A matchday experience these days is certainly different than when I started going

In the 80's

Posted By: strap_on sally on April 15th 2014 at 20:31:21

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The worst crowded terrace I ever stood on watching Norwich (NCFC) - strap_on sally, Apr 15, 20:24:24
- Too young to have gone to games in the 80s, but... (NCFC) - DJ Ginga, Apr 15, 20:58:53
- FA Cup 6th Round 89 West Ham away. (NCFC) - Pygmy bulb, Apr 15, 20:36:46
  - vmt (NCFC) - robert_rosario, Apr 15, 20:53:23
- I was quite scared at Norwich-Stoke in 87 when we won the 2nd Division (NCFC) - Worzel Scrimmage, Apr 15, 20:27:38
  - The problem that day was at the very end of the game when (NCFC) - Pygmy bulb, Apr 15, 20:45:36
    - Good insight... (NCFC) - Dandy Highburyman, Apr 15, 21:17:11
  - Didn't they mostly keep that pen empty? (n/m) (NCFC) - Huge Small, Apr 15, 20:33:20
    - yep, I remember us singing for the police to open up the middle pen (NCFC) - Worzel Scrimmage, Apr 15, 20:46:54
    - Yes,as a no mans land. (n/m) (NCFC) - protheroe fitzgibbon, Apr 15, 20:42:54
      - I remember a Sutton Utd fan tring to climb through it (NCFC) - Huge Small, Apr 15, 20:45:57
        
        I've got vivid memories of the Leeds game that year (NCFC) - Worzel Scrimmage, Apr 15, 20:51:04
        
        be honest, was it more fun than games nowdays? exciting and exhilarating in equal measure? (n/m) (NCFC) - Only1Doherty, Apr 15, 20:54:15
        
        Ah, do my memory served me right then. I got hit a couple of times.lovely ol leeds (n/m) (NCFC) - Men without hats, Apr 15, 21:03:59
        
        oh definitely, but I'd probably have very different memories if I'd been injured (NCFC) - Worzel Scrimmage, Apr 15, 21:00:56
        
        Totally. (NCFC) - Pygmy bulb, Apr 15, 20:59:10
  - 86 I mean of course (n/m) (NCFC) - Worzel Scrimmage, Apr 15, 20:30:30
- It was busy that day, Villa Park the day of the tragedy was also very packed, the trouble (NCFC) - lovely old job, Apr 15, 20:26:25
  - Remember it well (NCFC) - bristolboy, Apr 15, 20:36:33
  - I stood on the Holte end that day right at the back near the Everton fans (NCFC) - strap_on sally, Apr 15, 20:33:07
    - It wasn't packed at the front.it was at west ham though,that was chocker. (n/m) (NCFC) - protheroe fitzgibbon, Apr 15, 20:44:00
    - I too was at the back with an old lady, must have been about sixty next to me (NCFC) - Men without hats, Apr 15, 20:43:58
    - I was lower down in the centre, I can remember getting very squeezed and moving without (NCFC) - lovely old job, Apr 15, 20:37:40
  - A matchday experience these days is certainly different than when I started going (NCFC) - strap_on sally, Apr 15, 20:31:21

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