Match Day Thread Hull City v Preston

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Evington said:
I am not up with this discussion so might be off piste. For what it's worth I didn't go to Old Trafford, Anfield, The Emirates or White Hart Lane simply because they are everything that is wrong with football. Stupid maybe but that is the way I feel and I refuse to pay silly money to watch football simply because they/ someone thinks we should be grateful. I have been and will be at Derby tomorrow, Peteborough, Birmingham, Coventry though. I also recall leaving work early and tanking across to watch a defeat at Cambridge ****ing United. 'Big clubs' hype is bollocks.
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It is a bit off piste. And I agree with your sentiments. Though I can recall us playing at the Emirates and we were charged £27 as a low category game and the next home game they charged £62.50 for Man City, which led to protests. Don't know if it is still the case but Arsenal used to charge more for a season ticket than if you paid for every game on the gate on the basis you were guaranteed a ticket and got priority for Cup games.
Away trips to far flung places on the spur of the moment were far more enjoyable to the homogenised, structured palaver you have to go through nowadays especially for games at "big clubs". Though if we ever establish ourselves in the PL there are times you would have to bite the bullet if you wanted to see them away.
 
Urika Peece. said:
I was working in the Sports Dept at the Hull Daily Mail at the time of the Battle of Bramall Lane and Brian Taylor was told there were about 8,000 City fans there, which was exceptional because our away followings in those days was often below 200. The Chelsea one is more difficult to second guess, 8,000 travelling to London seems a lot. I remember seeing in the HDM the City fans in the lower section of The Shed, and remember the HDM mentioning that every time our fans chanted 'Tigers' they replied with 'Pussycats' Chelsea didn't bring that many to the replay, maybe a couple of hundred in The Well but I don't recall many in the rest of the ground. Certainly none on Bunkers.
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Urika you must have know Mike Ackroyd?
 
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WSTiger said:
Ok got that one wrong and yes of course you are right it was in the front 70's I think Ken Knighton was still playing for United at the time and later transfered to City. Now there was a ball winner made of steel.
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It was Ken Knighton and Billy Baxters debut for City. Knighton bought from Blackburn for £60k and Baxter from Ipswich for about £10k, he was sold because he had thumped the Ipswich manager, Bobby Robson. Both were signed at 5.00 pm on the Monday before the Sheff Utd game. I remember Brian Taylor taking the telephone call that confirmed it and him furiously typing out the news for the late editions.
I can see Knighton now in the middle of the pitch at the final whistle v Sheff Utd, fist clenched and one arm aloft in salute of the fans.
 
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Barchullona said:
It is a bit off piste. And I agree with your sentiments. Though I can recall us playing at the Emirates and we were charged £27 as a low category game and the next home game they charged £62.50 for Man City, which led to protests. Don't know if it is still the case but Arsenal used to charge more for a season ticket than if you paid for every game on the gate on the basis you were guaranteed a ticket and got priority for Cup games.
Away trips to far flung places on the spur of the moment were far more enjoyable to the homogenised, structured palaver you have to go through nowadays especially for games at "big clubs". Though if we ever establish ourselves in the PL there are times you would have to bite the bullet if you wanted to see them away.
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I guess that is why I am not that bothered about the PL. Although our owner seems to be which I understand from his point of view. I prefer a good old fashioned championship fixture with blood and guts, some nice football and the odd controversy thrown in. PL is way too sanitised.
 
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Barchullona said:
I seem to recall it being said there were 8,000 at Chelsea. Don't know if it is correct though.
Sheffield United's crowd that night was about 12,000 up on their previous game. Don't know how many of those were City. It was their biggest crowd of the season but not a record for them. Their record crowd is over 68,000. Looking at when we were there a lot of those must have been in the cricket part as you wouldn't get all those in the 3 sides we were in. They would have needed binoculars.<laugh>
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I was 14 at the time in the cricket pavilion and didn't need glasses to see the fighting on the pitch. Unlike now when I need glasses to find my glasses!
 
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