[Osborne again]

Bald magician, on 20 April 2025 - 08:19 AM, said:

Baseball bats 😆. I don’t imagine that being a mainstream leisure activity circa 1970 in Bradford ha

It's rounders to us of the older generation mate.

[whittman]

Zigsuk, on 19 April 2025 - 12:10 PM, said:

Do you know the year? I’d estimate 70 or 71 as prior to 1970 I used to sit in the stand with my old man..The barrier on Compton Street must have been put in a little after that. I remember one game against Notts Co fans walking past each other on Compton St as we swapped ends at HT, other than banter no trouble as I recall.
Talk about a different world.

i think the barrier on the half way line on the pop side was in place for the first home match back in the
3rd division against Aston Villa at the start of the 70/71 season

Seeing how most of the Villa fans seemed to be on the Kop anyway it seemed to be a pointless exercise putting the barrier there in the first place lol

[tomjoad]

Coventry in Town was lively the year they won FA cup.

Bradford away in the cup lost to a Trevor Hockey goal was probably the scariest I've witnessed at football.

Not glorifying it it happened

[dart in the crossbar]

whittman, on 20 April 2025 - 07:30 PM, said:

i think the barrier on the half way line on the pop side was in place for the first home match back in the
3rd division against Aston Villa at the start of the 70/71 season

Seeing how most of the Villa fans seemed to be on the Kop anyway it seemed to be a pointless exercise putting the barrier there in the first place lol

I remember being very amused by the Cop singing Andy Lockhead is a twohat at that game. I was of an age to be very amused indeed. I'm sure that I was on Compton / bogs side of the cop, lowish down with my Dad. I don't recall any trouble.

I do recall Palace rocking the fence a lot a couple of seasons later though. It looked like it was going over but somehow held. And then there were Millwall running along Saltergate after the game. One of theirs ran past me wearing a long, black leather coat waving what looked like a bayonet. Not nice. And vans of Cardiff louts getting out at the bus station and laying into anyone there. Very not nice.

Hopefully this kind of nonsense is a thing of the past.

The scariest for me at any football match was Newcastle at Wednesday on Boxing Day 1988. Long story as to why I was there alone; but I was. I was of an age and size to look after myself but remember being part of a large mass of NUFC fans plus me crushed together moving down the funnel at Leppings Lane to the lower stand. It was all that I could do to keep away from the walls and stay upright down the tunnel. And then stay upright and away from the fences in the bottom section. Fortunately all seemed ok despite the awful conditions. Nothing more needs saying. YNWA.

This post has been edited by dart in the crossbar: 20 April 2025 - 08:53 PM

[warfey is a spireite]

I missed one what about Brighton on one corner flag to another Zulu charged into the kip

[tomjoad]

whittman, on 20 April 2025 - 07:30 PM, said:

i think the barrier on the half way line on the pop side was in place for the first home match back in the
3rd division against Aston Villa at the start of the 70/71 season

Seeing how most of the Villa fans seemed to be on the Kop anyway it seemed to be a pointless exercise putting the barrier there in the first place lol

No it wasn't up for a later visit by Villa in League cup

[tomjoad]

dart in the crossbar, on 20 April 2025 - 08:45 PM, said:

I remember being very amused by the Cop singing Andy Lockhead is a twohat at that game. I was of an age to be very amused indeed. I'm sure that I was on Compton / bogs side of the cop, lowish down with my Dad. I don't recall any trouble.

I do recall Palace rocking the fence a lot a couple of seasons later though. It looked like it was going over but somehow held. And then there were Millwall running along Saltergate after the game. One of theirs ran past me wearing a long, black leather coat waving what looked like a bayonet. Not nice. And vans of Cardiff louts getting out at the bus station and laying into anyone there. Very not nice.

Hopefully this kind of nonsense is a thing of the past.

The scariest for me at any football match was Newcastle at Wednesday on Boxing Day 1988. Long story as to why I was there alone; but I was. I was of an age and size to look after myself but remember being part of a large mass of NUFC fans plus me crushed together moving down the funnel at Leppings Lane to the lower stand. It was all that I could do to keep away from the walls and stay upright down the tunnel. And then stay upright and away from the fences in the bottom section. Fortunately all seemed ok despite the awful conditions. Nothing more needs saying. YNWA.

The 70 71 game against Villa they took the kop Compton and chased Town of the Cross stret Big coloured lad led them.
Was there when it happened scary.
Mansfield got battered on Cross Street same season 2 2 draw
Again wrong but that was normal back then

Corner flag at Millmoor Boxing day 1971 won 2 1 Town took over.

[warfey is a spireite]

Dint vreckin and mossy scored ,who was the javelin thrower lol when we went through to rovrun end

[Comeonyouirons]

tomjoad, on 20 April 2025 - 07:39 PM, said:

Coventry in Town was lively the year they won FA cup.

Bradford away in the cup lost to a Trevor Hockey goal was probably the scariest I've witnessed at football.

Not glorifying it it happened

Coventry in Tahn the evening they beat Wednesday in Quarter final . Completely premeditated I was talking to a couple of Cov fans in Roysl Oak Shambles at lunchtime … they like others hadn’t got tickets for the game and picked Tahnfor a booze up . They seemed ok chaps but one was involved in the carnage I saw later in Golden Fleece … I got a clump in there . Along with one other experience I had at old Stoke ground probably the scariest hooligan experience I’ve had
Oh and Warfey I was at Bratfud Nov 75 … a very good friend of mine ( wouldn’t harm a flea ) got a right smacking
Pedant alert Don Hutchins scored not Trevor Hockey
New Whitt’s very own Ronnie Welch played for Tahn

[warfey is a spireite]

Yes mate stoke we opened up and stoke went in middle we closed up it was murder, I wasn't on train but got told back walk to station was bad,Ronnie welch came with Billy McEwen from Brighton together .

[Zigsuk]

Remember both the Coventry and Sunderland shenanigans well. Me and my mate went into the Fleece just after they had left and knew nothing about it, amazingly despite being trashed it was still open. We asked the bloke behind the bar who looked worse for wear, ‘Has there been some trouble? ‘Just a bit he replied.’ I was shocked because Coventry didn’t seem to have a reputation so for me it came out of the blue. I didn’t realise they hadn’t even been to Sheffield so maybe it ought to be to have been expected.
Regarding Sunderland and the Wagon if memory serves this happened twice. I vividly recall one as there was a stand off outside between a coach load of Sunderland fans and a couple of hundred locals. There was a lot of posing and threatening but from what I recall little real violence as the Sunderland fans, despite being vastly outnumbered, drew upon their big city experience and fearlessly walked though the town people (not all of whom would have been football fans) although the police might have arrived by then.
From what I recall there was more argy bargy among the locals as they argued whether to get stuck in or not. One notorious town character who I don’t think was a football fan but had been a Hell’s Angel was a little older than most and might have been trying to stop the trouble as he shouted to someone in the crowd ‘I’ve lived in this town long than you!’ which me and my mate found quite amusing.

This post has been edited by Zigsuk: 21 April 2025 - 10:22 AM

[calvin plummers socks]

warfey is a spireite, on 21 April 2025 - 06:59 AM, said:

Dint vreckin and mossy scored ,who was the javelin thrower lol when we went through to rovrun end

It’s like a question on the 1% Club

[whittman]

Zigsuk, on 21 April 2025 - 10:20 AM, said:

Remember both the Coventry and Sunderland shenanigans well. Me and my mate went into the Fleece just after they had left and knew nothing about it, amazingly despite being trashed it was still open. We asked the bloke behind the bar who looked worse for wear, ‘Has there been some trouble? ‘Just a bit he replied.’ I was shocked because Coventry didn’t seem to have a reputation so for me it came out of the blue. I didn’t realise they hadn’t even been to Sheffield so maybe it ought to be to have been expected.
Regarding Sunderland and the Wagon if memory serves this happened twice. I vividly recall one as there was a stand off outside between a coach load of Sunderland fans and a couple of hundred locals. There was a lot of posing and threatening but from what I recall little real violence as the Sunderland fans, despite being vastly outnumbered, drew upon their big city experience and fearlessly walked though the town people (not all of whom would have been football fans) although the police might have arrived by then.
From what I recall there was more argy bargy among the locals as they argued whether to get stuck in or not. One notorious town character who I don’t think was a football fan but had been a Hell’s Angel was a little older than most and might have been trying to stop the trouble as he shouted to someone in the crowd ‘I’ve lived in this town long than you!’ which me and my mate found quite amusing.

[whittman]

i remember sunderland away in the FA Cup mid 70s when just after our train had pulled away from the station after the match the police suddenly came into our carriage and told us to get down under the tables

next ninute bricks and rocks came flying in through the windows from both sides as we took cover

[warfey is a spireite]

Yes was there lost 2-0 special train id hitch hiked up I think loads of town great great days what about the 7000 at Blackpool lost 2--1 2 special trains those were the days

[warfey is a spireite]

calvin plummers socks, on 21 April 2025 - 11:06 AM, said:

It’s like a question on the 1% Club

You weren't in ure pram or cardboard box then

[spireitetoo]

Tbh, I was shocked to see them walking out as our 3rd went in, they like us must have thought we had enough to win it

Such a shame we didn't get on the end of a couple of late crosses..

[s42blue]

spireitetoo, on 21 April 2025 - 04:41 PM, said:

Tbh, I was shocked to see them walking out as our 3rd went in, they like us must have thought we had enough to win it

Such a shame we didn't get on the end of a couple of late crosses..

Yep mainly quiet. Good to see a few ejected from East Stand.

Get back to Yarkshire

[fishini]

They were moaning more about their performance than britass is about ours. Strange really seeing where they are in the league

[lindave]

fishini, on 21 April 2025 - 05:28 PM, said:

They were moaning more about their performance than britass is about ours. Strange really seeing where they are in the league

We spoke to quite a few before the game and they were sound as a pound, true football followers like ourselves.