What with Justin, Thomas and that yank basketball player there is now a massive total of 3 gay sportsmen!
Yep, I remember him, most of his clearances ended up in way back in stands, as did a few opposition players after he'd nudged them a bit!!!
I'm not saying it........... he's still our manager after all........................ but it's brown and smells and has an E on the end of it!
I asked a chap I work with this question as he's a binner fan, and he said: Keane of course, he would slide in from behind Mick, take him out at knee level, then while he was down stamp on him!
ILD You go back a long, long, long way... Which EA Derby was the most violent you have ever seen? The one I most remember was on a Boxing Day (rather apt) when our Trevor Whymark sustained a terrible injury that almost finished his career. It was at the Carrott patch I think 1977.
About 74/75 at our place, 2 incidents on the same day stand out but neither were on the pitch unfortunatly. Leaving the ground a young bloke in front of me suddenly fell to the ground with a knife sticking out between his shoulder blades, one of our fans as I remember it! Then going back to my car which was parked on the 'old' Rose lane car park, I got in and my girlfriend went round to get in the other side when she shouted that there was someone under the car. It was a young Ipswich fan who had been beaten up pretty badly, so bad in fact that he couldn't talk due to the damage inflicted to his head. We rang for an ambulance but was told due to the amount of calls they'd had that afternoon it would be a while before they could get anyone to us. We managed to get out from under the car, after which he sort of came round a bit, I got him into the back and took him to the old N&N myself. We stayed with him until he became lucid, about 4 hours I seem to recall, when he could give me a phone number to call. This was his parents number and I had to try to explain what had happened. I heard from his mum and dad for a while afterwards, it took him couple of months to get back to normal. Hell that still shocks me today, but unfortunatly in those days events off the pitch were far far worse than anything on it! Thank christ we can have this banter on here these days without all that stupid **** going!
Wow ILD that is a sad and rather disturbing story. I know we have plenty of banter on here but that goes beyond anything I have experienced against Norwich fans. The most terrifying time that I can remember back in the bad old days was our FA Cup tie in 1978 against Millwall when our coach was pelted with bricks after the game and I remember to this day the shards of glass flying through the coach and my Dad shielding me from most of the debris.
That could of been last week! When we played Millwall in the Championship, I think, they conceded late on to a Lansbury goal in the 90th minute and the Millwall fans all started kicking off and throwing coins at the people in the Jarrold stand. I got out there quick! I could here people getting hit and the sound of the coins hitting the seats near me.
Unfortunately somethings will never change, Millwall will always be scum! I have never been back to that hell hole ever since 1978. My Dad was showered with glass that day and his head was streaming with blood. Bobby Robson was right that day when he said that we should turn the flame throwers onto the thugs that did that!
Away games were always special and we went to many. Slashing down down with rain at Northzmpton, stood on what must have been railway sleepers watching at 0-0 comes to mind. Beating Manure 2-1 at OT in 67 in the Cup probably the best. Lots of times we went on the train and a few cans on the way up and transistrs playing was good craic. But getting to and from the ground was when you wondered why you were doing it. I've seen too many awful things to catalogue them here but just to say I am so glad I can now go to away games with my teenage grandsons and wear the colours, have a pint, have lunch without looking over my shoulder and be happy and smile when we walk out of the ground at the end. I was going to say when we win, but it was a couple of years ago when I was let doing that!
Going back over many decades I would have to say Trevor Hockey and Duncan Forbes were by far the hardest defenders City have had. But they were overshadowed by some real monsters in other teams at the time though.
