A Really Bad Season: 1981 – 82.

[SODIron]

“Anyhow remember the battle of Nuneaton,scary happy days.”

That was one hell of an intense away trip. I have some interesting memories from that day!!!

[64]

Did you collect any bricks with curious parts of your body,it was without doubt an eye opener,up until then hooligans just ran at each other shouting come on,or “stand” if your mates ran 1st then “stand ” ran once he was sure he was last man standing.much safer than what we saw that day

[Awaywego]

Don’t know about Leicester game been called off, but yes they were Leicester fans 99%, they were all nicey nicey in the pub but has soon as we got outside all hell broke out.

[ironfromafar]

Pub on the corner of a road junction .. it was crazy in the ground aswell

[Awaywego]

We felt lucky to get the half mile to the ground without to many injuries, well outnumbered, then again when weren’t we, on arriving outside the I met an old school friend who said will you hold my brother up I think he’s broke his leg, I of course obliged and he went full pelt into the Leicester fans with a scaffold pole retrieved from someone’s garden, nowt like brotherly love. It was bad wasn’t it, but what a day to remember for everyone.

[cokeovenkid]

I distinctly remember a gorilla of a chap stood behind a chain link fence, telling the Scunny fans what I hiding they would be getting were the fence not there. I also remember he couldn’t run as fast as he could talk, after said fence had been removed.

[Lord Kitchener]

That was the year (I’m pretty sure), when we went out of the FA Cup in the first round, beaten 0 – 1 at home by Barnsley.

The train from Donny was late, and it looked like they had very few supporters. Some Scunny fans attempted to get at them, and then suddenly they turned up in droves.

Long story short, a few of our lads got battered, as we suffered the humiliation of being kicked out of the Donny Road end, and having to crowd into the little corner. Only a load of police with dogs and truncheons stopped them getting at us after that.

I was only 13 at the time, stayed to the end. Don’t know why, it was embarrassing.

[Awaywego]

That was the lge cup 1980/81 LK

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Lord Kitchener

[alcazar]

Memories of Macclesfield, 1969(???).
Loads of us, so we marched alongside the pitch to take their end.
Never seen so many weapons in a footy ground😳
Pickaxe handles, hammers, steel bars, carving knives, even a lump of concrete on a steel wire.
Then after the game they ambushed us and chased us all the way to the bus station.

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[Lord Kitchener]

Thanks, I was going on memory from when I was still just a kid. Not our finest hour by any stretch.

UTBI

[Yossarian Lives]

dont tell big j he believes scunny doesnt run and scunny hooligans always win

[apb]

Ah, the golden year of 81/82.

Home to Wigan midweek – got beat 7-2. Remember it well.

FA Cup 3rd round at home to Hereford when the floodlights failed when we were all over them – and beating Halifax away 2-1 when MOTD were there.

The squad list actually had some good names on it but it doesn’t tell the whole story.

A lot of those guys – Green, Partridge, Grimes etc we’re right at the end of their careers and weren’t regulars.

O’Berg was out injured for a large chunk of that season as well from memory and Cammack only came back from Lincoln for the last few weeks of the season.

So, in the round, they were a pretty poor side.

But, they were comfortably better than this lot and a number of those players were in the 82/83 promotion squad.

Their record of 7-9-7 at home is comfortably better than this lot will do and they only finished 2nd bottom on GD.

You need to go back to the mid 70’s to find incompetence on the current scale – and the facts support that.

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[Northumbiron]

alcazar wrote:

Memories of Macclesfield, 1969(???)

My abiding memory of that game was the fog!

The following season we were drawn away at West Brom. I remember being marched from the railway station to the Hawthorns with a police escort, whilst bricks and bottles rained on us from both sides!

[Heath]

We played Leicester in a pre-season friendly in 1969. Got into the ground early and there were loads of them running all over the place. Seem to remember watching from the corner at that game.

[ironfromafar]

Awaywego wrote:

We felt lucky to get the half mile to the ground without to many injuries, well outnumbered, then again when weren’t we, on arriving outside the I met an old school friend who said will you hold my brother up I think he’s broke his leg, I of course obliged and he went full pelt into the Leicester fans with a scaffold pole retrieved from someone’s garden, nowt like brotherly love. It was bad wasn’t it, but what a day to remember for everyone.

What was the name of your school buddy .. i thought my leg was broke that day and my brother Alan steamed into the em after he dragged me away.

[Awaywego]

Now your asking Ironff, I will try and drag it out but I am not good with names, even with a clue of Alan the only one that comes to mind is Dent.

[Awaywego]

Was you on the bus that lost its brakes coming down the hill into Macc Alcy?, Up against the kippax finest that day,3 buses from Linc’s road car so we had good numbers, ( no club buses back then) their end was a big grass bank if I remember correctly which we didn’t manage to take, first away game,bloody hell I was only 14 and I was hooked.

[Awaywego]

Graffiti from the Leicester game was still on the side of Ashton house 30 years later, a game I missed don’t know why, but was always told there were loads of Leicester here on the Friday and just hung around all night?.

[ironfromafar]

Awaywego wrote:

Now your asking Ironff, I will try and drag it out but I am not good with names, even with a clue of Alan the only one that comes to mind is Dent.

Not a Dent .. i recall taking cover in a bakery at one point .. i went by the monika JB in those days

[Awaywego]

Funny you should say that one of ours took cover behind the counter in the butcher’s and picked the meat clever up he said, he never went to another scunny game, it was really that bad wasn’t it, don’t recognize a JB but you sound like you were in the same pub away from the ground.

[alcazar]

I don’t remember a bus without brakes, so must have been one of the others.
Bus station eas heaving with Macc supporters, then our driver made one of the lads on our bus get off as his ticket eas wrong colour.
He disappeared under about fifty of them while the coppers stood and watched 😳
Weird thing, though. In all that lot, someone nicked a banner from the Macc supporters saying, “Sock it to me Macc”.
It was on our bus.

[lesgeo]

Only thing is – the 70s now really do look so much better than what we currently have.

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[Heath]

One highlight of the 1981-1982 was the 2v1 home win against Sheffield United. Yet another day when the town and ground was under siege.

Checked the results after that game. 2 wins out of the last 19 games after that win. Similar run of form to this team.

[mistertonmick]

The Cup game at Macc there was a lot of snow about and it was very cold as well

[alcazar]

First round.
Won the replay 4-1, or 4-0.
Second round was at Stockport, Kev Keegan gave us tickets to get in.
That one ended as a draw, 0-0?

[Iron-awe]

Think we won the replay 4-2 alcy and Keegan scored 2 I believe, apologies if I got that wrong. Think we won Stockport 4-0, don’t remember that being a replay but it may well have been. The song was of course ” F— them all F— them all the long and the short and the tall, we are United and we are the best we are United so F— all the rest ” enroute to dumping Sheff Wednesday out the cup in round 4 at Hillsborough. Glorious days fondly remembered but now memories are all we have left under this current clowns ownership. PS. Millwall were the other victims in that cup run, happy days indeed.

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