Things You Miss From 'The Bad Old Days'

followed City since 1962. Some great NP memories but best atmosphere has to be play off v Leicester at CCS. Also Man City 3-2 and Palace league cup semi.

It's a real shame we haven't been good enough in our 2 recent visits to the PL because there was always a good buzz about the place..

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Originally Posted by Taunton Blue Genie

The breeze-block, roofless pissoir at the corner between the Bob Bank and the Canton Stand.
On a cold day you could see the steam rising from it even if you were in the Grange End.

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Think it's the thing I remember most from NP. Those dirty stinking open air cesspits. Couldn't call them toilets. Got soaking wet many a time.

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Originally Posted by jeremy corbyn

Think it's the thing I remember most from NP. Those dirty stinking open air cesspits. Couldn't call them toilets. Got soaking wet many a time.

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You're doing it wrong then

Moving along the bob bank at half time to be near the end we were attacking

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Originally Posted by binman

I can remember thinking that if only a multi-millionaire would take over the club and spend a bit - we'd soon shoot up the leagues and play in front of 50,000.......

I also remember sitting in critics corner in the late 80s where about 15 of us spread across 4 rows in the Bob Bank including Big Lyndon, shouty man and the old fella and his daughter would sit and just slag off all of the useless buggers jogging about in front of us. Always able to sit in the same seat no matter what time I turned up - it felt like a community of sarcastic lonely people.

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Is shouty man large and ginger?

No - He's tall and grey

He still sits a few rows in front of me shouting gibberish

Bear in mind this was late 80s!!

There are also quite a few blokes shouting utter gibberish down the City :-)

Going with my grandfather... :frown:

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Originally Posted by Optimistic Nick

Going to games and not spending any than the entry price. Maybe a paper fanzine for 50p (another thing i miss). I'm sure there was a bar in the bob bank, but it never even occured to me that us need or want a drink or a burger in the 2 hours I was at the ground. Although there was a time when you could get a foot long hot dog which looked quite good.

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I miss the fanzines, i remember when they first hit the scene, 'Intifada' (great name) 'Oh Bluebird Of Happiness' and 'Watch The Bluebirds fly' For me, they were revolutionary from a football fans perspective. Although they were of their time, some of the writing was really good, funny and macabre at the same time, Anti Club and Anti establishment at a time when things weren't that great for young working class men under the Tories. Didn't one of the publications have a 'what to do' list if you ever got nicked at the football? In fairness, there was always a real chance of that if you went away in those days, Trouble would flair up and it was sometimes difficult to stay away from it.

Agree about not spending any cash on food, drink etc, didn't even consider it. People could actually go a couple of hours without having to eat something back then :hehe:

I used to like seeing a little flair up in the away/home end if away, and and watching the twenty or so get marched around the pitch and allowed to go into the Cardiff end!

Been supporting City and if i listed best atmospheres it would be ones in the new stadium that would be at the top.

Of course the larger crowds help.

Bizarrely the best atmosphere v Swansea was an Autoglass cup game in the p!ssing down rain which we lost.

That gets blown away by the Chopra winner at the end at the CCS.

I think the look back at rosey tinted spectacles at NP is it was part of our youth.

Crowd surges on the old terraces.
I was in the away end of the Vetch one year and must have done about 3 miles up and down those steps.

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Originally Posted by Hilts

Been supporting City and if i listed best atmospheres it would be ones in the new stadium that would be at the top.

Of course the larger crowds help.

Bizarrely the best atmosphere v Swansea was an Autoglass cup game in the p!ssing down rain which we lost.

That gets blown away by the Chopra winner at the end at the CCS.

I think the look back at rosey tinted spectacles at NP is it was part of our youth.

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Leeds was a bit special, in the cup especially when Youngy scored, it felt like the ground moved!

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Originally Posted by Hilts

Been supporting City and if i listed best atmospheres it would be ones in the new stadium that would be at the top.

Of course the larger crowds help.

Bizarrely the best atmosphere v Swansea was an Autoglass cup game in the p!ssing down rain which we lost.

That gets blown away by the Chopra winner at the end at the CCS.

I think the look back at rosey tinted spectacles at NP is it was part of our youth.

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How do you think the Leeds game (FA Cup) compares to the games you're talking about? That atmosphere was nuts, pissed up madness.

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Originally Posted by Tuerto

How do you think the Leeds game (FA Cup) compares to the games you're talking about? That atmosphere was nuts, pissed up madness.

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:thumbup:

I was a regular at NP from 1978 and without question the Leeds cup game tops everything else for atmosphere. I really thought I might have a heart attack towards the end - in fact I phoned my lad to say goodbye!!

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Originally Posted by Tuerto

How do you think the Leeds game (FA Cup) compares to the games you're talking about? That atmosphere was nuts, pissed up madness.

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That was the most hostile atmosphere ive been at by a distance. The crowd won the game. The Leeds players either shit themselves or lost the plot like Alan Smith and got sent off.

Lets face it that happens now the game probably gets abandoned and we are in all sorts of sh!t. Though the Leeds fans were throwing missiles as well.

We had loads of stick. We lost an important league game next at NP. The atmosphere was terrible , subdued due to the reaction about that match.

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Originally Posted by Hilts

That was the most hostile atmosphere ive been at by a distance. The crowd won the game. The Leeds players either shit themselves or lost the plot like Alan Smith and got sent off.

Lets face it that happens now the game probably gets abandoned and we are in all sorts of sh!t. Though the Leeds fans were throwing missiles as well.

We had loads of stick. We lost an important league game next at NP. The atmosphere was terrible , subdued due to the reaction about that match.

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I remember Rio Ferdinand being interviewed about that game and he confessed he was actually scared when he ran out onto the pitch. Can you imagine today Vincent Tan walking around the pitch and having a gentle word in the opposition's goalkeeper's ear!

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Originally Posted by valleys caveman

Crowd surges on the old terraces.
I was in the away end of the Vetch one year and must have done about 3 miles up and down those steps.

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Did you ever stand on the Kop at Anfield? That surge got old, very quickly. Annoying as ****.

Probably my best memory from those days is Wales v Scotland in 1985. It was the first and maybe only time I saw the mighty Bob Bank absolutely packed. I was where I nornally stood for City games about two thirs of the way from the Canton to the Grange end, and behind the ladder to the commenraty position. The crowd was supposed to be 39,500 but there must have been 30,000 on the Bob Bank alone. (At least 3,000 Scots in the corner) When Sparky scored. SCENES. Probably the most mental I ever went after a goal. And I'm very much a City first kind of fan.

Been in some tremendous goal celebrations both at Ninian Park & CCS but Leicester away in the play offs after Whittingham’s free kick really did make the ground shake, I swear that stand was moving akin to an earth tremor.

Strippers in the Le Mans on a Sunday lunchtime.

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Originally Posted by splott parker

Been in some tremendous goal celebrations both at Ninian Park & CCS but Leicester away in the play offs after Whittingham’s free kick really did make the ground shake, I swear that stand was moving akin to an earth tremor.

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I thought this was probably the best away celebration ever, only being topped after that goal in 1980 at Ninian Park
I'm sure I was at the back of the Bob bank when Wayne Hughes touched the ball and by the fence pitchside at the end
Happy days

The absence of pot bellied middle aged blokes wearing club shirts with players names on their backs, rattles and bobble hats.

Haven’t read through the whole thread, so not sure if anyone else has made this point, but to me, after reading your opening post, why have you called it “the bad old days”?

loved a pitch invasion..if the coppers didn't grab you..you were safe..
colchester away on a Friday night..won 4-2..on the pitch every goal
crewe away on a cold Tuesday night..pitch rock hard..

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Originally Posted by binman

There are also quite a few blokes shouting utter gibberish down the City :-)

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Sounds like a few of our previous managers.

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Originally Posted by William Treseder

Haven’t read through the whole thread, so not sure if anyone else has made this point, but to me, after reading your opening post, why have you called it “the bad old days”?

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I took it as a combination of us being shit and the whole experience being a bit naughtier

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Originally Posted by kendoddsdadsdogsdead

loved a pitch invasion..if the coppers didn't grab you..you were safe..
colchester away on a Friday night..won 4-2..on the pitch every goal
crewe away on a cold Tuesday night..pitch rock hard..

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Same season away to Northampton on a Friday night. Roger Gibbins come over asking the fans to calm down and stop invading the pitch. Luckily for him we didnt score any more.:hehe:

Standing in the Bob Bank watching and waiting for the blocks of casuals in the Grandstand to give it some...

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Originally Posted by Moodybluebird

I can't believe you included Derek Showers in that list !! Replace his name with that of Ian Gibson and I'm with you all the way.

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Ok, memory not as good these days. Yep I've got picks of Ian Gibson scoring.

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Originally Posted by Nelsonca61

The absence of pot bellied middle aged blokes wearing club shirts with players names on their backs, rattles and bobble hats.

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The absence of fat pot bellied middle aged blokes dressed as an 80s casual. 😂😂

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Originally Posted by Hilts

The absence of fat pot bellied middle aged blokes dressed as an 80s casual. ����

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That is really sad to see. Blokes approaching 50 or older geared up for the football and getting it wrong.

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Originally Posted by William Treseder

Haven’t read through the whole thread, so not sure if anyone else has made this point, but to me, after reading your opening post, why have you called it “the bad old days”?

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Because it's a phrase sometimes used by City fans who have the opinion that when we were really shit with poor attendances and we had to piss up against a wall next to the place where they sold food, as well as the regular tear ups, that everything was awful and things are so much better now that it's so much more civilised and serious. Some things are better, alot of things aren't in my opinion. I loved taking a piss to the smell of hotdogs are fried onions :thumbup:

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Originally Posted by Tuerto

I loved taking a piss to the smell of hotdogs are fried onions :thumbup:

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On the subject of smells..... smoking. I have never and will never smoke and I am all for the smoking ban, but the smell of mud and fags is just pure football.

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Originally Posted by Optimistic Nick

On the subject of smells..... smoking. I have never and will never smoke and I am all for the smoking ban, but the smell of mud and fags is just pure football.

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Agreed. I used to smoke up, given up almost a year now. Agree with you about the smoking ban and would've when i smoked, it must've been awful for non smokers in pubs etc. The only problem with the smoking ban in pubs is that it used to mask the smell of the stinking carpet, people and beer farts, and the toilets. I'm not sure which is worse for a persons health :hehe:

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Originally Posted by Gofer Blue

I remember Rio Ferdinand being interviewed about that game and he confessed he was actually scared when he ran out onto the pitch. Can you imagine today Vincent Tan walking around the pitch and having a gentle word in the opposition's goalkeeper's ear!

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I thnk the interview started about a upcoming game vs Galatasaray.
He was asked if he was worried about he hostile atmosphere, he replied "No, I've played at Ninian Park!"

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Originally Posted by bobh

I thnk the interview started about a upcoming game vs Galatasaray.
He was asked if he was worried about he hostile atmosphere, he replied "No, I've played at Ninian Park!"

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I've never seen so many coked up, pissed up absolute fruit bat loonies as i've seen at that game. I'd say that two thirds of the crowd were either pissed or on one.