I'm still flabbergasted by that!! JFH and The Lads should take note of the heart and passion of those 3600 and put the same into their next games!
SUPERHOOP I WAS ALSO AT THAT GRIMSBY GAME IM SURE WE WON 1-0 BUT NOT THAT IT MATTERS THAT WAS THE MOST VIOLENT DAY EVER IN OUR HISTORY I ENDED WITH ONE OTHER QPR FAN WE WERE STUCK AMONGST THE GRIMSBY MOB WE THOUGHT THEY WOULD SUSS OUT WE WERE QPR AND KILL US A COPPER SAVED OUR LIVES BY ME WISPERING INTO HIS EAR help us two are qpr what we going to do,he acted out a role brilliantlyPRETENDING WE WERE GRIMSBY while there mob angryly walked looking to kill a cockney THE PROBLEMS HAD STARETED WHEN UN BEKNOWN TO ME 200 QPR HAD GONE TO CLEETHORPES ON THE FRIDAY NIGHT AND RIOTED SHUTTING DOWN EVERYWHERE AND FIGHTING RUNNING BATTLES THEN A COACH FULL OF C MOB HAD THE WORST FIGHT IMAGINABLE WITH TWO COACHES OF SHE WED AND ONE MIDDLESBRO WHO HAD PHONED C MOB TO LURE THEM that day another mob had clashed with a northern mob of 80 on a train change over what a nightmare game and to think i drove 270 miles all on my own looking for a great day out ILL NEVER FORGET THAT GRIMSBY DAY AWAY I WENT FOR A LOVELY QUIET DRINK ON A GEORGOUS SUNNY DAY AND ENDED UP NEARLY HAVING A HEART ATTACK BEING SURROUNDED BY 250 GRIMSBY THUGS BUT WE HAD A REAL PROBLEM WITH GRIMSBY GOING BACK TO A QPR FAN LOSING HIS EYE FROM A FLYING MISILE AT LOFTUS ROAD
Sorry to bring this up... Grimsby was the last game on the 82/83 season - finished 1-1, Rangers finished on 85 points. That was the year I moved to London and started going to games as regularly as I could afford. That season was a joy to follow, albeit it was pre internet and little coverage outside of London. I was living in the valleys then, listening on the steam wireless and reading results only - no reports...
Massive Leeds must have been playing at home then? Not a bad turnout considering the kind of season you have had, even if it is only a short trek up the M1
I have been to Grimsby a few times as an away, not just to watch Norwich either. Evil place and really nasty mob in the 80's. Possibly the one and only time I was really scared walking back to the train station was when I visited with a Wolves fan.
I meant Norwich going to MK. You also have short memory as I remember Norwich at QPR with a half empty end. Neither of us are like Massive Leeds but you can't knock a championship team having the biggest away support in the country at the weekend. Otherwise it sounds sour.
I really can't remember how many we took the last time we played them but it was a lot as City were cruising L1 at the time. Next season will almost certainly see a lot next time round too. Can't say I have seen low numbers when visiting LR but then I normally could only see what was in the lower stand and not upstairs. That's not to say it has never happened, it probably has. I doubt it will happen next season though. Our away numbers have been quite high for a few seasons now and London games are well supported in general. Wasn't knocking it at all Ellers, it was a good turn-out whichever way you look at it.
Strange old thing is the memory (or lack of). I was sure we lost there but I went to most of our away games after Christmas that season and remember we had a run of 1-0 defeats near the end of the season. Funny thing is I remember the 75-76 season so much clearer than the 80s and even the 90s. I'll just wait for the men in white coats...
Yes indeed old chap...takes about two and a half hours to three hours to drive from Thorpe bay to my old mums in the bush...I'm born n bred West 12 though and never forget my roots among the jam makers and Rotarians I'm amongst now by the seas!
