Bradford City v Southampton

Was there, we were robbed, where’s VAR when you need it,
I obtained two tickets for the final from Bradford City behind the goal Stokes scored the only goal of the game against Manchester United.

 

Fifty years where the hell has the time gone

 

Remember it well, as my dad decided not to get me a ticket, so he could go on the piss with the next door neighbour
After that i started sorted my own tickets. Got a Saturday job at my uncles cleaning cars.
Extremely disappointed 12 year old

 

At one point in the game I climbed a small wall at the back of Bratfud End close to where the tea hut is now. It was covered in anti climb grease/paint and I got covered in it. However, I can see why, because if I’d have fallen down into Holywell Ash Lane, I wouldn’t be here 50 years later on to tell the tale. I eventually moved to the middle and was right behind McCalliogs free kick. Life moves on very quickly.

 

Stood down at the front of the main stand about where the free kick was taken but didn't realise the illegality of it at the time......

 

50 years! Can't believe it's so long ago. I was in the kop and some one got stabbed, there was so much trouble at football in those days

 

I was in the Bradford End...

 

Me too.

 

Bradford End, dead in line with the illegal free kick . As soon as he hit the ball it was a goal. The ref panicked, didn’t know the rules and just gave it.

 

It was like a non setting black tar ! Remember it well . They slopped it all over ( and broken bottles set in cement I kid you not) on all our “ free” reserves entry points !

 

My usual “free entry” point was over the kop perimeter wall and drop into the kop men’s bogs.

 

The last City match I attended before moving from Yorkshire to Scotland. Even from the Kop you could see we were robbed.

 

That was one . My mate lived two houses back from that wall .

 

Yeah. I remember the rows of terrace houses up the back of the kop and think I may have had to go in the last house’s garden to get access to the wall. It was that long ago my memory is fading.

 

Cheats

 

Gosh, I wouldn't want to drop "into" the kop men's bogs...

 

Ha. Just a small jump down over the wall that was used as a urinal for a young lad.

 

Can someone post a link that doesn't freeze please?

 

Probably the first city game I can remember as a child. Stood in the paddock with my dad and brother. Sat just behind us the main stand was the then England manager don revie. Not sure city player he was watching