cov_george
Well-Known Member
Some good photo's in todays Telegraph of a great day
Look: 1987 FA Cup memories - Cov City v Sheffield Wednesday
Look: 1987 FA Cup memories - Cov City v Sheffield Wednesday
Photo 31, WTF is that person wearing on the right?
Remember being held there. Everyone started making sheep and cow noises. Seemed funny at the time.....My favourite game of all time. The FA Cup still massive then and we'd never been further in the competition. Amazing atmosphere and absolutely rammed. Still get goosebumps when I watch the goals.
It was the Stoke game when I feared for my life with a crowd crush when the idiot cops crammed us into a small area as we were leaving the stadium.
South Yorkshire Police, disgusting organisation. Hopefully Duckenfield is convicted this week.I went with a coach load from the Wyken Pippin/Bunters Bar. We stopped off just outside Sheffield and had a good drink, in fact we were on it from early morning. A group of us got in the ground and 3 of us got nicked for being drunk and disorderly, for wobbling unsteady, and my mate for urinating behind the toilets ! They kept us in the cells at the ground and told us Sheffield Wednesday had won so we were gutted. We got charged and had to come back to Sheffield to attend the court a week later. We all got fined but as we won we laughed it off. The coppers that day were well over the top, and found out they grabbed loads of Cov fans, and heard they had a bad reputation.
Yes. I remember that. Police horses stopping anyone moving forward and more and more of the crowd leaving the stadium behind. It was scary at the time but the thought was always there that these people know what they are doing so no real reason to worry. Hillsborough changed all of that.My favourite game of all time. The FA Cup still massive then and we'd never been further in the competition. Amazing atmosphere and absolutely rammed. Still get goosebumps when I watch the goals.
It was the Stoke game when I feared for my life with a crowd crush when the idiot cops crammed us into a small area as we were leaving the stadium.
They were, they chucked me out and I'm very well behaved.I went with a coach load from the Wyken Pippin/Bunters Bar. We stopped off just outside Sheffield and had a good drink, in fact we were on it from early morning. A group of us got in the ground and 3 of us got nicked for being drunk and disorderly, for wobbling unsteady, and my mate for urinating behind the toilets ! They kept us in the cells at the ground and told us Sheffield Wednesday had won so we were gutted. We got charged and had to come back to Sheffield to attend the court a week later. We all got fined but as we won we laughed it off. The coppers that day were well over the top, and found out they grabbed loads of Cov fans, and heard they had a bad reputation.
They even put a Sheffield Wednesday fan in a big cell with us Cov fans.They wanted us to start on him, but he was that scared we told him we had nothing against him just the coppers.They were, they chucked me out and I'm very well behaved.
My brother and me got into the pen behind the goal and quickly decided it Was way too crowded for us so we went into that big corner where we had a perfect view of the game. Little did we realise that just a few years later, many poor fans were going to lose their lives in that end of the ground...
There's fellas in the photos in the link that didnt come home for 6 weeks.Got nicked on the Saturday night, court and jail on the Monday!I went with a coach load from the Wyken Pippin/Bunters Bar. We stopped off just outside Sheffield and had a good drink, in fact we were on it from early morning. A group of us got in the ground and 3 of us got nicked for being drunk and disorderly, for wobbling unsteady, and my mate for urinating behind the toilets ! They kept us in the cells at the ground and told us Sheffield Wednesday had won so we were gutted. We got charged and had to come back to Sheffield to attend the court a week later. We all got fined but as we won we laughed it off. The coppers that day were well over the top, and found out they grabbed loads of Cov fans, and heard they had a bad reputation.
We thought they'd keep us in the cells at the ground and let us out later. But no they transferred us to a large cop shop and charged us, and let us out Sunday morning. They also tried to say I assaulted an officer, which I denied. It was comical as a copper grabbed my Greg Downes bald cap of my head, so I grabbed it back.There's fellas in the photos in the link that didnt come home for 6 weeks.Got nicked on the Saturday night, court and jail on the Monday!
Ditto. We were going up the front tunnel behind the goal, two coppers were stood at the enterance. They said its rammed in there lads, we said could we take a look, they said yes sure. They were right so we came back, thanked them, and went up the left tunnel which at that time it was pretty empty.My brother and me got into the pen behind the goal and quickly decided it Was way too crowded for us so we went into that big corner where we had a perfect view of the game. Little did we realise that just a few years later, many poor fans were going to lose their lives in that end of the ground...
We use cookies and similar technologies for the following purposes:
Do you accept cookies and these technologies?
We use cookies and similar technologies for the following purposes:
Do you accept cookies and these technologies?