People used to hitch hike from Southend for home games? That's ****ing mental. What if you got half way and then couldn't get a lift to make the last leg in time for KO?
The early Psycho buses was full of people who looked and dressed like the Undertones and probably wouldn't get served in pubs. Load up with Skol and Long Life in Binns basement, get the crisps and the Players no. 6 in and away we go.
Just as a sign of the times and difference in prices, Bury for 2 quid, Chester for 2.20. Today it's 1.70 from North Hull into town. 42 quid was money big in those days.
£1.70 is cheap It's £2.80 for a 3/4 mile bus ride into our town centre. It's a half mile walk to the bus stop too.
Yeh but we are in the effluent North East and you are in Cheshire where the footballers and their wives live.
Bearing in mind he was only 16 at the time and we lost 2-1.... I take that back didn.t realise it was 1978 so he was 15....
Effin 'ell. I'm guessing you could treble that price now, minimum. Where did a £16 year old get that money?
I recall a bus to Molyneux with Humberside Supporters/ Hull City Supporters Club in the 76/77 where we were asked to remove our colours as we were nearing Wolverhampton - despite the fact that they had basically the same colours as us. National would sometimes put on a coach to Lancs games and even Carlisle, but they were few and far between. There was nowt for the keen teens who ended up filling the Psycho buses.
When did Simon Gray, Hessle (Chris Williams?), Anlaby (Bruce M), Driff Tigers & Good News Travels (Gareth/Toty) start their own independent coach's, after the Psycho's finished?
Dunno about Simon Gray- it's all a bit close-knit out that way isn't it? Maybe he was already 'in bed' with Connor and Graham? Think the Psychos showed others you could hire a bus easily and that some coach companies (Good News) were gagging for it. For a while it was all the rage, then the police clampdown gradually made it more and more difficult. Overloading buses, drinking, stopping at services/towns en route all became more strict.
I know a lad who used to travel on Simon Gray's coaches late 1970's, at the same time as the Corporation Deckers were being utilised by, er, other elements of City's away support. At the time of my first away trip, 1980, Simon's coaches were very much still "Out of Towners"-based (door-to-door service for us in rustic Holderness) and would be full before we got to Hull. Gradually this all changed and Baker Street became the place where the majority of passengers would get on board. As for the Good News coaches - on one particular Millwall trip both Simon Gray and the "Psychos" (for want of a better term) used that company, complete with the standard religious message emblazoned across the back. Only ours remained full to point of disembarkation at the ground, the other one having emptied its load a mile or so away (I think this is the a tale recounted in the City Psychos book?).
