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[Skybluecol]

My lad is working Saturday so I'm going to have his ST in block 15 and my daughter is having mine in 22, does everyone just sit anywhere or do people actually sit/stand in there designated spot?

It's an absolute mix mate....sometimes our row will be empty in block 14 3 rows from back and we'll have approx 8 seats for just the 5 of us.......sometimes it's got twenty 15-18 years olds bunched together.....we then have the fun to tell them to move or we use our weight to push them further down the row!

 

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[Gynnsthetonic]

It's an absolute mix mate....sometimes our row will be empty in block 14 3 rows from back and we'll have approx 8 seats for just the 5 of us.......sometimes it's got twenty 15-18 years olds bunched together.....we then have the fun to tell them to move or we use our weight to push them further down the row!

I'm sure I can do the same

 

[Covkid1968#]

honest account.

over the years weve had great battles with the BS. the past 20 years cov have had the upper hand which your lot will know full well.

basher is still alive and kicking, back in the 70’s & 80’s it wasn’t a game for the faint hearted. a bad day for us was late 90’s. we were coming back from Derby and we stopped of at Leicester coming back. FB thought it would be a good idea to give you lot a call prior. bad decision by him as you managed to get the whole city out. we arrived in leicester and got chased everywhere. all fun back then. the Sunday game was eventful. good friend of mine sent down for the Sunday game. I dont bother with the scene now and havent since 2005 but always keep in touch with the boys

Yep agree… Always thought Y was alright for a a BS lad although his last proper outing must have been Earlsdon. Think he brought Wigan down one year but may have made that up.

 

[Croad LE2]

The

Bernie's brown Merc leading a convoy of cars, mini buses and roller shuttered delivery vans from Walsgrave and along the M69 in early 1986 was a hoot.
T'was quite a ferocious day as I recall.

Ferocious was the norm around that time when East met West. I remember in Dec 86 it got particularly lively on the town side corner of Gosford Park .
If you were there you may recall a pyro of some kind coming from our lot and going through the window of what I think was a building society or bank across the road and staring a bit of a blaze inside !
We also had you at home on the Bank Holiday Monday night before your big day in 87 and you had a few carloads driving round the town .
The only time I’ve actually seen any of you in the City Centre.
Apologies to anybody offended by the recollections of days gone by that are part of life’s rich tapestry like it or not.

 

[David O'Day]

I'm sure I can do the same

they always move if asked to be fair

 

[David O'Day]

Anyone else getting bored of the life and times of the 70s and 80s baby squad

 

[Covkid1968#]

The

Ferocious was the norm around that time when East met West. I remember in Dec 86 it got particularly lively on the town side corner of Gosford Park .
If you were there you may recall a pyro of some kind coming from our lot and going through the window of what I think was a building society or bank across the road and staring a bit of a blaze inside !
We also had you at home on the Bank Holiday Monday night before your big day in 87 and you had a few carloads driving round the town .
The only time I’ve actually seen any of you in the City Centre.
Apologies to anybody offended by the recollections of days gone by that are part of life’s rich tapestry like it or not.

We’ve shown in Leics town centre a few times over the years… but not as much as we should have. It’s good that the scenes moved on…nobody cares anymore in the same way us old heads did… and that’s for the good.

 

[Croad LE2]

We’ve shown in Leics town centre a few times over the years… but not as much as we should have. It’s good that the scenes moved on…nobody cares anymore in the same way us old heads did… and that’s for the good.

Exactly , it’s good that times have moved on in the main. I don’t think talking about what’s a major part in the history of this fixture is going down too well on here.
Let’s pretend none of it happened

 

[SomersetSB]

I remember standing at the bus stop at the top of ball hill in Cov,must have been the 84 game when there was the pitch invasions I was only 15 so was intrigued sat in the west terrace.
Anyway loads of running battles up towards ball hill and a guy not sure if he was Cov or Leicester got thrown through the PDSA glass shop door, loads of blood as I recall, anyone confirm this?
My first real close up of violence apart from that was the West Ham game away in 81 cup semi.

 

[shmmeee]

Exactly , it’s good that times have moved on in the main. I don’t think talking about what’s a major part in the history of this fixture is going down too well on here.
Let’s pretend none of it happened

Ricky Gervais impressions aside(“too challenging for ya??”), I don’t think anyone’s offended. Just that in 2024 it comes across as a bit sad for grown men to chase each other round town.

 

[oscillatewildly]

Ricky Gervais impressions aside(“too challenging for ya??”), I don’t think anyone’s offended. Just that in 2024 it comes across as a bit sad for grown men to chase each other round town.

Oh Shmmeee, you missed out on all of this malarkey!
To be 'fair' - Not many were 'grown men' back then.

 

[Covkid1968#]

Exactly , it’s good that times have moved on in the main. I don’t think talking about what’s a major part in the history of this fixture is going down too well on here.
Let’s pretend none of it happened

It was the time of our lives back then.. now its just something daft that happened. A few old heads on here but we are all From a different world now. I got caught… paid the price…and when that happens you sort of grow up a bit..a lot!! but you can’t change history

 

[GIMOC]

We and they were in the beer garden as described.
No wonder you believe in chemttails if you can’t read or comprehend basic English.

of course. in all my years using the stag, never did I see families in or the beer garden on a match day. so what game and year was this? father of the year award wouldnt go to you taking a 10 yo there on a matchday

 

[GIMOC]

Anyone else getting bored of the life and times of the 70s and 80s baby squad

pot kettle black.

 

[Croad LE2]

Don’t know if it’s Ball Hill but one of ours got put through a window that year so must be the same one.
It was on the main road that you came onto near the ground , turn right for town , left for Stoke I think . The coaches parked over the road on the right and we turned left and headed up the road
There was a bit of abuse going either way between both lots but one Cov bird was really trying to stir the pot and she succeeded.
There was a scrap and a lad who was with us got put through a window and I think it was a Charity Shop.
He got a pretty bad cut his arm.
I can’t even remember why we were walking that way but I do remember that.
is that Ball Hill ?

 

[fernandopartridge]

Yep agree… Always thought Y was alright for a a BS lad although his last proper outing must have been Earlsdon. Think he brought Wigan down one year but may have made that up.

He was with them that time they attacked Phat Larry's, perhaps Cardiff as well once?

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[Covkid1968#]

He was with them that time they attacked Phat Larry's, perhaps Cardiff as well once?

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Yes he came with Cardiff aswell. Very odd. a strange lad… but better in later years. We had Cardiff turn out for us against Villa… that was odd aswell

 

[oscillatewildly]

Don’t know if it’s Ball Hill but one of ours got put through a window that year so must be the same one.
It was on the main road that you came onto near the ground , turn right for town , left for Stoke I think . The coaches parked over the road on the right and we turned left and headed up the road
There was a bit of abuse going either way between both lots but one Cov bird was really trying to stir the pot and she succeeded.
There was a scrap and a lad who was with us got put through a window and I think it was a Charity Shop.
He got a pretty bad cut his arm.
I can’t even remember why we were walking that way but I do remember that.
is that Ball Hill ?

Yes.

 

[SomersetSB]

Don’t know if it’s Ball Hill but one of ours got put through a window that year so must be the same one.
It was on the main road that you came onto near the ground , turn right for town , left for Stoke I think . The coaches parked over the road on the right and we turned left and headed up the road
There was a bit of abuse going either way between both lots but one Cov bird was really trying to stir the pot and she succeeded.
There was a scrap and a lad who was with us got put through a window and I think it was a Charity Shop.
He got a pretty bad cut his arm.
I can’t even remember why we were walking that way but I do remember that.
is that Ball Hill ?

That’s it’s PDSA charity shop top of ball hill, straight up the road towards Stoke looked nasty tbh

 

[David O'Day]

pot kettle black.

what?

 

[Matt smith]

I'm sure I can do the same

I sit further towards the halfway, I’m just curious in the corner do they actually check your tickets at the top of the concourse, how do they police it?

 

[Croad LE2]

He was with them that time they attacked Phat Larry's, perhaps Cardiff as well once?

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He was with them that time they attacked Phat Larry's, perhaps Cardiff as well once?

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Oi u

That’s it’s PDSA charity shop top of ball hill, straight up the road towards Stoke looked nasty tbh

The lad in question always wore just a vest in the summer months ( Yeah I know) so had no protection at all .
It was a bad cut but as I recall he made an appearance in town later on in the evening .

 

[SomersetSB]

Oi u

The lad in question always wore just a vest in the summer months ( Yeah I know) so had no protection at all .
It was a bad cut but as I recall he made an appearance in town later on in the evening .

Good old days with no cctv or camera phones,
I did get a glass over the head in that old ball hotel against Villa once didn’t feel it as I was that pissed.
That was an interesting bank holiday Monday!!

 

[Great_Expectations]

Not read this chat for a few days; what an intense, sort of interesting, sort of enjoyable, bizarre 15 pages.

I don’t feel any real rivalry to Leicester, or anyone to be honest. There’s a few teams I don’t like for Cov related reasons, but I’m not really seeing this, opponents wise, as anything but a tough game against the run away leaders.

I am looking forward to a buzzing atmosphere though.

 

[CovInEssex]

I sit further towards the halfway, I’m just curious in the corner do they actually check your tickets at the top of the concourse, how do they police it?

Can i see your ticket

yes

* not block 14/15 *

you'll have to go up the other stairs

ok

 

[CovInEssex]

Yep, people were kicked out of their ST seats for this.

It's pathetic that they have them shut and then suddenly open them when there's a chance to make a few quid.

SAG can be pushed on these things and should have been years ago.

The most sought after part of the fucking ground as well

 

[David O'Day]

Can i see your ticket

yes

* not block 14/15 *

you'll have to go up the other stairs

ok

to be fair they now ask people who come up those stairs and walk across a row of seats to see their ticket

 

[pusbccfc]

The most sought after part of the fucking ground as well

Yep, it's pathetic from SAG.

 

[Ashdown]

I remember a fair sized mob of Cov coming over to Hinckley in the 80s and that kicked off all over town. The Leicester boys maintain that they still didn’t take the ‘Duke of Rutland’ though.

 

[SkyblueDad]

I remember a fair sized mob of Cov coming over to Hinckley in the 80s and that kicked off all over town. The Leicester boys maintain that they still didn’t take the ‘Duke of Rutland’ though.

Jim Blythe’s son was stabbed to death on one of those fights in Hinckley.

 

[SkyblueDad]

We are sat impatiently for one or two newbies to sign and be set on Leicester but if it doesn’t happen for this weekend we still have a great squad, difficult to beat ,I’m very confident for Saturday.

 

[pusbccfc]

40 tickets have been cancelled from Leicester fans apparently.

 

[David O'Day]

40 tickets have been cancelled from Leicester fans apparently.

that'll be brand new accounts with LE post codes, they said ticketmaster was easy to game

 

[pusbccfc]

that'll be brand new accounts with LE post codes, they said ticketmaster was easy to game

And 40 is hardly the hundreds some Leicester fans believe have tickets in 13.

 

[David O'Day]

And 40 is hardly the hundreds some Leicester fans believe have tickets in 13.

if there is any in 13 we won't know as they'll be quiet

if not as someone said they'll be kicked out or kicked in, not condoning violence but that's just how things go