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Chatting with a QPR supporting mate and we both seem to remember there being a quite a bit of trouble before and during the Portman Road Milk Cup tie in 1985. Unless my memory is exaggerating the whole thing, there was a bit of running battle on the pitch between fans during the match as well the things getting tasty in and around the Sporting Farmer before or after the game?
Can’t find any old reports about it on the internet so perhaps I’m thinking of a different game, I know there was a lot of trouble around that time (Millwall at Luton etc) so perhaps it wasn’t a big deal. However seemed a bit bizarre as neither club had bad reputations for violence and it wasn’t as if there was a particular rivalry between the fans before or since!
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QPR in 1985 Milk Cup on 18:00 - Apr 16 with 1776 views
I wasn't there but apparently so. Much more one sided from them though I thought.
Went to the relay on a coach I think, don’t remember much trouble tbh. Think we were caught in bad traffic and coach dropped us off near some dodgy estate about a mile from the ground, Match had already started so run!
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QPR in 1985 Milk Cup on 08:08 - Apr 17 with 1577 views
QPR in 1985 Milk Cup on 00:37 - Apr 17 by brazil1981
Went to the relay on a coach I think, don’t remember much trouble tbh. Think we were caught in bad traffic and coach dropped us off near some dodgy estate about a mile from the ground, Match had already started so run!
QPR fans ripped up a few seats and threw them, after the game. If I remember rightly, the buses were parked by White City Stadium and bottles and stones were thrown at us from The White City Estate as we were escorted down South Africa Rd. I don't remember any fighting as such.
QPR in 1985 Milk Cup on 19:05 - Apr 16 by ITFC_Forever
Lincoln didn’t have all the lower tier, and the 4500 West Ham is still around 1500 less than the Gills.
Match report in the Mail says this:
“ Backed by 4,838 away supporters - the highest away attendance at Ipswich since the ground went all-seater in the 1990s - the Imps closed the gap from the Conference to the Championship and earned a replay back at Sincil Bank. Twice they led but twice they conceded.”
“ Backed by 4,838 away supporters - the highest away attendance at Ipswich since the ground went all-seater in the 1990s - the Imps closed the gap from the Conference to the Championship and earned a replay back at Sincil Bank. Twice they led but twice they conceded.”
Newspapers in being wrong shocker.
I mentioned that the Gills brought more in the League Cup game at the time of the Lincoln one.
Have you got the evidence? Be interested to know how many they brought
The best I can manage is this you tube clip - commentator says in the first 12 seconds they have brought 5000 with them (and their average home attendance at the time was just over 6000), and you can see that the whole Portman Stand is full (was all away fans), rather than gaps in the lower tier such as when Lincoln came.
I may have overstated it saying 6000 earlier. But the evidence of a completely full stand and the commentator's comments would suggest the following was larger than Lincoln's which the Mail claimed to be the largest away following since all-seater.
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