Stoke at Elm Park

[wandonlodge2]

Can anyone refresh my memory of Stoke fans running across the pitch at Reading and chasing their fans out of their stand?

When was it? What happened exactly?

[mickstupp]

Last game of the season 90/91.

Wretched season under Ball, and Graham Paddon when Bally was sacked. A few thousand Stokies turned up, and there was a bit of a nasty atmosphere around the place. To our left was a little mob of piss taking wind up merchants from Reading. At the end of the match, Stokies stormed on to the pitch, and ran over to them. They all shit themselves and legged it.

Think that just about sums it up.

[wandonlodge2]

Thank you kind sir.

[mickstupp]

Oh, and we lost 1-0

Crap game to finish off a crap season

[stokemark]

Famously a group of Stokies applied for tickets to the main stand claiming to be an elderly coach tour passing through the area.

All 'Naughty 40' of them

[kevkj]

Stoke Mark,

Sure your not getting mixed up with luton with that scam dont remmeber many stoke in their parts of the ground.

[mystokebadge]

And the player of the year trophy went to ;D

[mozzer]

and if I remember correctly a reading player with dread locks got a good hiding from one of the Leek lads...funny as.

[stantheman]

At the end of the game, whilst on the pitch, 'the word' was that Denis Smith had resigned from Sunderland and was taking the Stoke job and we all started singing his name!

[sheikh al dubai bin stokie]

i was there for that... hilarious scenes as their lot started to give it the big one and then literally shat themselves as the place emptied

[jezzascfc]

Remember being there too! Seasons like that sure as hell make you appreciate where we are now!!!

[coggy]

I was there ! I remember it well and them flying out their stand !

[Bod]

May 18, 2011 15:25:15 GMT stantheman said:

At the end of the game, whilst on the pitch, 'the word' was that Denis Smith had resigned from Sunderland and was taking the Stoke job and we all started singing his name!

That brightened up the day just a bit, and then we got on the coach, found out it was a load of bollocks, and returned to despair.

[mickstupp]

I think Denis Smith`s Sunderland team were relegated from the old Division 1 on the same day.

Seem to recall a Stoke fan galloping onto the pitch as we were taking a corner and making a challenge for the ball !!

[mark71]

Was a funny day, yeah someone from Leek got nicked for "exchanging views" with a Reading player.

I've never seen an empty so fast in my life ;D

About 50 of us ended up in Henley on Thames that night, It ended up in a bit of fisty cuffs. It looked like we were all going to get nicked then Randy started shouting and screaming about being racially abused by one of the locals. This got us off the hook, until someone from longton knocked a copper out ;D

[Caerwrangonpotter]

90/91....Blimey makes me feel old!

Can always remember in the Stand to the left where the Reading fans were being a bit lippy, one fella bald head & sunglasses just staring at Stoke. Turned out at half time that he was a Stoke lad in their end, just biding his time! Oh and part way through 2nd half the home end behind the opposite goal being like one of those "Survival" Wildlife programmes when something kicked off & home fans scattered

[devonstokie]

Remember that day like yesterday, its hard to imagine anything like that happening now, I reckon half our away support back then were lads, I still see some of those faces from back then most have grown out of the throwing on the Lacoste/Cp Company jumpers and Addidas trainers days all for a ruck but for some its hard to give it up, the buzz was immense, sad as fuck maybe yeah I'll agree but those days following Stoke were much better than the sanitised shite we get now.

[Northy]

had forgotten about this one, a funny day out in a shithole of a ground.
A year later I moved to Berkshire with work and was amongst them for 3 years, the 4-0 defeat with bertie and Lee getting sent off and the train strikes and a £40 taxi fare home to boot as well

[sonofbanks]

Yes, the old folks routine was Luton, can remember seeing some of the lads getting into the ground a few minutes after kick off and taking a couple of rows of seats right above their lads in the seats below. Everyone in the corner they stuck us in could see them and it was quite funny to see the Luton lads beneath them giving it the big I am not realising what was going to happen with the Stoke lads above putting their fingers over their mouths shhhshing (if that is a word) to try to shut up the laughing from our fans.

[devonstokie]

Ah Luton away good memories, also in those days at Bolton, Brum, Burnley, Derby, Wolves, Grimsby, Bristol City cup game on the pitch, Watford away going in their end near the end of the game only about 30 of us.

[sheronsears]

Remember it well got a nice trunceon on my wrists when trying to get over the fence also all singing Dennis Smiths red and white army, How things have changed

[sirgreenhoff]

I remember it well.Ii was with my brother and his mate walking back to our car which was parked on a pub car park.
A motor came tear arseing along like something out of the sweeney and 4 of their "lads" jumped out with a selection of tools,
Baseball bat, snooker que & a couple of hockey sticks all nice decorated with a selection of nails.
I think they may have been slightly perturbed by the fact that stoke have run them all over the shop in their own ground !!
I'm not proud to say it but I ran like the wind, along with my bro' & his mate..... but they caught up with them both & knocked 7 bells out of them.
While I, on the other hand, did my best speedygonzalez impression and escaped.
Happy days !

[westendstokie]

They didn't half run for the hills when we stormed the pitch. Unbeknowns to us one of our Mimi Bus was arrested pre match for being drunk when the common consent was he was the most sober amongst us, driver apart.

When we went to the Cop shop to ask for him back we were politely refused and advised to wait in the pub opposite until he was bailed. We managed to do that until said miscreant became available.

Remember the story about Denis Smith joining us spreading like wildfire. Must have been the ale.....

[Tunner]

also remember the big fat steward gettin taken away in the ambulance after a good slap & Mickey Thomas in the pub before us after final whistle, came all the way from Germany for the weekend for that one & was quality

[Dutchpeter]

I seem to remember Readings Trevor Senior getting a whack in the face from a Stokie. Anyone remember singing as we filed out after, "we got the best fans in the league, but we're right b******s when we've lost" ;D

[pna1]

I remember going to Madjeski Stadium with one Stokie flying in from Gabon in West Africa to see the match (without his wife in Kent knowing) and his son (another poster on this board) putting away a 32oz Megasaurus steak in a pub near the ground.

A good day all round as I put money on a 1-1 which it was. or it might have been first scorer but anyway, it covered my costs for the day.

[buddha]

May 18, 2011 15:08:55 GMT mozzer said:

and if I remember correctly a reading player with dread locks got a good hiding from one of the Leek lads...funny as.

spot on mate the player was danny bailey . and the leek lad in question got a 30 quid fine when he went to court ! . as we all know you would go down for that now . good days never to be seen again , but never forgotten .

[decs]

I remember a few away days at Elm Park and some good pubs along the High Street nearby. I also remember the bald fella among the annoying home fans to the left of the away end, and the local kids being proud of their 'man'. When he revealed himself as a Stokie, we all sang Kojack is a Stokie, happy days

[bristolpotter]

Kicked off nearly every away game back then, Torquay was fun, as was the Brighton pitch invasion.

[Deleted]

I remember us winning 4-3 one season in a good game and then another game when we got hammered 4-0 with a couple of players being sent off[Overson and Biggins?] pretty sure Jordan got the sack or had just had the sack?