The last City game at Fer Ark: Hull City 0 -1 Darlington. Someone posted on here the other day, about the pitch invasion after the final whistle. Were you there? What do you remember from the day? Have you any pictures? [video=youtube;bNZ2pmlf5kU]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNZ2pmlf5kU[/video]
I was after a panoramic of the pitch invasion at the end. I'm sure the club had posters made of it. I remember getting on the pitch at the end and pulling up some of it. Dad made me chuck it away though. Watching that i can't believe we never scored. Some shocking misses.
Pedant alert. It was the penultimate game at Boothferry Park. The reserves played Barnsley in the last official game at Boothferry Park.
wasnt that keeper the same one who came and played for sunderland in the kc opener? michael ingham. was on loan everywhere. only played 3 times for darlo. won 2 and drew 2. next on loan at york and now permanent at york who are having a tilt at returning to the league.
Was there, I,m not an emotional kind of bloke, but at the final whistle and the walk across the pitch towards the Kwick Save end, suddenly realized it was the end of an era and all the history of the ground seem to come out at me and only then did it hit me that I will never watch my team in fer ark again, quite sad really. But upwards and onwards an all that.
I think that's the video I post yesterday, Una, on Febbos' thread. The part from the final whistle onward makes me feel sick, and it's heartbreaking to think what has now become of the great Fer Ark. I was barely into double figures age-wise at that game, and I'd only been going to Boothferry for about 12 months to 2 years. I'll never forget the walk across the pitch at the end, and picking up a handful of the turf and shoving it in my pocket. I still have a single blade in a scrapbook somewhere.
You're right, Erik, it is the same one. I hadn't realised. But thanks for your reply anyway. Must have been an emotional time and I was hoping a few more would post their memories.
I had never heard about Hull, nevermind City at this time Feeling like a please log in to view this image But I aint
I think Michael Ingham, Played for Darlington at Boothferry Park, for Sunderland in the first game at KC, AND for Hartlepool in the first league game at the KC thats some coincidence!
Had only been going to city for 3 years when this game was played but was still an emotional day, there were a lot of memories in those 3 years!
This was a must see game for us. My husband had seen Hull City play their first league match at Boothferry Park and wanted to be there for their last and I looked forward to my second visit to Hull with him,especially as Darlington were involved as together we had never seen a match between our two clubs. We booked to fly over from here to also take in Xmas with the family in Hull but a couple of days before departure he contracted Psittacosis and the trip was cancelled. About 7 years before we met,we each saw a match from a 1960 2nd round FA Cup tie 'epic' between the 2 clubs which went to 3 replays before Hull City triumphed 3-0. I saw the first game and he saw the last.
I couldn't get to the last game but I can imagine it was a pretty moving experience, especially for the oldest supporters like Charles who wrote this in the History Thread: "I've been a city fan since 1946 I even rode in the lorries that dumped the pulled down air raid shelter rubble to make Bunkers Hill, which became south stand." There's no doubt BP meant more to Hull than just a football ground.
.....and this is how it ended: R.IP Boothferry Park 04 April 2011 The 2nd April 2011 signalled the end of Boothferry Park with the destruction of the remaining three of six floodlights. This once great ground with a top class football pitch is now nothing more then a pile of rubble and twisted metal. Since the final game in December 2002 against Darlington, Boothferry Park has been largely forgotten about and highly neglected and quickly fell into a state of disrepair. The East, West and South stands have long been demolited with the the North stand following when Kwic Save supermarket went out of business, leaving only the six huge floodlights as a lasting reminder of what once was. The lights were first used in 1964 against Barnsley which resulted in an excellent 7-0 victory for the Tigers and were once the envy of the football league. With the three west standing floodlights taken down the previous day word got around that the east standing lights were to be taken down at 3pm Saturday 2nd April, such an apt time and made even better as City had a 1pm kickoff, meaning it was possible to see City at the K.C stadium, then walk up Anlaby Road to visit Boothferry Park for the final time. We arrived around 3pm expecting the lights to be coming down pretty soon, we had a wait of around an hour before any sign of work, the middle floodlight went first and within an hour the final floodlight had been toppled, marking the end of Boothferry Park and clearing the way for a housing development or supermarket. So, I'll leave you with the footage recorded by RIDINGBITTER from the forum , on the third video you can just make out the old Kempton steps, wouldn't it be nice if the future developers of this land could keep just a small section of the steps? Anyway, enjoy the footage. http://hullcity.comule.com/bpark2011.htm
There was more than one reserve game played there after the Darlo game. He played for Darlo and Sunderland, but his next game at the KC was with York who signed him to replace Fettis when we took him under freedom of contract. That is 3 consecutive first team games for different sides all against the same opposition though. Last keeper to keep a clean sheet at BP, first opposition keeper to keep one at the KC, but the only keeper ever to concede a first team goal scored by Steve Melton in a City shirt.
anyone remember the name of the 1st opposing player to score at the kc? i think its scott something, hes an electrician now, was in my place of work about 6 months ago, and quizzed me to see if i knew when he saw my city stuff, i didnt and ive forgotten
Drove by the old Boothferry Park site a few weeks ago for the first time since the flood lights came down. It's very rare I drive in that area (needed to get to friends house in Hessle) and was strange to see the site so empty.
I have been told that his name was Scott Partridge on loan to Exeter. Hull City 2 v Exeter City 2. Elliott 2 goals in Jan '03.
I remember it very well. 3 generations of my family were there going back to my dad's first game at Anlaby Road in 1928. Managed to keep control of my emotions until the Walk of Legends when first me, then my Dad and then my son burst out in tears. Soft Kunts! What a phucking stupid game football is!
