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See edit aboveFuckin hell I’d forgotten all about that. What about 98?
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See edit aboveFuckin hell I’d forgotten all about that. What about 98?
This woman at work is saying she camped out as well, might have been the semi then. She is getting on now
100% happened at the semi tickets. As it hasn't been for a steward seeing what was going on I would have missed out despite being there all night. Dont remember the horses part mindSomeone at work saying people were queuing outside Roker Park but Bob Murray didn't open the gates and then when he did lots of people pushed in and caused hell on. The police horses were out etc. Never heard this before can anyone confirm or deny this?
Aye, then if I remember the numbers were drawn out and published in the echo.
Ours never got drawn out
Soon sold out on the gates by the time the gatemen got their's out first.Someone at work saying people were queuing outside Roker Park but Bob Murray didn't open the gates and then when he did lots of people pushed in and caused hell on. The police horses were out etc. Never heard this before can anyone confirm or deny this?
Ours didn't either. I was gutted.
Same, final was a doddle compared to the semi finalIIRC it was the semi final where this happened. I lost out because of it despite camping out all night. Ended up getting a ticket through a family friend.
The Final ended up quite orderly.
Good natured at first , then the pubs kicked out , then the nightclubs , chaos just before they went on saleCamped outside Fulwell end Turnstiles as a 15 yr old. Quite some sights that night I can tell yer. Especially when pubs kicked out.
All was pretty fun until gimps at front of queue packed up their camping gear at 5am and there was a mass surge to move into the space they’d created. Absolute carnage with gear trampled on and bodies everywhere.
Damn site more exciting that Ticketmaster
And yes, semi not final
Someone at work saying people were queuing outside Roker Park but Bob Murray didn't open the gates and then when he did lots of people pushed in and caused hell on. The police horses were out etc. Never heard this before can anyone confirm or deny this?
Same here, mind I was only 9 at the time. My granda sent me round to knock on David rush and ask for his autograph and also a couple of tickets. Never got any tickets.
Same, final was a doddle compared to the semi final
Good natured at first , then the pubs kicked out , then the nightclubs , chaos just before they went on sale
100% true. We queued from around 10.30pm all night, more and more turned up, rumours that the turnstiles would open at 7am, never materialised. In the end there were bags full of gold cards and cash being handed over to people at the front. And yes the police came in on horses and closed it on safety grounds. We joined a queue that ended up being for a fulwell end turnstile. About 10 in front of us when it closed so we missed out. I’m sure we then went to SJP for the derby that day or the day after (and got beat). Annoyingly it was the first season we didn’t buy a season ticket yet went to every match, including the Chelsea away game (I suppose that was our semi final in a way)
That’s right.
Our group of about 6 or 8 that stayed all night ended up with the cash and gold cards for about 30 people who didn’t want to stay all night.
We charged about £5 per person to guarantee their ticket as we were right on one of the turnstiles for when it opened.