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Remember the Man ure game and the battle.

The only other team to have a go at the Kop were Millwall during their famous F Troop days.

A group of them managed to get onto he Kop and then get hemmed in at the top corner. There was a battle before the OB escorted them away to the leps. Remember a couple of them, A huge Black guy with a full lenght leather coat and one wearing Bay City Roller pants.

The battle in the Leps lasted the whole game.

we played millwall the saturday after the TV programme and Harry the dog was nowhere to be found..we were on the leppings lane end and none of the TV "stars " were there...a few of them did get on the kop for a few minutes but not that year

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we played millwall the saturday after the TV programme and Harry the dog was nowhere to be found..we were on the leppings lane end and none of the TV "stars " were there...a few of them did get on the kop for a few minutes but not that year

The millwall battle was in 75 (We won 4-0) The big black lad was called Tiny. In 79 millwall came on again but this time got wrapped up in kiddies corner next to the North.

Grimsby also had a pop in 75 and suffered the same fate as millwall First time I heard the chant Sing when youre fishing. At their ground we'd added another verse Sing when youve caught one.

The Man u season also saw Forest have a good go but they got moved sharply out of the middle just before kick off when Carrots led the surge up behind the scoreboard.

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Remember the Man ure game and the battle.

The only other team to have a go at the Kop were Millwall during their famous F Troop days.

A group of them managed to get onto he Kop and then get hemmed in at the top corner. There was a battle before the OB escorted them away to the leps. Remember a couple of them, A huge Black guy with a full lenght leather coat and one wearing Bay City Roller pants.

The battle in the Leps lasted the whole game.

Also remember Middlesborough spending a nervy first half on the kop before beating a retreat over the pitch to the leepings. Also Coventry in a cup tie, and of all people a small group of wrexam fans in the 80s when they beat us 3-0 but were helped of the kop at full time by a few hundred of self appointed wednesday removal men

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Also remember Middlesborough spending a nervy first half on the kop before beating a retreat over the pitch to the leepings. Also Coventry in a cup tie, and of all people a small group of wrexam fans in the 80s when they beat us 3-0 but were helped of the kop at full time by a few hundred of self appointed wednesday removal men

What about Villa, when they beat us 4-0, they took a right kicking
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I remember the Man Utd game..I was on the Kop..it was absolutely mental in the bottom corner near the south, and kicking off under the old scoreboard..there was also trouble on the Lepp about an hour before kick off...and vividly remember a Man U fan being given a leg and a wing out of the bottom of the south stand and onto the pitch..think we were 3-1 up at half time...the match was drawn, but the trouble carried on all day...i seem to remember the parting shot being someone firing a pellet gun at United coaches as they made their way back over the Woodhead...I also went to the opposite fixture at Old Trafford...where it got extremely hairy for anyone in blue ands white

Millwall at home...They came on the Kop and got chased onto the pitch....as they went onto the pitch more Millwall fans came in at the top corner of the Kop..The Cockneys who were on the pitch piled back onto the Kop and a general Melee ensued until they ran across the pitch and into the Lepp...where more trouble started...

The funniest..if you can equate humour into the flipping rubbish that went on in those days, was when Sunderland came onto the Kop, extremely early on Saturday afternoon, Wednesdays hooligans were still in The Ozzie Owl club that abutted the Kop...obviously they came chargin' up the ramp about 10 minutes later....and a general chase ensued that lasted most of the first half..The Sunderland lads panicked...and kept appearing at the various entrances and exits of the Kop...one minute theyde be scamperin' out of the bottom left..the next theyde be appearing bottom right....pursued by Wednesday fans...until they disappeared bottom left...only to be pursued , and to appear once again...top of the ramp[, under the scoreboard...ran pell mell bottom right...appeared absolutely panic struck bottom left...and finally got escorted across to the Lepp...where it all started up again....

i'm not and have never been a hooligan...but that was flipping hilarious

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Thommo i only met once..I was about 13 or 14..at Wrexham away...he came over to a group of us and asked ever so politely " Excuse me..could you help us turn this bus over". they then proceeded to try and turn over an (Empty may i add)..double decker bus in a coach park........

Erm got to admit but I was one of the numpties trying to turn it over i wa s about 14/15 What went on in my head at times I'll never know!! It was worth it though just to see the look on the faces of all those Welsh blakeys quietly supping their flasks of tea with us daft sods trying to up their bus

Remember the sunderland game mentioned above it was in 72 we won 3-0 it was like something from a Benny Hill sketch, just without the music.

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remember bathtub going to away matches with a little bloke with big teeth called gnasher. got thrown off train with them coming back from walsall

when it was called off due to rain. Invaded some local matches and stopped them

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I remember the Man Utd game..I was on the Kop..it was absolutely mental in the bottom corner near the south, and kicking off under the old scoreboard..there was also trouble on the Lepp about an hour before kick off...and vividly remember a Man U fan being given a leg and a wing out of the bottom of the south stand and onto the pitch..think we were 3-1 up at half time...the match was drawn, but the trouble carried on all day...i seem to remember the parting shot being someone firing a pellet gun at United coaches as they made their way back over the Woodhead...I also went to the opposite fixture at Old Trafford...where it got extremely hairy for anyone in blue ands white

Millwall at home...They came on the Kop and got chased onto the pitch....as they went onto the pitch more Millwall fans came in at the top corner of the Kop..The Cockneys who were on the pitch piled back onto the Kop and a general Melee ensued until they ran across the pitch and into the Lepp...where more trouble started...

The funniest..if you can equate humour into the flipping rubbish that went on in those days, was when Sunderland came onto the Kop, extremely early on Saturday afternoon, Wednesdays hooligans were still in The Ozzie Owl club that abutted the Kop...obviously they came chargin' up the ramp about 10 minutes later....and a general chase ensued that lasted most of the first half..The Sunderland lads panicked...and kept appearing at the various entrances and exits of the Kop...one minute theyde be scamperin' out of the bottom left..the next theyde be appearing bottom right....pursued by Wednesday fans...until they disappeared bottom left...only to be pursued , and to appear once again...top of the ramp[, under the scoreboard...ran pell mell bottom right...appeared absolutely panic struck bottom left...and finally got escorted across to the Lepp...where it all started up again....

i'm not and have never been a hooligan...but that was flipping hilarious

I was in the group that invaded the Lepp's, I was just 14 years old and a beginning to be known as a bit of a nutter, at that time there was a small group of black Wednesday fans that did not take Sh*t from anyone, not that I condone thuggery now, I was young and stupid then. I had got to the ground and the East Bank full of Manure fans, a small band of Wednesdayite's was standing across from the kop and I went joined them. Some Coppers came over to us and started to push us towards the Lepps end thinking we were Manure fans as we did not have any Wednesday regalia on, we tried to tell the OB that we were Wednesdayites but they would not listen to us.

When we got around to the lane end about twenty of us went in and started to chant "Wednesday Wednesday" and went towards the right side were the scoreboard is today. When the Manure fans on the lane heard us the must have thought there were thousands of us coming to get them, and they started to run off towards the corner triangle, but when they saw how few we were the Manure fans charged us.

Our small group were pinned against the fence of the Leppings Lane and the South Stand, with hundreds of the Manure b@steds trying to kill us and the OB dragging us out and throwing out of the ground. I did not get to see the match as I did not have any more money to get in with, so I went back home up Herris road, and watch what happened on the local news program on TV, on the Monday.

P.S. Big Sid is one of the chief stewards on the kop at Hillsborough now. Sid would recognize me as he gave me my nickname while on our way to a match in Oxford one cold snowy day one season. I was not one of his hanger ons.

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Our small group were pinned against the fence of the Leppings Lane and the South Stand, with hundreds of the Manure b@steds trying to kill us and the OB dragging us out and throwing out of the ground. I did not get to see the match as I did not have any more money to get in with, so I went back home up Herris road, and watch what happened on the local news program on TV, on the Monday.

P.S. Big Sid is one of the chief stewards on the kop at Hillsborough now. Sid would recognize me as he gave me my nickname while on our way to a match in Oxford one cold snowy day one season. I was not one of his hanger ons.

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Only just spotted this thread but remember all those lads fondly. Used to travel all over on Tommos coach, Medlocks I think from Handsworth. They were a good set of lads. Its funny I'm now living back in Oxford but me and a mate were talking about those times just the other day. After all this time we could pretty much remember everyone who went on that coach Rarely see many of the guys now but it might be nice to meet up if they are still going. Like I said I've moved back down south now but still get to matches. Be interested to know if anybody knows the wearabouts of my mate Cliff. He was one of the guys I moved up to Sheffield with from Banbury and I lost touch about 15 years ago.

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- Highlights of the match
loved watching this, the York City game was my first ever match, went with my grandad must have been around 8 at the time, didn't know what todo after the first goal, everyone went crazy around me so I joined in when we scored again. Never appreciated the quality of the goals at the time,the McMordie volley was some strike, got a half season ticket for xmas that year and never saw wednesday score while using it , my grandad alwaysinsisted on leaving 5 mins early so we missed the last minute goal against Oxford in the last game of the season, the only goal scored at home in thesecond half of the season.
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Guest Ernest

Bump.

I was in that bottom corner that day, believe me it was carnage. I was on the front page of the Sunday People next day which came as a bit of a shock to me mam.
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Know what? I was stood bang in the middle of the Kop for that game (I'd have been in my early twenties), and for the life of me, I can't remember owt like that happening.

I was at that game and i knew jibber well, they stopped him taking part in pubs in the yard of ale copmetitions cos he could down it so quic. and yes you was right there was about 100 of us. Lad called jimmy whittacker and a few of his mates from birdwell. Jibber was was from rawmarsh a good geezer. I knew grebo aswell from off the manor. we had some good nights out aswell starting off at the the claymore pub in town.

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