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Anyone remember when we lost 1-0 at Cambridge in May 1979 in our last away game in our relegation season, the players came out to clap fans and were stoned as our fans tried to rip their heads off, scaling fences trying to get at them, kicking off with police. Harry Haslam and the team ran back to the changing rooms. I was 14 and thought, wow, that's how you tell the team you're not very happy.

Looking forward to Cambridge next season.
 



flash-blade said:
Looking forward to Cambridge next season.
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I was in Cambridge one weekend, so went to watch U's v Carlisle last season. Not a bad little ground, decent enough atmosphere (U's still had an outside chance of making the playoffs). Pre-match warmup, Newmarket Rd End...
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I was there.

Went to Cambridge City FC at first.

Should've fuckin' stayed.

On another note, I have a wonderful set of memories from my days playin'
Benjamin Braddock to the rather beautiful, voluptuous, incandescant "Mrs. Robinson..."
 
flash-blade said:
Anyone remember when we lost 1-0 at Cambridge in May 1979 in our last away game in our relegation season, the players came out to clap fans and were stoned as our fans tried to rip their heads off, scaling fences trying to get at them, kicking off with police. Harry Haslam and the team ran back to the changing rooms. I was 14 and thought, wow, that's how you tell the team you're not very happy.

Looking forward to Cambridge next season.
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I was there with my dad, my mate from boarding school (who is from Belfast but now lives in London). We stood with the Cambridge fans. Sabella got injured in the previous match and was unable to play at Cambridge. Steve Spriggs scored for Cambridge in the 1st half. Mike Guy had an effort that crashed against the bar. We went home straight after the final whistle and missed the fans throwing stones at Haslam
 
I know I have been to Cambridge and think it was that one.

Seem to remember having to walk across a field of long grass to get to the ground - sound familiar to others?

UTB
 
I wasn't there but had a wallchart of all English and Scottish league clubs that I'd got free with a magazine. That afternoon I repeatedly stabbed the Cambridge United entry on the wallchart with a compass. My attempt at voodoo didn't work.
 
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Crackpots up the Floodlights, probably BMers
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One of them was Mark Bramwell from Dronfield. He managed to escape from the clutches of the police when he came down. I remember seeing him from a distance, climbing up the pylons and coming down but I didnt realise that it was him until a few weeks later when he told me so in a kickabout at my local park
 
flash-blade said:
Anyone remember when we lost 1-0 at Cambridge in May 1979 in our last away game in our relegation season, the players came out to clap fans and were stoned as our fans tried to rip their heads off, scaling fences trying to get at them, kicking off with police. Harry Haslam and the team ran back to the changing rooms. I was 14 and thought, wow, that's how you tell the team you're not very happy.

Looking forward to Cambridge next season.
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Remember it like yesterday we weren't a happy crew that day.
I think Alan Biley scored for them.
 



Went to the game alright , trouble before , during , and after game as well.
Also the police had most of coaches stopped before Cambridge and took us all in together .
Long walk to game through fields , or a park not sure which .
Fans where at it smashing up the corner we were in ok , trying to take down fence , slopped out after game , it was a nice sunny day memory serves my right .
Our coach broke down , so I think we had to go to Luton or London not sure which , to continue journey home , meet up with Brighton fans on way home , think theyd just been promoted , walked home to norfolk park , dejected after another sad day following united .
By the way only drawing 2-2 with Leicester midweek sent us down , if only we'd one
9-0 we'd have stayed up . :(
 
Was at that game too. Lived in London at the time and went up on the train. As others mention,bollocks before during and after.
Groups on street corners targeting loan Blades. Bastard of a walk to the ground and back after. Thought about going up the floodlight but didn`t. Concerned about what folk on here might have thought.
Worst walk back to the station from a ground in terms of trouble since the one after the 0-0 at St Andrews a few years earlier.
 
Was that the only time we played Cambridge in the league? I went to the cup game a few years ago, our semi-final season.
 
Was there too. Do remember fans climbing the floodlights, funnily can't remember trouble.

My overriding memory is the shock of United dropping to the third division for the first time and how impossible it seemed. Also the numbers we took, meaningless but just compounded the reality of dropping to the third.

Would never have thought that nearly 40 years later I'd be sat in a pub miserably worrying about how we'll stop up in the third, with the 2nd division a distant dream when I once believed the top tier to be our natural home.
 
I was there blades fans climbing up the floodlights cambridge tried to loose but still beat us same old
 
Remember it like yesterday, walk across a field to get in, Blades fans fighting each other on a hot blistering day, the away end was so narrow it was a crush and contributed to the scrapping (aided by booze).
Shit day and a long journey back for 18yr old Roy (me)..........sigh
 
I was there too, my first away game aged 14. I think the last away game of that season was Grimsby, but we were effectively relegated at Cambridge.

Little did us fans know what further horrors awaited us just months later. I was at the Boxing Day game too. What a time to start supporting the Blades.
 
Dkc said:
I was there too, my first away game aged 14. I think the last away game of that season was Grimsby, but we were effectively relegated at Cambridge.

Little did us fans know what further horrors awaited us just months later. I was at the Boxing Day game too. What a time to start supporting the Blades.
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Grimsby was the last game of the 1979-80 season (the following season)
 
Cheers Silent, my memory is a bit hazy. Grimsby was Haslam's last game in charge right?
 



This was where it started to go tits up.....I could type (or talk) for days about this era. But not tonight
 
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