Reply With QuoteGot Peter Sayer a very nice transfer too.
Paul Went was the star for me that day. I think he only stayed with us a couple of years, was a good centre half, but also decent centre forward when he played there for us once or twice.
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was in the canton for this one as a nipper
BBC Match Of the Day
— TV Football 1968-92 (@1968Tv) January 5, 2023
January 1977
FA Cup 3rd Round
Cardiff City 1-0 Tottenham
Commentator Alan Weeks#CityAsOne #Cardiff #THFC pic.twitter.com/Ai3aSjXtjL
Got Peter Sayer a very nice transfer too.
Paul Went was the star for me that day. I think he only stayed with us a couple of years, was a good centre half, but also decent centre forward when he played there for us once or twice.
Popular Bank me.
Sayer also copped a rather nice TR7 with his name on it.
That goal was on the MOTD intro for what seemed like years.
Tottenham fans weren't happy post match.
Shat myself walking out, proper scary.
Yes I remember Went playing CF and I also remember being rather on the heavy side.
Gilo at twenty, the Welsh Kevin Keegan LOL.
My favourite City kit.
What a goal, goal, goal! Massive battle on sloper road afterwards. I was there. Only 11 years old old.
Yeah, all sorts of bricks and bottles were hurled on Sloper Road after the game. I was 16 at the time and went to White Hart Lane a couple of seasons later in the league.Originally Posted by NYCBlue
The league encounter was also a bit scary. I made my own way to the game from Kent, as I was doing my merchant navy training there.
I started watching the City the season after that but most of those players were still playing. Looking at that clip though.... I miss Ninian Park and standing on the Bob Bank so much. Great times. Happy, exciting, joyous, sad, annoying or frustrating, they were great times.
Always remember a report in the echo as those arrested were brought to justice. One Spurs fans' defence of why he was apprehended in the car park after the game carrying half a house brick was that it was thrown by a Cardiff fan and he caught it and was looking for a bin to dispose of it when the copper grabbed him.
Obviously the football hooligan hanging judge, Sir Lincoln Hallinan, was having nothing of it and slapped him with an £80 fine.
My mum and dad, who were in their sixties at the time got caught up in all that. They were very upset..
I was in with the Spurs fans ( I went to school until 12 in Tottenham & Wood Green ) and was meeting up with some old mates.
They were not impressed on so many fronts about the welcome that day and especially the result.
I watched the Cup game in the Grange End. Spurs were relegated at the end of that season. Went to the Spurs away game the following season as an impressionable 14 year-old. Shat myself!! First time I'd seen a knife pulled
A rather odd thing occurred at the end of the White Hart Lane game - when the police held the City fans back, it soon became noticeable that there was a group of about 5-6 blokes (certainly not youngsters!) who nobody recognised, a few were with their girlfriends too.I watched the Cup game in the Grange End. Spurs were relegated at the end of that season. Went to the Spurs away game the following season as an impressionable 14 year-old. Shat myself!! First time I'd seen a knife pulled
It turned out they were Millwall and had come to support the City (so they said), I think they probably came along out of curiosity to what could have been a flashpoint fixture.
Anyway, they persuaded the police to let them out after about 15 minutes. Well, it turns out that Spurs fans were still waiting outside the ground and you could hear the commotion when the gate was opened to let that small pocket of Millwall out.
I think it was the longest I had ever been held behind in the ground in all my away days.
I know it’s nothing to do with the City or Spurs but talking about being held in the ground after the game, did anyone go to Serbia a few seasons back? Now that was some wait.A rather odd thing occurred at the end of the White Hart Lane game - when the police held the City fans back, it soon became noticeable that there was a group of about 5-6 blokes (certainly not youngsters!) who nobody recognised, a few were with their girlfriends too.
It turned out they were Millwall and had come to support the City (so they said
Anyway, they persuaded the police to let them out after about 15 minutes. Well, it turns out that Spurs fans were still waiting outside the ground and you could hear the commotion when the gate was opened to let that small pocket of Millwall out.
I think it was the longest I had ever been held behind in the ground in all my away days.
Yeah, we went out almost the same time as the floodlights did. I recall the play-off in Moscow was worse. The ground was methodically emptied block by block, starting with the one to our immediate right and ending about an hour later on our left before we were shepherded to our busses. At least it was warm in Belgrade rather than sub-zero when we left the stadium in Moscow.
I was 16, One of those games that should be remembered for a great victory against a 1st division side with a brilliant Sayer goal but this was essentially my 1st introduction to serious footy aggro, I had seen the occasional skirmishes prior to this, but this was serious heavy duty violence from the moment of being in the bus station when the Spurs fans arrived, they came out of the entrance and slipped the escort into the station, the Cardiff groups heavily outnumbered legged it in all directions I was on the grange end for this game with Spurs in the enclosure, after the game Spurs were in Sloper road calling it on and the gates of the grange end were I believe shut, the rumours were, and I have no Idea if true but suspect it was just rumour that the Spurs were chucking acid about. I did go to the away game the following year as the spurs were relegated, Glammy were in the final at Lords the same day (maybe my memory isn’t that good) approaching the vicinity of the ground our coach had every single window put through, myself and the two chaps I used to go with back then, ended up in a hospital ( I think it was the North Middlesex, again memory might fail me with the name) walking to the ground we bought Spurs scarfs just to appear local Spurs fans, the replacement coach on leaving only had the back window put through whilst leaving the area, the guys on the coach did get out and call it on with those mingling about, we stopped in Hungerford on the way home and the pub had a few spurs fans in who had also been to the game, inevitably it went off in the pub as well, a very scary day but still rate the away West Ham game not long after this as the most frightened I had been at a football ground, I never went to Millwall during this era!!.
We did play Spurs on the Lord’s final day but it was at home, lost 0-1.
To be 50% right isn't bad for me
We drew 0-0 (there was only 8,000 there due to a combination of ground restrictions and people going to Lords to watch Glamorgan) and lost the return game 2-1.
I remember being on Paddington Station after the cricket waiting for our train back home when the Spurs special arrived back from Cardiff. A station full of us Welsh and Spurs fans wasn’t a great place to be. My old man loved his cricket but no had real interest in football but despite the fact he’d spent most of the day in The Tavern Bar at Lords he was more than willing to listen to me me when I said we didn’t want to be standing around as the Spurs fans alighted their train. (I’ve never been keen on the word alighted, reckon that’s the first time I’ve ever used it!).
Whatever happened to obstruction? It's mentioned twice in that 16 minute clip. And now you can watch literally days of live football and never hear it.
As with "deliberate handball" and "fair challenge"
Spurs came a calling twice during 1977 to leave with no wins at Ninian Park and their fans suffered two defeats in its environs, particularly along Ninian Park Road. Early in 1978 they gained revenge by easily having the better of it at White Hart Lane.
But honour was restored just a few months later during what was then an annual visit to Millwall. Some weeks before they had been hammered at home by Ipswich in the FA Cup. Such was the level of disorder it made national headlines. CCFC urged fans not to travel there. That message only succeeded to elicit the creme de la creme of local nutters to make hurried transport arrangements. Few if any of those had an interest in football but were always eager to aim their Doc Martens at Londoners and Bristolians.
The late 1970s was the beginning of the golden age of football thuggery. They were wonderful times when endless opportunities presented themselves to stick the welly into opposition supporters and the occasional copper.
LLate 70s... you’re at least 10 years late on that.
"Ball to hand"
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