Quote from: KevinGage on February 11, 2018, 01:15:32 AMI was actually late into the 03/03/03 fiasco; at least 20 -25 minutes late.Didn't actually see any snarling faces or moodiness on the way to the ground. But I remember heading up to the second tier of the Trinity and sensing the malevolence in the air before I even made it through to the other side of the gate. Fetid, on and off the pitch. That's what that rabble bring to the party. They do us no favours at all. Give me the early 90s when we saw Yanited, Liverpool and actual football teams as our rivals any day of the week.Using your post about the game on the third of the third '03, take a wild guess what was the first Villa/Small heath derby I took my wife to.
I was actually late into the 03/03/03 fiasco; at least 20 -25 minutes late.Didn't actually see any snarling faces or moodiness on the way to the ground. But I remember heading up to the second tier of the Trinity and sensing the malevolence in the air before I even made it through to the other side of the gate. Fetid, on and off the pitch. That's what that rabble bring to the party. They do us no favours at all. Give me the early 90s when we saw Yanited, Liverpool and actual football teams as our rivals any day of the week.
Quote from: andyaston on February 12, 2018, 12:21:30 PMQuote from: thick_mike on February 12, 2018, 11:38:15 AMThe worst I remember was at the 2nd div game at the sty when we went down under McNeil. Garry Thomson scored and I think we won 2-0. Might have felt more moody because I was on the Kop, colours covered and celebrations very much muted!We never played Blues under McneilIt was under Taylor and we won 2-1. It was freezing and the Sty was an utter dump. There was a procession of evictions throughout the game. Lots of trouble where Tilton and Kop met.I queued up as a teenager to get a spot and got in about 1:45. Some lad was being kicked out as I entered.
Quote from: thick_mike on February 12, 2018, 11:38:15 AMThe worst I remember was at the 2nd div game at the sty when we went down under McNeil. Garry Thomson scored and I think we won 2-0. Might have felt more moody because I was on the Kop, colours covered and celebrations very much muted!We never played Blues under Mcneil
The worst I remember was at the 2nd div game at the sty when we went down under McNeil. Garry Thomson scored and I think we won 2-0. Might have felt more moody because I was on the Kop, colours covered and celebrations very much muted!
It was under Taylor and we won 2-1. It was freezing and the Sty was an utter dump. There was a procession of evictions throughout the game. Lots of trouble where Tilton and Kop met.I queued up as a teenager to get a spot and got in about 1:45. Some lad was being kicked out as I entered.
Quote from: rob_bridge on February 12, 2018, 12:24:32 PMIt was under Taylor and we won 2-1. It was freezing and the Sty was an utter dump. There was a procession of evictions throughout the game. Lots of trouble where Tilton and Kop met.I queued up as a teenager to get a spot and got in about 1:45. Some lad was being kicked out as I entered.The police must have been on commission that day with their snatch squads. During the game, some kind hearted Villa fan came up to me to warn me the police were about to nick me, so I moved further down and out of sight. I can only think it was for swearing and possibly flicking the Vs at the Knuckledraggers. Either that or they were trying to make space for the Villa fans still queuing outside.It really was even more of a shithole of a ground back then, taking ages to get in through a couple of poxy hole in the wall turnstiles. How nobody got seriously injured or worse in the crush to get in I'll never know.
Quote from: Rudy Can't Fail on February 14, 2018, 01:00:03 PMQuote from: rob_bridge on February 12, 2018, 12:24:32 PMIt was under Taylor and we won 2-1. It was freezing and the Sty was an utter dump. There was a procession of evictions throughout the game. Lots of trouble where Tilton and Kop met.I queued up as a teenager to get a spot and got in about 1:45. Some lad was being kicked out as I entered.The police must have been on commission that day with their snatch squads. During the game, some kind hearted Villa fan came up to me to warn me the police were about to nick me, so I moved further down and out of sight. I can only think it was for swearing and possibly flicking the Vs at the Knuckledraggers. Either that or they were trying to make space for the Villa fans still queuing outside.It really was even more of a shithole of a ground back then, taking ages to get in through a couple of poxy hole in the wall turnstiles. How nobody got seriously injured or worse in the crush to get in I'll never know.The 1987 game was the most scared I have ever been at football. There were only a couple of turnstiles open and the police horses were coralling us so the crushes were ridiculous. I only got in after 25 minutes when the score was already 1-1 despite arriving around 2.15. At some point in the 2nd half the cops opened a further stretch of terracing on the Tilton towards their kop and there was a fair bit of trouble. I was rabidly hungover as it was my birthday but the game and the win brought me back to life.
Quote from: Rudy Can't Fail on February 14, 2018, 01:00:03 PMQuote from: rob_bridge on February 12, 2018, 12:24:32 PMIt was under Taylor and we won 2-1. It was freezing and the Sty was an utter dump. There was a procession of evictions throughout the game. Lots of trouble where Tilton and Kop met.I queued up as a teenager to get a spot and got in about 1:45. Some lad was being kicked out as I entered.The police must have been on commission that day with their snatch squads. During the game, some kind hearted Villa fan came up to me to warn me the police were about to nick me, so I moved further down and out of sight. I can only think it was for swearing and possibly flicking the Vs at the Knuckledraggers. Either that or they were trying to make space for the Villa fans still queuing outside.It really was even more of a shithole of a ground back then, taking ages to get in through a couple of poxy hole in the wall turnstiles. How nobody got seriously injured or worse in the crush to get in I'll never know.The 1987 game was the most scared I have ever been at football. There were only a couple of turnstiles open and the police horses were coralling us so the crushes were ridiculous. I only got in after 25 minutes when the score was already 1-1 despite arriving around 2.15. At some point in the 2nd half the cops opened a further stretch of terracing on the Tilton towards their kop and there was a fair bit of trouble. I was rabidly hungover as it was my birthday but the game and the win brought me back to life.I got nicked at the pre-season friendly in 1983 in exactly the same way that Rudy describes above. Flicking the v sign and singing Howard Gayle, what a wanker. The cops couldn't get me on a slander charge as I was factually accurate so i was thrown out for foul and abusive language. There were dozens of us outside, all in the same boat. I was a poor student then so couldn't afford to pay to get back in. We lost 1-0.