Match Day Thread Hull City v Swansea

The Bradford stabbing I was talking about was much earlier, mid 80s. Though the one you are talking about is definitely true, I was shown the part of the ear as I walked over anlaby road flyover after the match.
So much safer these days, very different times.

 

Agree with the above. The 70's were good times to follow City, from Terry Neill coming in 1970 for about three years, after that it was ****e to be a City fan and even worse to be a young City fan. The differance between attending a match today compared to then is like comparing chalk with cheese. It is far, far safer today. As it should be.

 

Remember Bolton at City in the early seventies and a little blonde curly haired fan of theirs in white dungarees slashing a City fan we knew . The return at Bolton was lively , coaches windows smashed etc - but the lad was spotted and hit with a fire extinguisher behind the stand - what goes round sometimes comes round , but like UP I think knives were never seen amongst our lot . I did think that another Mac carried one but rumours only maybe , I never saw it. It is different to now , nobody picked on innocents at all . The numbers were often unbalanced as is often the way and there was a lot of chasing and being chased . I could have added a few tales to Tordoff book too .
The whole discipline thing amongst youngsters is out of hand now , lads at school tow footed flying kicks at the backs of other school lads being filmed , 15 fights in a week ! Lads knocking on windows and not running , just standing laughing whilst the young toddler inside is crying . All in the ‘better’ schools and areas of west hull . The irony is that the loose attitude to the law and discipline and not taking responsibility for their actions is common amongst the 30’, 40’s and 50 year old parents of today , now their kids don’t care too. Then choosing your gender because you need attention - don’t get me started !!

 

Yep as a rule innocents left alone.

 

Tottenham at home in division 2, I think it was 1977, City beat them and a gang of spurs fans left early ran down North Road and into the alley to South stand some waving Stanley knives , they never used them but was enough to create panic

 

Lad I know got stabbed following City at Scarborough, of all places. Must have been in the early 70s. Very usually then, it even made one of the Sundays.

 

Man Utd at BP, circa 1975....City won 2-0. Similair thing occurred, then. Plod nowhere to be seen.

 

I was legging over the training ground fence after the game when I saw the Mancs charging the big gates between East and South, there weren’t many of us left and we thought **** this we’re off

 

In the book I think ?

 

Moi aussi

 

Thanks. I stood.

 

Kid called Steve. He often reminisced about City lads in the 1970s, while exercising his jawbone in Woodford gym.

 

That was Harry Watson, as mentioned ealier in this thread, later turned into an OPE red. It was before a pre season friendly.

 

Weirdly I might have been talking about the same incident to someone on Saturday.
Unless Pus had 2 knife incidents at Sheff Utd.
My memory slightly different as I recalled the knife being pulled on me, or certainly waved at me, when I was near Pus aged about 14.
He strode past me, dealt with it then gave the knife to me (or that’s what I remember anyway…I could be wrong)

 

A City fan flashed a Stanley knife at me at an away game very early 80’s.
I’d seen him during some running backwards and forwards between Anlaby and Boothferry, away from football.
I’m hindsight he was never going to use it. Just wanted to scare me.
…it worked!

For what it’s worth I don’t know how many young people carry blades, but I very much doubt that most who do would carry to football.
Far more likely to get found out, and bound to be a longer sentence than if found carrying away from football.

 

Is this true?

I thought knife, murders and violent crime was far higher in the 1980s and 1990s in the UK. Things hit a recent low around 2011 and have been ticking up since.

Sexual crimes are a different matter and could have something to do with reporting figures and women having more confidence to come forward to the police. Or an increase in ...

 

Another weapon in the terrace armoury, it was fashionable for trendies to brandish brollies at City around 1983.

 

“Trendies”
Not heard that for a while! (80’s hooli porn TV tending to use ‘casuals’)
Absolutely the local vernacular though.

 

Yep, the nameless thing mate, scallies in Liverpool, Perry Boys in Manchester and Trendies in Hull all well before the media caught up and named us casuals.

 

Pretty certain knife crime is higher now than the 80,s / 90,s.