Going in the home end

Spurs away, when they were playing their home games at Wembley and Ole was actually behind the wheel and on a great run. Couldn't get tickets in the Utd end, but managed to get some as close to it as possible.

Was very frustrated until about the 85th minute, when I decided to take a selfie with the Red Army in the background. It resulted in the 'you've only come to watch United' chant, to which I responded fists in the air triumphantly (we were winning 1-0). Got a few bad vibes on the way out, but nobody said or did anything.

Still my favourite Utd related picture, even if I was flued up to £#%&! that day.

I went in the Leeds end in 91 or 92. That wasnt the best experience. When we lost the league to Leeds I was in Liverpool main stand with about 50 or 60 others, they didnt even try and escort us out, they just put police around us.

Main stand at Boundary Park in the 90s. Went with a mate who was an Oldham fan and promised to behave. A grim experience when we’re piling goals in and you can’t celebrate openly. Not for me and vowed that I would only do corporate hospitality or the away end in future

Sheffield Utd FA Cup, Watford, Chelsea (disabled section), Palace, QPR

Highbury & Emirates numerous times. Sat directly behind the goal telling David Seaman how lovely his hair looks. After about 30 mins of my drunk abuse of him he turned and told me to £#%&! off. It was the game that Ole got Sol Campbell sent off.

Palace - when Matic hit that screamer. I was at the back of the stand - said to my mate 'this is going in' & we just smiled

Originally Posted by big chief

It was the game that Ole got Sol Campbell sent off.

that never happened.

Originally Posted by jem

that never happened.

https://www.sportbible.com/football/...elbow-20210414

Friendly at Bury just after Ruud signed, only way to get tickets was collecting them from Gigg Lane so my mum bought the tickets and sat with me. We were fine but the United end looked a lot more fun

The Brighton beach football tournament as Eric was playing, didn’t realise how far away it was so me and a mate got a 6am train down south, sat with near some classic “stand up if you hate Man U” types, being about 16 what else could we do other than offer them out even though they would have filled us in. A steward came and said we were getting kicked out but he took us to what was a United end and we had a great time, including giving a lot of shit to three blokes and a bird in the home stand next to us. Didn’t think too far ahead as when it finished we were outside right next to them, think they realised we were just kids and opted not to kick our heads in. Went back the same day and spent about 12 hours on trains, not sure why we didn’t think to stay over and make a weekend of it.

Villa north stand Ticketmaster job, think Becks scored in a 1-0 win. Clearly a few reds in the home end, bloke next to us with his son was complaining to us in an awful Brummie accent. Then we scored and most of the stand cheered including us and he walked out

Boro again through Ticketmaster, annoyingly one of the stands next to away fans was elevated so we couldn’t move over, had to sit on our hands and though one or two clocked us we didn’t take the piss. Was a shit experience really.

city in the league cup lasted about 40 minutes, was the one with all the Tevez handbags. As I was walking out to leave they got the penalty so the gangways were blocked and I had to stand and watch while they all celebrated the goal around me, a truly disgusting experience.

Not technically in home end but Everton in ’07 we had some a4 pieces of paper showing our Ticketmaster tickets that were meant to be home end, at the away turnstile we managed to talk our way into the away end with a steward who probably knew exactly what we were up to but he was a genuinely nice old fellah tbh

The Oshea Liverpool game, I’d somewhat bottled the jib and got my particulars taken by a copper. Ended up wandering around Anfield with a couple of United lads, thing one was Yorks_red. We ended up in the Arkles I think it was, a truly petrifying experience. There was some very nasty short-arse Liverpool fan who was literally seething throughout, dishing out racist abuse to one of their own players. He and some of his crew were growing suspicious about us, I left sharpish at half time and I’m not sure how those lads survived as the scousers in there seemed like they would relish doing some serious damage. I ended up in the home end right next to the away fans at the end, looking around there was a few united who had done the same.

Marseille around 2010, mates all had tickets and I picked one up outside. Got to the away end and they said mine was a fake, they were an excellent effort tbf. Knew I had no chance of getting in the home end as a rosbeef so found a youngish steward and in broken Spanish explained that I had been duped by an unscrupulous lucky lucky man and I had travelled from Argentina, steward let me in and I was close to some plant pot with a megaphone

Lille away when it was played at Lens, never been as drunk at a match. Me and two mates had some excellent fake tickets, we all got separated on the way in and my memories are very hazy but somehow managed to be reunited with one mate in the home end, think we were sat on the aisle most of the match. Our other mate was in the United end getting tear-gassed, I remember not having a clue what was going on when the match stopped because of some controversy around our goal scored by Giggs. Woke up the next morning and had both a real ticket and a fake, not sure which one I used to get in.

Originally Posted by Chris Quayd

Friendly at Bury just after Ruud signed, only way to get tickets was collecting them from Gigg Lane so my mum bought the tickets and sat with me. We were fine but the United end looked a lot more fun

The Brighton beach football tournament as Eric was playing, didn’t realise how far away it was so me and a mate got a 6am train down south, sat with near some classic “stand up if you hate Man U” types, being about 16 what else could we do other than offer them out even though they would have filled us in. A steward came and said we were getting kicked out but he took us to what was a United end and we had a great time, including giving a lot of shit to three blokes and a bird in the home stand next to us. Didn’t think too far ahead as when it finished we were outside right next to them, think they realised we were just kids and opted not to kick our heads in. Went back the same day and spent about 12 hours on trains, not sure why we didn’t think to stay over and make a weekend of it.

Villa north stand Ticketmaster job, think Becks scored in a 1-0 win. Clearly a few reds in the home end, bloke next to us with his son was complaining to us in an awful Brummie accent. Then we scored and most of the stand cheered including us and he walked out

Boro again through Ticketmaster, annoyingly one of the stands next to away fans was elevated so we couldn’t move over, had to sit on our hands and though one or two clocked us we didn’t take the piss. Was a shit experience really.

city in the league cup lasted about 40 minutes, was the one with all the Tevez handbags. As I was walking out to leave they got the penalty so the gangways were blocked and I had to stand and watch while they all celebrated the goal around me, a truly disgusting experience.

Not technically in home end but Everton in ’07 we had some a4 pieces of paper showing our Ticketmaster tickets that were meant to be home end, at the away turnstile we managed to talk our way into the away end with a steward who probably knew exactly what we were up to but he was a genuinely nice old fellah tbh

The Oshea Liverpool game, I’d somewhat bottled the jib and got my particulars taken by a copper. Ended up wandering around Anfield with a couple of United lads, thing one was Yorks_red. We ended up in the Arkles I think it was, a truly petrifying experience. There was some very nasty short-arse Liverpool fan who was literally seething throughout, dishing out racist abuse to one of their own players. He and some of his crew were growing suspicious about us, I left sharpish at half time and I’m not sure how those lads survived as the scousers in there seemed like they would relish doing some serious damage. I ended up in the home end right next to the away fans at the end, looking around there was a few united who had done the same.

Marseille around 2010, mates all had tickets and I picked one up outside. Got to the away end and they said mine was a fake, they were an excellent effort tbf. Knew I had no chance of getting in the home end as a rosbeef so found a youngish steward and in broken Spanish explained that I had been duped by an unscrupulous lucky lucky man and I had travelled from Argentina, steward let me in and I was close to some plant pot with a megaphone

Lille away when it was played at Lens, never been as drunk at a match. Me and two mates had some excellent fake tickets, we all got separated on the way in and my memories are very hazy but somehow managed to be reunited with one mate in the home end, think we were sat on the aisle most of the match. Our other mate was in the United end getting tear-gassed, I remember not having a clue what was going on when the match stopped because of some controversy around our goal scored by Giggs. Woke up the next morning and had both a real ticket and a fake, not sure which one I used to get in.

My Dad was at that game. He'd gone with a mate of his - French guy who was the mayor of a neighbouring village to where my dad lives. This guy was giving the French plod absolute £#%&!ing dogs abuse for what they were doing. My dad said he understands a lot of French obscenities but he couldn't keep up with the flow of filth coming from his mates mouth.

Originally Posted by Sapien

Presume nofun junior's Oxbridge education will have put paid to any semblance of a northern accent so he'll be ok?

Different child

Originally Posted by Chris Quayd

Marseille around 2010, mates all had tickets and I picked one up outside. Got to the away end and they said mine was a fake, they were an excellent effort tbf. Knew I had no chance of getting in the home end as a rosbeef so found a youngish steward and in broken Spanish explained that I had been duped by an unscrupulous lucky lucky man and I had travelled from Argentina, steward let me in and I was close to some plant pot with a megaphone

I would say it was a good job you didn`t get in their end for this one. You would probably be brown bread now!!

Originally Posted by big chief

https://www.sportbible.com/football/...elbow-20210414

Jeremy, care to respond?

Originally Posted by big chief

Jeremy, care to respond?

must I? I was about 10 yards away from that incident. it happened right in front of the away fans. ole did not get campbell sent off. campbell got campbell sent off.

Elland Road 78/79 season. Don't remember much about it but never did it again . We won 3-2, no idea how as pretty sure we had Paddy Roche in goal.

Anfield 3-3 game when Clough got the equaliser. Was in the corner where the away standing used to be. Loads of Utd jumped up when we took the lead and a massive scouser next to me got extremely agitated and lamped a Utd fan on my other side. Despite a bust nose the lad didn’t flinch and just said “out of order, that mate”. There’s no way I would have been that stoic. Hundreds of Utd jumped up when Irwin scored the free kick and the angry scouser just left, missing their come back.

Upper centenary stand when we beat them 2-1, McClair header at the Kop end. A scouse bird started trying to slap me. Utd fan next to me told the girl’s boyfriend that if she touched me one more time he would kick the lad’s head in. Lad dragged her away.

1-0 Cantona at St James Park. Kept my head well down when we scored as they were incensed and I would have got lynched.

Maine Road loads of times. Was in the Kippax when my mate’s Uncle saw me and shouted “What are you doing in here, you red bastard?” which was nice of him.

The South Bank West Ham away 1975. Our 1st season back in Division 1 after relegation. It wasn`t the away end as such but West ham smashed the gates in in one corner and there whole firm congregated above the United fans at the back of the stand without giving away their presence. The game had started and the bottles started flying. They pushed United down tight to the fence and all hell broke loose half way up the stand. It took a while for the police to move in and stop the trouble. We were just below the main trouble and it was a bit hairy for a while with fans escaping onto the pitch and into the chicken run to our right. I am told it was revenge for the kicking they got in 67 and if Mr O is correct it never happened again

I have a few more I will drag from my memory.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEJ6Xe7_LOs

A few but never really had any mither. Most of the time just gutted I wasn't in the away end

Blackburn when we won 19. Next to GBMUFCers as it happens. A few clocked on but weren't really that arsed.

Madrid - fergies last season. Again no real mither and loads of reds dotted about jumped up when welbeck scored. Although me and £#%&!kfc-ers did manage to wander into what we guessed was their ultras bar judging by all the shit on the wall that said 'ultras'. Mard arses

Goodison when we got the league trophy in 2003. Went there straight from the Southport weekender. If someone had given me a Paddington-style hard stare I would have burst into tears.

Most recently at City for the 6-3. Had a bird’s eye view of the £#%&!ing window-licker behind their goal banging the top of a washing machine all match. Caught in the Poznań. Wasn’t particularly bad tbh - they’re all just a bit like the lads at school who never ever got a sniff of the birds and played Tekken.

Villa…Everton…nowt scary.

Been in the city end for Derby’s more than the United end. Nearly every year at Maine road.

The 0-3 to us in 85?
The 5-1 in 89 got taken round
The 3-3 when McNair scored. Never been as bladdered at a match ever.
The Istanbul 3-2 - even got chucked out but just walked back in and started the Horton out chant in the kippax
A few at the emptyhad
Loads at Liverpool - the amonia one
One where loads of snide tickets for the kop turned up at Victoria station
That 3-3 strachan cigar one
Derby
Coventry
Sheff united
Everton for the league win

Too many to mention tbh.