Love the crowd reaction to the goals going in..

I was at that game RAW sneaked a day off school to queue up for a ticket, I forgot how full the stadium was that day, fantastic memories.

 

I think it was about 63,000 or something..

 

Biggest crowd I was in was Man City I think.

 

We absolutely slaughtered Everton that day, was nice to see the two blokes in white coats who were probably the peanut sellers, 'peanuts tanner a bag ' was their sales pitch.
Everton 'the Toffees' brought women dressed like the picture on the toffee sweets and they carried whicker baskets full of toffees and went round the touchline throwing handfuls into the crowd before kick off.
It would never happen these days.

 

Makes you wonder how the odd person in the crowd didn't die every other week. Would loved to have experienced a match like that of that era

 

When we played Man Utd in the cup replay and the gate collapsed my then GPs daughter who was outside the main stand collapsed and died in the crush, she was in her early twenties, her dad never fully recovered.

 

Probs mine as well.

 

At Wembley, Gil

 

Memory fail again.. I was just thinking of Roker park.

 

It felt like that every week in the Fulwelll end.

 

Must have been great them days mind, about 2 bob to get in programme 6d (just been through my collection of 980 different from 1956 in binders) got the Man u cup programme also. I remember being shoved down the roker end when we scored loads of times and the original end before 1982, and when the wind caught that roar, wow. Sad about the 2 people dying and the only two out of millions at roker park over the years. 80-90,000 inside the ground that night.

 

When I saw the thread title I thought this was going to be about Saturday - the reaction to the 2nd goal and the final whistle were excellent at the weekend. The first goal half of the stadium didn't know what had happened so it was kind of a "delayed reaction" but Grigg's goal and the full time was the best reaction to goals and results I've heard for years at SAFC. The noise at full time was superb!!

 

Great memories. Got passed down to the front in the Fulwell end and threw the straw around. In the roker end for the Man U. game when the gate was broken down. I think the official attendance was 48k but there were guys clinging on to the clock in the clock stand!

 

Iirc unofficially they estimated the crowd at 75000 and that Was a conservative estimate.
They were great times.