Was that really qtr final stage? Didn't go that night but went to replay at home. After the game remember witnessing running battles down Swan lane, across Gossy green and then still going on at bottom of Humber road as we waited for No 13 back to Willenhall.Forgot Liverpool away league cup quarter final, thousands of Cov went had the whole Kremlin Road stand and half the Anfield Road terrace, those sporting scousers smashed coach windows galore but failed to impress in the hand to hand stuff.
I was on this train as a 13 year old, but I think (if it’s the same incident) that this would be 1967/68? My Mum gave me hell the next day, although I had nothing to do with the trouble.Wonder if anyone remembers loads of City being kicked off a train coming back from Wolves one night match around 1971/72. Made national headlines. We had a massive following that night and one of the trains coming back was wrecked and the emergency stop cord being pulled all the time. Train stopped again at small station and loads of cops got on and threw loads off who didn’t have seats, I knew some who had to thumb it back from god knows where but with a bit of luck it was a road with lots of Cov cars travelling back home.
Smeggy Simon then ?Sometime in the 80’s I once sat next to an obese bloke on the Harry Shaw coach. I got half a fucking seat. I could deal with the numb arse but the smell of his skin-flap cheese haunts me to this day.
It would have to be all the way to and from Ayesome fucking Park too.
I wonder if that was not just the same trip - but the same coach I was on?!Sometime in the 80’s I once sat next to an obese bloke on the Harry Shaw coach. I got half a fucking seat. I could deal with the numb arse but the smell of his skin-flap cheese haunts me to this day.
It would have to be all the way to and from Ayesome fucking Park too.
My dad who is now 79 and my two older brothers and both in their early 50s went to that game and said it was the scariest atmosphere they’ve encountered at football
That incident happened by Pool Meadow near the old fire station, the West Ham fan’s name I’m sure was Barry Hedges. It was a fight between to groups and the unfortunate West Ham fan fell and hit his head on the kerb, causing some permanent brain damage, two Cov lads got bird for it, I knew both. The lad injured was game for a ruck, just unlucky.[/QUOTE
It was definitely 71/72 the game we qualified for Europe.The police arrested a large number of fans and had to appear in a special court the following day, where Cov City fan and solicitor represented them all and got them off.I was on this train as a 13 year old, but I think (if it’s the same incident) that this would be 1967/68? My Mum gave me hell the next day, although I had nothing to do with the trouble.
Your honour, if I could present exhibit 'C' - We qualified for Europe by finishing 6th at the end of 1969/70.It was definitely 71/72 the game we qualified for Europe.The police arrested a large number of fans and had to appear in a special court the following day, where Cov City fan and solicitor represented them all and got them off.
Your honour, if I could present exhibit 'C' - We qualified for Europe by finishing 6th at the end of 1969/70.
The worst incident I was ever involved in was at, of all places, a Nuneaton game.With Sunderland fans complaining rightly or wrongly at some of our fans behaviour on Saturday, it got me thinking <snip> This is just a few crazy away days, when you thought you'd never get home in one piece. Any other incidents ?
If I recall they did go well in the FACup some years ago, and played Middlesbrough I think ? Sounds like that game.The worst incident I was ever involved in was at, of all places, a Nuneaton game.
I can't remember who they were playing but it must have been a special game for us to go there. A cup game against league opponents probably.
I was at the game with my father.
All of a sudden a rain of rocks was flying in the air toward the section of crowd we were in.
They were sizeable missiles that could do serious damage.
We immediately got out of there and never went back to Nuneaton after that.
Checkatrade final wasn't it?When I was too young to be drinking I once drank way too much before a match. It was a pretty bad day falling asleep on the seats at half time, being woken up by stewards only to be sick on myself and have my trousers fall down while being escorted out.
Funnily enough I don't remember the game.
Was it last week at SunderlandWhen I was too young to be drinking I once drank way too much before a match. It was a pretty bad day falling asleep on the seats at half time, being woken up by stewards only to be sick on myself and have my trousers fall down while being escorted out.
Funnily enough I don't remember the game.
That could have been the FA Cup game I went to. The one I saw was versus Scunthorpe who brought quite a few 'lads' and intent on showing this 'small sleepy backwater' team what it was like to lock horns against a league team. Cue, mass fights all over the place including on the pitch before the game. I'd say Nuneaton probably got the better of the action. I recall one Scunny gang leader walking along the side of the pitch, ignoring the old bill ordering him and his mates to stand still. The nearest copper grabbed hold of him by his long blond hair and dragged him over the pitch surround wall to nick him....ouch ! Said copper wasn't exactly gentle.The worst incident I was ever involved in was at, of all places, a Nuneaton game.
I can't remember who they were playing but it must have been a special game for us to go there. A cup game against league opponents probably.
I was at the game with my father.
All of a sudden a rain of rocks was flying in the air toward the section of crowd we were in.
They were sizeable missiles that could do serious damage.
We immediately got out of there and never went back to Nuneaton after that.
Portsmouth 2001. A lot of decent fellas (and some not so decent) went to PRISON because of the behaviour of those southern cunts. Horrible day, horrible fans!
Christ! Reading these I’ve either been very lucky or going to different games to everyone else!
The nearest I’ve had to trouble was getting told to “sit the fuck down” after celebrating when cov scored against Pompey at HR in about 1988...and that was by Pompey supporting dad. Prick.
Yeah I was on that Train, luckily I had a seat. LOLWonder if anyone remembers loads of City being kicked off a train coming back from Wolves one night match around 1971/72. Made national headlines. We had a massive following that night and one of the trains coming back was wrecked and the emergency stop cord being pulled all the time. Train stopped again at small station and loads of cops got on and threw loads off who didn’t have seats, I knew some who had to thumb it back from god knows where but with a bit of luck it was a road with lots of Cov cars travelling back home.
I was at that game, our coach got smashed up pretty bad and left with out us, had to thumb a lift back too Cov, got home at 5 in the morning I was so knackered I never went into work that day , bloody scousers .Forgot Liverpool away league cup quarter final, thousands of Cov went had the whole Kremlin Road stand and half the Anfield Road terrace, those sporting scousers smashed coach windows galore but failed to impress in the hand to hand stuff.
Yes sorry,you're right.I really should have known that as I went to both Trakia Plovdiv and Bayern Munich and was 21 that year.
I think this was the game, 15 April 1969. A Tuesday night, so I got home really late. It was a 1-1 draw, with City’s goal scored by the late, great, Ernie Hunt. It couldn’t have been later than this, as I left Cov with my family, in December 1969.
Good old Micky Quinn. These days the players have their own coach, fortunately.Sometime in the 80’s I once sat next to an obese bloke on the Harry Shaw coach. I got half a fucking seat. I could deal with the numb arse but the smell of his skin-flap cheese haunts me to this day.
It would have to be all the way to and from Ayesome fucking Park too.
looks like Tyrone Mings stepped on his faceNot the same bloke apparently
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