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I was probably one of the people in the picture aged 15 it was. In the north west corner of the ground, we retreated there from fighting in the north stand, eventually we were allowed to climb into the main west stand for our own safety. Annoyingly from memory we were then advised to leave the stadium and were told we would be re admitted into the south stand, which didn't happen
Not so much a pitch invasion but more people spilling onto the pitch to avoid the fighting.
I'm sure you are right. I was there for the Millwall invasion and for some reason was in the South Stand. That was genuinely frightening when they ran towards us in Balaclavas. I'm probably confusing the two.
That’s exactly how I remember it
Given how our paths have crossed over the years, it seems this is another one. I would have been stood fairly close to you as we always tried to get to stand by the dugout (I learned a lot of words my Dad said not to repeat at home from Mr Mullery).
Funny how our paths have crossed so many times. I used to climb up and sit on the tunnel roof and hand my autograph book down to the players in those days; you might have seen me.
Surely you mean POTG??!!... as virtually all games were in those days,.. some exceptions of course, big cup games etc... ticket league games were very rare, I don't remember this one being ticket,.. but it was a long time ago.
Amazing isn't it. I was 12, and I still can't understand (or believe) how my parents were quite happy for us to go to football just with similar aged mates - especially with the issues like this game being quite common around the country.
I think we just got on with it back then, my dad took me when I was younger but he worked shifts and wasn’t around every Saturday so I just went with mates.
Definitely all ticket, as a 17/18 year old I vaguely remember the one and only time a sort of checkpoint was put up before getting near the goldstone. I remember as I approached said checkpoint bending down to retrieve my neatly folded ticket from the top of my well polished doctor martens, lo and behold the ticket wasn't there. Panic set in, how could I have lost such a valuable item. Now the problem was not getting past the checkpoint, too many people in such a short time made that bit quite easy, it was how I was going to get in the ground. Well the next thing I was following a group that didn't seem to have any tickets anyway and I followed them round the back of the south stand and we could scale that wall into the ground. Must have been about 14/15 of us got into the ground this way. To be fair to myself I did actually buy a ticket
