Was on the Tote that day,but as I remember the padlocks had been cut the night before,problem was they had been replaced and the City fans had to climb over the locked gates to join the rest of us.We got in with forged tickets,with exactly the same serial number on,it wasn’t hard as it was just printed on coloured card,orange if I remember rightly.
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.
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.
Went to all of the matches mentioned,can also remember going to Preston which was also a bit lively,can’t remember the year, but they had not long laid their plastic pitch.
If Rovers were a football team , they’d play in front of a few thousand morons whilst wearing jester outfits every week.........hang on a minute..............