anglers owl Posted May 31, 2015 Share Posted May 31, 2015 what did they call the blond haired guy who used to go with the anglers, did his dad have the vic at darfield? he got locked up in torquay the night before the exeter game for knocking someone off a scooter on the pier... Wardy, he actually got locked up for doing something to a bike ( threw it into the sea i think ) cos he was and still is a scooter boy, just like being on the set of Quadraphenia, after that incident we went into a pub in the harbour and one of the lads asked the bar man what time it livened up as it was 9 oclock and still empty, his classic reply was "about June" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matt68owls Posted June 1, 2015 Share Posted June 1, 2015 start with Blackburn away 1980, some 250,000 Wednesday fans (it sounded like it) signing on the way back to the car was one of the loudest noises I have ever heard. 3-0 victory at Oxford in the cup in about 83, always remember the banner held up by the Wednesday fans saying 'money mad Maxwell top ticket tout' as he was charging us £5 for the away tickets. same season at Burnley in the cup, 1-1 draw with bannister scoring for Wednesday but the pitch battle was going for ages before the match. they kept letting Wednesday fans out of the home end and as soon as they had almost all left, the Burnley fans started attacking the stragglers. the Wednesday fans that had already left charged back across the pitch back over the fences and started wading in. Highbury 1983 for the Brighton semi final, the Wednesday fans singing wemberleeeeee wemberleeeeeeeee after we equalised was the loudest chant I have ever heard. winning 1-0 at Newcastle away 1984, the scariest away day ever. threatened on the way to the ground by some oz type character was bad enough but leaving the ground just finding Wednesday fans laid out all over the place was awful. managed to get away scot free. Anfield 2-0 victory in 1984, got to the ground to find a batch of tickets had been duplicated, so we sat on the steps between the Wednesday and Liverpool fans. brilliant day out, remember the young scallies asking for 50p to make sure your car was looked after. Old Trafford new years day 1985. my first trip to man utd, my dad could only get 2 tickets so went with my older brother. got to the ground to find we were with the man utd fans to the left of the away end. sat quietly smiling when varadi put us one up and did the same when utd equalised. we couldn't contain ourselves when hodge saved strachans penalty but quickly sat down. when varadi scored the winner we just went barmy, amazingly we got out unscathed. so many away games where we ended up on the home end as we arrived late, remember sitting on the home end at Cardiff and Wednesday scored 2 late goals to win 2-0, got some very strange looks and threatening comments but no trouble. surprised nobody has brought up the Oldham riot in 81/82? never seen the atmosphere at a game change so much when curran was sent off after he tapped stainrod and he rolled all over the floor in pain. when the game restarted I remember blackhall putting stainrod and the ball in to the hoardings leaving him in real pain. we were banned for 4 the following away games, we turned up at derby, Grimsby and Bristol rovers (missed the other, Swansea I think). the Bristol rovers game was strange as the main stand at eastville had been burned down earlier that season but was still standing. when Wednesday walked out more than half the ground started cheering and the police didn't know what to do, I remember this copper saying 'keep it down lads, you shouldn't be here'. finished 3-3, we missed a penalty and had a man sent off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Utah Owl Posted June 1, 2015 Share Posted June 1, 2015 The ban was supposed to punish us, but in the end it made us more money because everyone used the stands (terraces shut) and it united (apologies for using that word) everyone behind the club. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roaminowl Posted June 1, 2015 Share Posted June 1, 2015 If you're not here, clap your hands. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VictoryBell Posted June 1, 2015 Share Posted June 1, 2015 So many memories from 70s and 80s - one harmless but hilarious one was 3 of us (young teenage kids) getting to St Andrews too early and ending up on the Brummie kop by accident, December 1971 (I think we were very confident of Wednesday taking it - an assault on it was not attempted as far as I can remember). Eating biscuits all through the match so we wouldn't open our gobs and give ourselves away. Lucky it was a boring 0 - 0 draw! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mountain Owl Posted June 1, 2015 Share Posted June 1, 2015 Went to all the banned away games. There were loads at Bristol, Derby and Grimsby. The Swansea game was much more difficult to obtain tickets. I ended up contacting a blade I knew who was working in Cardiff at the time and he had 4 tickets sent to his address in Cardiff. When we realised where in the ground the tickets were for I felt we had been set up. All the Swansea mob used to go on a massive covered side terrace a bit like the Kippax at Maine Road. Youv,e guessed it that's where the tickets were for. We stood directly in front of their mob who stood at the back. When we scored it became obvious who we were and the four of us had to make a hasty retreat onto pitchside. We were threatened with arrest but pleaded our innocence and the coppers eventually escorted us round to behind the goal to what would normally have been the away end. We were mot alone but there were very few wednesday fans there that day. After the match it was keep yer gob firmly shut as there were a lot of Welsh after our blood. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Utah Owl Posted June 2, 2015 Share Posted June 2, 2015 83/84 season had some of the most ridiculous away followings. 6,000 to Stoke midweek for the League Cup 12,000 to Man City for top of table clash 14,000 to Liverpool midweek for the League Cup (even announced on BBC traffic news that night for folks to avoid the M62 (weather was poor) to allow the hundreds of Sheffield Wednesday coaches to get home safely! Several thousand to Southampton midweek for cup replay Newcastle gave us a restricted allocation for the clash at St James and I couldn't get a ticket for that one. Was at all the others above though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matt68owls Posted June 2, 2015 Share Posted June 2, 2015 Utah, if I remember right the stoke game was a freezing cold night, I remember braziers set alight on the home standing end to keep people warm. it was the first time I had seen Wednesday beat a first division side and we deserved it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dorian gray Posted June 2, 2015 Share Posted June 2, 2015 Wardy, he actually got locked up for doing something to a bike ( threw it into the sea i think ) cos he was and still is a scooter boy, just like being on the set of Quadraphenia, after that incident we went into a pub in the harbour and one of the lads asked the bar man what time it livened up as it was 9 oclock and still empty, his classic reply was "about June" wardy, quite a lad... liked him tho... he was only a bit daft... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Musn't Grumble Posted June 2, 2015 Share Posted June 2, 2015 A couple of surreal moments from that era... Exeter away in 1980 was a classic. Usual attendance at St. James Park was around 4/5,000 but over 10,400 turned up, with all the visiting Owls fans in celebratory mood and many of these in matching attire. I remember travelling down on the cold and draughty ICO (which was old rolling stock and had no heating or lighting and many of the windows were broken) and, wandering through the carriages all strewn with empty beer bottles, I was met by the strange sight of a gorilla in a Sheffield United top playing cards with Adolf Hitler. I never found out if the gorilla lost his shirt. The Oxford away game just a few weeks earlier was also bizarre in that we stood on the terraces close to Roy Hattersley. It was the time of the Zimbabwe elections and, topical humour aside, somebody on the Wednesday end started up a one-off chant (in favour of Mugabe's rival) "Vote for the Bishop Muzorewa" with Mr H joining in with full gusto. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest AbbeyOwl Posted June 2, 2015 Share Posted June 2, 2015 Nige loved the post and was with you all the way, having started going to games on my own in 79, then I got to the bit where it said you had a girlfriend and i realise you made it all up. Great post mate, I remember being on the pitch at cardiff when they let us on, what a great day Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fredmciverslovechild Posted June 2, 2015 Share Posted June 2, 2015 A couple of surreal moments from that era... Exeter away in 1980 was a classic. Usual attendance at St. James Park was around 4/5,000 but over 10,400 turned up, with all the visiting Owls fans in celebratory mood and many of these in matching attire. I remember travelling down on the cold and draughty ICO (which was old rolling stock and had no heating or lighting and many of the windows were broken) and, wandering through the carriages all strewn with empty beer bottles, I was met by the strange sight of a gorilla in a Sheffield United top playing cards with Adolf Hitler. I never found out if the gorilla lost his shirt. The Oxford away game just a few weeks earlier was also bizarre in that we stood on the terraces close to Roy Hattersley. It was the time of the Zimbabwe elections and, topical humour aside, somebody on the Wednesday end started up a one-off chant (in favour of Mugabe's rival) "Vote for the Bishop Muzorewa" with Mr H joining in with full gusto. That Exeter game was strange indeed. I remember travelling down from London on the train with my then girlfriend; for some reason which I now cannot remember we were actually thinking of moving down to Exeter to live and so went early to look in estate agents windows. Decided it was too pricey....not much cheaper than London, so had a look round the cathedral. Then a few jars and off to the match. Stood on the uncovered end which now, looking at Google Maps, seems to be the covered end. I do remember that to our right a high chain link fence separated the ground from the railway line. The match was just wierd....in typical Wednesday fashion when we needed to get a result we played awful. Mark Smith missed a penalty and we lost 1-0. Promotion blown....especially as we all thought Chesterfield had won. I think they were playing Millwall that day. Then the news filtered through that Chessie had lost and I remember Jimmy Mullen coming on the pitch and going absolutely mental. On the way back to London on the train we met up with the London Owls who I often travelled with to games back then.....in the buffet of course. A load had gone from London that day.....and they'd got the match referee in there as well, with the signed match ball. I think it was his last game before retiring....but he was absolutely pasted well before we got back to Paddington. Great day it was. I don't think we were definitely up that day, I think in theory Chessie could still have bettered our goal average if they won their final game something like 15-0. But we didn't really care.....after 18 years (at that time) of watching Wednesday it was the first time we'd actually "won" something. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Utah Owl Posted June 2, 2015 Share Posted June 2, 2015 London Owls! Remember going to Oxford in late '77 and just as we were walking into the ground some cockney's piped up behind us: "Cor blimey look at that, there must be free fousand of 'em, facking briwwiant! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
parkfieldowl14 Posted June 3, 2015 Share Posted June 3, 2015 Meggos goal made it all worthwhile...warra legend...i bet all the helmetends on ear who hate him dont even relise he used to play for us Absolutely.arrived back in the house at 3.15am still soaking wet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sham67 Posted June 3, 2015 Share Posted June 3, 2015 So many memories from 70s and 80s - one harmless but hilarious one was 3 of us (young teenage kids) getting to St Andrews too early and ending up on the Brummie kop by accident, December 1971 (I think we were very confident of Wednesday taking it - an assault on it was not attempted as far as I can remember). Eating biscuits all through the match so we wouldn't open our gobs and give ourselves away. Lucky it was a boring 0 - 0 draw! You were lucky. Lad from school had his jaw broken after the match. We were 13 at the time. My one and only visit to St Andrews. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest WESTENDOWL Posted June 3, 2015 Share Posted June 3, 2015 My mate Coops ( Kenny ) decided one day at Millwall to go on his own on the home end he couldn't work out why he was getting loads of attention he hadn't talked to anyone he was just lent on a barrier reading a programme then he realised his jumper had ridden up at the back and holding his jeans up was a blue and white Wednesday belt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phoenixowl Posted June 4, 2015 Share Posted June 4, 2015 So Westendowl what happened to Coops next? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Utah Owl Posted June 5, 2015 Share Posted June 5, 2015 He's buried in London! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeffjohnsonmyhero Posted June 5, 2015 Share Posted June 5, 2015 Can remember 80s me and mate would call in local to have a pint ,Then would catch bus into Sheffield usual destination The limit up west street .Older married lads asked us if we fancied away game before we set off .We would get picked up saturday morning ,No messing with tickets usually 3 car loads great days .Can remember we used to stand on Eastbank at home games same spot like people did about 20 of us .Best days for me sitting down on kop ,Not same for me . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1867tons Posted June 5, 2015 Share Posted June 5, 2015 1867tons - were you a season ticket holder on the north stand in the early 80s (near half way line, about 3/4 of the way back)? I can remember in the next game after that Cambridge game, the bloke sitting next to me pointing out in my programme that photo of them at Cambridge - was that you? Funny the things you remember.............. ha ha, no it wasnt me. I was only a whipper snapper then, the north would have been right out of my price range. However, the lad who was in the photo with me, was called Simon !!!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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