Last time we went we parked down Olive Grove Road off Midhill Road there's a few streets around there, but they get full quick...have a look on Google maps
Unbelievable! Same thing happened to me around 1987-8, gang of blunts fans knicked my scarf leaving Bramall Lane after a dull 0:0 draw. The gang offered very bravely to fight me for it, there being 5 of them and one of me. I told them if they wanted it that much they could have it. I can only presume that there are hundreds of city scarfs somewhere in South Yorkshire.
Ironically I live in Sheffield now. Even the Wednesday fans think the same. Ah well we all need someone to look down on.
Wouldn't quite go that far. Wouldn't want to give the greatest currently playing cricketer to Derbyshire. West Riding is insulting enough
Tough game, but fancy we might get a point, playing away seems to suit us better, so here hoping for a good result.
First team in the early 80s I came across whose crew attacked pensioners and children. I was one of them outside the North stand. Hated the scum ever since. Is Billy still landlord of Cricketers? Been a good decade since I've been to Bramall Lane so looking forward to it.
Early 80's, City v Sheff U at home, walking towards Boothferry Park, from Cod, near the roundabout. We ( mate and me) saw a couple of Sheff Utd nick a scarf off a couple of young kids and slap them across the head, a few yards in front of us. We chased after them and they both ran in to a little sweetshop just past the roundabout and slammed the door shut. We managed to get the door open eventually and the sweetshop owner said they'd both jumped over the counter, ran through the back and out of the back door, leaving the City scarf on the floor. Even recently outside Bramall Lane near the away turnstiles I witnessed a bloke, must have been 40's, offering a young City fan out, guess he was about 16 and calling him all kinds of a Hull c***t etc, I don't wear colours, and stepped in 'I'm from Hull, pick on me' and this fella looked at me startled , turned, and scarped. I kid you not.
Told this tale on here before, but I had a knife pulled on me outside Bramall Lane when I was about 13 or 14, by one of their fans who was a grown man. Puss (RIP) pushed past me, ‘dealt with him’ and came back and handed me the bloke’s knife!* That, plus being with @Ron Burguvdy when he took a brick in the face from them when he was a teenager…and that match at Burnley of course…is why I despise them. (* I promptly deposited it in a bin as we walked to the ground, but was eternally grateful)
Puss, what a good lad he was. I have another version of that 'sweetshop incident' that I dare not re-tell on here. My mate is now sadly departed ( it wasnt' Puss), but I bet those two Blades remember meeting up with him. Must say though Sheff Utd always brought a massive mob to Hull. Another lad of Action Group fame, older posters on here know him, was fined £5 in the mid 70's v Sheff U after an incident in Kempton. Remember the HDM headlines to this day.....'What do you expect? my mate was in there'.
Ahead of our trip to Bramall Lane to face automatic promotion-chasing Sheffield United, Liam Rosenior has revealed that his players are "fit and raring to go." As well as revealing that no new injuries were picked up in last weekend’s 1-1 draw against Huddersfield Town at the MKM Stadium, Rosenior also provided an update on the fitness of several key players. “Allahyar (Sayyadmanesh) is out,” said Rosenior. “Benjamin (Tetteh) is getting fitter and fitter. Aaron Connolly is getting fitter and fitter. “Adama (Traoré) is doing great as well. He’s been in full training. He needs a bit more time because he’s been out for so long, but he’s doing great. It’s one of those where I just need to see him get through training for a couple of weeks. “I don’t want him to have a reoccurrence of what was a really bad, horrible injury in terms of his hamstring. After that, we’ll assess his game minutes and see what he needs.” “(Away from the long-term absentees) I’ve got a full squad to choose from.”
Play your strongest 11 Liam from the start. Let the ****s know they're in a game. 2 things I remember about these ****ers...seeing a young City lad take a smack in the face on Bramhall Lane at the cup game when the bogs were flooded. And me aged about 10 getting my head nearly ripped off by a **** reaching over the plywood fence between Bunkers and the East stand away end. 1-2. Pigs slaughtered by Tigers.
