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Also, from memory, we didn’t go through a turnstile but just showed the season ticket to a gateman in a partly open exit gate.
 

Cerberus Blade said:
Was that the game at Millmoor where Bob Atkins scored a last minute winner?
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That was 21st April 1984 in the old Third Division. We won 1-0 with that Adkins last-gasp goal. Only 14,177 turned up and - five games later - we were promoted. Among our final 5 games were a 3-1 home win against Port Vale (14,385), a 1-2 home defeat to Wimbledon (the crowd for this was a then-amazing 22,850 - the biggest crowd of the season, beating the home 'derby' against Rotherham on Boxing Day - 22,756). My dad was in the BLUT for the Wimbledon game and he said there was major bollocks on Bramall Lane after the match.
 
grafikhaus said:
That was 21st April 1984 in the old Third Division. We won 1-0 with that Adkins last-gasp goal. Only 14,177 turned up and - five games later - we were promoted. Among our final 5 games were a 3-1 home win against Port Vale (14,385), a 1-2 home defeat to Wimbledon (the crowd for this was a then-amazing 22,850 - the biggest crowd of the season, beating the home 'derby' against Rotherham on Boxing Day - 22,756). My dad was in the BLUT for the Wimbledon game and he said there was major bollocks on Bramall Lane after the match.
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Wasn't there a bus strike in Sheffield too for that Wimbledon game ?
 
DaveBassettsgoneonholiday said:
Wasn't there a bus strike in Sheffield too for that Wimbledon game ?
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Don't want much, do you? Names of the crowd? Mascots? :D

Don't know about a bus strike, but our team that day was 1. Paul Tomlinson 2. Tom Heffernan 3. Joe Bolton 4. Kevin Arnott 5. Paul Stancliffe 6. G. West 7. Colin Morris 8. Glen Cockerill 9. Keith Edwards 10. Ray McHale 11. Paul Garner 12. R. Adkins

HT: 0-1
FT: 1-2
Our scorer was Colin Morris
Mascot: Ben Shuttleworth ;)
 
grafikhaus said:
My dad was in the BLUT for the Wimbledon game and he said there was major bollocks on Bramall Lane after the match.
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I seem to remember that the coppers drew truncheons and started hitting the hundreds of Blades who were trying to scale the John Street fencing to get at the Wimbledon players and fans.
 
I should coco said:
I seem to remember that the coppers drew truncheons and started hitting the hundreds of Blades who were trying to scale the John Street fencing to get at the Wimbledon players and fans.
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Dunno about that, but my dad told me he saw a copper on a horse on Bramall Lane surrounded by Blades fans. One of them had 'found' a plank of wood and was trying to knock the copper off the horse.

Wouldn't happen nowadays. The coppers would be cowering behind their 'hate wall'.
 
The Atkins last minute goal match was at millmoor with Blades on all sides of the ground. Unless I’ve misunderstood your post then over 14000 is a huge crowd for that ground and it was total bedlam when he headed that goal.
grafikhaus said:
That was 21st April 1984 in the old Third Division. We won 1-0 with that Adkins last-gasp goal. Only 14,177 turned up and - five games later - we were promoted. Among our final 5 games were a 3-1 home win against Port Vale (14,385), a 1-2 home defeat to Wimbledon (the crowd for this was a then-amazing 22,850 - the biggest crowd of the season, beating the home 'derby' against Rotherham on Boxing Day - 22,756). My dad was in the BLUT for the Wimbledon game and he said there was major bollocks on Bramall Lane after the match.
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grafikhaus said:
That was 21st April 1984 in the old Third Division. We won 1-0 with that Adkins last-gasp goal. Only 14,177 turned up and - five games later - we were promoted. Among our final 5 games were a 3-1 home win against Port Vale (14,385), a 1-2 home defeat to Wimbledon (the crowd for this was a then-amazing 22,850 - the biggest crowd of the season, beating the home 'derby' against Rotherham on Boxing Day - 22,756). My dad was in the BLUT for the Wimbledon game and he said there was major bollocks on Bramall Lane after the match.
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Triggster said:
Unless I’ve misunderstood your post then over 14000 is a huge crowd for that ground and it was total bedlam when he headed that goal.
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Another classic 'Hillsborough' type scenario where SYP viewed us all as hooligans and didn't give a shit about safety. Several thousand of us left the Railway End along the comically named 'Millers Way' (or whatever it was called). A shitty little high sided alley with SYP's mounted finest at the end blocking the way. The sheer pressure of the crowd (not hooligans but normal people) was forcing the horses back. Their wanker riders were drawing battons and shouting at the families nearest them but it was simply the pressure of thousands of people. We were all trying to lift up all the kids around us and when we did get out, I couldn't believe that nobody had been crushed to death or seriously injured.

Presumably another 'success' for SYP and in the run up to the miner's strike, a great way to hone their crowd 'control' skills.
 
I should coco said:
Another classic 'Hillsborough' type scenario where SYP viewed us all as hooligans and didn't give a shit about safety. Several thousand of us left the Railway End along the comically named 'Millers Way' (or whatever it was called). A shitty little high sided alley with SYP's mounted finest at the end blocking the way. The sheer pressure of the crowd (not hooligans but normal people) was forcing the horses back. Their wanker riders were drawing battons and shouting at the families nearest them but it was simply the pressure of thousands of people. We were all trying to lift up all the kids around us and when we did get out, I couldn't believe that nobody had been crushed to death or seriously injured.

Presumably another 'success' for SYP and in the run up to the miner's strike, a great way to hone their crowd 'control' skills.
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They stood by and let the Spar shop be looted after the match on Saturday. I hope the owner asks them why the fuck they just stood watching it. He could go to the Star of course.........
 
I should coco said:
Another classic 'Hillsborough' type scenario where SYP viewed us all as hooligans and didn't give a shit about safety. Several thousand of us left the Railway End along the comically named 'Millers Way' (or whatever it was called). A shitty little high sided alley with SYP's mounted finest at the end blocking the way. The sheer pressure of the crowd (not hooligans but normal people) was forcing the horses back. Their wanker riders were drawing battons and shouting at the families nearest them but it was simply the pressure of thousands of people. We were all trying to lift up all the kids around us and when we did get out, I couldn't believe that nobody had been crushed to death or seriously injured.

Presumably another 'success' for SYP and in the run up to the miner's strike, a great way to hone their crowd 'control' skills.
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Was that the game when the wall collapsed? Bert can't remember
 

Bert said:
Was that the game when the wall collapsed? Bert can't remember
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No, the wall collapse was 79/80 and it was at their 'home' end, the Tivoli. We got the 19 bus from Dinno at midday and it was rammed before Wickersely and stopped picking up so we knew things would be busy. We were on the Tivoli by 1pm and I never saw sight of a Rovrum fan, the whole end was full of Unitedites.

IIRC their capacity was about 21k but they didn't release the attendance once the wall fell down. As if by magic, the 'official' attendance was declared a few hundred under their capacity. I think everyone on the Tivoli that day knows it was many thousands over capacity.
 
I should coco said:
No, the wall collapse was 79/80 and it was at their 'home' end, the Tivoli. We got the 19 bus from Dinno at midday and it was rammed before Wickersely and stopped picking up so we knew things would be busy. We were on the Tivoli by 1pm and I never saw sight of a Rovrum fan, the whole end was full of Unitedites.

IIRC their capacity was about 21k but they didn't release the attendance once the wall fell down. As if by magic, the 'official' attendance was declared a few hundred under their capacity. I think everyone on the Tivoli that day knows it was many thousands over capacity.
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Revolution Snr was present at Millmoor on 13 December 1952 when Rotherham had their all time record attendance - 25,170 - for their home game against United, who of course finished Champions that season.

The ground was absolutely rammed, and my Dad, aged 12, was one of the many boys lifted out of the crowd to escape the crush. He watched the whole game, along with hundreds of other boys, sitting on the touchline at one end of the ground.

 
DaveBassettsgoneonholiday said:
Wasn't there a bus strike in Sheffield too for that Wimbledon game ?
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Yes there was. There had been one earlier in the year for the Millwall home game too, for which the crowd was just under 10,000.

Morris scored a superb goal for United, bending it into the top corner and leaving Beasant standing, but we were 2 down at the time and it was too little too late. Wimbledon brought about 500 fans which was supposedly the most they'd ever taken to an away game at the time.
 
I should coco said:
No, the wall collapse was 79/80 and it was at their 'home' end, the Tivoli. We got the 19 bus from Dinno at midday and it was rammed before Wickersely and stopped picking up so we knew things would be busy. We were on the Tivoli by 1pm and I never saw sight of a Rovrum fan, the whole end was full of Unitedites.

IIRC their capacity was about 21k but they didn't release the attendance once the wall fell down. As if by magic, the 'official' attendance was declared a few hundred under their capacity. I think everyone on the Tivoli that day knows it was many thousands over capacity.
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I seem to remember that Wendy played at Millmoor after the 'wall collapse' and - determined to live up to their bertie big bollocks image - made sure that there was another wall collapse at their game. Obviously, they went armed with hammers and chisels :rolleyes:. Nothing ever changes - they were still talking shit back then.
 
Sean Thornton said:
They stood by and let the Spar shop be looted after the match on Saturday. I hope the owner asks them why the fuck they just stood watching it. He could go to the Star of course.........
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Aw come on, give SYP a break. I bet they all got stuck in with their video cameras.
 

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