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Any of you oldies at this game? on 11:42 - Apr 9 by WeWereZombies
Ah, thanks, PJH. Being lazy this morning and not Googling the details. It was the 1977 game.
Apart from being asked what my spectacles case was by a policewoman on the search going into that decrepit excuse for a stadium (I then had to open the case to show that it did indeed contain a pair of glasses) and being led away by police escort after the game to the rail station (where we had to climb a wall and then descend a steep grassy slope under police orders) one other memory I have is of supporters being able to reach up and take bits off the low roof above the stand home for a souvenir (Man Utd. supporters had done most of the damage to the roof at the previous Nodge home game but, of course, 'Look Norwich' piled all the blame on the supporters of East Anglia's Cup, League and European trophy winning team.)
I remember the special trains arriving at the station in those days and the platform rapidly filling with our supporters whilst the train was still moving.
Then the scenic stroll along the riverside as the tension and excitement built. As you indicate I think the route back to the station must have been out of the back of The Barclay and up the hill and back to the station that way. I don't remember climbing walls and a grassy slope though.
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Any of you oldies at this game? on 13:19 - Apr 9 with 313 views
Any of you oldies at this game? on 11:52 - Apr 9 by PJH
I remember the special trains arriving at the station in those days and the platform rapidly filling with our supporters whilst the train was still moving.
Then the scenic stroll along the riverside as the tension and excitement built. As you indicate I think the route back to the station must have been out of the back of The Barclay and up the hill and back to the station that way. I don't remember climbing walls and a grassy slope though.
In fairness it was not a very high wall, in fact the wall may have been at the bottom of the grassy slope making it more of a descent rather than an ascent. But it was my first experience of a police escort out of a ground and I was affronted enough to be put out by every little thing.
I remember the day as being warm and sunny, it is sunny on Skye at the moment but not at all warm. And we have just had a concerted little snow storm. What a difference forty four years make.
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