Were you there?.....14 years of age, stood in the Threepenny.....Cemented my hatred of all things red and white.....For eternity!

Release the hate, Padowan.

i'm in therapy - trying!

Are you refering to the Good Friday battle ?

























That was 1981

I was there, I was only 14, stood in threepenny I remember feeling very scared, then me Dad rushing us home past all the fighting and police horses, not sure where Ian & Shaun where probably with Welham, Dannatt, Harrison & Co in the thick of it

I remember them fighting up the steps of the flyover on Anlaby Road. VERY FRIGHTENING!

It was the only time I ever stood down that end of the ground and in comes the bricks. I remember throwing kids and woman over the fence onto the pitch and then walking to the other end of the ground past 3d.

The game should have been abandoned at that point, 38 serious injuries. I saw a boy around ten or eleven hit on the head by a brick, not nice and I wanted to rip the head off the mongrel who threw it.

Was a sad day, thankfully things have moved on, the mad part was the fact they all went to work together the following week

Yep Ian.....It was serious! Remember it being the main headlines on the national news! And we all remember who started the chucking.

bet he was popular

Plural - and from the 'east'.

it was all marcus fault

Gasp! The Chinese?

Land of the rising sun.

I was stood at the old scoreboard end with my 3 red n white mates .As a 14 yr old it was quite frightening ,somehow ended up on the track were i got set about on by a rovers supporter ,my pals helped me out though, was not looking forward to going home on the 56 longhill bus but that passed without incident


Have moved to west hull now though saves on bus fare

Christ! We must have all been 14 at the time.

I was 13 at the time. I was at the bottom of the Gordon Street terrace and close to several victims.

What I find as a bizarre coincidence is that Good Friday 1981 was on the 17th April. The day Paul Cooke was born, you could not make it up.

It was a bad day all round then!

I was there and I [iwasn't [/i14, I also didn't throw bricks or children.

Whose graves are you walking on?

class, it is a bit of a freaky fact though

I blame Blacklock

I was just going to say that lol

The day Paul Cooke was born

I remember that day......like it was yesterday. Funny though.....I cant remember yesterday



I was 15 and stood at the Gordon Street end of Threepenny! I was living in the Station Pub in Pocklington at the time, and was staying with relatives that weekend! I had a brand new FC shirt and was really looking rorward to the game. The banter was 'loud' and (not being biased...honest) the KR fans I had met going into the Boulevard were a bit 'snarly' to say the least.....Even today...some of 'em are a bit like it now!!!! I remember seeing a bit of a scuffle on the Gordon street end terracing.....THEN.......It was like being a Donington Rock Festival.....But it was bricks flying about and not plastic bottles, burgers and sausage rolls!!!! I DO remember the bricks started flying from the KR fans. I'm not saying there was absalutely no retaliation though.....We too have our idiots!!!! So...after seeing a chunk of masonary hit a guy immidiately to my right, and busting his head.....we decided to vacate to the Airlie street end. There was no room in the stand so the stewards directed us onto the track......Thats where we watched the remainder of the game after the crowd had been 'settled' a tad!
The Robins edged the result.....It would've been a different if Woods had kicked a conversion.....But an unforgettable experience all round.
I also remember the Daily Mirror the next day....BLEEDIN' FRONT PAGE NEWS......The press love a bit of scandal