The day the 'derby' changed and became one of the most hate filled games in the UK..

Fitzgerald said:
Fuck me no shaming you lot. Having to play our kids in a lower league cup and you giving it the big un.


Our fans small time? Dear me. We get excited at European trips to the continent not the Johnstones paint trophy final
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Don't knock it, you might be craving such a trip in about 3 years 😄
Honess10 said:
Anyone got any memories before the aggro then? Was it all just mixed in with pockets of away supporters all over and they were generally able to celebrate if they scorerd and everyone just said bravo lads. Well played. Genuinely interested how it all played out. Particularly early 50’s etc
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1950s. It's about the only thing about which I wish I was 20 years older.
 
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Fitzgerald said:
Aye was carnage that day at filbert street. Mental turnaround to go from bottom of division 2 to almost winning the Premier league and playing in the champions league in the space of 4/5 years. I think Leicester is the only comparable team who has done that in modern times?
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Was certainly full on in the streets around the ground before kick off. You only had about 1500 tickets but were very game , I remember Walnut Street swarming with our lot Leicester and the heavily outnumbered Geordies sticking together as best they could.
There was one little team of about 8-10 that had obviously been round the block many a time and no doubt in even worse situations in London etc and they were on the front foot .
It was mental at the end of the game , I think at least one Newcastle fan lost an eye from a flying seat . Much prison dished out.
Not glorifying by the way , it was 1992 and it’s how it was.
 
ISOE II said:
They weren’t far off it when Keegan first took charge. They could’ve gone down against Leicester but won 2-1 on the last day with 2 Mags getting stabbed.
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It was mad that day. Trouble before, during and after. Getting back to the train station afterwards was particularly bad.
You are correct we were close that year. I think beating Portsmouth the week before had pretty much saved us as to go down on the last day, I think, we needed to lose and Plymouth and another win???
Burlesque said:
Was certainly full on in the streets around the ground before kick off. You only had about 1500 tickets but were very game , I remember Walnut Street swarming with our lot Leicester and the heavily outnumbered Geordies sticking together as best they could.
There was one little team of about 8-10 that had obviously been round the block many a time and no doubt in even worse situations in London etc and they were on the front foot .
It was mental at the end of the game , I think at least one Newcastle fan lost an eye from a flying seat . Much prison dished out.
Not glorifying by the way , it was 1992 and it’s how it was.
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We played at Filbert Street, on the opening day, a few years earlier (2-2 I believe) and that was also bad. I recall a Mass brawl outside the turnstiles going in. Our bus stopped at Loughborough afterwards. That wasn’t friendly either.
 
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jcrossan said:
Good Friday, 1901.

When 70,000 fans descended on 30,000-capacity St James' Park, the match was abandoned and a full-scale riot broke out

You young uns know nowt.
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SAFC fans travelled by charabancs and trains and pulled down the Newcastle flags and there were so many injuries that people were ferried to hospitals on Wearside too.
There’s a full Shields Gazette report on it all somewhere. We had about half the crowd.
SAFC OK
 
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Monkey Boots said:
Real skinheads were smart as out. By real, I mean Crombies, Ben Sherman gingham shirts, Levi’s Sta Prest trousers. The ones who were into Trojan Reggae, 60s Ska - not the BNP/NF lot.
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Probably were, I agree it did begin as a fashion culture & music. I must have been misled by older bravado lads, all I heard was about the suede head, velvet head, convict haircuts, keeping a blade under their Crombie collars and causing trouble. I'm talking about the late 60s and listening to lads a few years older than me. NB quite a few of which spent HM pleasure time and had facial scarring'.
 
Luna17 said:
The main flash point was the FE where a good few hundred newcastle fans congregated instead of going to the RE.
Since the roof went on in 66, the FE became the chanters end and our lot didnt take kindly to mags being in and thus all manner of objects were hoyed at them. Doesnt seem like there was any battling, ''just'' throwing of missiles. Sounds like some horrible injuries but incredibly very few - if indeed any, arrests.
I was only 7 at the time and dont recall much about the match.
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It was planned. Mags not wearing colours threw tool bags over the FE wall to mates inside. They took up at the back, main stand side, and proceeded to throw hammers, axes, chisels and screwdrivers into our tightly packed fans. When they ran out of missiles and our lads were moving towards them they moved across and then down to the clockstand side. By then a crowd of Sunderland lads had them almost penned in. The tables had turned but before revenge could be taken the cowardly bastards moved into the corner of the pitch and running track where they were rescued by police before being escorted towards the Roker end corner and relative safety. If memory serves nigh on a hundred people were taken to hospital that day, I personally saw five or six with terrible facial and head injuries.
 
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Sons of The Wear said:
SAFC fans travelled by charabancs and trains and pulled down the Newcastle flags and there were so many injuries that people were ferried to hospitals on Wearside too.
There’s a full Shields Gazette report on it all somewhere. We had about half the crowd.
SAFC OK
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Taverners
 
I was in my early twenties and full of adrenaline, loved it.
When I was a bit younger I remember drinking with them before the derby in the Strawberry. This is when we played them boxing day or news years day
 

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