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dirty bristow said:
Can't say I am too surprised after Covent Garden mate!!!



He did, sort of, took a few deflections on the way in iirc.
Long walk around the allotments.
Mate of mine is diabetic and a right wanker when pissed, drank too much ended up saying he needed treatment so we took him to the hospital next to the ground. They wouldn't do owt as he was pissed and abusive and I was all for leaving him. The lad who was driving was flying from Newcastle to Tenerife at 0200hrs on the Sunday too
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3 hour plus journey to Bath on a minibus, no way that was gonna be a dry bus!
 


Darlo in 1987. The summer after we had been relegated to the third division.

I’d never been before so when we went through the turnstiles to find a cricket pitch in front of us I actually thought for a moment that we had come to the wrong place.

Lost 2-1. Steve Doyle sent off. Keystone Cops chase over the cricket pitch afterwards involving the local constabulary and the young seaburn casuals.

Another bloody cricket pitch at Northampton a few months later as well..
 
Carlisle in 74 cup 3rd round...we were the holders and the talk on the way through was that we would be going back to Wembley.......we lost.
Tranmere......My mate telling me that they had made a sub but took no one off...we were looking at himlike he was some sort of idiot....till the same player scored....cant remember when this was....late 90s perhaps.....anyway we lost
 
JTF said:
Darlo in 1987. The summer after we had been relegated to the third division.

I’d never been before so when we went through the turnstiles to find a cricket pitch in front of us I actually thought for a moment that we had come to the wrong place.

Lost 2-1. Steve Doyle sent off. Keystone Cops chase over the cricket pitch afterwards involving the local constabulary and the young seaburn casuals.

Another bloody cricket pitch at Northampton a few months later as well..
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Was in not a 3-2 defeat? I fell in a pool of stagnant water inside the ground

Edit: It was 2-1. I remember Stephen Hunter ( rip) being a 'leader' of the young guns
 
Milwall away in 92/93 at the old den. Drew 0-0 and the shields branch only took a small coach not much bigger than a mini bus. Dodger annoyed two of the locals in the seats shouting abuse at them and they spent all of the second half staring at him and us making cut throat and stabbing gestures. Nice place.
 
KCB1998 said:
Losing by six to Coventry away. Midweek game sometime in the 80s. My dad was late and we didn't get there till the 40th minute by which time they were 4-0 down.
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Always seemed to get thumped there. One of the two grounds we rarely turned up at, Highfield Road and Carrow Road.
 
dirty bristow said:
Was in not a 3-2 defeat? I fell in a pool of stagnant water inside the ground

Edit: It was 2-1. I remember Stephen Hunter ( rip) being a 'leader' of the young guns
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Always thought his first name was Neil? IIRC cops had him by the throat in Darlo station afterwards.

I know he wasn’t everyone’s cup of tea but he was more of a daft lad than a hard core hooligan and was often targeted by police and opposition fans due to his appearance.

Always thought he was born 10 years too late – he wouldn’t have stood out so much in the Roker 10-15 years earlier...
 
Bradford at Odsal Stadium in 1986.

Came through little turnstiles to find ourselves literally at the top of a valley with a pitch way down at the bottom.

Block of free seats and terrace to our left. Nothing to our right. I think the team coach might actually have been parked at that end - so I suppose you could say we literally ‘parked the bus’ that night.
 
Crewe away under McCarthy in '05. Stood in a stand with only six rows, Stephen Elliott scored.
 
Barnsley away mid week Aug/Sept 1991 'ish. Nice summer evening and loads down, I think we won 3-0 which was by far the biggest win away I'd seen following the lads.
 
JTF said:
Always thought his first name was Neil? IIRC cops had him by the throat in Darlo station afterwards.

I know he wasn’t everyone’s cup of tea but he was more of a daft lad than a hard core hooligan and was often targeted by police and opposition fans due to his appearance.

Always thought he was born 10 years too late – he wouldn’t have stood out so much in the Roker 10-15 years earlier...
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He died the same day as my Dad. I remember the day my dad died well, we on 4-2 at Oxford!!
 
JTF said:
Always thought his first name was Neil? IIRC cops had him by the throat in Darlo station afterwards.

I know he wasn’t everyone’s cup of tea but he was more of a daft lad than a hard core hooligan and was often targeted by police and opposition fans due to his appearance.

Always thought he was born 10 years too late – he wouldn’t have stood out so much in the Roker 10-15 years earlier...
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Aye it was Neil , from Doxy Park. I think we played Chelsea soon after the Oxford game and after drinking round Victoria decided to have a minutes silence on the tube on the way to the ground. We had a police escort with dogs in the tube carriage and one of them decided to call us scum which didn't go down very well.
 
Birmingham away 83, won 1-0, possibly Bracewell's first goal for us. One of the roughest pre match pubs (and I've been in a lot). Landlord had a patch over his eye, blokes shitting in cubicles without doors, rammed with local nutters. Great times!
 
Overnighter to Plymouth in 1986.

The aforementioned NH playing his Chubby Brown tapes all night. Next day we could only communicate in words starting with F and C.

Ended up in the Bretton Arms in Brettonside in the city centre – when a brick comes through the window and the local reception committee outside…

Always a bit wary of ambushes in the trees around the ground at Plymouth and usually got to invade the pitch at the end to go out the gate at the other end and avoid going back out through the park…
 
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