Red Army 75 Posted March 25, 2017 Report Share Posted March 25, 2017 https://mobile.twitter.com/joejones1897/status/845537868651134976/video/1 . Sat on the wall of the enclosure watching this . How things have changed. For the better obviously. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robbored Posted March 25, 2017 Report Share Posted March 25, 2017 I was in the open end that day. Remember Andy Cole scoring that well taken goal. We all went nuts of course. Id forgotten Jackie had scored two in the same match. 2 out of his 7 in his entire City career.......... Vaguely recal the fighting but thankfully I'd grown out of all that by then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red Army 75 Posted March 25, 2017 Author Report Share Posted March 25, 2017 34 minutes ago, Robbored said: I was in the open end that day. Remember Andy Cole scoring that well taken goal. We all went nuts of course. Id forgotten Jackie had scored two in the same match. 2 out of his 7 in his entire City career.......... Vaguely recal the fighting but thankfully I'd grown out of all that by then. I think they gave Pompey A and B block . Also remember I was in the eastend against Sheffield united. We won 2 0 . Carnage . They were in A and B block as well Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chairman Mao Posted March 25, 2017 Report Share Posted March 25, 2017 **** me the quality of the highlights was awful (aside from that delicious volley) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wanderingred Posted March 25, 2017 Report Share Posted March 25, 2017 They had City and Portsmouth fans sat together unsegregated in the Dolman Stand? What on earth were they thinking? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRL Posted March 25, 2017 Report Share Posted March 25, 2017 Haha just look how shit Brian Mitchell was. The worst player to play for us imho Even his claim for offside for the last goal was so late he looked sheepish doing it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MT1970 Posted March 25, 2017 Report Share Posted March 25, 2017 I was sat in dolman B block.. I'm pretty sure the Pompey fans were not allocated any seats in the dolman, there was a group of them who had bought tickets and it kicked off big time as you can see. i think it was the same season when we played millwall that the wooden seats rained down into the open end from the dolman after a big group of millwall fans turned up midway through the first half. the sound of wooden seats getting broken and used for missiles was fairly regular at games in those days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan Dicks Posted March 25, 2017 Report Share Posted March 25, 2017 If my memory serves me correctly this was the first game of the new pass back law. I was in the park end that day but can't remember watching that aggro Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YorkshireSection Posted March 26, 2017 Report Share Posted March 26, 2017 657 crew turned up early and sat in the front of the Dolman, they stuck out a mile. I was a mere part of the (YTS) Youth Terror Squad and we nervously walked past them just as the seats reigned down in them and the older lads weighed in, we were stuck in the middle of it so got stuck in. All I can honestly remember is one (at least) of there's that flew down to the Robins enclosure at the bottom of the Dolman and Pompey getting a lot more than they were looking for. Back then Ashton Gate was a fearful place to go as an away fan, those were the days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spoonbed Posted March 26, 2017 Report Share Posted March 26, 2017 I was in the open end then( as a young 19year old). That was the best era in my time of supporting City, even if the team massively underperformed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter O Hanraha-hanrahan Posted March 26, 2017 Report Share Posted March 26, 2017 Remember as a kid watching the trouble from the Eastend, don't remember much about the game (apart from the scoreline). To this day I thought Pompey had been given tickets for the Dolman block A, which always struck me as monumentally stupid from the club but possibly, reading posts in this thread, that wasn't the case. Such was the situation in football at the time that the fighting before the match didn't seem at all shocking to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Gasbuster Posted March 26, 2017 Report Share Posted March 26, 2017 6 hours ago, Peter O Hanraha-hanrahan said: Remember as a kid watching the trouble from the Eastend, don't remember much about the game (apart from the scoreline). To this day I thought Pompey had been given tickets for the Dolman block A, which always struck me as monumentally stupid from the club but possibly, reading posts in this thread, that wasn't the case. Such was the situation in football at the time that the fighting before the match didn't seem at all shocking to me. Yes, they were definitely given that allocation. Away fans were there for a couple of seasons IIRC. Any decent away following ensured mayhem. Why that was allowed to happen, God only knows. I think the club wanted to allocate the away fans the choice of seating / terracing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Super Posted March 26, 2017 Report Share Posted March 26, 2017 Was in the open end quality day. Forgot how bad our defending was! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simon uk Posted March 26, 2017 Report Share Posted March 26, 2017 I was in the east end too that day, can clearly remember thinking that some portsmouth fan was teatering backwards over the handrail at the bottom of the dolman before the lower bank of seating went in, and that if he fell, it would be about 40 feet onto the concrete below. Crazy times. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nogbad the Bad Posted March 26, 2017 Report Share Posted March 26, 2017 Interesting that it says there were only 5 arrests at the match - 3 Pompey, 2 City - and nothing to say they were all/any connected with this incident. Fewer iirc. then than there were following the incident in about the same place with that the idiot supporting Leeds a few years ago. All on film, but I don't remember a page full of EP mugshots after the Pompey game, or retrospective arrests, so it looks like the police were far less interested in tracking down those involved in those days. Interesting too, that there was only a passing mention in the report that there were in fact more arrests - 7 - at Rovers' visit to Oxford the same day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BS4 on Tour... Posted March 26, 2017 Report Share Posted March 26, 2017 Yep. Remember that day well - me and my mates were in the Open End, how we loved watching Jacki....such a class player, and he didn't turn down a double vodka in Park Street on a Friday night before a home game with Barnsley I think it was. We had a nice chat, but I do hate vodka when it's neat.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter O Hanraha-hanrahan Posted March 26, 2017 Report Share Posted March 26, 2017 12 hours ago, The Gasbuster said: Yes, they were definitely given that allocation. Away fans were there for a couple of seasons IIRC. Why that was allowed to happen, God only knows. Madness without segregation, especially for the early 90s... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bs3 Posted March 26, 2017 Report Share Posted March 26, 2017 I was in my early 20s , remember before the match there was a gentleman agreement between us and Portsmouth that no tools would be used that day. A few City fans at that time used to meet up with Pompey on England always days, so there was a bit of a connection between them and us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red Skin Posted March 26, 2017 Report Share Posted March 26, 2017 I was in the Open End. Cracking game. Cole nd Jacki were on fire. There was downpour just before kick and got soaked. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
East End Old Boy Posted March 26, 2017 Report Share Posted March 26, 2017 4 minutes ago, bs3 said: I was in my early 20s , remember before the match there was a gentleman agreement between us and Portsmouth that no tools would be used that day. A few City fans at that time used to meet up with Pompey on England always days, so there was a bit of a connection between us no them. Glad to see things have improved! I was chased out of the open end by a Pompey fan who was waving a knife at me, during a half time interlude in the 1970's. Only for a copper on a horse to hit me with his truncheon and I couldn't get back in for the second half! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sglosbcfc Posted March 27, 2017 Report Share Posted March 27, 2017 Portsmouth were NOT given an allocation in the Dolman. Those Pompey fans simply tried to infiltrate where they knew the City firm would be. They also stood their ground despite being outnumbered. City did beat them back and they were taken out by the Old Bill but only after a period of sustained fighting. Other video shows the comical sight of City fans trying to 'run' diagonally across the seats to get at them, not the best look, ha. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roadrunner Posted March 27, 2017 Report Share Posted March 27, 2017 I am sad to say i only remember the fighting in the Dolman. Watching the film highlights, our defending was terrible again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NOTBLUE Posted March 27, 2017 Report Share Posted March 27, 2017 That was a mere skirmish,now outside the Rising Sun was a real Wild West punch up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
054123 Posted March 27, 2017 Report Share Posted March 27, 2017 Love the England one day shirt flying down the seats. It was a lovely day after all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YorkshireSection Posted March 27, 2017 Report Share Posted March 27, 2017 They weren't given tickets, they tried to infiltrate the Dolman. Twenty or so got in early and stuck out like a sore thumb, that's when the first lot of seats went reigning down. They had a large number of lads trying to get into City but were bottleneck in by the slim entrance to the Dolman, there definitely was at least one Pompey lad who fell to the Robins enclosure below, fair play to them for bringing it to us, I don't remember many doing what they tried to do. More recently we've taken huge firms to Pompey and always kept a bit of an alliance with them at England games (as someone has already said) we've also been friendly with Weat Ham through the years, however I'm not sure how that friendship is after the shenanigans at the Boleyn Ground a few years back! Those were the days my friends..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shelts Posted March 27, 2017 Report Share Posted March 27, 2017 On 25/03/2017 at 12:58, Robbored said: I was in the open end that day. Remember Andy Cole scoring that well taken goal. We all went nuts of course. Id forgotten Jackie had scored two in the same match. 2 out of his 7 in his entire City career.......... Vaguely recal the fighting but thankfully I'd grown out of all that by then. Our Jackie didn't get many did he. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shelts Posted March 27, 2017 Report Share Posted March 27, 2017 On 26/03/2017 at 21:10, bs3 said: I was in my early 20s , remember before the match there was a gentleman agreement between us and Portsmouth that no tools would be used that day. A few City fans at that time used to meet up with Pompey on England always days, so there was a bit of a connection between them and us. No tools....lads that were crap at fighting?!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robbored Posted March 27, 2017 Report Share Posted March 27, 2017 14 minutes ago, shelts said: Our Jackie didn't get many did he. He got 7 in total. Amazing that some remember him as a legend......... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shelts Posted March 27, 2017 Report Share Posted March 27, 2017 9 minutes ago, Robbored said: He got 7 in total. Amazing that some remember him as a legend......... Still the best player I've seen at Ashton Gate!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robbored Posted March 27, 2017 Report Share Posted March 27, 2017 2 minutes ago, shelts said: Still the best player I've seen at Ashton Gate!! You must have missed Gerry Gow, Bob Taylor, Andy Cole and later Scot Murray then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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