question from a lancastrian bantam
 

hi guys

the tickets for the bradford end on new years day only went on general sale on boxing day and when i rang up to order one they said they couldnt send me one in the post cos it wouldnt get here in time for the game-is there any way i can get a accy ticket and theyll let me in the bradford end.

im not trying to cause trouble-im just a bloke who wants to watch a football match and cant get hold of a ticket in time to watch it from the correct part of the ground...your thoughts please...

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Can you not collect one from the club?

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I haven't heard the accy end being ticket only but rather pay on the gate. I think the Bradford game is ticket only for away fans is so they have an idea of numbers that are coming and more than likely a request by the police also!

Do you not live in Bradford? Can you not go on your own forum and see if there is a fan going prepared to buy a ticket for you and meet you in accy??

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live in lancaster and have tried our own forum but it appears to have fallen upon deaf ears-theyve been as helpfull as a stick...a very unhelpfull one at that...

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They are friendly enough in the home end as long as you behave :)

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yeah but can you imagine standing in the opposing sides end knowing you can't make any comment about your team, wouldn't be much fun would it!!!???

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Me and junior dingle had to do it at Leciester a couple of seasons ago. We fastened our coats to cover our shirts, won 1-0 and madam was so pleased she took her coat off at the final whistle whilst filing out of the ground with all the Leicester fans :D

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well I admire you for doing it but no it would be an impossibility for me to do it :o

Try ringing stanley Mon am to explain the problem and see if they can help, maybe if they find out Bradford have not sold out they may be prepared to sell you a ticket before the match tues!!

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Can't think why :rofl38:

Your'e right it's not as much fun as being in your own end.

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Way back in '76 on my big OE, I took this bloke along to a Chelsea game vs Portsmouth. He wasn't a footy fan but was from Portsmouth.Well I soon descovered my error. We were in the 'Shed' (I always stood there) and the friggan drongo yells out "C'mon POMPEY". As quick as a flash I put distance between us. All I could see were all these faces peering down at him. Thank god nothing happened.The lights came on at halftime and who's standing just a couple of paces away from him??? -only his brother whom he hasn't seen for 11 years!!.He was a footy supporter and had entered the wrong end.They chatted for about 1 minute and that was that.Clearly a close family. The game was dull but I'll never ever forget it.

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thanks guys-hope its a great game!!

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best is going to a burnley v rovers at burnley in the nutters stand with a rovers supporter! watching rovers score he was out of his seat b4 he remembered where he was!!! i enjoyed that match even tho burnley got beat it was great fun watching him bite his tongue every time lol

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If you ring up the club they'll sort something out for ya - 'tis Stanley we'll do anything to get more through the doors :)
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If you cant get thro tommoz then ring new years eve as there will be some staf in or shops open:D

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We could always let anyone in and then suddenly decide to have segregation at half time, a la last seasons Burnley game ;)

Seriously looking forward to the game aginst Park Avenue:)

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My personal favourite was going to Halifax in our second conference season. I went as a steward as we had to steward our own fans coz Fax didn't have enough to cover the away end!!! :eek::rolleyes:

As it turns out they didn't have enough to cover their home end either and I got draughted down in front of all Fax fans behind the goal. After about 20 mins Jaggers scored with an absolute peach of a volley, it was all I could do not to levitate!!!! :D

According to my mate whos a Fax fan and was stood in the home end, when we scored I planted my hands as far down in my pockets as possible and rocked forward onto my tiptoes, whilst all the time looking at the floor to hide the huge grin on my face!!! After about 10 seconds I remembered I had ASFC Steward written on the front and back of my hi-viz jacket!!! I've never been so aware of a 1000+ people staring at me in my life!!!!:o

I'll never forget that!!!

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I remember going with Sheffield United fans on the away end for a league game at Oxford United.

United fans spent the game taunting "Specky eyed Oxford fans" - in fact most of them were from Cowley car works!!!

As Foley scored the second Oxford goal I remember the words "We've had it naaagh" gleefully coming out of my mouth. Those around me solemnly agreed. That was the start of the rot that saw Sheffield United in League 4 soon after.

By that time Sheffield Wednesday were basking in what is now the Championship but when the news came through that Notts County had beaten them 2-1 at Hillsborough I let out a loud involuntary groan and had to run the gauntlet of some hostile stares as I beat a hasty retreat from the terrace.

In 1984 I sat with Liverpool fans in the League Cup Quarter Final tie at Hillsborough and in the 1986 FA Cup Semi Final I sat with Everton Fans lauding their offside goal in the Trinity Road Stand through 120 minutes of Football at Villa.

I also remember being on the Stretford End with my United supporting mates as Sheffield Wednesday beat them 2-1. Under Wilkinson Wednesday epitomised the bludgeon and rapier approach unlike United's more cultured football and as the second goal went in I can remember my mates shouting "Suppose your satisfied now" as I prayed for the ground to open up.

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For some reason I was stood on the "Car Wash Terrace", about level with where Craney let fly, for his cracker at Morecambe Bay. I managed to restrain myself to a few claps, in the style of a begrudingly fair follower of football. ;)

In fact, it was more difficult when Rocky's header flew in, big grin spreading across my face. :D

[ Btw, if you're a connoisseur of moaning, the Car Wash Terrace takes some beating.]

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Folloowing the demise of Stanley's Lancs Comb side in the mid 60s I started supporting MUFC (no apologies, it was the Best / Law / Charlton team and anyway I could use the same scarf). My mate and I usually went in the Stretford End but against Liverpool it sold out - we had to get in to get the token out of the programme to have a chance of European Cup tickets, and the only option was in the Scoreboard End with the Koppites. United scored first, at the Scoreboard End, and we were 3 feet in the air with arms outstretched before we thought "Oh ****, bad move".

We were only about 16 and both little, which probably saved us, and we only got bantered, even though (I think) United won. Couple of years later when things were generally nastier it might have been very different :rolleyes:.

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It's when you get asked for the time walking through Stanley Park that you know the banter is going to be more physical :rolleyes:

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Time to leg it :eek:

Brings back a lot of memories, that; my dad warned me against giving the time, back in the early sixties (both of us scousers). :(

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remonds me of a funny,many years ago, me n a few mates went on the stretford end to support rovers (pat crerands days) got some real stick off the utd fans then about 15 mins into the game,was carried off on a stretcher by St,Johns Ambulance, wasn,t the stretford end thugs though,was a 30yd shot from Crerand that sparked me. :D:D made the manchester evening news i was told lol

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Bill Shankly once famously told his lads, before a Utd. game, " watch that Crerand, he's deceptive, he's slower than he looks. "
Still makes me smile. :)

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Don't tell me you were one of the 50 diehards who attended the infamous final match on January 8th, 1966. If so, I salute your dedication, Chimer. Even I'd given up the ghost by late 1965 and retreated to the Blue Dahlia on Saturday afternoons!

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your best bet is to come in the home end after all bradford is sold out with up to 4000 excepted to decended on accy source a bradford fan.

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Once went with my dad to Anfield in the late fifties or early sixties supporting the Rovers, and through sheer ignorance found ourselves in the middle of the swaying Kop. I can't remember the score but I know we won with the brilliant Andy McEvoy scoring right in front of our noses - believe me it was not difficult to keep silent with all the scousers in an ugly mood!

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Once on a packed Kop in sixties and a few Yanks arrived at about 10 to 3, seeing the empty space behind a crush barrier, they stood there, very pleased with themselves. Nobody said a word.

First attack, they realised why no-one stood behind a barrier. :)

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My dad was tho:eek::D

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That's REAL diehard for you! Hope you're going to interview him for the exhibition!

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I'd love to make the claim (and who could disprove it ? - I could even say I was one of the kids in the Garth Dawson picture) but no, I don't think so. My support peaked in the LC2 championship winning season (bandwagon jumper then as now :))

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If tha ****** had only turned round we'd have picture evidence, tho he was at that match anyway with my uncle cheeky young beggars sneaked on shhhh:o:D

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So, is your old fella one of those young scallywags sat on the wall at the Huncoat End in the photo in Phil Whalley's book? He must have an interesting story to tell about that day!

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Dont know havent seen Whalleys book yet, tho he reckons he maybe one of the scallywags sat on the wall back facing camera with my uncle, black & white image, gave me dad bit of a worry as i got the picture & didnt know about it till i shown him - a bit freaky LOL:D

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Yep, sounds like the same shot from the book. Your old man was certainly faithful to the end. It shames me to say it, but at the very moment that shot was taken, I was downtown drinking an expresso and most lads I knew were down Ewood! :o

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He got in free hehehehe :D Oh dont get me wrong tho he likes stanley it was rovers all the way for him [i'd support claret before the primadonnas at ewood tho otherwise it was another red & white team - the colours in the blood] - he just comes up fes to see proper footy now & again :rofl38: I take more after 1 of my uncles as far as love of stanley are concerned, sadly not here anymore so im sure he posses me in spirit in the direction of die hard fan LOL:D

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In Accrington! In 1966! Wouldn't have thought that was possible. Cool, Wynonie. :)

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accrington has sold its soul:mad:

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You'd be surprised how hip Accy was in 1966, Oggy...it had everything (except a football club!).