The old man took me to this. I'd never seen fans like the Man U fans down Anlaby Rd. Always knew we won but only just found out Waggy and Mally Lord scored. No chance theres any footage is there?
I was in Sledmere watching the Man Utd hordes pushing down the big wooden gates in Kempton to get at us City fans after the game, we held our ground for a bit then realized that thousands of Reds were heading our way, I was still young enough to get over the fence on the training pitch into Franny Askew fields to make my escape. The gate was given as 23k plus, yeah right, it was rammed easily 30,000 in there that day
Mally Lard!!! I know he was hardly a fans favourite but there's no need for that after all these years I was 10, cant even remember where i was in the ground.
Unless you were a Man Utd fan you were in South Stand or Best stand, because they filled the other two
We escaped thro Askew too. Then over the train line + onto Hawthorn Ave. They were ****ing mental that day.
Don't think so. The ground was still the same as when it held 40,000 for the Stoke game. No fuller than the 4-4 game against Wednesday which was 24,000.
The end of Kempton had been blocked off with the fence by the Man U game, it was filled with fans or the Stoke game
I remember more about the walk back down Analaby Road and in the station afterwards than I do about the match. Fantastic result but very scary afterwards. We were followed by some United fans. One said," I've got a knife here. I think I'll stab one of these Hull City fans." There were only two of us! He didn't stab us but we never knew if he had a knife or not. I learned to walk very quickly and not look back that day. There were four or five police dogs at the entrance to the station. One of the police said, "Break yourselves up or you'll all go inside as a group" and the dogs leaped forwards. I'd come in on the train from Liverpool that day. There were lots of United fans on it but it was Ok. I decided I'd stay at my mother's that night and go back on the Sunday even though it took twice as long. I was very pleased United got promotion that year so they wouldn't be coming back.
I think City put in those long wooden fences between the South Stand and East the summer* before that season just because the thuggish Man U hordes were coming. A pity because you could no longer walk from the South to the North through the East stand. *It might have been earlier. Anyone remember? The police did a good job that day during the game helping to keep back the United fans. Today's coppers wouldn't have the bottle. I remember when it was nil nil the United fans were taunting us with "pussy cats".
