe nowadays.
Cardiff could be hairy too.
They hate everyone,even other Welsh people.

got that t shirt - in recent times the battle of dollis hill fa cup semi last year was horendous - chelsea away we won 4.2 the season before two lone rags manage to cause havoc on the tube the chelsea fans were great - the rags were there for the CC final next day you could not write the script two years in a row in london and its rags cuasing the havoc<br /><br />-- Mon Oct 01, 2012 8:44 pm --<br /><br />

Ask any of the older guys about forest away 69 to mid 70s, been on some scary trips there, but their again Leeds stoke were great training for the military?

yep been there too the bridge was the flash point seen more than one hit the water

 

[i8rags]

Outside the Kippax after Luton in 83.

The game - City v Luton; They won (bastards!)

The car park - Us v Plod; We won. haha

Also after the Full Members cup against Chelsea. That was pretty mad.

Forgot about that one. Full members cup final was mayhem.

Got of the coach and was instantly asked the time by a cheeky cockney chappie, I looked at my watch and was promptly sparked right out by said cockney.
Took my revenge in our end, later in game when they let their presence be known.
Merseyside away in 80s was about as bad as it gets.
Birmingham millwall stoke always tasty.