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Post by youareallwrong on Jul 23, 2011 13:45:38 GMT
I can remember loads of Stokies in the front of that big open end lobbing slices of bacon at the police. At the end of the game, I slipped getting over the wall onto the pitch and a massive Nottingham copper helped me up! Walking around Nottingham and having a few pints and a meal after the game; we just owned the whole place.
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Post by u2oxeterstokie on Jul 23, 2011 13:49:49 GMT
Happy days
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Post by Deleted on Jul 23, 2011 13:50:27 GMT
Yep, the whole place belonged to Stoke that day. It was a sea of red and white. magic!!!!!
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Post by offthewall on Jul 23, 2011 14:50:06 GMT
One of the best. `i was one of the ones who went from behind the goal to the paddock after the front collapsed under the weight of 17000 Stokies.
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Post by stokiejohn on Jul 23, 2011 17:04:52 GMT
Possibly my all time favourite game ! Will and sunderland fans would like to comment on this - i remember hearing at the match they were doing cartwheels on the pitch at wrexham thinking they had been promoted !
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Post by collstokie62 on Jul 23, 2011 17:52:04 GMT
I was behind the goal remember trying not to get crushed to death . Someone by us had their arm in plaster remember trying to help him not get it crushed. After game remember having ago at policeman on white horse on the pitch for knocking a old woman over it was an awsome day out.
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Post by march4 on Jul 23, 2011 17:55:07 GMT
Possibly my all time favourite game ! Will and sunderland fans would like to comment on this - i remember hearing at the match they were doing cartwheels on the pitch at wrexham thinking they had been promoted ! Theirs was the televised game. Even TV thought they would go up ;D
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Post by JoeinOz on Jul 23, 2011 18:40:00 GMT
I don't think there is any footage of it. I've seen a photo but that's all.
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Post by stubbo on Jul 23, 2011 18:44:55 GMT
was there too - behind the goal - brill
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Post by march4 on Jul 23, 2011 18:45:30 GMT
I don't think there is any footage of it. I've seen a photo but that's all. One photo of the goal is all I have ever seen.
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Post by brumstokie on Jul 23, 2011 19:47:09 GMT
Same here - right behind the goal when we scored - just before everybody on their trannies crapping themselves because Sunderland had just scored
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Post by Bobthehandsome on Jul 23, 2011 21:48:39 GMT
I bought a big lump of turf home with me and integrated it into the lawn at Horsley Grove, Blurton
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Post by march4 on Jul 23, 2011 21:50:21 GMT
I bought a big lump of turf home with me and integrated it into the lawn at Horsley Grove, Blurton Mines at Drubbery Lane ;D
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Post by Cyprusdelilah on Jul 24, 2011 9:51:22 GMT
At first in the paddock, got in 2mins before kick-off. people still still piling in. I was gettin crushed, cause I was still on crutches from my accident on 6th May 78, so we asked if I could stand in the end opposite the stokies.
I had been to watch Stoke play County the year before, think we took around 3 thousand what I remember, but the sight of seeing all them Stokies packed in, in 79.
Then when we scored, expected one end to celebrate, but us slightly older chaps remember what...........
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Post by onlyonesirstan on Jul 24, 2011 10:44:52 GMT
I remember it well, fantastic day for Stoke City and all our fans. However, it was tarnished by some fellow Stoke fan nicking my wallet out of my pocket. At the end had to report it to the police and all the trouble trying to rememeber what cards etc was in it.
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Post by wingy1964 on Jul 24, 2011 11:02:58 GMT
A fantastic day ,one of the best.
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Post by werrington on Jul 24, 2011 14:35:17 GMT
Paul Richardson scored the winner with a diving header 2 mins from time and we won 1-0.........in the first game of that season we played Cambridge away and with 2 mins left and the scores level paul Richardson scored with a diving header to win Stoke the game 1-0.....bizarre eh..
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Post by stackman on Jul 24, 2011 15:26:18 GMT
I was there and remember when we scored I went down under the weight of the crowd but a guy called Foxy dragged me up, I owe a huge debt of thanks to that guy as I was only a teenager and he seemed to summon the strength of ten men!!! Great day it will always live in my memory and I hang around and got some autograghs from the team, Garth Crooks being my fav at the time!!!
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Post by swampySCFC on May 25, 2012 22:32:36 GMT
I was 20. Great day
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Post by NassauDave on Nov 27, 2012 9:30:39 GMT
Wrexham away I got punched in the face at half time by some fucking looney Welsh inbred and spent the 2nd half at Wrexham nick. Blackpool away. fuck me! It was fucking mental. The tea hut siege was like a fucking punch and Judy show with a couple of coppers inside swinging their truncheons at Stokies who pelted them with food as the hut had been 'liberated' by Stokies minutes earlier. The tea urn went flying. I was soaked by PG Tips.
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Post by bayernoatcake on Dec 4, 2012 5:18:10 GMT
Even so ... Paul Richardson is still wank! ;D I watched the Big Match Revisted this morning from this season and it was us vs Leicester in a 1-1 draw. That was the exact impression I got of him. Every time he got the ball he'd just boot it on the volley. Very strange.
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Post by hanibal7 on Mar 23, 2013 7:40:38 GMT
Remember scrapping with forest fans in a pub near top the ground,a few poo cues were smashed over heads,and the odd pool ball in socks
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Post by rogerjonesisgod on Mar 29, 2013 21:37:27 GMT
I was there aged about 12. A school mates dad took us but he stood a few yards away during the match so we could pretend we were hanging out with the 'big boys'. We were at the front between the goal and the corner flag and we nearly got crushed when the goal went in. Fucking brilliant! Sheer raw emotion and passion. Good times.
A chap called Mark Ratcliffe was near the back of the end with some blokes burning flags or some such mentalness. Mark later went out with my sister for a few years. Funny how things stick in your mind.
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Post by bristolpotter on Oct 16, 2013 19:26:18 GMT
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Post by potbank on Jan 26, 2014 9:45:22 GMT
My brother went on the Special from Stoke station.....me and my dad walked from Albert Street top end of Newcastle to a garage in Hollywood, SIlverdale to get his Austin 1100 from a garage where it was being fixed.....this was the morning of the match.....to our horror the car wasn't ready, it was too late to get there...me and my dad were distraught..."and still am as me bro keeps on about it!!!!!!
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Post by sandnesstokie on Jan 8, 2016 1:35:35 GMT
Very vague but remember leaving home, in my mums car, and breaking down after a couple of hundred yards. Back home to fetch the really crappy Ford Transit I used to drive for the firm I worked for at the time (and most definitely wasn't for private use). Eventually we (3 in the front) left and, due to the delays, got to Nottingham not long before the match was due to start. Can't really remember but I think we made it into the ground just in time for kick off but it was chaos just trying to get onto the terraces of the away end as they were so packed.
The game itself, and Richardsons goal in the 88/89 minute is history, but the aftermath is (probably?) legend. Somehow, during the match, we 'picked up' a couple of people who needed a lift home............can't remember how they'd got there in the first place?? Then, between the (end of) the match and getting back to the Transit we'd acquired a couple more 'passengers' going back to Stoke.
OK, thought I, lets get home quick and get out for the night to celebrate.............wrong!! And this is where things start getting a bit hazy, even though I was driving (hope the Police aren't reading this). I do remember stopping, at what seemed every pub between Nottingham and Stoke on Trent and, along the way, picking up various (Stokie) drunkards / naer do wells / waifs & strays etc., all of which had somehow 'lost' their original lifts to / from the match.
To be perfectly honest I'm not sure what time we arrived back in Stoke but I do remember driving up to the centre of Hanley and dropping all the accumulated passengers off there. Though not sober myself, I do remember opening the back doors of the Transit and what seemed like 100's piling out and disappearing into the night to continue the festivities before making my way back home......... I think?
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Post by Deleted on May 2, 2016 18:53:41 GMT
I was 22 yrs old and working on the railways (British Rail) at the time and went most of the away games that particular season with a bunch of workmates. Great memories at quite a few away games that season, Cambridge for one, but the icing on the cake had to be the Notts County game for all the reasons mentioned in other posts. But what makes it even more memorable for me is, a couple of my workmates were working that Saturday morning up till about 11 a.m. and myself and a good mate had made arrangements to meet them at Cockshute (Shelton) shunting yard so that we could walk up the main line together to Stoke station to get one of the 3 special trains that were running to the game that day. Unfortunately for us, we all got spotted and stopped by British Rail police as we entered into the platform via the main line (none public route) and promptly arrested for trespassing. Can you believe it. The cocky start up b*stards ended up charging us for trespassing onto British Rail property even though a couple of the lads were in uniform (just finished a morning shift) and myself and the other mate with me, although not on duty that day, were employed by British Rail. We each ended up at Magistrates Court at a later date with a 30 quid fine and 10 quid court costs (40 quid in all)for our troubles. Best 40 quid I'd ever spent though as Stoke obviously got promotion and the rest of the day was SUPERB!
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Post by pearo on May 13, 2016 4:20:29 GMT
I was 18 at the start of the season, went to the Cambridge game with 4 other guys from the Station Hotel Normacot in a Reliant Robin, as I was the smallest I was squashed into the middle of two of the others in the back. Seemed like an eternity to get there, remember drinking Hook Norton in a pub just outside Cambridge. Got sunburnt at the game.
Notts County away is still one of my top three memories in what is now almost 50 years of following the Potters.
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Post by block23 on May 24, 2016 22:08:35 GMT
yes that was basher from milton Basher Bailey from Milton. Those days in the Milton vans were some of my best memories watching Stoke, every match was an occasion, with some of the funniest, (and scariest!) days of my life!
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