31 years ago Sheff Wed relegated us

I was there with my brother. Didn’t have a ticket. Drove to Rotherham and got a bus to Sheffield because we thought we’d get stopped by the police going into Sheffield
Paid to get into the sheff we’d cop
We had to put on a cockney ascent and say we were students to get in
I was 19
Once in we approached a steward and told him we were from boro
He took us to the side of the cop in a small enclosure for boro fans
I’m sure it was separate and away from the regular paying 1100 boro fans
31 years ago. Wow
 
Ex Footy Legs said:
I was there with my brother. Didn’t have a ticket. Drove to Rotherham and got a bus to Sheffield because we thought we’d get stopped by the police going into Sheffield
Paid to get into the sheff we’d cop
We had to put on a cockney ascent and say we were students to get in
I was 19
Once in we approached a steward and told him we were from boro
He took us to the side of the cop in a small enclosure for boro fans
I’m sure it was separate and away from the regular paying 1100 boro fans
31 years ago. Wow
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Yes me too,
 
I was there in the Sheffield Wednesday Kop. Awful day, didn't enjoy anything about it. Sometimes that's how it goes...
 
Bokowski
Didn’t you consider telling a steward so you could get with the Boro fans ?

Agree though. One of the worst days ever. Shyte team and only youth & inexperience made me feel optimistic !
 
Subbuteo_171 said:
Was at Hillsborough in 88/89 in the Main Stand, think there were only 1100 away tickets or so? Only 1 win in 16 games before that day, away v West Ham when Slaven scored a double in the last 5 minutes. Never looked like winning that day.

Tbh the ground shouldn’t have been used again that season. Only 4 weeks after the disaster, Leppings Lane end covered in blue tarpaulin.
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I was there too in the main stand. Mate at Sheffield University got us tickets, remember expecting to have to keep quiet. A chant then going up at the start and plenty of other Boro standing up around us!
 
I was there in the big stand down the side. I remember quite a big group forming in their Kop.
Steve Whitton headed in from I thought the third quick successive corner in to their Kop from their right.
It was like I'd been tasered.

Went back to Blue Bell in Yarm and a bit later in walks Henderson and Fordy (top 80 bob) and I'm stood talking to Graham and buy him Colin and another bloke not there a pint. I walk into the toilets and here is a fella ***ed and rocking about. He asks have I been today and I say I'm absolutely gutted. He says "Don't worry, I'm never going to let that happen to us again". I say righto, finish my slash and walk back to the bar.
I tell Graham and laugh. He says, no, he means it, that was Steve Gibson and you've just bought him a pint."

True story, no embellishment.
A very very bleak day (nice day weather wise). I've hated Hillsborough ever since.
 
I remember talk of roadblocks by SYP to stop an anticipated 10k Boro fans travelling.
I went by train and met a pal who was a Wendys fan. I stood with him in the Kop.
Boro section was in main stand to the right of the Leppings Lane end (as I looked) but plenty of other Boro around the ground.
I have a memory of Coops hardly being able to run and later diagnosed with shin splints which he’d played on with.
 
That sequence of corners was surreal. You just know that after 4 or 5 in a row they would score from one. And so it came to pass.
 
Ex Footy Legs said:
Bokowski
Didn’t you consider telling a steward so you could get with the Boro fans ?

Agree though. One of the worst days ever. Shyte team and only youth & inexperience made me feel optimistic !
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I don't think it was a s#*@% team, that team was to inexperienced to stop the slide, we played some cracking football that season & after beating West Ham 2-1 with 2 very late Bernie goals I thought we would be OK, I went to Charlton on the 1st April which we lost 2-0, I still thought we'd be OK, a more experienced defender should have been brought in opposed to Peter Davenport, far from a poor team, a Boro team, IMHO, that were unlucky to be relegated
 
Mars Bonfire said:
I remember talk of roadblocks by SYP to stop an anticipated 10k Boro fans travelling.
I went by train and met a pal who was a Wendys fan. I stood with him in the Kop.
Boro section was in main stand to the right of the Leppings Lane end (as I looked) but plenty of other Boro around the ground.
I have a memory of Coops hardly being able to run and later diagnosed with shin splints which he’d played on with.
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Gary Hamiltons final Boro game also, he was a walking wreck with injections just to get him on the pitch
 
I was at that game, stuck in a little area of their Kop end. The first chant of Boro Boro give us a wave resulted in i estimate about 3k waving from all over the ground, as well as the 1100 in the corner.
Me and my mate never spoke a word all the way home...gutted.
 
We looked sensational in the first few months, never say die attitude with absolute commitment, vibrant attacking football, players who cared. Everything Bruce Rioch touched turned to gold, 2-1 down v Millwall at half time (Cascarino and Sheringham for the Lions) we murdered them in the second half, with Davenport announced at half time as a record signing it seemed anything was possible to a young, naive 15 year old.

Injuries and defeats knocked confidence, everything seemed to go against us, and there simply wasn’t enough depth in the squad to cope.

Still my worst ever feeling at the end of a season, we‘d come so far and felt so cruel. Worse than 1997.
 
Subbuteo_171 said:
We looked sensational in the first few months, never say die attitude with absolute commitment, vibrant attacking football, players who cared. Everything Bruce Rioch touched turned to gold, 2-1 down v Millwall at half time (Cascarino and Sheringham for the Lions) we murdered them in the second half, with Davenport announced at half time as a record signing it seemed anything was possible to a young, naive 15 year old.

Injuries and defeats knocked confidence, everything seemed to go against us, and there simply wasn’t enough depth in the squad to cope.

Still my worst ever feeling at the end of a season, we‘d come so far and felt so cruel. Worse than 1997.
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Our final home game v Arsenal when we were doing so well, their keeper launched a ball upfield, Kerry Groves got on the end of it to score & game over, Villa at home 2-0 down, to 3-2 up with a, perfectly good goal disallowed to make it 4 then they equalised, Bruce had said leading up to the match it should have been the live Sunday match & he was, usual, spot on, then Villa away, we were unlucky & should have stayed up
 
Erimus74 said:
I don't think it was a s#*@% team, that team was to inexperienced to stop the slide, we played some cracking football that season & after beating West Ham 2-1 with 2 very late Bernie goals I thought we would be OK, I went to Charlton on the 1st April which we lost 2-0, I still thought we'd be OK, a more experienced defender should have been brought in opposed to Peter Davenport, far from a poor team, a Boro team, IMHO, that were unlucky to be relegated
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I was at Upton Park by myself in the West Ham seats when Bernie got that late brace.A few other Boro in the same stand and there were one or two got a smack on celebrating.
I honestly thought we would stay up after that.
 
Erimus74 said:
Our final home game v Arsenal when we were doing so well, their keeper launched a ball upfield, Kerry Groves got on the end of it to score & game over, Villa at home 2-0 down, to 3-2 up with a, perfectly good goal disallowed to make it 4 then they equalised, Bruce had said leading up to the match it should have been the live Sunday match & he was, usual, spot on, then Villa away, we were unlucky & should have stayed up
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I can still see Stuart Gray's header in the last minute at Villa Park trickling over the line beyond Kevin Poole. Win there and we stayed up!
 
Mars Bonfire said:
I remember talk of roadblocks by SYP to stop an anticipated 10k Boro fans travelling.
I went by train and met a pal who was a Wendys fan. I stood with him in the Kop.
Boro section was in main stand to the right of the Leppings Lane end (as I looked) but plenty of other Boro around the ground.
I have a memory of Coops hardly being able to run and later diagnosed with shin splints which he’d played on with.
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There were roadblocks on the route we went in. I thought the police were stopping us, but my dad said they were waving us through - swerved and missed a copper's foot by millimetres!
 
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