Mental day that one. I think there was some building work going on at the time and someone decided to leave all the rubble nearby.
I remember Moira Stewart on BBC news reporting on the violence on TV.
At least we got a song out of it

Yeah, Good Friday '81. I too was stood at Airlie Street end (my usual spot, which is why I sit in South Stand today I guess, same viewpoint!). I seem to recall Paul Woods kicking a penalty around half-way through the first-half, and as the ball went through the posts I saw a brick flying through the air! About two minutes later it was utter mayhem, something resembling a riot in Belfast or Derry that we used to see on the news in those days.

I remember an old-feller being taken down the tunnel with blood pouring down his face. Think the game was halted for around twenty minutes, but not wholly sure on that. Think the game finally ended with a one-point win for rovers courtesy of a late Phil Lowe try, but again my memory is a touch sketchy on this. The rumour doing the rounds afterwards was that it was City fans who had started it!! Seeing as City had barely enough fans at that time to start a fight in a phone box, I think that might be one rumour well wide of the mark.

Fun days!!!!

Those bleedin' city psychos, they spoil everything.

Nah.
It was them pesky Rovers fans who deffo started lobbing first.

Well it definitely started at Gordon Street End, and that's where they were stood, so as guilty as a three week old puppy sat next to a pile of poop!!!

Correctomundo.

Didn't end there either , Fighting continued down boulevard and on to Anlaby road . Proper royal ruck

Your extracting the urine

I remember it well. Crooks scored right in front of me. As you say it was absolutely rammed. We were packed in pens like cattle. Scary when you think about it now.

The John Player Final was the Ronnie Wileman blind side try.

I remember a big Rovers fan who live down Camden street having a beer keg from Supporters club thrown through his window in 1980 .

Certainly did and even a ruck on North Bridge well before kick-off.
I was an independent observer, obviously.

It just shows you how terrible things are at the moment when we are reminiscing over events 40 years ago when people had their heads cracked open by fans throwing bricks.

Great days though!

What happened at Hillsborough in 1989 could very easily have happened at Elland road that night or at Wembley in '85 which was also absolutely rammed behind the sticks that afternoon. HSE would have a heart attack if that was ever to be repeated today.

The old Craven Park was dangerous as well. We were packed in like sardines on a small crumbling terrace behind the sticks.

pretty much the same at any large football stadium at the time. I remember standing on the big open terrace at st james park a few times as a teenager and it was mental when they scored

Could you imagine what they'd think of a big pile of concrete and brick left unattended in a stadium stand?
Got away lightly with that with only a £1000 fine because in all seriousness, if you witnessed it, you know somebody could have easily died.
The 50 grand fine for pulling the goalposts down at the McAlpine was a bit harsh though.

Yes, agree.

What eventually unfolded at Hillsborough in April '89 had been around twenty years in the making. Virtually every time a ground (Football or Rugby) was close to capacity the possibility was there for a catastrophe to occur, which in the end it did. Every Hull derby day 1979-85 could very easily have ended in a similar outcome, we just never looked at it that way at the time.

Obviously everything is a lot clearer with the benefit of hindsight, but looking back there was a number of warning signs throughout the 70s and 80s as to what potentially could happen if everything went wrong all at the same time (the perfect storm). That is what happened in April '89, but there are occasions when it could have been our disaster to live with and not LFC.

I do wonder if there would have been the same level of outrage if 97 people had died at a RL game instead of a high profile football semi-final? There, but for the grace of god, go we, thankfully.

As I've alluded too before it suddenly got rammed in that Leeds kop end well after kick-off because a train special or two were late getting into Leeds from Hull. A big influx of Hull fans trying to get in and most had enjoyed a sherbet or two on the journey.

As I've alluded too before it suddenly got rammed in that Leeds kop end well after kick-off because a train special or two were late getting into Leeds from Hull. A big influence of Hull fans trying to get in and most had

And on the coach going home as well. I remember having a massive hangover and had to miss school next day.

For me, Wembley 1985 was even worse. Our end, behind the tunnel end posts, was packed beyond capacity. I could barely move an inch, and I was a skinny lad back then! When I look back to that afternoon I shudder how Hillsborough could have happened to us then.

A couple of years later it emerged that a group of Wembley turnstile operators had been running a scam by admitting excess fans in for cash in hand in sold-out ticket games when capacity in the standing areas could be stretched. Not sure if that was the case when we played Wigan but there was definitely more people in my section than I think there legitimately should have been. It was heaving, to put it mildly!

I was on cans of Norseman lager for the journey.
Weak as p!ss but 16, enjoying myself, thinking I was big-time.

What a lightweight. Should have been on Special Brew. Got off the coach at Fordyke and couldn't find my way home

Wednesday night, weren't it.
Bet there was a lot of work absenteeism that next day.
There were a lot of intoxication about.

Yep. Me mam wasn't pleased when I got home. I was grounded for a week

It was 1914 and 68 years since we'd won it so I suppose we had an excuse for celebrating.