Happy Valentines Day to.........

[andrew p long]

yep,early start from St Davids with my brothers. Fortunately on the train that didn't breakdown at Bristol. Managed to evade the missiles -half bricks and a fire extinguisher - hurled in our direction.

oh..just beaten to it by the previous post...

 

[HH12]

Remember the bricks being thrown from multi storey car park and some people roaming the streets in balaclavas as the escort went through town certainly a warm welcome
Other than the result best moment of the day came pre-match :
Three of us walked into pub- wall to wall black and white pub went silent strangers in town
Mate went to bar to see how the land lied and asked the bar man 'Do you get any Hassle in here'
Barman replied ' Sorry mate we don't do food at lunchtime on match days'

True story and still makes me chuckle to this day

 

[iscalad]

Remember going on a train special that lacked heating. Catering consisted of someone selling from the guards van.

Police escort through the centre of Newcastle with abuse from the locals.

Yep, I was on that train. Took forever to get back home. Toured most of southern England.

 

[Oldsmobile-88]

As part of the coach travel package I was on,we all had tickets for the Grandstand(the cantilever one)It was unseggregated as was the norm for sitting in those days & the pi55 taking geordies(not in a humorous way) were full of it when Newcastle scored & did not like it when they got it back in kind after we equalised,a few scuffles at the end,but that just seemed to add to the drama of the occasion.

Lights turned off in the interior of the coach on the way out,to avoid a being a target for bricks...

 

[contrabombarde]

I was there too and drove up with some mates from work. We were standing behind the goal opposite to the end where we equalised. I will never forget that goal and we shouted and jumped around so much that I thought I was going to pass out.

I didn’t realise or remember that it was Valentine’s Day though.

 

[Boyo]

Love these stories. Alas I was a mere 18 months old in '81.

Was our reception in Georgie land typical of the time, or was it a special FA Cup 5th round 'welcome'?

 

[iscalad]

Love these stories. Alas I was a mere 18 months old in '81.

Was our reception in Georgie land typical of the time, or was it a special FA Cup 5th round 'welcome'?

We had to stat behind after the game. I asked a policeman whether we could move to a larger area, still inside the ground. He said no, as the week before Chelsea had played there and bricks had been lobbed over the wall.

 

[grecian-near-hell]

Also went -by train the moving one, memories of walking through the streets of Newcastle with Geordie fans pouring out of every pub as we passed, the police urging our supporters to keep moving when they came across a programme seller positoned on the corner of a street, and the first time I had ever seen police horses used at a city match - not for our fans but to stop the locals pouring out of the social club, think it was called the magpie, as we walked by under a barrage of Newcy brown bottles.

Like Contra nearly passed out when we equalized - an amazing experience as was that whole cup run

 

[Oldsmobile-88]

Love these stories. Alas I was a mere 18 months old in '81.

Was our reception in Georgie land typical of the time, or was it a special FA Cup 5th round 'welcome'?

Fairly typical in most big cities at that time for a Saturday game if a large group of away supporters turned up.

I remember getting back & looking forward to the replay 4 days later.No worrying about tickets(unless you wanted to sit) either.All pay on the gate.

 

[John William]

Also went -by train the moving one, memories of walking through the streets of Newcastle with Geordie fans pouring out of every pub as we passed, the police urging our supporters to keep moving when they came across a programme seller positoned on the corner of a street, and the first time I had ever seen police horses used at a city match - not for our fans but to stop the locals pouring out of the social club, think it was called the magpie, as we walked by under a barrage of Newcy brown bottles.

I spent a fair bit of time in Newcastle around this period. The main dodgy pubs near the ground at the time were the Strawberry right behind the Gallowgate end (very definitely home fans only), the Haymarket by the bus station and the Hotspur, where the sawdust on the floor was the previous night's furniture.