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[snootyfenooty]

Ah, you mean those loveable 'mop tops'?

Liverpool fans plan to give Man City a hostile - and potentially illegal - reception at Anfield

Manchester City go to Anfield on April 4 for the first leg of the Champions League quarter-final but supporters are planning a 'coach greeting' for them.

Liverpool fans are planning a hostile – and potentially illegal – welcome to the Manchester City team coach.


The two teams meet at Anfield on April 4 in the first leg of the Champions League quarter-final.

And some Liverpool fans are trying to organise a hot reception for the Blues as they roll through the streets outside the stadium.


A poster circulated by Liverpool fan Twitter feeds @RedmenTV and @WeRLFC and widely shared by others is urging Liverpool fans to gather more than two hours before kick off for a 'coach greeting', and line the streets for a quarter of a mile before the City team coach reaches the ground.


“We're going to show them exactly what money can't buy,” declares the poster.


It also says: "Bring your flares and flags. Banners and bangers. Pints and Pyro. There will be thousands of scouse voices ready to scare em back to Mancland with their tails between their legs before the match even starts."

Giving visiting teams a hostile reception for big games has become something of a tradition – Youtube footage (below) shows the Villarreal bus being greeted by flares, smoke bombs and missiles before their Europa League semi-final nearly two years ago.


That video shows Liverpool fans booing and chanting as the Villarreal coach pulls up to the Anfield stadium, with some fans scaling nearby scaffolding and others hurling cans and other missiles at the bus as it slowly drives up, with a police escort.



(Is that the street where houses go for a quid?)

Here's a thought. Put SYPD in charge ('cos they're so good at dealing with Liverpool fans...) They could stop the City team and fans a couple of miles away and totally ignore those intent on causing trouble. If the City fans miss a large part of the match, tough. Worked at Hillsborough last September...

First I've seen or heard of that. It's probably because the media are now terrified of publishing anything remotely critical of LFC now. Imagine if something kicked off like that outside the Lane, SYP would kick the fuck out of the participants and would make sure the ground was closed down (for good).

 

[grafikhaus]

First I've seen or heard of that. It's probably because the media are now terrified of publishing anything remotely critical of LFC now. Imagine if something kicked off like that outside the Lane, SYP would kick the fuck out of the participants and would make sure the ground was closed down (for good).

Plenty here, snooty.

 

[bornablade]

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Goalkeeper - Bob Widdowson

 

[snootyfenooty]

Plenty here, snooty.

I meant the Villareal thing, but yeah looks like they've got this one covered. I don't think we've heard the last of it though.

 

[Tom Bott]

Well I never knew this was an M&S store, the only ladies lingerie I saw here was when it was a nightclub - Bed.

Great thread this.

 

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Brian Richardson doing an impression of Morgs, I reckon...

did you spot widdowson was in goal

 

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I assume that’s Goodson Park, looks like a decent crowd in as well. My earliest memories of Everton were those curved recesses behind both goals which I was told were put in because of some sort of crowd misbehaviour previously.

they were put in for the world cup

 

[Silent Blade]

Goalkeeper - Bob Widdowson

Yes in Sept 1964. 1-1 draw

 

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did you spot widdowson was in goal

Ashamed to confess I didn't. bornablade did spot it, though, and on looking again, it is clear that those thighs don't belong to Hodgy.

 

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Yes in Sept 1964. 1-1 draw

I was doing a bit of detective work, when I saw your reply. I had found the November 1-0 defeat at Everton, which was one week after Woodward gave his masterclass of goalkeeping against Leeds. The Hercule Poirot in me deduced that Hodgy's injury would have kept him out the following week, which would explain one of Widdowson's few appearances. Have I, as Mrs HBT frequently points out, put 2 and 2 together and come up with 5?

 

[Silent Blade]

I was doing a bit of detective work, when I saw your reply. I had found the November 1-0 defeat at Everton, which was one week after Woodward gave his masterclass of goalkeeping against Leeds. The Hercule Poirot in me deduced that Hodgy's injury would have kept him out the following week, which would explain one of Widdowson's few appearances. Have I, as Mrs HBT frequently points out, put 2 and 2 together and come up with 5?

Brian Richardson, who is in the photo, left us in 1965. The only two games Widdowson played for us during the 1967-68 season was the FA Cup match at Watford in January and at Burnley in the penultimate league match of the season. Hodgy played 41 league games that season. His finger was dislocated, not broken, in that L**ds match and was able to play in the next match

 

[HodgysBrokenThumb]

Brian Richardson, who is in the photo, left us in 1965. The only two games Widdowson played for us during the 1967-68 season was the FA Cup match at Watford in January and at Burnley in the penultimate league match of the season. Hodgy played 41 league games that season. His finger was dislocated, not broken, in that L**ds match and was able to play in the next match

Serves me right for taking you on. Never thought of checking when Richardson left. I'm not going to tell Mrs HBT, though...

 

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bounce killer 1961 style



owls getting a second opinion from the Doc

 

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[Canterbury Blade]

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That’s a right memory, recall buying Sandinista there in I think 83...

Hats off if you’ve still got te plastic bag..

 

[GRUMPY BLADE]

Edit:

Sorry, missed the no reason bit.

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

8

 

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[Bert]

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Wednesday getting beat. Excellent.

 

[vorpal blade]

The recesses behind the goal were already in place for the 1966 World Cup, I think. Were they brought in for the World Cup because of events earlier that year? None of the other grounds had them, as far as I remember.

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[Sean Thornton]

Scullion? Chivers, Beal, Perryman, Mullery and Knowles?

Silent?

 

[bornablade]

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The only recesses I can recall were the ones at Goodison Park.

This image shows White Hart Lane which wasn't used during the World Cup. Although if would've probably been a better ground than White City.

 

[bornablade]

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Woody, Gordon Taylor, is that Trevor Hockey(?) and Len.

Gordon Taylor has probably taken more out of the game than he's put in.

 

[The Crab]

Said this before but what a treat this thread is

 

[HodgysBrokenThumb]

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A technology question from a non-tech person. I always assumed for the updates on the scoreboard every 15 mins (eg for United away matches with the reserves playing at the Lane), that someone rang up the away ground for each update. But how did they get all the half-time and full-time scores? Was there a centralised system they could access to get all the scores at once? It was very hard in the 50s to access scores at home, even by radio.

 

[Silent Blade]

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Scullion? Chivers, Beal, Perryman, Mullery and Knowles?

Silent?

Yes. 2-2 draw in Sept 1971

 

[Silent Blade]

Woody, Gordon Taylor, is that Trevor Hockey(?) and Len.

Gordon Taylor has probably taken more out of the game than he's put in.

Hockey was playing for us in that 3-0 win in April 1971!, The Birmingham player sitting down on the ball is Alan Campbell

 

[GRUMPY BLADE]

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Pigs losing and its never ever got any better for them.

 

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A technology question from a non-tech person. I always assumed for the updates on the scoreboard every 15 mins (eg for United away matches with the reserves playing at the Lane), that someone rang up the away ground for each update. But how did they get all the half-time and full-time scores? Was there a centralised system they could access to get all the scores at once? It was very hard in the 50s to access scores at home, even by radio.

I’ll bet someone was watching Grandstand and waited for the half times on the teleprinter, that would be my guess anyway.