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[WsWolf]

Apparently Robbie Keane was handy, knocked Edgar Davids unconscious. Think I read he was a decent boxer as a kid.

 

[leedswolf]

I was completely and utterly wrong

 

[leedswolf]

I was sat in the Lowfield Road stand amongst the lufc fans for this game. Great times.

 

[SSB]

From around 15 minutes here.

I didn't say he didn't react, I said he didn't flinch after taking a headbutt. Compare that to say, Fernandes pretending he's been decapitated from a handoff into his chest.

I remember it being carnage when we left the ground after that game.

 

[leedswolf]

I remember it being carnage when we left the ground after that game.

Yep.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Certainly was.

Straight on the coach for me as I was only 16 but it was going off everywhere.

 

[Elephant Pyjamas]

Certainly was.

Straight on the coach for me as I was only 16 but it was going off everywhere.

Did your coach keep all it's windows? I remember seeing a couple getting bricked.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Did your coach keep all it's windows? I remember seeing a couple getting bricked.

I think so, we weren't parked far away from the ground and got away *fairly* quickly. I don't remember a massive draught anyway!

Not the worst I've been to for that, I'm never going to Blues again. I can look after myself but my skull doesn't like heading bricks away.

 

[Derby Wolf]

Blues every year I've been has been a pain but the worst was 99 or '00 when the Rover protests were on too. Curle missed a penalty, lost 1-0 and everything came over the fence afterwards while we were kept in the pen.

Maine Road after the Kit Symons OG was hairy too. Some nutter among everybody scrapping swinging a bike chain at anything coming out of the away end.

 

[Kenny]

Visiting Middlesbrough in the early 90's was fun. Only away game I have been at where bricks were bouncing off the coach windows

 

[Wolf Hunting]

Blues every year I've been has been a pain but the worst was 99 or '00 when the Rover protests were on too. Curle missed a penalty, lost 1-0 and everything came over the fence afterwards while we were kept in the pen.

Maine Road after the Kit Symons OG was hairy too. Some nutter among everybody scrapping swinging a bike chain at anything coming out of the away end.

My brother was a taxi driver (private hire actually) and he remembered driving out of the mayhem and saw a guy swing a bicycle chain and it hit the side of his car followed by a yell. When he got home in Stretford, he went around to the passenger side and wrapped, jammed around the handle was a yard of bicycle chain and as he unravelled it the guys finger dropped out. That's what the yell was, not he thought, running over his foot...

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

If he was driving away from Maine Road directly after full time then he wasn't driving anywhere very fast. This madman could have easily retrieved his digit.

 

[lemonjelly]

I was working in wolves Town centre one Sunday, I'd guess early 90s. We were playing West Brom. I took some rubbish out the back doors, & the bins were in an alley off pipers row. I could hear noise, so walked part way up the alley into what I could only describe as warfare in the street.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Definitely not early 90s. Didn't get moved to a Sunday at Molineux until August 1994 (that might have been TV as well). There wasn't really trouble then in the centre either as I recall, Albion fans have either been blocked off or never tried getting into our pubs?

 

[Derby Wolf]

My brother was a taxi driver (private hire actually) and he remembered driving out of the mayhem and saw a guy swing a bicycle chain and it hit the side of his car followed by a yell. When he got home in Stretford, he went around to the passenger side and wrapped, jammed around the handle was a yard of bicycle chain and as he unravelled it the guys finger dropped out. That's what the yell was, not he thought, running over his foot...

Not sure how that's possible - Maine Road, and particularly the away end - was behind the last row of houses so cars wouldn't have been anywhere near the agg which was on the concrete outside the turnstiles.

It could have happened on one of the other exits around the stadium closer to roads/traffic but that would require two chain wielding headcases.

The away end was a third of the stand behind the goal and the corner next to the massive Kippax stand (on the left hand side of the pic)

 

[Trips]

Need to find a way of tagging DHOTYA on this place sometimes

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

And how was this taxi booked.

"Yeah, 4.55 please. Outside the away end. You'll recognise me, I'll be the one in a football shirt. Just me, not the other thousands of people"

The side roads out of Maine Road are/were tiny and Wilmslow/Oxford Road was gridlock every single week for a good 45-60 minutes after full time. How do I know this, I lived there for years.

 

[Sniffer]

Blues every year I've been has been a pain but the worst was 99 or '00 when the Rover protests were on too. Curle missed a penalty, lost 1-0 and everything came over the fence afterwards while we were kept in the pen.

Maine Road after the Kit Symons OG was hairy too. Some nutter among everybody scrapping swinging a bike chain at anything coming out of the away end.

The 00 Blues game was the one where there was trouble a few miles away from the ground before kick off where a Wolves fan ended up in hospital. I was in the home end and got away sharpish so missed any trouble. I don’t remember any trouble at that City game, just recall wandering aimlessly around Moss side trying to find a way out and get to the pub where we’d parked. Wasn’t that a couple of years before?

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

Maine Road was a bloody great ground though. Properly atmospheric. I remember going to the opening day of Star Wars and queuing outside a cinema with my dad in 1977 and United must have been playing City. Absolute war zone

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Back in the real world.

Never had any problems personally at Albion, Villa, Millwall, (old) West Ham, Liverpool, Everton or City with their gangs of multiple bike chain wielders.

Blues, Southampton (odd, because there's no beef, but it's just a shit area), Leeds, old Rotherham (walking through a literal scrapyard in the dark is fun), old Stoke (new one is nowhere near anything, so nothing happens), Port Vale and old Cardiff were all more than a bit moody.