Which away grounds are the unfriendliest to visit?

[nw42]

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Anyone here who was there when this happend?

I was there then. It was my first ever derby game. I was 7! I remember that but of the game clearly. Notice the Rags didn't do it in the Kippax, they, in their true style, triedto shientheir power where they knew it wouldn't kick off too much for them.

Still my best ever day watching City, by a long chalk, nothing ever touched the mood on the Kippax during that 2nd half.
As for them being in the North stand, I have no doubts they would have come in the Kippax if thats where the tickets were for, they always had a few in there every derby, never did much though. Usually congregated at the front of the tunnel near the segregation fence.

Spurs were the only ones I remember coming in the Kippax with any sort of intent.

 

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Two more really bad ones were ...

Nottm Forest (a) FA Cup , early seventies ...... we lost 1-4 , and Duncan McKenzie got a hat trick i think ...... loads of trouble both inside and outside of the ground.

Newcastle (a) FA Cup , eighties ...... we won 3-1 , Gary Owen got one of the goals ....... fighting in the ground , and in the streets outside.

Remember both of those, the Newcastle game was 77 I think tho, we won at Leeds in the previous round, pitch invasion, very lively outside after the game.
Can remember hearing the draw for the next round, sure it was done on the Saturday after the games back then, anyway it was on to Newcastle and as you say a 3-1 win.

Both these games were played out in volatile atmospheres, I would say we had somewhere around 12,000 fans at each game but a good % of blues were run out of the ground @ St James Pk before half time.


The link is to a news clipping after the Leeds match, unsure how to put it in the post, hope it works.....

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This one is from the same game, I think big Joe was wishing he ahdn't done that 2 minutes later as the Gelderd end emptied onto the pitch from behind him. There a was a little trend going at the time of trying to get games stopped when losing. the ref was having non of it and announced that even if it took til midnight this game was going to finish no matter what,

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The first time I remember it happening was circa 74, it was Newcastle at home to Forest, the geordies took to the pitch when they were losing the game, I think it was abandoned and the replay was @ the City Ground, memory fades.

edited due to link duplication.

Yeah that was the one my Dad got a real beating outside after the game and had to stumble to hospital (I posted it earlier in the thread). He would have been 18 and ended up seperated from his mates on his own and got pasted.

 

[Deleted member 14625]

From a Everton perspective trips to Manchester were always hairy, loved Maine Road as a ground but a few times it was chaos after the match. Man Utd was always the worst though, got a kicking in Manc city centre one year from a few united. All the bullshit about our 'friendly derby' with the kopites makes me laugh, our games in the 1980s were battlegrounds after the game.

It's all but gone from the game now, only trouble I've seen is at Hull City, seemed to be loads waiting for trouble after the game.

I work with a Liverpool fan who said he always felt the Mersey derby was a friendly-ish derby until after Heisel. He reckons from then Everton fans were always out for blood in all derbies from then. I suppose it didn't help that you won the league and couldn't play in the European Cup because the Kopites had everyone banned!

 

[nw42]

Our support at Leeds was (and is) considered by many Leeds lads to be the biggest away following they have ever had @ Elland Rd, you can see on the video that we had the the Lowfields terrace right up to the halfway line, that was very unusual, we also had at least half of the south stand.

I also remember a year or 2 before that when a few blues were in the Gelderd end, they got sussed and ran out and across the pitch to where we were, one of them, who I only knew as John the P--i (no offence), had a bit of a stand off with Gordon McQueen, he didn't back down either.

Does anyone remember John the p--i? He was a big fella and game as they come. I wonder if he still goes.

 

[RACHACE]

I thought Parken in Copenhagen was the worst one I have visited.

I got twatted in the mouth by a City fan who was about 65. Packed a punch for a pensioner.

 

[Maintainin]

I thought Parken in Copenhagen was the worst one I have visited.

I got twatted in the mouth by a City fan who was about 65. Packed a punch for a pensioner.

...was that after the match outside that bar on the big zebra crossin junction as the snow started arsin down ?

Quite afew slaps goin on round that moment tho personally i found CPH a top night out with no probz or owt to write home bout.

 

[lordloverocket]

dont know about unfriendly but i seem to remember a night game a few years back at stockport if my memory is rite we had a certain mr weah playing for us(he might have even scored) think it ended in a draw but ive never seen so many police dogs in my life! loads of blues got escorted out of the county stand behind the goal before the start n after we scored, me n mi mate included, outside the ground after the game it was like the whole of gmp had come for a nite out!

 

[Sky Blue]

Our support at Leeds was (and is) considered by many Leeds lads to be the biggest away following they have ever had @ Elland Rd, you can see on the video that we had the the Lowfields terrace right up to the halfway line, that was very unusual, we also had at least half of the south stand.

I also remember a year or 2 before that when a few blues were in the Gelderd end, they got sussed and ran out and across the pitch to where we were, one of them, who I only knew as John the P--i (no offence), had a bit of a stand off with Gordon McQueen, he didn't back down either.

Does anyone remember John the p--i? He was a big fella and game as they come. I wonder if he still goes.

I was at that game and remember Johnny K throwing a few punches at McQueen......City and Leeds had a very big rivalry in those days both on and off the pitch.

 

[nw42]

Our support at Leeds was (and is) considered by many Leeds lads to be the biggest away following they have ever had @ Elland Rd, you can see on the video that we had the the Lowfields terrace right up to the halfway line, that was very unusual, we also had at least half of the south stand.

I also remember a year or 2 before that when a few blues were in the Gelderd end, they got sussed and ran out and across the pitch to where we were, one of them, who I only knew as John the P--i (no offence), had a bit of a stand off with Gordon McQueen, he didn't back down either.

Does anyone remember John the p--i? He was a big fella and game as they come. I wonder if he still goes.

I was at that game and remember Johnny K throwing a few punches at McQueen......City and Leeds had a very big rivalry in those days both on and off the pitch.

That'll be the fella then, big lad wasn't he, always present at aways back then. Even though there was virtually no organisation back then (other than the Donalds crowd) all the same faces would gravitate to the same pubs, 150 miles from home, travelled independently in many cases, no mobiles etc etc but always manage to find one another. Great days.