Featured in the on-line version this morning. Apparently there is another hooligan book out and City get a mention. I'd say this has reared its head because of City's next home game on Bank Holiday Monday.
Beat me to it... HDM or should it be Flashback? Interesting to read that the Hull City Psychos 'terrorised' Hull. There was me thinking it was just a double decker or two that used to pick outside YEB on Ferensway for away games in the late 70s. I had no idea they were terrorising the whole city on non match days. https://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/sport/hull-city-psychos-monte-carlo-2727350
https://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/sport/football/gallery/hull-city-fans-causing-trouble-2714093 Hull City fans causing trouble in 14 pics. Two are of Man U fans arriving and getting searched at Paragon August 74 One is Huddersfield fan getting lobbed out in 1980 One of fans running across pitch does not even feature City or BP. And so on. Does anyone at the club contact the HDM about this type of lazy mudslinging?
Filbert Street I reckon. Sack the Photo Archive clerk, he's just dumped any old football pic in the Hull City Fans file.
Probably not, this is worth a watch its about football fans in Germany. https://www.dw.com/en/police-vs-fans/av-48175765
Hard to say. I was trying to place that small wooden fence. Looks like they'll parachute in if they need to. please log in to view this image
The HDM front page from April 18th, 1981 now posted on their Hull Live FB page. You know the one, The City Of Shame, Hull rugby's darkest hour, as a reminder of the 'erased from history' brutal rugby hooliganism rife in Hull at the time.
Is James Smailes HDM sports editor now?An eggchaser who is spreading it on twitter, remind him of Good Friday at the Boulevard 1981 for who was also terrorising the streets of Hull back then.
James has replied saying the HDM are planning a similar story on the rugby derby violence in 1981, watch this space.
Followed up by the ripping down of the posts and pitch invasion at the McAlphine, Fc v Leeds semi final or summat ? And the battle of East Park, HKR v Warrington ? No doubt it. For the record Sinbad never ever led the monte carlo 'mob' at City games. I doubt if the original Sinbad had even been to a City game. It's cheap lazy journalism based on **** all.
Sinbad has been to city games at times , though not very often from what I remember More often it was Alex and Sid , Fez , Macko Demo, Fat George , Wolfie and a few others from Monte Carlo Cafe . Stuff Happened....but lots of fantasy **** is wrote in books Most of the originals moved onto hanging about in The Albemarle Club (Stuff Spelt wrong no doubt )
Hardly a similar story if it only covers one rugby derby game in 1981. How about the decades of rugby violence?
I'll have a guess at (a) Craven Cottage. Clue a lot of tie wearing southern pounces. (b) Old Stoke ground...Victoria Ground ps..I bet hat makers didn't go hungry.
Don't expect a full expose of the Wingfield Reds or the many organised rugby hooligan trips to Warrington, or the fear of RL fans visiting both Hull clubs, sadly these events haven't been documented as completely as incidents at City. Most of the rugby yobs were never prosecuted either. They'll just put up that picture of the two rugby chavs scrapping with the bird with her shoe off again. Always portrayed as the family game and in denial of the hooligan side to it.
In the Rugby Leaguer newspaper in the early 80s, the letters page was full of people complaining about drunken marauding Hull or Rovers fans running amok at Leigh, Blackpool Borough, Swinton etc I'm sure fans of our local clubs who attended in these seasons will confirm it was trouble at almost very away game due to the drinking regs at the time, the coach parties who went and sometimes special trains. One for the HDM to investigate.
