Leeds v Man City 1978 - Leeds Service Crew v Man City Cool Cats - Here’s What Happened Next
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- In this video we reveal the stories behind the riot at this match between Leeds United Service Crew and Manchester City's Cool Cats.
This was in the 3rd round of the F.A.Cup in January 1978. A crowd of over 40,000 watched in amazement at the antics on the pitch and off the pitch.
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I was at that game as a fifteen year old Leeds fan,I got the train from Edinburgh to Leeds with my mate only to find out it was an all ticket game.We blagged our way into city end hiding our scarfs and having to cheer when city scored.We we’re getting pelted with bricks.Gutted at the result,as soon as we got out of the ground I put my Leeds scarf on and headed for the train station back to Scotland 😂😂
Lol what a load of garbage , I was in the cop that day . The service crew did not exist in that era .
Your talking absolute shite
Service train was 1980's
@@stephenvaughan3189 you mean service crew and it started late 60s
Leeds fans stormed the pitch because we were losing and Joe corrigan gave us the v's
The FA Cup meant summat in them days always pulled in more than the League games.
I'm neither City or Scum but I went with a pal to Maine Road April 1985. Scum won 1-2 with Scot Sellers scoring the winner. I sat with City, my pal joined the Scum fans and I clearly remember they had 2 areas of supporters in Maine Road at opposite points of the stadium. One area chanted "We are the Champions" and the opposite area replied " Champions of Europe". There was no trouble before the game and I saw no trouble during the game, but afterwards!!! Loads of black kids who hadn't been at the game and City fans who had, were waiting down various side streets around Maine Road. Scum fans were attacked as they walked back to the City Centre via Moss Side. Our bus had few windows left by the time we got to the City Centre. At the station, those Scum who managed to get back were herded onto trains to Leeds whether you wanted to go to Leeds or not. Me and my pal told the Old Bill we were going to Scotland, but they said " No, you're going to Leeds" We both jumped the barriers and disappeared catching the train to Glasgow sometime later! I didn't see the meeting of any firms that day, but many away fans got a right good kicking! And that's a neutral point of view for you!
I was at the game that day supporting Leeds. Indeed, after the game our bus convoy got ambushed in the town centre by a huge Man City mob. Most of the buses carrying the Leeds fans had their windows bricked in. My bus was the last in the convoy and escaped the ambush. But my brother was on another bus, and he told me the driver shouted duck, and seconds later every window got smashed by the Man City mob while the Leeds supporters dived for cover. Those were the days.
I was the behind the goal and the Police horses saved the day and just in time too. 5 munutes later and thousands of Leeds fans woukd have been across the pitch and it woukd have been.mayhem as City had a huge following there .
Was at that game. I was 14 . First and only time I had ever been spat at. And that was before the game! CTID 💙
I was there with the CITY fans ... I saw no trouble at all !
What? Horses on the pitch .. were you facing the wrong way throughout the match? .. we were squashed together leaving and Leeds fans were hurling bricks on us which we had to catch 👕💎
@@kennyshortcake999 He must have been to a different game it was mayhem.. ha ha.
What a load of utter tripe, I was 19 at the time and was at this 3rd round FA Cup Match, i don't know where your 3,000 City fans came from as the Blues took a good 10,000 plus to Elland Road for this game and the footage proves it, City had a quarter of Elland Road and as for getting battered by Leeds Service Crew i really don't think so, the City fans gave as good as they got before, during and after the match just as they always give it to Leeds big time down the back-alley warrens of Maine Road whenever they turned up which wasn't often.
The service crew wasn't around in that era😂😂..
I was at that game,got a bus back to the station lucky me should do a vid about the league match 12 months later now that was serious bad news.
Leeds fans nearly kicked a steward and his TEN YEAR OLD SON TO DEATH.
Theres a reason people despise Leeds.
My old fella went to this. Bit before i went. My first Game was v Chelsea at Maine Road 1984. Im an exile Mancunian what lives in Scarborough now. I dont go anymore due to ludicrous ticket prices, and shit sanitized Atmospheres, and silly kick off days and times to accommodate Sky and TNT Sports. Great beating the drty reds yesterday though.
City fans cowered? 😆Bollox .. I was there .. they got as good as they dished out .. dirty dirty Leeds 👕💎
Crazy channel , 3000 city yeah about 8000
Very true
you lot got battered @@chrisbaldwin3609
There was more than 8000, City had half of the south stand and all the lower tier of the lowfield road up to the halfway line + parts of the upper tier seats in the lowfield road. The season before in the FA Cup we had more, the entire south stand lower tier was terracing, City had all that + the same sections of the lowfield, I know, I was there at both games. That 1978 cup game was carnage
Yes incredible support ya right yes 77 aswell Trevor Cherry goal
Fucking robot channel
Getting battered for not being organized 😂😂😂 Leeds always get battered.
Not in that game against city they didnt😊
And when exactly have You bum boys battered Leeds.
Oh it’s a Millpikey, we get battered but yet you lot run back into the stadium a few years ago oh and your famous Lagboat that hid in a bin at Surrey Quays. You clearly know nothing about FV
@@francescxavierbulto9848 That’s to funny coming from a northern monkey named Frances I bet your really tough 😂😂😂
@@markjenner7199They did at Maine Road which is what he's talking about! 😏
I went with Liverpool in 79....I was 15 and went with me auld fella and his mate....! Liverpool were cool as fk with the new look..wedge haircuts Adidas samba and tight jeans....we stood out a mile as Leeds were still in Birmingham bags dm's long hair and had scalfes wrapped round their wrists....it rained bricks on us nearly all game...we won 3-0 and got the most points ever in a season..(2pts for a win)...back at the station the train just started pulling out as hundreds of billy Connolly lookalikes came running along the platform...! It would have been chaos if the train pulled out a minute later... !!! A great introduction to aways...and one I'm very proud of going too.... As Leeds was always very dodgy....!!!!
They still look like that now. Similiar thing with the rags in Salford in the early 90s. Me and a mate couldn`t get in the City end so bought tickets from a tout. We were stood in the middle of the stretford end and some still had the bay city rollers look a throwback to the mid 70s. Another thing that stuck out at the swamp was being surrounded by Irish, Welsh, cockneys with a few brummies thrown in with very few local accents within earshot.
Same as Everton, Leeds was a dodgy place back then but we never came off second best.
A lot of grounds were dodgy as an away fan, but mid 70's through to the mid 80's, Elland Road was one of, if not the worst, their fans were absolute animals. In my mind, travelling fans Chelsea and Leeds always caused mayhem on the road and IIRC both sets of fans were banned from away games.
What a load off bollocks , there was around 10,000 blues and we wanted to get in the pitch to attack the Leeds fans but City players stopped us from doing it by urging us to stay were we were . I was on this game Leeds obviously are deluded to think they got the best off us
I know I was there as well leeds never brought numbers like that to Maine Road ever.
Their fans didn't attack us through open gates , we were locked in after the game and held there till they dispersed their fans , we qere penned in by a wall and high railings which Leeds fans kept lobbing things over . Coppers stood there and watched, when we were escorted back to the coaches past their end the Leeds fans kept trying to get to us from side roads making sheep noises as we were escorted back to our coaches . Also we had the whole off one end off the ground and a paddock which I was in
@@brianshockledge3241bollocks went to Maine Road many times with Leeds from 74
@@krissims6313 I was also in the paddock that day. There must be memory problems with the Leeds fans. There was aggro but nothing like is described here in this video. "Win or Lose we follow the BLUES"
@@mick6370 In 1978 leeds averaged 29,000 the day of this game it was packed. By the mid 80s they were averaging 13-15,000. I started following City away in the 1975/76 season and leeds rarely brought "big" numbers to Maine Road.
why cover up with writing ?
Cool cats moss side legends...
Never saw them at Anfield. They turned up for a fa cup game that was it.
@@tonysumner9474 We went to dipperland every season in numbers I`ve been in every stand in that ground. Went in 81 midweek just before lpool were to play in the European cup final the gate was a paltry 25,000.
@@brianshockledge3241 confirms to me you never did. Read what Francis put in his book. The only time he showed his face at Anfield.
Only in moss side. Never travelled anywhere Only for cup games
@brianshockledge3241 nobody in Liverpool ever saw these cool cats haha they rarely left moss side.
3000 City fans eh?and the rest
Spot on .. I was there 👕💎
Lol, many thousands more than 3,000!
This was the very first leeds match my dad took me to see I was 11 years old . I can't remember seeing any trouble outside but as I remember it seemed to be none stop inside but we were in the cop and safe but could see it all
Remember it well trouble before during and after the match stuff of legend
I was at this game and left at half time. A child in front of me got attacked by an adult
Played in the fa Cup season before at Leeds
Yes 1-0 Leeds Trevor Cherry.and Corrigans super save off Clarke header
Yes, I was at both games. There was a documentary by, I think Granada for the 5th. round tie in '77. About how the dibble deal with a high risk match. It was shown on the evening of the first match of the 1977/78 season (Leicester at home I think) My mate Abbo (The late Great Peter Abbot) was shown being escorted out by the dibble right at the end, he even winked at the camera.
@@guddlom7655Great day nearly 48,000 there it was also the only game on MOTD that night
I got arrested that day
Mad day,once the on the pitch chants started,it was on,probably more than 3,000 city fans there tho,….
Probably is a huge understatement they were everywhere.
@@brianshockledge3241You were allocated a good part of the lowfields road and half the south stand which was normal for an away allocation in the FA Cup in them days.
I don’t remember it being that bad. LUFC
Been to Leeds a good few times and they were a decent firm at home by shear numbers alone but the only time I came unstuck was 76 chased Leeds off at the station but old bill really laid into us after the match and chucked us out ten a time and we got a right kicking , further down the road we see Bill and his mob so we got together with them and picked up more on the way back to the station and we stood our ground but silly me I got cocky and went in a shop , came out straight into a Leeds firm and got another kicking I jumped a fence onto the trainlines and into the station. They never Done much at ours and they got it bad a couple of times but there was a big gap when we never played them but they were a decent home team as said and you had to be firm handed and up for it or you could come unstuck.
Leeds must have been at a different game, because we gave it Leeds.
Why not just write a story instead off posting a video thats hidden by writing.
Remember a city fan getting his cromby (coat)nicked of him train tickets and money too daft lad had a city badge on breast pocket.
Utter shite what a fairytale City give as good as they got but did always hammer them at Maine Road when they turned up which was rarely.
Spot on Pal .. dirty Leeds fans got it back in spades .. I remember it vividly 💎👕
saw a few city crying after the game what a battering they got
@@philwoollin6470 Such a battering yet you never came to Maine Road in numbers, funny that.
@@philwoollin6470 were you there? .. I was .. City dealt with dirty Leeds like only City fans can 👊🏻💎👕
@Batcat2022 With a name like Batcat I can see your point.
Yes City brought much more than 3,000 about 6-7000 don't know about the trouble,yep City fans correct about us going to Maine road up to 79 then wen organized as any honest city fans would agree totally different but it those days b4 79 any honest Leeds fans would agree everywhere except afew would agree was tough
I’m City, I wasn’t born then as I’m in my 30s but know older fellas there, they all reckon 13,000 City there that day, given the terracing capacity in the ends City had. Certainly a lot more than 3,000 anyway!
Load Of Sheep Shit !
As for the City attacks on Leeds on side streets sums them up me and 2 15 year old mates would have got battered from the brave City fans if we hadn't been with my 54 year old dad top firm that until Leeds started taking proper firm 79 onwards
There’s comments from others about Leeds fans attacking City families at the game too. All clubs had dick heads and Leeds have definitely never been in short supply!
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