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

It made the main BBC news also.

thats Hull City fans for you!

I was 12yrs old and must confess I can't remember much of the game after it started as all I did was to keep watching the morons in red and white and dodge the bricks although by the end most of our shirts were red as well.