Manchester United fans in WT 92/93 (4 Viewers)

[skybluelee]

Did we officially give them the WT or did their fans just infiltrate it? The whole stand goes up when they score and it just looks very very wrong.

 

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[Covkid1968#]

You can see Cov fans saying stuff - I have to say I think i'd be doing more than that...I wasn't at the game as I was in a 3 year forced break from football.

 

[Ashdown]

That was probably the year they were all round the ground. Somehow they managed to get tickets everywhere. It was a big game for them with Fergies young guns closing in on the title.

 

[McLovin87]

They probably had nearly three quarters of the ground that day, it was mental. We were on the Kop and there were loads in there as well!

 

[edgy]

Genuinely hate Man United as much as any other team. In recent years I've even wished Villa & Leicester well against them.

 

[Torquay Sky Blue]

They were the only club who regularly took the West End (haven't said that since I was a teenager) throughout 70's definitely...not sure about later years . May of surrendered it that year

 

[chiefdave]

Not sure if it’s my memory playing tricks but this seemed to happen every time we played them in the late 80s and early 90s.

Of course those where they days where even for big games we struggled to fill the ground.

If you would have said back then we’d be getting bigger crowds in the second tier people would have thought you were crazy.

 

[Travs]

I was in the family stand that day and that had a fair few Utd fans as well.

I don't think the WT was given over to their fans.... they just had loads in there.

Some of the games later in the 90's were pretty spicy.

 

[MusicDating]

They probably had nearly three quarters of the ground that day, it was mental. We were on the Kop and there were loads in there as well!

Yer, was in the kop too and as you say, 3/4 of the ground must've been Man U. I remember afterwards saying we should have sold our tickets!

Cheating Schmeichel btw. If I recall, Quinn's red card got rescinded.

 

[M&B Stand]

People outside were selling their their season ticket stubs for 40 or 50 quid.

I remember considering flogging my 4 quid Passport to Leisure Kop ticket but didn’t!

 

[MusicDating]

People outside were selling their their season ticket stubs for 40 or 50 quid.

I remember considering flogging my 4 quid Passport to Leisure Kop ticket but didn’t!

Think we got offered £50

 

[AJB1983]

Remember at school all the glory supporting Man Utd fans - only game they’d ever see them was the Cov game and in the home ends. Wankers.

 

[CovInEssex]

Think we got offered £50

Decent whack back then

 

[JimmyHillsbeard]

Happened every year. Usually full of local Man Utd (and at other times, Liverpool) fans attending their one live game of the season.

 

[Irish Sky Blue]

That’s the only game I can remember that happening. There were games where there were Utd fans in the West End (before the all seater days there were occasions when the West End was segregated into home and away fans) but on this day there were United fans all over the place. We had season ticket seats on the Sky Blue Terrace and we were completely surrounded that day. What happened to the season ticket holders who were usually dotted around us I don’t know.
I don’t think a situation like this would arise now with computerised ticketing and previous purchase history often needed, although having said that, my son and I had tickets in the South Stand at Oxford last week.

 

[SkyBlueCharlie9]

Remember playing Chelsea on opening day 1998 won 2-1 (year after 3-2 victory) sat in front part of Sky Blue terrace and totally surrounded by mouthy Chelsea fans.

 

[Sick Boy]

I think I was in the WT that day and would only have been about 8 or 9 and I only remember seeing one other City fan.

 

[rob9872]

You can see Cov fans saying stuff - I have to say I think i'd be doing more than that...I wasn't at the game as I was in a 3 year forced break from football.

Can't let this slide. I'm intrigued what did you do?

 

[Broken Hearted Sky Blue]

Not sure if it’s my memory playing tricks but this seemed to happen every time we played them in the late 80s and early 90s.

Of course those where they days where even for big games we struggled to fill the ground.

If you would have said back then we’d be getting bigger crowds in the second every club tier people would have thought you were crazy.

Every club at that time struggled to fill their grounds

 

[Sky Blue Wozza]

There used to be a load of teenage girls with Man U scarves attend the games at the height of Ryan Giggs/ David Beckham mania.

Although they could have been there for Oggy, who knows

 

[Gynnsthetonic]

I was on the kop that day, surrounded by the fuckers

 

[Evo1883]

Wouldn't happen today , thankfully

 

[theferret]

In following season's they introduced a policy where to buy a ticket for united game you had to buy a ticket for another designated game, it did pretty much stop it . United did that a few places back then, I recall one game at palace that was similar

 

[Adge]

Don’t really buy this Leicester or Villa crap but Utd and their “supporters” I can’t stand.
Always used to be their annual match per season-same with Liverpool.

 

[oscillatewildly]

There used to be a load of teenage girls with Man U scarves attend the games at the height of Ryan Giggs/ David Beckham mania.

Although they could have been there for Oggy, who knows

I remember a reserve fixture against Man U around 1993/94. Traditionally only the main stand would be open but both tiers of West stand were also for this one.
It was like a one direction gig with all the screaming young female Man U plastics.

 

[Lamps]

Don't know what year it was but the only time I ever got ejected from a ground was at HR against Manure. Was giving them some grief back through the fence. As we reached the gates they told me it was for my own safety as I was surrounded by them in the West Terrace.

 

[Peter Billing Eyes]

Compounded by a large Irish population in the city at the time who were just as likely to support Man U, Liverpool, or Arsenal as Coventry. Where I used to live, my next door neighbour was from Westport in Ireland and said that at in late 60’s, the block we lived on of around 30 properties only had one non-Irish family living there. Must’ve been quite the party, but few swapped football allegiances to Coventry from the teams they historically followed. Numbers of Irish (third generation and beyond) have dwindled, but you only have to visit Canley cemetery to realise the massive influence Ireland has had on the city. 30-40% of the graves there appear to have Irish roots.

 

[theferret]

Compounded by a large Irish population in the city at the time who were just as likely to support Man U, Liverpool, or Arsenal as Coventry. Where I used to live, my next door neighbour was from Westport in Ireland and said that at in late 60’s, the block we lived on of around 30 properties only had one non-Irish family living there. Must’ve been quite the party, but few swapped football allegiances to Coventry from the teams they historically followed. Numbers of Irish (third generation and beyond) have dwindled, but you only have to visit Canley cemetery to realise the massive influence Ireland has had on the city. 30-40% of the graves there appear to have Irish roots.

Not sure it had any real impact that day. It was a bit of a one off. It was a bank holiday iirc and United fans travelled from all over. It was the days pre ticket controls and the internet, and people were paying silly money. I was approached a couple of times on the walk from the elastic and offered crazy money for my ticket (for the time anyway). One Scottish fella got quite aggressive.

On a side note, the influx of Irish was significant post war, but not perhaps as much as people think, added around 35K to the population between end of 1950s and 1970. Coventry's big population boom was from 1900 to just before the war, it almost tripled in size.

 

[Peter Billing Eyes]

Not sure it had any real impact that day. It was a bit of a one off. It was a bank holiday iirc and United fans travelled from all over. It was the days pre ticket controls and the internet, and people were paying silly money. I was approached a couple of times on the walk from the elastic and offered crazy money for my ticket (for the time anyway). One Scottish fella got quite aggressive.

On a side note, the influx of Irish was significant post war, but not perhaps as much as people think, added around 35K to the population between end of 1950s and 1970. Coventry's big population boom was from 1900 to just before the war, it almost tripled in size.

It’s not just the natural immigration, the siblings and subsequent offspring who identify as Irish could quite easily represent 30% of the population into the 80’s and 90’s.