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Post by swampySCFC on May 21, 2009 19:31:10 GMT
Does anyone remember the away game at Blackpool, late 80s.
There was a right ruck with the coppers.
Ill always remember there was a wooden tea hut. A copper went in and started hitting Stokies with his baton through the counter.
It was promptly demolished in to little pieces, the tea urn was hurled at the coppers and they were trapped by the fence getting a pasting. Never seen so many helmets torn up and thrown around.
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Post by royegg on May 21, 2009 19:40:59 GMT
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Post by offthewall on May 21, 2009 19:43:11 GMT
Yep was there, these young uns know nothing lol, think it was a bit earlier 78 maybe, the ref was kevin mcnally the infamous ref from the cup match at Burnley
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Post by DrGonzo on May 21, 2009 20:05:01 GMT
Definately late 80's if it's the one I'm thinking about.
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Post by offthewall on May 21, 2009 20:17:28 GMT
it must have happened twice then, clearly remember a tea stand being destroyed in the bottom left corner in front of thousand of stokies
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Post by stoke624 on May 21, 2009 20:37:15 GMT
offthewall--it was 78 which was the first and worst and is the very reason groups of people from stoke have never been allowed into the pubs and clubs of blackpool as the riots continued in blackpool all night
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Post by offthewall on May 21, 2009 20:47:44 GMT
offthewall--it was 78 which was the first and worst and is the very reason groups of people from stoke have never been allowed into the pubs and clubs of blackpool as the riots continued in blackpool all night thought i was losing it for a second, i was a boy in 78 and went with family, we arrived at 10am and the place was already scarred from the friday night |
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Post by bayernoatcake on May 21, 2009 20:50:25 GMT
What was the cause of the riots? Or was it all just ale induced? ;D
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Post by stokienorthants on May 21, 2009 20:51:12 GMT
Clearly there was trouble brewing ;D
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Post by offthewall on May 21, 2009 20:53:19 GMT
from memory i think it might have been a bank holiday for the 78 visit, so 15000 stokies, bank holiday weekend by the sea, ale, equals .............
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Post by bayernoatcake on May 21, 2009 20:57:46 GMT
from memory i think it might have been a bank holiday for the 78 visit, so 15000 stokies, bank holiday weekend by the sea, ale, equals ............. Brilliant! I've read about this before I think. Was there a grass verge on fire or something and instead of running off, Stokies were running through to twat Blackpool fans? |
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Post by swampySCFC on May 21, 2009 21:19:24 GMT
from memory i think it might have been a bank holiday for the 78 visit, so 15000 stokies, bank holiday weekend by the sea, ale, equals ............. Brilliant! I've read about this before I think. Was there a grass verge on fire or something and instead of running off, Stokies were running through to twat Blackpool fans? I went on the coaches and as we pulled in the grass was indeed on fire. There was a roof on the away end then of course. I dont remember much trouble with Blackpool fans. It was the era of sharpened coins and darts. When the trouble inside started the Blackpool teens fucked off up the paddock out of the way. The main fighting was with the coppers. They kept sending more in through the gates in the fence at the front but they were set upon as soon as they got in. Happy days'  |
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Post by offthewall on May 21, 2009 21:21:07 GMT
from memory i think it might have been a bank holiday for the 78 visit, so 15000 stokies, bank holiday weekend by the sea, ale, equals ............. Brilliant! I've read about this before I think. Was there a grass verge on fire or something and instead of running off, Stokies were running through to twat Blackpool fans? Dont remember much hand to hand combat, in those days home fans could walk from one end of the ground to another, needless to say they spent both halves at the opposite end to the stokies, i just remember a hole appearing in the side of the tea stand and then it getting bigger and bigger. The whole sea front was sprayed in stoke graffiti and i was told that it got on the main news as some stokies had tried to saw down blackpool tower. probably rubbish but that's what i was told |
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Post by stoke624 on May 21, 2009 21:25:09 GMT
ale,ale and more ale was the basic cause.It was also at the time when the "dying fly" off tiswas was all the craze and in the early hours one of the lads decided to jump on the roof of a police car and lay on his back and did the dying fly!!! After all that had gone on earlier i was amazed when the coppers just helped him down laughing their heads off !!!
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Post by bayernoatcake on May 21, 2009 21:25:58 GMT
I just remember a Blackpool fan on this or the old board talking about it. Maybe the bit about fighting I presumed but the words he used was "that You Stokies seemed to be obsessed with fire and were that mental You ran through it". ;D
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Post by offthewall on May 21, 2009 21:28:14 GMT
10k tonight bayern ?
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Post by trigger on May 21, 2009 21:54:41 GMT
stokies had tried to saw down blackpool tower Baskeyfields there then were they  |
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Post by bayernoatcake on May 21, 2009 22:08:31 GMT
Hadn't noticed that! How sad am I? Looks like it, I wonder what inane drivel will be spouted for it though, hmmmmm  |
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Post by garyhackett on May 21, 2009 22:31:34 GMT
I remember being on the train that day and someone i got talking to told me he had just kicked the tea bar in, this would have been 88/89
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Post by Deleted on May 21, 2009 22:33:09 GMT
Read the title and before opening it imediately thought Blackpool 77/8, first season down under Durban. We're on the march with Durban's army we're all going division one And we'll really make them cower when we smash their Blackpool tower Cos stoke city are the greatest football team and to think we look down at some of the songs of today As mentioned Stoke set fire to the grass bank behind the Blackpool kop, though recall it being at the end of the game..perhaps they did it before too ..bit daft really , even dafter when you think the end was split with both Blackpool and Stoke and Stoke were coming down the grassbank at the time. Boxed a pub off on the friday night , for saturday pre match and again post match , as quite difficult to get a pub on the Saturday after some people had a few issues on the friday night Me and a mate got there friday afternoon thinking we'd be early , think we were one of the last to arrive paid something like £2.50 pn for B+B recall a bloke using the roof girders to make his way from the stoke section of the kop over the segregation fence to hang over the blackpool fans section and goading them. And durban going mad that British rail had put on 'seaside specials' for that weekend only.. but the best as others have said was the sight of literally thousands of stokies on the prom dropping to the floor to perform the dieing fly.. |
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Post by CraigWally on May 21, 2009 22:58:00 GMT
ale,ale and more ale was the basic cause.It was also at the time when the "dying fly" off tiswas was all the craze and in the early hours one of the lads decided to jump on the roof of a police car and lay on his back and did the dying fly!!! After all that had gone on earlier i was amazed when the coppers just helped him down laughing their heads off !!! the dying fly - that is my abiding memory of that day - along with the game of footy on the beach - must have been 100-a-side |
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Post by fazza90 on May 22, 2009 12:40:47 GMT
Away games sound like they were much more fun back then.
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Post by andystokey on May 22, 2009 14:51:17 GMT
I thought I was the only one alive who remembered that!! funniest thing ever at an away game... remember this song to the tune of I do like to be beside the seaside.. Oh I do like to be beside the seaside Oh I do like to be beside the sea With my bucket and my spade and my pocket hand grenade ..... beside the seaside beside the sea Blackpool's red and white mile anyone? We got there at 9am played on the slots all day and won about £10 (a lot then) upgraded our tickets, had chips for lunch and watched the City take over Blackpool awesome... |
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Post by andystokey on May 22, 2009 15:39:47 GMT
Does anyone remember the away game at Blackpool, late 80s. There was a right ruck with the coppers. Ill always remember there was a wooden tea hut. A copper went in and started hitting Stokies with his baton through the counter. It was promptly demolished in to little pieces, the tea urn was hurled at the coppers and they were trapped by the fence getting a pasting. Never seen so many helmets torn up and thrown around. sad that I am I had to drag out the following home programme. The match date was April 8th 1978 Attendance 12,201 it wasnt a bank holiday or easter holiday. Here is a link to Durbans programme notes for the following home game against Millwall tinypic.com/view.php?pic=wt7eco&s=5 |
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Post by mystokebadge on May 22, 2009 16:08:00 GMT
Bloody hell how time goes,was a great stoke city weekend one of the lads with us had to go to the hospital because when a stokie threw the tea urn over the fence it bounced off the top and came back and hit my mate on the head.I still laugh about that now when i see him down the match.Also loads of stokies had loads of coins to pay for their beer food ect because the slot machines were robbed on a big scale.
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Post by offthewall on May 22, 2009 16:16:54 GMT
100 a side Football on the beach - oh yes ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
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Post by lexie on May 22, 2009 18:15:45 GMT
oh yes I remenber it very well, someone got a box of mars bars and they were been thrown around I even the sweeping brush hurling towards the old bill
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Post by jamlander on May 22, 2009 18:43:56 GMT
I remember the late 70s match really well. As we walked down the concrete steps at the back of the away end the grass to the side had indeed been set on fire.
I also remember well that a guy in front of us turned to his mate and said "Take the kids she said, take the bloody kids"
Well it was Blackpool!
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Post by sonofbanks on May 22, 2009 19:21:56 GMT
Went the game, wasn't it Durbans first game or first away game? loads there , fooking quality, happy days indeed  |
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