Sixtyseconds Posted March 6, 2013 Report Share Posted March 6, 2013 The cola man still stood in his spot for seasons after the parkend was segregated. Chelsea West Ham nobody could shift him. Knowle westers with belts made of chains. Denim jacket nutters. Stood there in all weather sleet, snow and horizontal rain. Maximum respect. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beijing red Posted March 6, 2013 Report Share Posted March 6, 2013 Am I the only one who remembers it as..................The Open End? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevinmabbuttshair Posted March 6, 2013 Report Share Posted March 6, 2013 Am I the only one who remembers it as..................The Open End? Nope Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rudolf Hucker Posted March 6, 2013 Report Share Posted March 6, 2013 The Open End for me too. I recall a b-I-g bloke named Mervyn, a doorman in some Bristol club I think, who used to hold court there in the seventies. A funny guy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cowshed Posted March 6, 2013 Report Share Posted March 6, 2013 Thousands of Leeds and Bristol City fans chanting Norman during Hunters last game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
i hate you butler Posted March 6, 2013 Report Share Posted March 6, 2013 crackers corner Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Super Posted March 6, 2013 Report Share Posted March 6, 2013 Loved the open end. Best night for me was the 1-0 against Rovers with the Donawa goal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red Rag Posted March 6, 2013 Report Share Posted March 6, 2013 Getting very wet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drew Peacock Posted March 6, 2013 Report Share Posted March 6, 2013 Am I the only one who remembers it as..................The Open End? And the East End was the covered end. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedRock Posted March 6, 2013 Report Share Posted March 6, 2013 Tank? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cider head Posted March 6, 2013 Report Share Posted March 6, 2013 Always good fun but saying that you got bloody soaked in bad weather so best have a EE roof over your head Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aizoon Posted March 6, 2013 Report Share Posted March 6, 2013 The Open End for me too. I recall a b-I-g bloke named Mervyn, a doorman in some Bristol club I think, who used to hold court there in the seventies. A funny guy. I called it the Open End and. yes., I remember Mervyn. Did he not wear a floppy combat hat from the Malayan campaign? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beaverface Posted March 6, 2013 Report Share Posted March 6, 2013 crackers corner Interesting. My old Nan said Crackers Corner was the area of terracing that was near the Dolman, and yet I've heard people mention it as the corner of the East End (Williams End), so where exactly was it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fodbarmyarmy Posted March 6, 2013 Report Share Posted March 6, 2013 Wolves rushing & bending the railings in the centre section .......... Whenever I went in the EE I remember that you could clearly see the "kink in the railings on the OE for years ...well untill they pulled it all down for the Ateyeo I guess.. Everton scousers with real curly hair and taches ...not wigs.....waving trophies they had "obtained" from Brummies on trip down Standing in line at HT for the brick lavvy at the back v Cardiff , next to the big corrugated gates that were padlocked....but not that night for some reason ...a stupid taffy head poked through.....next thing "BANG" mayhem... think that was the game that afterwards we filled the entrance alley with about 300+ shouting "we want Cardiff" and they tore into the turnstiles trying to get out at us (bill had locked them in) Saddest memory though is watching Cheese go down right in front of us v Stoke so early in our first season back in the top flight ......little did we know the affect that moment would have As a club BCFC we were suddenly very fashionable ........the wurzels having chart hits at same time as we won promotion to the top division is not a coincedence.....and shows the impact sucess on pitch can have on a whole region Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fodbarmyarmy Posted March 6, 2013 Report Share Posted March 6, 2013 While on the subject of the open end ...a question I have always wanted to ask on here Myself and several friends as well as others of course are on one of the big pictures on the wall as you walk out of the Dolman bar.. This was taken in the open end circa 89/90 I think.....and is also in the "Bristol City 100 years" book on one of the fixture stats pages.. Anyhow...question is.......anyone else on here in that Photo? There are a lot of familiar / regular faces in the picture ....real characters & faces you would see week in week out...home & away...(still see some of them about now) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
22A Posted March 6, 2013 Report Share Posted March 6, 2013 Getting very wet. Yep! My first game v PNE in 68-69 was just that. It was also chucking it down that night in October 73 when the few of us on the Open End saw that long clearance from Cashley bounce over Jeff Wealand and into the Hull net right in front of us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rudolf Hucker Posted March 6, 2013 Report Share Posted March 6, 2013 I called it the Open End and. yes., I remember Mervyn. Did he not wear a floppy combat hat from the Malayan campaign? You may be right, Aizoon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter O Hanraha-hanrahan Posted March 6, 2013 Report Share Posted March 6, 2013 Used to go in the Open End when we got promoted in 1990 even though it cost 50p more than the Eastend (£3.50). In one match me and my mates managed to climb along the outside ledge of the fence at the back of the terrace to the empty middle pen which gave us a brilliant view of the match for about 2 minutes until stewards saw us. Pretty ******* dumb thing to do in hindsight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sixtyseconds Posted March 6, 2013 Author Report Share Posted March 6, 2013 Anybody remember that bloke with the beret? His afteroons fortnightly seemed to exist for eating pies. His consumption of steak and kidney paid for several signings. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
REDOXO Posted March 6, 2013 Report Share Posted March 6, 2013 Many memories of the Open End! I was at that end when Cheese went down against Stoke...a bad day.... but was there 4 months earlier when Clive Whitehead scored that goal against Pompey! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NickJ Posted March 6, 2013 Report Share Posted March 6, 2013 Interesting. My old Nan said Crackers Corner was the area of terracing that was near the Dolman, and yet I've heard people mention it as the corner of the East End (Williams End), so where exactly was it? Top corner of Open End nearest Dolman. They contnued in there after the Open End segregation right up to when the Atyeo was built. I suppose nowadays they'd be in breach of something or another. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maltshoveller Posted March 6, 2013 Report Share Posted March 6, 2013 Only ever went in there twice Once v Arsenal (BRADY) 2nd time Jimmy Mann v Forest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redderland Posted March 6, 2013 Report Share Posted March 6, 2013 Open End rammed so tight for the fantastic crucial games against Man U and Liverpool at the end of the first season in the First, so packed you didn't need to have your feet on the ground. Cheese hitting the rock hard late summer pitch knee first, awful. Giving up and switching to the East End after stewards started banning people who looked like trouble (hallo Mick). Walking out past horrible West Ham fans throwing coins, concrete etc at us while they were held in the away section. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prestbury c of c Posted March 6, 2013 Report Share Posted March 6, 2013 The funniest moment was being 4 nil up at half time v Wigan in torrential rain and the police would not let the total of 30 drenched wigan fans back on the coach until final whistle.Met these blokes at the 1990 World Cup and they were still shivering!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
City1970 Posted March 6, 2013 Report Share Posted March 6, 2013 And the East End was the covered end. And the Williams was the Grandstand Enclosure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazooka Joe Posted March 6, 2013 Report Share Posted March 6, 2013 I remember a game late 60s/early 70s. At half-time, Tank Docherty and several others left the East End. City infiltrated the Open End to get close up to Leicester's "finest". The Leicester boys became very quiet when they sussed what was going on around them. Unfortunately, no-one realised the Old Bill had twigged and followed. As soon as things kicked off the police swarmed all over our lot. A few were arrested. The rest, including me, got a good dose of police brutality (plus a few Alsatian bites) and ejected with a heavy kick up the arse. Much to the relief and amusement of our Leicester friends. Different times. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
i hate you butler Posted March 6, 2013 Report Share Posted March 6, 2013 Top corner of Open End nearest Dolman. They contnued in there after the Open End segregation right up to when the Atyeo was built. I suppose nowadays they'd be in breach of something or another.any more info nick? so city fans were allowed in with away fans?can remember being in parkend v Chelsea 75/76 and being in the middle of the cfc lot with their silk scarves aloft and I was about 7no segregation then I don't think Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ralphindevon Posted March 6, 2013 Report Share Posted March 6, 2013 Sketchy memory here but I can remember an Easter Monday early kick off against Fulham. A real game of two halves. First half hour we got soaked and were one nil down. Really warm sun came out and we won something like 5-1. I can certainly remember thinking I'll never come in the open end again to thinking I'm coming on here every week within the space of half an hour. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
East End Old Boy Posted March 6, 2013 Report Share Posted March 6, 2013 I remember a game late 60s/early 70s. At half-time, Tank Docherty and several others left the East End. City infiltrated the Open End to get close up to Leicester's "finest". The Leicester boys became very quiet when they sussed what was going on around them. Unfortunately, no-one realised the Old Bill had twigged and followed. As soon as things kicked off the police swarmed all over our lot. A few were arrested. The rest, including me, got a good dose of police brutality (plus a few Alsatian bites) and ejected with a heavy kick up the arse. Much to the relief and amusement of our Leicester friends. Different times. Early 1970's and I've always hated Leicester, mainly because of this as they ran! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ever-red Posted March 6, 2013 Report Share Posted March 6, 2013 Snowball fight versus huddersfield,pool/darts match with millwall,drab friday night 0-0 with chester, crowd 1,500ish great days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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