tonytnttucker Posted January 28, 2020 Report Share Posted January 28, 2020 I was there, was something else - I don't miss those bad old days 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Three Lions Posted January 29, 2020 Report Share Posted January 29, 2020 As a young kid it was an eye opener. Done twenty thirty away games and there was nearly always violence and often a lot of it even where I didn't think there would be any like Northampton. At reading properties got smashed up and looted and there was a lot of bullying going on. Lot of guff about hooligans only fight hooligans that day that got ****** out the window this showed City fans at their worse worst. It was Reading not Milwall. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan Dicks Posted January 29, 2020 Report Share Posted January 29, 2020 Yep i was there, some City fans left for home after only minutes of being there. Cooper came over to the fans threatening that he would concede the 3 points to Reading unless the fans stopped. Bedlum that game, on par with Swindon and Walsall away. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
forbespm Posted January 29, 2020 Report Share Posted January 29, 2020 Absolute carnage.most away games I feared for my life in those days.got ambushed a couple of times at places like chester,Middlesbrough,chesterfield and hereford.glad my kids can support city in relative safety 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Hunt-Hertz Posted January 29, 2020 Report Share Posted January 29, 2020 42 minutes ago, forbespm said: Absolute carnage.most away games I feared for my life in those days.got ambushed a couple of times at places like chester,Middlesbrough,chesterfield and hereford.glad my kids can support city in relative safety Crazy days, mate. Was good fun at the time, but yes, it's good to go away with little chance of getting your head caved in! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Hunt-Hertz Posted January 29, 2020 Report Share Posted January 29, 2020 15 hours ago, City Rocker said: An insane day at Elm Park. I wasn't involved in the shenanigans but stood at the back of the terrace immediately behind where it was all going off and so had a full view of the scenes. Having seen the City mob in action on quite a few away trips through the 80s, I have to say the violence that day at Reading was the craziest and most demented I ever witnessed. Concrete flying all over the place. I remember seeing lads digging up the terrace with an ice pick, and hoiking it at the scuffers. Some policewoman got poleaxed by a large lump of masonry. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NOTBLUE Posted January 29, 2020 Report Share Posted January 29, 2020 Mad,mad days,lads from absolutely every part of Bristol and surrounding area,plus places like the FOD, Chepstow,and all over Somerset.Would I change anything from my younger days,absolutely not,it was what it was. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tin Soldier Posted January 29, 2020 Report Share Posted January 29, 2020 8 hours ago, forbespm said: Absolute carnage.most away games I feared for my life in those days.got ambushed a couple of times at places like chester,Middlesbrough,chesterfield and hereford.glad my kids can support city in relative safety Boro were a top 10 firm back in the 80s. Well organised, never afraid to call it. Ayresome Park was an absolute rabbit warren of side streets and almost impossible for the OB to police. I worked in the North East for a few years and some of the stories of FV in the 80s was pretty intense stuff. Have to say, IMO the North East is the most passionate region of England for football (by far). They will literally put football before the family. Many have a dieing wish of being buried in the football strip of there supported team. Great people to talk to about football. Enjoy going up there still even today. Sunderland Till I die is a great watch on Netflix. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lanterne Rouge Posted January 29, 2020 Report Share Posted January 29, 2020 I think I was at just about every game being talked about on this thread. The buzz was amazing for a young twentysomething from sleepy Taunton but **** me looking back some of the things we did were bordering on suicidal. How we got away without serious injury or serious jail time is beyond me. I miss the rush but not the aggro and as @Mike Hunt-Hertz posted, it`s nice now to go to a game without the fear of serious damage being done to you. It really was fight or get put in hospital back in those days. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Hunt-Hertz Posted January 29, 2020 Report Share Posted January 29, 2020 7 hours ago, NOTBLUE said: Mad,mad days,lads from absolutely every part of Bristol and surrounding area,plus places like the FOD, Chepstow,and all over Somerset.Would I change anything from my younger days,absolutely not,it was what it was. And Dursley, Stroud and Gloucester! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tin Soldier Posted January 29, 2020 Report Share Posted January 29, 2020 21 minutes ago, Mike Hunt-Hertz said: And Dursley, Stroud and Gloucester! Back in the 80s, times were tough post Maggie Thatcher/Falklands War/miners strike/economic recession etc. Football was a release for the “common man”. As a country we came together with football being a “common ground” regardless of what part of the south west we lived. I met some great guys from Taunton and had some completely mad days out with them (The Lamps). As stated, there was an adrenalin rush when you went away with City, but by Christ, you always had some guys who would stick up for you if things got sketchy. CCTV, the rave scene, and high publicity/major undercover dawn raids by the OB saw an end to FV. Nowadays it is a family game and things have moved on. Like others, Bristol was a tough city in the 80s. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lew-T Posted January 29, 2020 Report Share Posted January 29, 2020 (edited) Any reason why this one in particular was a bad one? Reading are not exactly known for much bother. Edited January 29, 2020 by Lew-T Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
normanhillred Posted January 29, 2020 Report Share Posted January 29, 2020 9 hours ago, forbespm said: Absolute carnage.most away games I feared for my life in those days.got ambushed a couple of times at places like chester,Middlesbrough,chesterfield and hereford.glad my kids can support city in relative safety Did the Chester ambush involve a park by the river? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Hunt-Hertz Posted January 29, 2020 Report Share Posted January 29, 2020 31 minutes ago, normanhillred said: Did the Chester ambush involve a park by the river? Yep! About 8 of us and about 100 of they bastards! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
normanhillred Posted January 29, 2020 Report Share Posted January 29, 2020 Was with you. I think most of us were on the Perretts bus. Got battered in the corner waiting to get over the fence 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kingswood Robin Posted January 29, 2020 Report Share Posted January 29, 2020 10 hours ago, Alan Dicks said: Yep i was there, some City fans left for home after only minutes of being there. Cooper came over to the fans threatening that he would concede the 3 points to Reading unless the fans stopped. Bedlum that game, on par with Swindon and Walsall away. Yes, my first away game. I was sat in the main stand looking down on you lot thinking, is it like this at all away games? I remember Terry Cooper on the tannoy threatening to "concede the game to Reading" if it didn't stop. Then the concrete started flying again! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kingswood Robin Posted January 29, 2020 Report Share Posted January 29, 2020 59 minutes ago, GasDestroyer said: Back in the 80s, times were tough post Maggie Thatcher/Falklands War/miners strike/economic recession etc. Football was a release for the “common man”. As a country we came together with football being a “common ground” regardless of what part of the south west we lived. I met some great guys from Taunton and had some completely mad days out with them (The Lamps). As stated, there was an adrenalin rush when you went away with City, but by Christ, you always had some guys who would stick up for you if things got sketchy. CCTV, the rave scene, and high publicity/major undercover dawn raids by the OB saw an end to FV. Nowadays it is a family game and things have moved on. Like others, Bristol was a tough city in the 80s. We didn't just knock down our unwanted buildings, we used to blow them up! Lloyds need a new building, so this lot had to go - while we queued up for Walsall tickets! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lanterne Rouge Posted January 29, 2020 Report Share Posted January 29, 2020 5 minutes ago, Kingswood Robin said: We didn't just knock down our unwanted buildings, we used to blow them up! Lloyds need a new building, so this lot had to go - while we queued up for Walsall tickets! I was sure it was that game we were queuing up for when they did that. I was driving back down the A38 when they did it and you could hear the explosion and see the dust from out by the Town`s Talk! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Hunt-Hertz Posted January 29, 2020 Report Share Posted January 29, 2020 41 minutes ago, normanhillred said: Was with you. I think most of us were on the Perretts bus. Got battered in the corner waiting to get over the fence I think Julian Long was with us, if you know him? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Merrick's Marvels Posted January 29, 2020 Report Share Posted January 29, 2020 (edited) 1 hour ago, Lew-T said: Any reason why this one in particular was a bad one? Reading are not exactly known for much bother. Big promotion game at the end of the season, both teams in the top 4 (both eventually promoted). Not sure why it went off so spectacularly, even considering what an important game it was. Perhaps because we were 2 down quite early and it felt like a hammer blow to our promotion hopes. In the event, we went undefeated for the rest of the season, winning 4 of the last 6 games and were promoted with York, Doncaster and Reading. For the record, we lost the Reading game 2-0 to goals from Lawrie Sanchez and a Dean Horrix mishit fluke (yes that Dean Horrix) Edited January 29, 2020 by Merrick's Marvels 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trueredsupporter Posted January 29, 2020 Report Share Posted January 29, 2020 Lew-T Any reason why this one in particular was a bad one? Citys away support then was a very different to 2020 sometimes the majority could be hooligans. the mobs compared to now where massive. constant trouble at away games it was escalating by the season.and a important game close to home was always going to see trouble. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
forbespm Posted January 29, 2020 Report Share Posted January 29, 2020 2 hours ago, normanhillred said: Did the Chester ambush involve a park by the river? Yes,a few of us from Gloucester and dursley were sat drinking by the river with cans we had nicked from the local off licence. we got spotted by a big mob who ran for us,we managed to get a few punches in but had to make good an escape as we were massively outnumbered,nearly got run over by cars on the main road and we got to the away end in one piece but some of us sporting black eyes and cuts!back at Ashton gate in the return we tried to get in the away end for revenge but got rumbled by the cops! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
forbespm Posted January 29, 2020 Report Share Posted January 29, 2020 2 hours ago, normanhillred said: Was with you. I think most of us were on the Perretts bus. Got battered in the corner waiting to get over the fence I was with you then,I was on perrets coach 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oh Louie louie Posted January 30, 2020 Report Share Posted January 30, 2020 For that mboro game when they came down to the old divsion 3, for the away game i recall people having a not for the squeamish ticket. A few people had there doors put through around ashton and bedminster,. That same season i think, the evening post reported chester city fans brought blades to ashton gate.. I think the post sent a undercover reporter into the luckwell pub, to find out about the boro game. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CiderJar Posted January 30, 2020 Report Share Posted January 30, 2020 On 28/01/2020 at 14:38, Red Army 75 said: https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/bristol-citys-trip-reading-1984-3783939 Anyone go to this My first away day. My first CATS experience. Absolute mayhem. People on the roof of the stand. People with blood streaming out of their heads. Literally raining coins. I remember a policeman's helmet landing at my feet and picking it up and throwing it back to him and a huge cheer going up. Absolutely horrendous behaviour. Hooked for life. CTID. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CiderJar Posted January 30, 2020 Report Share Posted January 30, 2020 On 28/01/2020 at 17:22, Nogbad the Bad said: Never been a rioter but was present at the 'goings on' at Reading, Swindon, Plymouth, and even Torquay - after the game (Nolan sister, made the papers) Also on the train to York, as mentioned above, but remember that as a good day out and very peaceful except the first City fan off the train at York ran across the platform shouting, BRRRISSSSSSSSSSSTOL, and was promptly rugby tackled to the ground by police and arrested. Always thought that was a long way to go to be arrested within 30 seconds! That York train 'special' trip is a fond memory as well. Being told to "Get oover by t'wall" by the foreign northern police was hilarious at the time. I seem to remember a longer than usual stop at Derby station. The noise coming from the train was something to witness. "City are back City are back, hallo, hallo" . Happy days. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
normanhillred Posted January 30, 2020 Report Share Posted January 30, 2020 8 hours ago, Mike Hunt-Hertz said: I think Julian Long was with us, if you know him? Yep he was in front of me getting over the fence, his brother still comes with us on away days 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nicki's soulmate Posted January 30, 2020 Report Share Posted January 30, 2020 On 28/01/2020 at 20:05, Shaun Taylor said: I never witnessed that in all the matches I saw between the two clubs only Pompey once or twice but granted you rearranged the concrete in the old shrivenham road stand and kept the local glaziers busy in the Town centre Took the Town End every year 69-73 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedRock Posted January 30, 2020 Report Share Posted January 30, 2020 (edited) 1 hour ago, Nicki's soulmate said: Took the Town End every year 69-73 Yep. Even when Millwall came down following their match with us at The Gate the previous Saturday. Know there’s been a bit of a ‘do’ away at Bolton and Millwall in the relatively recent past but was the last big ‘off’ The Cherry Tree incident at Plymouth? Most odd was walking up to the this random pub only to witness a hundred or so City being chased down the road by the owners of a second hand car dealership wielding axes. Undeterred went into the pub and it was like a bomb had just gone off, but bizarely a few groups of stray City lads having a pint. Edited January 30, 2020 by RedRock Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NOTBLUE Posted January 30, 2020 Report Share Posted January 30, 2020 21 minutes ago, RedRock said: Yep. Even when Millwall came down following their match with us at The Gate the previous Saturday. Know there’s been a bit of a ‘do’ away at Bolton and Millwall in the relatively recent past but was the last big ‘off’ The Cherry Tree incident at Plymouth? Most odd was walking up to the this random pub only to witness a hundred or so City being chased down the road by the owners of a second hand car dealership wielding axes. Undeterred went into the pub and it was like a bomb had just gone off, but bizarely a few groups of stray City lads having a pint. A few Plymouth lads had walked to the pub with baseball bats or something similar,they took a bit of a beating and retreated into the car showroom,the car showroom was the attacked with most of the windows going through and a number of cars getting damaged,police turned up and emptied the pub and escorted the City fans to the ground. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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