When did Clive Rd become Away End

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BeanBeany

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Just been reading a FB thread about segregation coming in and wondered when it happened at Ayresome, was already there when I started going in 77
 
This was the first time it was a regular away end. I think the perimeter fencing was installed too at the same time.

Special games it was for away fans in the mid 1970s - say Leeds, Sunderland, Newcastle.

BB - I assume you mean Clive Road S/E corner? Technically the Chicken Run was Clive Road too or South Terrace.
 
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I was still going in the Clive Rd End in the mid-seventies and would be stood next to away fans but that was the same in all areas of the ground. I can remember being stood next to Sunderland fans in the Holgate on more than one occasion. I also remember one of them putting me on his shoulders to see Hickton take a penalty.
 
I seem to remember away fans being in the East Stand seats and the South East standing corner? Where were they when not segregated, just anywhere?
 
There was always a sprinkling of away fans in all seated areas, particularly the east stand.
For the big cup games of the late 70s/early 80s away fans were allocated the end blocks of the east stand south stand (nearest the Clive Rd corner) and more surprisingly, a block of seats in the north stand lower, nearest the Holgate - well that was certainly the case when we played Wolves in 1981.
And as mentioned earlier, the 1st game of the 77/78 season was the the first time the CRC was officially designated for away fans.
 
Wolves fans in the North stand lower near the Holgate? That’s where my dad had his season ticket. I don’t recall him Telling me his seat had been allocated to Wolves for that game. I’m sure he sat there.
 
It was never the Clive Road that was always the Chicken Run. The corners of the Bob End were created in 1966 for the World Cup. The central area was seated. The other corner still had the walled off area for he Boys end.
 
When it wasn't such a palaver getting to matches I found myself in various parts of away grounds, and no bother. Turning up on the day to pay at the gate made it easier and I was never locked out when the away end was full. You paid a bit more and went into the stand.
 
WindyNook said:
It was never the Clive Road that was always the Chicken Run. The corners of the Bob End were created in 1966 for the World Cup. The central area was seated. The other corner still had the walled off area for he Boys end.
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The Bob End was where I watched some of my early games perched on one if the concrete barriers. Full of Geordies one Boxing Day before the seats went in, they beat us 2-0 that day, and 2-1 at their place the day after, on their way to promotion.
 
Redwurzel said:
August 1977
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I believe it was later than that.
As a youth I used to stand at the top of the Clive road corner.
At that game thet were quite a few Liverpool fans singing pre kick off but about 3 pm a big mob of Boro hooligans came in and they all kept quiet (wisely given the state of the Boro lot).
It became an official away end at some point after that, as I was stopped from entering with a Boro scarf. I can't recall exactly when.
 
1966 was when l started going on my own to the match if my Dad was working.
1s 6d return on the train from Marske
1s 3d boys end entrance. Nick over the wall when copper wasn't looking
6d for programme
3s 3d total.... about 17p
Ah how things have changed!
 
since1970 said:
There was always a sprinkling of away fans in all seated areas, particularly the east stand.
For the big cup games of the late 70s/early 80s away fans were allocated the end blocks of the east stand south stand (nearest the Clive Rd corner) and more surprisingly, a block of seats in the north stand lower, nearest the Holgate - well that was certainly the case when we played Wolves in 1981.
And as mentioned earlier, the 1st game of the 77/78 season was the the first time the CRC was officially designated for away fans.
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No sure about wolves, but I can remember Villa being given a block of seats in the north stand lower around Xmas time late 70's. When they started chanting the Holgate went crazy!
 
I seem to remember Wolves and a few other having a section of seats in the North stand for big cup games late 70s early 80s.
 
Only time I went in the away end was v Aberdeen in the Anglo Scottish cup. It was a small section of the chicken run next to the usual away corner.
 
I remember trouble in the Clive Road end that was allocated to Leeds...must have been 75 or 76 so I presume that segregation was in place around that time
 
Used to always go in the Clive Road S/E corner with my Dad in the seventies, used to sit on the concrete barriers, would always be a sprinkling of away fans in there but initially no trouble but over the years you would see more and more scraps with Boro land coming in and starting on the away fans normally the same lads causing the trouble, it is a shame used to really like it in there when it closed to home fans think we went in the family end behind the goal but the view was never as good in there as you were too low down!
 
Wiseman_Vaughn said:
I remember trouble in the Clive Road end that was allocated to Leeds...must have been 75 or 76 so I presume that segregation was in place around that time
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The trouble against Leeds was caused by a lad called Jimmy White from Teesville and it was the year we went up with Jack Charlton. Jimmy had been stood near us in the Holgate End and so far into the second half he decided he was going round to the Clive Road. Some 10 minutes later a gap appeared at the top of the Clive Road entrance to the terrace with Leeds fans moving away and Jimmy, with his ginger long locks, silk scarf dangling from his wrist, was stood there on his own. The Leeds fans panicked at first thinking there was a mob coming in and then realised it was Jimmy on his own and charged at him.

Believe it or not, he got out without a scratch.

Leeds won 1-0 with a goal from Allan Clarke and there were over 39,000 at the game.

As mentioned, the majority of fans (Leeds, Sunderland, Newcastle, Man Utd) were segregated for obvious reasons, but you would find pockets of them in the home end. Other games when teams didn't bring large numbers weren't segregated.
 
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