50 years ago today
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Remains one of our most iconic fixtures, I was 12 !
What has staggered me though is that it was the same day as the Ibrox disaster, which I remember well but I never linked the two occasions or remember them being the same date.
Im guessing the news footage of Ibrox would have been the following day as the tragedy was unfolding slowly and news coverage back then was nowhere near as slick and quick as today.
What has staggered me though is that it was the same day as the Ibrox disaster, which I remember well but I never linked the two occasions or remember them being the same date.
Im guessing the news footage of Ibrox would have been the following day as the tragedy was unfolding slowly and news coverage back then was nowhere near as slick and quick as today.
I remember getting off the coach on the car park behind the kippax and walking with my mate and his dad to the Platt Lane stand where most of the latics fans sat and seeing the first real skinhead I had ever seen, he seemed massive, checked shirt, short jeans, braces and red doc martens, he was terrifying to look at, I was 13 at the time.
I went with my mate Al Greenough and his Dad, Harold who drove there. I recall within the stand at Half Time, some City scally of a similar age trying to pinch Al’s scarf ....Al just about held on in this ‘tug of war’ .....I left him to it as he appeared to have the situation under control 
I suppose this was the Platt Lane stand? .....it was behind the goal where City scored their winner ☹️.......but I suppose that mixed crowds in the same general area must have still been tolerated back then.
I suppose this was the Platt Lane stand? .....it was behind the goal where City scored their winner ☹️.......but I suppose that mixed crowds in the same general area must have still been tolerated back then.
I went with my mate Al Greenough and his Dad, Harold who drove there. I recall within the stand at Half Time, some City scally of a similar age trying to pinch Al’s scarf ....Al just about held on in this ‘tug of war’ .....I left him to it as he appeared to have the situation under control
I suppose this was the Platt Lane stand? .....it was behind the goal where City scored their winner ☹️.......but I suppose that mixed crowds in the same general area must have still been tolerated back then.
I suppose this was the Platt Lane stand? .....it was behind the goal where City scored their winner ☹️.......but I suppose that mixed crowds in the same general area must have still been tolerated back then.
Also United played at home same day v Middlesboro.
RIP the Ibrox 66...Up The Teddy Bears.
There was 173 coaches went to Everton and we had 20,000 followers in a crowd of 52,000 which was Everton biggest crowd of the season
On a side note as an 11yr old I went with my cousin to Everton v Burnley on Boxing Day 1961 there was over 76,000 on that day And I only managed to get a quick glance at Ray Pointer never saw another thing
Makes sense TB...if you bought seats pre match you would have been placed Platt Lane End. If you rocked up on the day like we did you stood on the Kippax like about 10,000 other Tics did. The City yoof had decamped to behind the goal at the North Stand as they had just put a roof on it. When they put seats in the North Stand season after they all returned to the Kippax. The goal was scored Platt Lane End.
Was the TV gantry in the Kippax back then rather than the main stand?
The Platt Lane End was always to the right of the camera view point for as long as I can remember (late 70’s onwards) and was the end where Wiekens kicked Kevin Sharp about 6 foot in to the air in 1999.
The North Stand was to the left of the camera (where Goater handballed it)
If in 1971 the TV camera was in the Kippax it’d explain the confusion as to which end the goal was scored in
The Platt Lane End was always to the right of the camera view point for as long as I can remember (late 70’s onwards) and was the end where Wiekens kicked Kevin Sharp about 6 foot in to the air in 1999.
The North Stand was to the left of the camera (where Goater handballed it)
If in 1971 the TV camera was in the Kippax it’d explain the confusion as to which end the goal was scored in
On the subject of TV gantries...they do move ( assisted ofcourse ). The footage from Anfield upto about 73 ish clearly shows the Kop to the left. After that is was in the Main stand with the Kop to the right.
The TV gantry at Old Trafford was in itself a thing of beauty. It was accessed by a rope bridge like off " get me out of here " and a ladder was dropped at the back.
Happy days.
The TV gantry at Old Trafford was in itself a thing of beauty. It was accessed by a rope bridge like off " get me out of here " and a ladder was dropped at the back.
Happy days.
