Other cities probably have buses on or don’t have **** owners. Didn’t we have some services run when we were in the PL?
Other cities having services pioneering, innovative City Of Culture Hull doesn't? Impossible, surely? Seriously, a lot of places, probably most have no services. Bradford and Nottingham haven't so it will be interesting to see how many make their way there in comparison to normal attendances across larger cities. Sheffield council are funding a limited service up to 18.30. Trying to think of New Year's Day games in PL.m Of course, back in 1948 City sold 55,000 tickets for a Christmas Day game and despite a bus strike and hardly anyone having a car 49,600 turned up. Made of sterner stuff back then.
Friday, 30th April 1993. An awful night to be a City fan. Bolton fans took the piss, and Rob Miller was felled during their stampede on the pitch to celebrate McGinlay's winner. It was also a strange night as we were hosting a couple of Bolton fans ahead of a joint trip north to watch Hearts the following day. To be fair they kept their gloating to a minimum but it got a bit hairy at times post-match. I seem to remember there was sporadic trouble in Steam Tavern, Eagle and even Silhouette on Park Street! To compound a **** weekend - Hearts got thumped 6-1 at Falkirk the following day. Prior to this game I remember being in the seats at Burnden Park early-80s when there was trouble on the concourse below following a 0-0 draw. The story went that the police knocked Brian Horton's mother down the stairs in their rush to get in amongst it! And was it the same season when a few Bolton had to be flushed out of Kempton during an FA Cup tie? The one with Steve Massey's last minute mishit winner at the Grandways end? Then for those who were there, that unforgettable weekend in Devon when City were at Exeter (won 3-0, great day) and Bolton were in Torquay, 91/92? The Friday night in Torquay was bad enough but the Saturday was even worse. Bolton's numbers had increased and the whole night turned into a game of cat and mouse around the town centre pubs. I seem to think the following Tuesday we played them at Boothferry and beat them, which gave us all immense satisfaction. Never liked Bolton, me. But that commentator on their official club videos was a legend!
Prepare to be informed that is only because Bolton is yet another place where there is nothing to do.
No doubt in Tordoff's book the City hordes ran them ragged, just as they did everyone else they encountered.
Getting over 90% of the people who bought tickets there when the strike was called after they had been bought when hardly anyone had a car is impressive. Wouldn't happen now. That crowd was up on the previous home game. Of course there was nothing else to do in Hull back then.
I was in attendance that day in 1976. We must have had 350 - about 7 coaches and a few cars. Got to Notlob about 1.30, pissing it down already as per in Lancs, straightway a set to on the coachpark, Got on the Embankment 15 mins later and got ****ing drenched well before k.o. time. Think it was 0-0 at half time but we had a second half collapse and it finished 5-1. ****ed off ten minutes from the end as was starting to develop gills and a scaly skin. Highly visible exit on a sparsely populated Embankment and small groups of the local soccer toughs in all three stands noted our departure and slipped out too. Bit like the Pamplona bull run outside with incessant heavy rain and random scrapping/running battles down the Manchester road under the railway bridge that led back onto the coach park. People always say "...and you know what, I wouldn't have changed a minute of it" when they look back on their lives. Well there were a lot of minutes I would have changed that day...
I was getting mixed up with my Mackems and Geordies. And competitions. The Sunderland game was 1975 in front of over 40,000. Obviously big crowds because a lot travelled from 2 cities where there is nothing else to do to another place where there is nothing to do. Even 40,000 is a lot when you consider what that ground was like. Though they have had 63,000 in, larger record crowd than Liverpool. **** knows how even though there will have been fewer seats back then.
Bolton police were different to Humberside. Our lot treated away fans like family, Bolton, and others, gave home fans a fairly free hand only stepping in if the away fans had a go back.
Think v NUFC it was about 50k, then another 50k at Sid James Park for the replay then about 46k at Leeds for the second replay. Of course no satellite dishes or VCRs back then
Still good considering the size of Bolton and the competition nearby. Of course the likes of Bolton, Blackburn, Burnley have always been more of a football town than ourselves. No eggchasing getting a look in there. No satellite dishes or VCRs the last time we got a crowd of over 40,000 or even over 30,000. Just glad as I was at both of them as I can't see a 30,000 crowd happening in my lifetime, or the life time of people considerably younger.
Some Notlobber on one of their forums says it's quicker to Bristol by train than it is to Hull. Northern Powerhouse my arse.
There are a lot of complaints in that area about journey times. Same with journey times there from Leeds, and to other places around Leeds, which dislike the place as we do is a major city. Still billions are being spent in London on lines and tunnels.
