Victory Park Reds Posted June 27, 2022 Report Share Posted June 27, 2022 It just struck me that’s it’s 30 yrs ago when I went to the tournament with a few mates. At the time being young single and fancy free I was going everywhere with city and a few England trips. Football was still relatively inexpensive then.(the beer wasn’t!) It was the best “single holiday” of my life.The football was shocking but oh my goodness was a crack we had. Anyone else on here go to the tournament and want to share their experience? Still having my doubts whether Carlton Palmer was international class Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gazred Posted June 27, 2022 Report Share Posted June 27, 2022 Brolin, Dahlin, Brolin! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
REDOXO Posted June 27, 2022 Report Share Posted June 27, 2022 16 minutes ago, Victory Park Reds said: It just struck me that’s it’s 30 yrs ago when I went to the tournament with a few mates. At the time being young single and fancy free I was going everywhere with city and a few England trips. Football was still relatively inexpensive then.(the beer wasn’t!) It was the best “single holiday” of my life.The football was shocking but oh my goodness was a crack we had. Anyone else on here go to the tournament and want to share their experience? Still having my doubts whether Carlton Palmer was international class Yeah I was there the tents by the sea in Malmo were nice but who decided a quarry outside of Stockholm was a knob. The media were determined to find fighting somewhere. The only punch ups I saw were on Sky tv. Went to Goteborg for a night out with the Jocks which was fun. They were good sports and despite wanting us to lose as much as we did them we were made welcome. Helped by the fact we knew some local chicks mind you! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simon79 Posted June 27, 2022 Report Share Posted June 27, 2022 24 minutes ago, Victory Park Reds said: It just struck me that’s it’s 30 yrs ago when I went to the tournament with a few mates. At the time being young single and fancy free I was going everywhere with city and a few England trips. Football was still relatively inexpensive then.(the beer wasn’t!) It was the best “single holiday” of my life.The football was shocking but oh my goodness was a crack we had. Anyone else on here go to the tournament and want to share their experience? Still having my doubts whether Carlton Palmer was international class Was there ever any doubts? COYR 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tin Soldier Posted June 27, 2022 Report Share Posted June 27, 2022 (edited) Yeh, we went. No tickets, bought some off the touts for the Sweden end. They were OK with us sat next to them. Camped in tents in a big park (always travelled 5 star back in those days!) in Stockholm for a few nights, well dodgy. Sweden had a firm called The Black Army or something (skinheads) and were looking for small groups of England fans to pick off before the Sweden game. The OB encircled the whole park to prevent a full scale toe to toe breaking out. Few hundred England but sounded like a lot more Swedish. They were protecting us! Remember there being a lot of scousers there, plotting up/ on the thieving, big mobs who were robbing all the smart shops in Stockholm. Got some old photos of the trip somewhere and will dig them out one day. Think we got the choo, choo to Stockholm but my memory is fooked. I remember England lost and we left the ground early to wander in to a fall scale clash between England and the OB outside whilst the game was still going on. Was at Italia 90 also and following England in those days was never boring. Just glad I survived it looking back. Always plenty of City away with England in those days. Several still post on here. Edited June 27, 2022 by Tin Soldier 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Victory Park Reds Posted June 27, 2022 Author Report Share Posted June 27, 2022 26 minutes ago, REDOXO said: Yeah I was there the tents by the sea in Malmo were nice but who decided a quarry outside of Stockholm was a knob. The media were determined to find fighting somewhere. The only punch ups I saw were on Sky tv. Went to Goteborg for a night out with the Jocks which was fun. They were good sports and despite wanting us to lose as much as we did them we were made welcome. Helped by the fact we knew some local chicks mind you! When we to Malmö and was sent to the tents by the beach a bloke with a city flag said we could store our bags until we found a hotel.If that was you cheers again. tobe fair the local chicks in Malmö and Stockholm stepped up to the plate and help us home sick English boys out - 3 in 6 nights 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Victory Park Reds Posted June 27, 2022 Author Report Share Posted June 27, 2022 43 minutes ago, Gazred said: Brolin, Dahlin, Brolin! I still hate Brolin.they went mental when he scored the winner 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sixtyseconds Posted June 27, 2022 Report Share Posted June 27, 2022 (edited) Camped at Sibarp in Malmo. Locals named it camp hell. Sort of Carry on hooligan. Within 48 hrs of Englands boys arriving at Sibarp was a no go zone for the police. England fans were stealing vehicles. Turning over the taxis. Burned down the campsite offices. Chased the fire brigade off the site. Looted shops in the area. All to a techno sound track. Then came Stockholm and more carry on including the help yourself to free Stone Island shop. Edited June 27, 2022 by Sixtyseconds 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Victory Park Reds Posted June 27, 2022 Author Report Share Posted June 27, 2022 20 minutes ago, Tin Soldier said: Yeh, we went. Camped in tents in a big park (always travelled 5 star back in those days!) in Stockholm for a few nights, well dodgy. Sweden had a firm called The Black Army or something (skinheads) and were looking for small groups of England fans to pick off before the Sweden game. The OB encircled the whole park to prevent a full scale toe to toe breaking out. Few hundred England but sounded like a lot more Swedish. They were protecting us! Remember there being a lot of scousers there, plotting up/ on the thieving, big mobs who were robbing all the smart shops in Stockholm. Got some old photos of the trip somewhere and will dig them out one day. Think we got the choo, choo to Stockholm but my memory is fooked. I remember England lost and we left the ground early to wander in to a fall scale clash between England and the OB outside whilst the game was still going on. Was at Italia 90 also and following England in those days was never boring. Just glad I survived it looking back. Always plenty of City away with England in those days. Several still post on here. When we got to Stockholm on the overnight sleeper on the Monday we ended up getting accommodation on the sea/river front in an old prison apparently. We then went up to their equivalent of the downs with a massive beer tent- a bungy jump and these 2 stalls with these local hooligans firms standing about.I think it was the black army and the blue saints.As more English arrived it did kick off around midnight and I think after it was shut down but a local lady had taken pity on me so had escorted to her gaff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rebounder Posted June 27, 2022 Report Share Posted June 27, 2022 30 minutes ago, Tin Soldier said: Yeh, we went. Camped in tents in a big park (always travelled 5 star back in those days!) in Stockholm for a few nights, well dodgy. Sweden had a firm called The Black Army or something (skinheads) and were looking for small groups of England fans to pick off before the Sweden game. The OB encircled the whole park to prevent a full scale toe to toe breaking out. Few hundred England but sounded like a lot more Swedish. They were protecting us! Remember there being a lot of scousers there, plotting up/ on the thieving, big mobs who were robbing all the smart shops in Stockholm. Got some old photos of the trip somewhere and will dig them out one day. Think we got the choo, choo to Stockholm but my memory is fooked. I remember England lost and we left the ground early to wander in to a fall scale clash between England and the OB outside whilst the game was still going on. Was at Italia 90 also and following England in those days was never boring. Just glad I survived it looking back. Always plenty of City away with England in those days. Several still post on here. Just before my time but would love to see any pictures. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Victory Park Reds Posted June 27, 2022 Author Report Share Posted June 27, 2022 8 minutes ago, Sixtyseconds said: Camped at Sibarp in Malmo. Locals named it camp hell. Sort of Carry on hooligan. Within 48 hrs of Englands boys arriving at Sibarp was a no go zone for the police. England fans were stealing vehicles. Turning over the taxis. Burned down the campsite offices. Chased the fire brigade off the site. Looted shops in the area. All to a techno sound track. Then came Stockholm and more carry on including the help yourself to free Stone Island shop. Carry on free stone island after the game I saw some bloke stealing the T-shirt off the dummy in the smashed window. It was dodgy big time after the Swedish game.They won the game as well the gits Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shahanshahan Posted June 27, 2022 Report Share Posted June 27, 2022 I was too young to watch/remember Euro 92 (I'd have been three), but am aware that a certain goalkeeper shirt was a huge inspiration at City a couple of seasons back... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
REDOXO Posted June 27, 2022 Report Share Posted June 27, 2022 (edited) 1 hour ago, Victory Park Reds said: When we to Malmö and was sent to the tents by the beach a bloke with a city flag said we could store our bags until we found a hotel.If that was you cheers again. tobe fair the local chicks in Malmö and Stockholm stepped up to the plate and help us home sick English boys out - 3 in 6 nights Yep it was! I remember rambling on about Bob Taylor. I was pretty pissed! Edited June 27, 2022 by REDOXO Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tin Soldier Posted June 27, 2022 Report Share Posted June 27, 2022 1 hour ago, Victory Park Reds said: Carry on free stone island after the game I saw some bloke stealing the T-shirt off the dummy in the smashed window. It was dodgy big time after the Swedish game.They won the game as well the gits Agreed Stockholm was sketchy to say the least after the England game, but Italia 90 was just as bad. They were riding around on there scooters stabbing England fans up the backside and then driving off - cowards. Lots of England got stabbed. Having said that, they were great days as England fans just took the place over. It is all a bit chilled out nowadays which is probably just as well. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Victory Park Reds Posted June 28, 2022 Author Report Share Posted June 28, 2022 22 hours ago, Rebounder said: Just before my time but would love to see any pictures. I’ve got a set from truprint from a camera I can’t remember taking with me but being 51 I have no idea how to take a picture of these pictures and putting them on here.sorry .there r very good honest just think blokes drinking and Bristol city st George cross flags 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BS4 on Tour... Posted June 28, 2022 Report Share Posted June 28, 2022 On 27/06/2022 at 17:51, Gazred said: Brolin, Dahlin, Brolin! What a firm of solicitors they were ... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trueredsupporter Posted June 29, 2022 Report Share Posted June 29, 2022 Anyone else on here go to the tournament and want to share their experience? Keith Curle out of position at right back Laudrup. End the thread. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sticks 1969 Posted June 29, 2022 Report Share Posted June 29, 2022 A guy from Manchester ran 3 Campervan’s there .there were only 2 people who were insured to drive but that did not seem to matter . We got picked up at the services in which everyone got off and got plates and cutlery and what ever they could get there hands on for the trip . I swear the sun of the guy who sorted the trip made £10 last him the whole time we were away if you know what I mean. In my defence it was 30 years ago and things were different back then regarding following England away and things happened that I would not dream of doing now . Shit football ,bloody expensive and beer tents that were not there greatest idea. Brilliant times wit great stories but not to be shared on a public forum ….. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sticks 1969 Posted June 29, 2022 Report Share Posted June 29, 2022 On 27/06/2022 at 18:36, Sixtyseconds said: Camped at Sibarp in Malmo. Locals named it camp hell. Sort of Carry on hooligan. Within 48 hrs of Englands boys arriving at Sibarp was a no go zone for the police. England fans were stealing vehicles. Turning over the taxis. Burned down the campsite offices. Chased the fire brigade off the site. Looted shops in the area. All to a techno sound track. Then came Stockholm and more carry on including the help yourself to free Stone Island shop. I stayed on that campsite ,the police closed off the whole site and filmed everyone there while reading out all your details from the passport you had to hold in front of you Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sticks 1969 Posted June 29, 2022 Report Share Posted June 29, 2022 On the way to the France game ray was just walking to the ground 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elhombrecito Posted June 29, 2022 Report Share Posted June 29, 2022 33 minutes ago, sticks 1969 said: On the way to the France game ray was just walking to the ground The 90s was certainly a stylish time Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1team Posted June 29, 2022 Report Share Posted June 29, 2022 On 27/06/2022 at 22:18, Tin Soldier said: Agreed Stockholm was sketchy to say the least after the England game, but Italia 90 was just as bad. They were riding around on there scooters stabbing England fans up the backside and then driving off - cowards. Lots of England got stabbed. Having said that, they were great days as England fans just took the place over. It is all a bit chilled out nowadays which is probably just as well. Going back a decade and a bit v Belgium in Turin still have a scar. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexukhc Posted June 29, 2022 Report Share Posted June 29, 2022 1 hour ago, sticks 1969 said: On the way to the France game ray was just walking to the ground Legs for days… Peter Crouch Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wealwayseatcheese Posted June 30, 2022 Report Share Posted June 30, 2022 19 hours ago, sticks 1969 said: On the way to the France game ray was just walking to the ground Is that the Turkey and Poland hat chap? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sixtyseconds Posted June 30, 2022 Report Share Posted June 30, 2022 19 hours ago, sticks 1969 said: I stayed on that campsite ,the police closed off the whole site and filmed everyone there while reading out all your details from the passport you had to hold in front of you Left in the morning as the police mobbed up outside. Seen you with a tall fella. Chap from the Norf. Preston praps? Bristol OB were camping with Wolves Subway chaps. Wonder if the Wolves chaps ever worked it out .. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Victory Park Reds Posted June 30, 2022 Author Report Share Posted June 30, 2022 20 hours ago, sticks 1969 said: On the way to the France game ray was just walking to the ground Great pic mate.In all my England trips i only ever met someone famous when I bumped into Ray Stubbs the bbc chap pissed as me in Dublin.They say never meet your heroes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sticks 1969 Posted June 30, 2022 Report Share Posted June 30, 2022 2 hours ago, Wealwayseatcheese said: Is that the Turkey and Poland hat chap? Yes mate Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sticks 1969 Posted June 30, 2022 Report Share Posted June 30, 2022 2 hours ago, Sixtyseconds said: Left in the morning as the police mobbed up outside. Seen you with a tall fella. Chap from the Norf. Preston praps? Bristol OB were camping with Wolves Subway chaps. Wonder if the Wolves chaps ever worked it out .. Yes the group were manly northern lads , there were 4 preston lads who were game as fxxx and I was with my mate from leeds Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stortz Posted June 30, 2022 Report Share Posted June 30, 2022 On 29/06/2022 at 20:45, sticks 1969 said: On the way to the France game ray was just walking to the ground I remember that look well mate haha! The question is, have you got any footage of the interview you did on that BBC documentary over there?! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sticks 1969 Posted June 30, 2022 Report Share Posted June 30, 2022 9 minutes ago, Stortz said: I remember that look well mate haha! The question is, have you got any footage of the interview you did on that BBC documentary over there?! Yes hidden well away 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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