If there's an existing thread, I've missed it, but I've just noticed that York City recently played their last ever game at Bootham Crescent.
Nice video if your a York fan. Surprised matches against Hull City over the years haven't featured because we filled their ground more then most. It was one of my first away games in 1965/66 when, as became the norm visiting there, we outnumbered the home fans. Cannot honestly remember a good game between York and City at Bootham Crescent. It was always a crap view, ****ty sloping pitch, usually very heavy and windswept and I always got the impression that they wanted our money but didn't want us there. Remember City fans turning up in the 70;s for a York v GY match for some reason and causing havoc. That snip of the tunnel behind the side stand brought that particular memory back. Also an FA Cup replay there in thick fog when we played Middlesboro. City fans were allocated the larger 'terrace' behind the goal then the usual ****ty away terrace they used to give us. We lost that game too, 1-0. Have memories of turning up one Boxing Day to find the game had been postponed and being told by York people in the pubs ' we knew last night, hasn't anyone told you' ? Also another game, quite recently when the police turfed us all out of the pubs for no reason at all and we were banned from drinking in York altogether,. But the York City supporters club had no objections to letting us pay the £1 membership and letting us drink in there. Word soon got round and we packed the place out. Some City fans also found out that you could gain entry to the away terrace by pushing the fire doors open. Remember the look on the faces of the old bill when they came in the club and saw it full of all the City fans they had turfed out of the pubs an hour earlier. Like York but will not miss Bootham Crescent.
When I lived in London, ages ago I had a conversion with Marco Gabbiadini, when he played for Palace. We got onto York City & I said how I liked the picket fence they had ‘cos it reminded me of the one around the Subuteo pitch. He said he ****ing hated it as the first job the apprentices had to do at the beginning of each season was to paint the ****er.
Yep I remember going to that boxing day game and not been allowed in pubs to drown our sorrows as alternative, wet Saturdays or chaotic night games, car, coach or last city game I remember being crammed into one of those ****ty sprinter train things... Went a couple of years ago to see my friends son play against them in whatever godforsaken league it was, Big John Parkin upfront for York, had the moves.and knowhow, just even slower... In the cold light of day a ground well past its sell by date, though in a way brought back some nostalgia for me,...
York beating man utd in the cup is my first real memory of a giant killing and the fact we always seemed to play them away over Xmas/new year. One of my customers has built their new stadium so I've have the opportunity to see it quite a lot, it's a really nice stadium and for the level they play at its fantastic. Hopefully it's the start of them climbing back up the leagues
**** York City. Only twice have I seen an away fan punch a female steward in the face, once at BP and the next time at the Circle. Both times they were York. As for York away games? Giving us one turnstile for four thousand of us? Lovely cultural City, but full of ****ers who don't deserve it. Just saying.
I couldn’t be happier to see the back of the place. Their fans are utter ****s, and having to walk through a housing estate full of their fans to find the ground really was the limit. Nearly got knifed and it was only through the intervention of two of our fans that myself and my friend weren’t seriously hurt. This was before a pre season friendly ffs. **** York, **** Bootham Crescent and **** their ****ing faces.
I went there a few times over the years, the first time in 1966. Horribly little ground never liked it.
It was a fun outing for me when I went there is the 70s. I only have positive memories. I wasn't a football hooligan.
Remember been there one match absolutely throwing it down on the open stand. Pitch a bog and the ball getting stuck in water. Once spoke to Adam Pearson about the match. He told me he asked Brian Little who was in midfield. Little replied Whitmore and Sneekes. Pearson asked Little if he had seen the pitch. Little admitted he hadn’t. Think it was the beginning of the end for Little.
I got a kicking in an alley once, after two of us took a wrong turn, early 80's. Though I did used to quite like the fact that the closest pub became an away pub when we were in town.
Sorry but WTF?!!?!? please log in to view this image How on Earth did you manage that?!?!? They must have the most innocuous fan base in the country. Did you look like that silly **** out of The Cure or something? Was there something about your appearance which drew attention to yourself. Sorry but genuinely amazed at this revelation
Remember it well. it was the proverbial quagmire, you could tell in the warm up the ball would not roll and York adapted perfectly to it and we got steamrollered in the middle.
Remember the FA cup replay against Middlesbrough 7th Feb. 1968. I was at college in North Wales match was due to be played earlier but was cancelled due to heavy snow falls which I found out on platform as I was about to mount the train from Chester to York. I think it was played a few days later, this time decided to travel across in my trusty Austin A30, what a journey snow 6feet + at side of road coming across the Pennines, no motorways in them days. Parked up in York went to match got talking to somebody who had hitched there from Hull and offered him a lift back to Hull after the match. Coming out of ground after match I couldn't remember where I had parked I remembered the road was treelined that was all eventually asked a copper who miraculously led me straight to it. I believe my lift lived in a block of flats off Boothferry Road.
