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When were these photos taken at the Goldstone ?
- Thread starter Psychobilly freakout
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The second one is Chelsea's invasion of the pitch in 1983.
Dr. Notthenineo'clocknews
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Top one Sheffield United I'd say, same day as Bradford fire
Return of the Rev
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WTF are those hats about??
Interesting choice of phrase. I'd image they'll have exactly that effect on Das.
SIMMO SAYS
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Return of the Rev
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End of season game and the kids ran onto the pitch only for the sheff utd to chase them around! Then a few bigger boys went on to play and surprise surprise we had some blade runners
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Are you sure? I don't remember the crossbar being broken.
Mind you, I couldn't name another game when it was, so it's quite possible it just wasn't the most memorable thing about the day. I presume the goal must have been replaced before the game carried on and I thought I'd remember that?
Dr. Notthenineo'clocknews
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That's what I was thinking, but lookin how packed the NE corner is it can't be any other
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I defeinitely remember the crossbar being broken straight after the final whistle.
The lack of North Stand roof dates it before 1985.
SIMMO SAYS
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The bloke in the middle who has run into the back of the fella in the batten berg sweater never recovered.
He prefers Victoria Sponge now ::safeway:
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Guy to the left in the dark jacket looks like Dec from Ant and Dec.
That explains my memory lapse, then. I guess I left sharpish at the final whistle that day.
On the subject of the North Stand roof, how many years did it actually not have one? It seemed like ages, but it definitely had a roof on my first and last visits.
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el punal
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The pitch invasion was at the end of the game (mind you there may have been more before the final whistle). If anyone wants a reason why football-watching went down the tubes in the 80s this match was the perfect example. Chelsea had a notorious following at the time and thousands of them were in the Goldstone that day. It didn't matter which part of the ground you were in there was aggro there.
Probably the worst scene was after the game finished, a lone policeman was in the middle of the pitch, he was trying to get the invading fans off when he was jumped on, knocked to the ground and kicked unconscious. A foreign student who was in our group looked on horrified. He turned to us and said "Is this what the English call entertainment?". I'm afraid we didn't have an answer.
Dr. Notthenineo'clocknews
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Ron Mael of Sparks is in the thick of it (with his hat on)
Impossible. Look how many people are still in the ground!
It does rather explain why I didn't remember the crossbar being broken. I thought the game had been stopped for a while, but I'm probably confusing it with the Spurs "events".