Posted on 10/18/2013 1:15:58 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine
That’s a great clip. Surprisingly after 40 years, I still recognized a lot of the 70’s players. The boys and I rode a bus down to the Baseball Grounds when “Cloughie” was the manager of Derby County. We were packed in like sardines on the terraces. We’d had a few pints before the match. At half time, nobody could move. One of my Brit pals apologized in advance, then p1ssed on my leg. They call that “the Anfield Hot Leg.”
That is one ugly baby.
That was one of the things I took away from watching the series, they really packed them in like sardines...you can see the rush of bodies every time a goal was scored....It’s a wonder you didn’t have more incidents like Hillsborough.
I understand that the UEFA commission after Hillsborough mandated that all spectators will have seats. Probably saved a lot of lives.
Credit Maggie Thatcher as well, she had a big role in cleaning up English soccer, especially with taking on the hooligans and forcing stadiums to upgrade.
Raquel Welch - ginger.
Discussion over.
STFU.
Lady Thatcher was one of a kind. She could’ve faced a group of hooligans and just stared them down. I was unaware of the Liverpool v Newcastle Utd game until a few minutes ago. Missed all four goals. It’s 2-2. It’s on NBC Sports.
Cloughie lasted 44 days at Leeds, will Moyes last much longer than that at Manchester United?
Maybe in 1973. They are aren’t now.
Most are fine, some great, but there is a sizeable and vile (faux-Irish) section of their support who sings IRA songs, refuses to wear and insults and even physically attacks anyone who wears a Rememberence Poppy in November, and refuses to remain silent during the Nov minute’s silence. They barracked British soldiers as ‘murdering ba*tards’ at a friendly in London vs Arsenal a couple of years ago and almost sparked a riot as Arsenal fans not unfairly lost their temper. They sang during a minute’s silence when the Queen Mum died. Worst of all, when Rangers had an American player, Claudio Reyna, in their team in 2001, some fans made fun of 9-11 (caught on TV cameras) during a Rangers-Celtic game at Ibrox by making plane gestures and signing songs about the disaster.
And their Jan 1988 behaviour towards Rangers new black English winger Mark Walters (caught on TV and easily findable on youtube) is probably the most non-hooligan shameful behaviour ever seen at a Scottish football ground. Walters was pelted with bananas, spat on, hit with coins. And called every racist insult under the sun.
Of course, all major British clubs, inc my own, Celtic’s deadly rivals Rangers, have their history of dark moments of fan behaviour. Be it Man U, Liverpool, Arsenal, Spurs etc etc. Celtic are no different.
Lord Taylor in his 1989-90 govt report hailed Ibrox Stadium as the model for English clubs post Hillsborough.
The model for English stadiums, post Hillsborough, was publicly hailed by Lord Taylor in his govt report, as Ibrox.
Well Ibrox learned their lesson from 1971.
Actually, I was kidding about the “great” Celtic fans. When they came down for Charlton’s testimonial, the Leeds police closed all the pubs within a three mile radius of Elland Road. I don’t think there was a single sober Celtic fan. My posse and I weren’t above “a wee drop o’ the creature” from time to time but those guys were like the Vikings coming back to the North of England to loot, pillage and rape. I’d only seen Ibrox on TV once or twice in 1973. Looked pretty decent. “America’s Celtic,” the Fighting Irish the University of Notre Dame are girding up to take on the Trojans of the University of Southern California.
I know, my second cousin died at Ibrox that day.
Ibrox has been rebuilt (see my comments to dfwgator) since 1973, due to the tragedy in 1971, where 66 fans were crushed to death.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/39/Ibrox_Stadium_Panorama_2012.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cc/Ibrox_Inside.jpg
http://nfs.stvfiles.com/img/galleries/rangers-celebrate-140-years/Ibrox21.jpg
http://static.panoramio.com/photos/large/4523477.jpg
http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/59770000/jpg/_59770861_ibrox.jpg
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