| Pizanti’s FA Cup rocket, and QPR’s worst ever transfer - History on 17:49 - Jan 8 with 863 views | themodfather |
was at that game, decided to sit in SAR and during 1st half soon noted many well known ICF all around me , 100s of them i think B block then, i remember as fans slowly went onto pitch surrounds, no trouble and game held up, john lyall came to the loft end to ask qpr fans to make room?
crowd given as 23000+ but i had been there with more than that and no one had to go on pitch , away end was over loaded so actual crowd? who knows.
the cup meant a lot then . |  | |  |
| Pizanti’s FA Cup rocket, and QPR’s worst ever transfer - History on 18:10 - Jan 8 with 818 views | Tonto |
Was at that game as well. Remeber the police chief and the ref discussing putti g a line of plod up the loft and sticking the hammers fans in. They started and withing 30 seconds abandoned the idea after several fights started. |  |
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| Pizanti’s FA Cup rocket, and QPR’s worst ever transfer - History on 20:37 - Jan 8 with 681 views | eastside_r |
I was in the Loft, my sister and her WHam mates in the School End. I had come down from university especially for the game.
Even way before the internet, there were rumours round our way of loads of moody tickets being in circulation and so this came to be true.
Thank f#ck we never had fences, I always remember this game when Hillsborough is discussed.
That goal by Pizanti was a favourite of mine for many years. |  | | |
| Pizanti’s FA Cup rocket, and QPR’s worst ever transfer - History on 23:59 - Jan 8 with 540 views | Northernr |
The Lower School on the highlights looks scarily cramped and almost sunken. |  | | |
| Pizanti’s FA Cup rocket, and QPR’s worst ever transfer - History on 00:21 - Jan 9 with 524 views | BrianMcCarthy |
| Pizanti’s FA Cup rocket, and QPR’s worst ever transfer - History on 20:37 - Jan 8 by eastside_r |
I was in the Loft, my sister and her WHam mates in the School End. I had come down from university especially for the game.
Even way before the internet, there were rumours round our way of loads of moody tickets being in circulation and so this came to be true.
Thank f#ck we never had fences, I always remember this game when Hillsborough is discussed.
That goal by Pizanti was a favourite of mine for many years. |
Ya, eastside, definitely rumours beforehand that West Ham were bringing too many because of moody tickets in the East End.
The match report is right, though - the mood was decent that day. Except for a few minutes, I think anyway, when it went tense when they tried to put West Ham into the Loft. I seem to remember a surge forward that changed the mind of the Police. So they were all put into the Paddocks and some into the Ellserslie.
Agree also that when Hillsborough happened we all looked back at this match as one of those games where it could hahe happened. Spurs away around the same time was another where people were fainting from the crush. |  |
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| Pizanti’s FA Cup rocket, and QPR’s worst ever transfer - History on 07:25 - Jan 9 with 413 views | Discodroids |
Mentioned this before on here so apologies but I was in the lower school end , south africa road side , with half a dozen West ham mates. Panic broke out within minutes of me getting in the ground and it was like the bridge on the star trek enterprise under photon attack from the Borg. Just an organic swirl of arms and legs in a Hellraiser meat grinder.
I recall it lasting only for a few minutes and it settling down just as quickly as it started .
I can also remember with much laughter my skinny cousin chris , now about 18 stone, being carried aloft like iggy pop doing an encore of 'i wanna be your dog' by west ham fans onto the corner of the pitch where the school end meets the south africa. We found out later that my penthouse dwelling posh aunt had heard about the trouble on Grandstand and rang the BBC in her clipped Margo from the good life tones, to enquire of his health. He still gets reminded about it till this day.
I was only 20 years old, a snake hipped, Carnabetian army bon viveur Of East ham in MASH faded denim dungarees and a Harry hill high collared fraggle rock shirt with no fear, so i quite enjoyed the experiance.
If that had happened today, At 58 years old, i would probably shit my colon out through the gusset of my sensible corduroys in stark terror.
Christ.. where have all those years gone?.. [Post edited 9 Jan 7:33]
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