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[ian1980]

Just picked this up from Facebook. Not like that anymore.

Boro at Doncaster 1987:

[Northants Nomad]

Could you imagine the fit the stewards/police would be having if that happened today?? Love it!

[Branton Rover]

I remember being frightened as they scaled the girders in the main stand after storming the pitch. I was fifteen years old back then.

[Bezza]

They used to take over Belle Vue whenever they came,

[Herbert Anchovy]

I remember that day well. It was made an all ticket game for home fans about 2 days before the match! This news didn't reach me in London, so when I got to Belle Vue I couldn't get into the ground! I toyed with the idea of going into the away end, but thought better of it. Instead, I went into town with some mates who also opted against going to the game and sat in the Cleveland Arms all afternoon. After a few hours we heard chanting of 'Boro are Back' in the distance getting closer and closer till about 2000 Boro fans appeared in the road. A few came into the pub and were great to be fair, but it was all a bit hairy.

[Jimmydee]

There was a couple of bus loads of Boro fans that called into the Broad Highway at Woodlands for few pre match games and then returned there after the game, I couple even took a dip in the lake across the road and all in good humour.

[Colin C No.3]

I remember a video of a guy in the 70’s or 80’s running across a corrugated roof at Scunthorpe (?) & falling through it.

[donnievic]

I remember a video of a guy in the 70’s or 80’s running across a corrugated roof at Scunthorpe (?) & falling through it.

there was a wolves fan at Scarborough jumping up and down and went through landing on empty terracing below about 87 1st game Scarborough was in league

[1879Rovers]

I was there that day. They needed a win to go up.
It was the first time the Pop side was shut because of subsidence.
They were all over town before and after the game.

[Iberian Red]

I got back from France the previous evening and didn't have a ticket. Luckily I got offered a complimentary from Pilks.
The Boro fans were well behaved in general,the car park was like a festival and they were offering cans and drinks to Rovers fans. The pitch invasion was a celebration rather than anything naughty.

[belton rover]

I remember it being all ticket at short notice.
Bizarrely, i queued up for mine and was eventually ushered into a room with a woman and Dave Cusack selling the tickets. I was about 15 and awestruck.

[Bentley Bullet]

I remember a video of a guy in the 70’s or 80’s running across a corrugated roof at Scunthorpe (?) & falling through it.

there was a wolves fan at Scarborough jumping up and down and went through landing on empty terracing below about 87 1st game Scarborough was in league

38 seconds....
https://fb.watch/mcOu7dufG7/

He was never the same after....
https://www.expressandstar.com/news/local-hubs/wolverhampton/2017/08/16/how-football-prank-still-haunts-me-to-this-day/

[Dutch Uncle]

Reminds me of this picture

[Drover]

I remember a video of a guy in the 70’s or 80’s running across a corrugated roof at Scunthorpe (?) & falling through it.

there was a wolves fan at Scarborough jumping up and down and went through landing on empty terracing below about 87 1st game Scarborough was in league

I was on holiday in Scarborough when that happened,I had booked it to coincide with us playing Scarborough in their second game as a league side(League cup 1st leg) on tuesday night,on the saturday morning the seafront pubs was packed to the rafters with Wolves fans,I watched some of their fans literally hanging out from upstairs pub windows on the seafront,one of them was probably the same guy who fell through the stand roof,given his penchant for antics at heights,all the police could do was watch from a safe distance and hope no serious incidents would happen.Neil Warnock was Scarborough manager then too.

[ian1980]

And another

[roversdude]

Is there anyway of having a tab/sub section of the forum for Rovers photos

[TonySoprano]

I'd love to see a photo of belle Vue for the record attendance match in the 50s

[glosterred]

I'd love to see a photo of belle Vue for the record attendance match in the 50s

Cannot find a picture of the record attendance but did find one of the 1935 St ledger if that helps

https://historicengland.org.uk/images-books/archive/collections/aerial-photos/record/EPW049245


COYR

[Jimmydee]

I remember a video of a guy in the 70’s or 80’s running across a corrugated roof at Scunthorpe (?) & falling through it.

there was a wolves fan at Scarborough jumping up and down and went through landing on empty terracing below about 87 1st game Scarborough was in league

I was on holiday in Scarborough when that happened,I had booked it to coincide with us playing Scarborough in their second game as a league side(League cup 1st leg) on tuesday night,on the saturday morning the seafront pubs was packed to the rafters with Wolves fans,I watched some of their fans literally hanging out from upstairs pub windows on the seafront,one of them was probably the same guy who fell through the stand roof,given his penchant for antics at heights,all the police could do was watch from a safe distance and hope no serious incidents would happen.Neil Warnock was Scarborough manager then too.

Yes, I can remember the Wolves fan falling through the corrugated roof sheeting at Scarborough, the film clip was on the evening news.

[knockers]

I'd love to see a photo of belle Vue for the record attendance match in the 50s

Cannot find a picture of the record attendance but did find one of the 1935 St ledger if that helps

https://historicengland.org.uk/images-books/archive/collections/aerial-photos/record/EPW049245


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St.Leger

[glosterred]

I'd love to see a photo of belle Vue for the record attendance match in the 50s

Cannot find a picture of the record attendance but did find one of the 1935 St ledger if that helps

https://historicengland.org.uk/images-books/archive/collections/aerial-photos/record/EPW049245


COYR

St.Leger

Correct, don’t you’d just hate auto correct

[ian1980]

Rovers & Brighton (1997) - Photo and write up from Facebook:

The last ever match at The Goldstone Ground - April 1997. The final curtain on a sorry chapter.

The place may have been a dump in its final years. The 'toilets' were next to the catering kiosk, and at times it was hard to tell which was which.

It was Brighton's final home match of the season against Doncaster Rovers. Brighton were 92nd, bottom of the old Third Division (fourth tier).

Brighton fans had spent two years trying to rid themselves of a board of directors who had sold the ground, pocketed the cash, and left us nowhere to play. Although an agreement was in place to hand the club over to a new consortium, started by Liam Brady, and led by Dick Knight, that takeover wouldn't be finalised until September 1997.

Meanwhile, Doncaster Rovers' players, understanding the gravity of our situation, offered solidarity as we said goodbye (or rather, had wrenched from us), our home of 95 years.

Brighton survived in the Football League the following week at Hereford United (by any metric, the single most important match in the history of Brighton & Hove Albion).

How ironic that Brighton, who finished 91st again in 1998, were saved by Doncaster Rovers, whose chairman behaved equally as appallingly as Brighton's, but how wonderfully appropriate that Doncaster were our first opponents 14 years later, when we finally got our new home.

In response, 'Brighton Fans Salute Rovers Players'

Picture credit: Tim Colville

[silent majority]

Is there anyway of having a tab/sub section of the forum for Rovers photos

The current plan is to create a Virtual Museum, and of course there'll be detailed Belle Vue sections and this will be embellished with photos.

[JonWallsend]

I was 17 and just before the game was offered 20quid for my ticket which was probably  more than I'd paid for it but at the time I never missed a home game so turned him down. Shortly after Tony Mowbray appeared and presented him with one anyway.
My dad didn't  get in and so sat in the car all game. At the end, as all the Boro fans invaded the pitch  Andy Rhodes came running to the touchline,  ook his goalies top off and had an outfield shirt on underneath, which  he proceeded to give me.
Red body, white sleeves, pilkingtin glass on the front  and a big number 9 on the back. It looked good on me but that was 5 stone ago.
My 19 hear old son wears it to games now

[drfchound]

Rovers & Brighton (1997) - Photo and write up from Facebook:

The last ever match at The Goldstone Ground - April 1997. The final curtain on a sorry chapter.

The place may have been a dump in its final years. The 'toilets' were next to the catering kiosk, and at times it was hard to tell which was which.

It was Brighton's final home match of the season against Doncaster Rovers. Brighton were 92nd, bottom of the old Third Division (fourth tier).

Brighton fans had spent two years trying to rid themselves of a board of directors who had sold the ground, pocketed the cash, and left us nowhere to play. Although an agreement was in place to hand the club over to a new consortium, started by Liam Brady, and led by Dick Knight, that takeover wouldn't be finalised until September 1997.

Meanwhile, Doncaster Rovers' players, understanding the gravity of our situation, offered solidarity as we said goodbye (or rather, had wrenched from us), our home of 95 years.

Brighton survived in the Football League the following week at Hereford United (by any metric, the single most important match in the history of Brighton & Hove Albion).

How ironic that Brighton, who finished 91st again in 1998, were saved by Doncaster Rovers, whose chairman behaved equally as appallingly as Brighton's, but how wonderfully appropriate that Doncaster were our first opponents 14 years later, when we finally got our new home.

In response, 'Brighton Fans Salute Rovers Players'

Picture credit: Tim Colville

I was in Brighton last year and went to the park and ride to get the bus into the town centre.
I realised that the park and ride is at the Goldstone Ground.
It looks very sad now.

[ForsolongaRover]

I'd love to see a photo of belle Vue for the record attendance match in the 50s

Cannot find a picture of the record attendance but did find one of the 1935 St ledger if that helps

https://historicengland.org.uk/images-books/archive/collections/aerial-photos/record/EPW049245


COYR

St.Leger

Correct, don’t you’d just hate auto correct

I assume we are taking about the game vs Hull City in 1947 which was before I was tall enough to see over the wall at the Rossington End, so I wasn’t there. The 2 evening papers in the 50s, one based in Leeds and the other in Sheffield, were the Yorkshire Evening News and the Yorkshire Evening Post. In those days the Free Press was actually free with an emphasis on small ads and did have Rovers reports, but they were not of the quality of the evening papers. You might imagine that somewhere in the archives of all these publications there would be photos of some of the action, but not necessarily a wide-angle view of the crowd. The Hull Daily Mail would be another source. (I wonder how many of them actually had a full view of the game! Is anyone on here old enough to have been there - probably in their mid eighties now?)

[oliver]

I thought the Hull City game was in 1948 my first game and was 8 years old  and all youngsters were passed overhead and sat on the grass surrounding the pitch.

[ForsolongaRover]

I thought the Hull City game was in 1948 my first game and was 8 years old  and all youngsters were passed overhead and sat on the grass surrounding the pitch.

I got 1947 from Rovers Wikipedia entry, but I’m always pleased to discover Rovers fans older than me! You’ll remember the “welcome” that Raich Carter used to get from the Rovers fans! He was Hull’s player manager, and he played with PD at Derby I think, probably before the war. It made Hull City matches just like derbies.

[ian1980]

Aerial Shot:

[Ye-Aul-Tavern]

What year is that from Ian?