England match Lansdowne Road 1995 - Were you there - You Boys in Green Forum

FrankosHereNow wrote:

Just did the interview with Stephen from the BBC there. Will let you know when it's on the BBC website.

I hope you gave ybig a plug

"One of the dominant facts in English life during the past three quarters of a century has been the decay of ability in the ruling class." Orwell, 1942.

athlonecelt wrote:

Lived on Dorset street for a year about 10 years ago. I knew a few of the local lads to say hello to. Interesting characters. One lad, a real howaya, off his face most days told a great story of about 10 of his mates getting weapons out of the flats and legging it down O Connell st in the direction of Lansdowne . Not one of them made it over O Connell bridge. I assumed that they had been stopped by the gards. Ah no he said, none of us could run. We were f**ked from too much bad stuff in them days.

However he did promise to be ready if they ever came over and played it in Croke Park

I was in UCD, watched the match on the big screen in the bar, when the trouble started some clown tried to organise a posse to head down to Landsdowne to give the cops a hand.

Yes, was there and was actually a steward that night. Was one of the first to notice the big yob in the centre of the West Upper England section starting to orchestrate the whole thing.

Frightening night and have no desire to ever be at another England game as a result.

I used to be a schizophrenic.......and so was I

33:40 mins in.

when is this article going up on the BBC ?

The first time the Devil made me do it. The second time I did it on my own.

I was there that night in 95, genuinely the scariest experiences of my life. It was a horrible night from start to finish, I remember it was blowing an absolute gale in Lansdowne & the atmosphere in the ground was poisonous from the minute we got inside. I can't remember too much of the game itself apart from the goal & all hell broke loose after the Irish players took their positions back in their half after a good 2 minutes celebrating the goal! We were directly underneath the upper tier & could see the missiles raining down from up above us. I can still remember a man telling everyone to stay put because there was loads of English running up & down the stairwells battering Irish fans who were on their way out. I remember making a dash for it out the exit & legging it from Landsdowne up the road & an eerie memory I have is waiting in a gateway for the huge crowd to disperse before making our way into town. It was very hard to identify who was who because of the heavy clothing everyone was wearing that night. Nobody knew who was who & thankfully nothing happened once we were outside. Apparently there was mayhem outaide once the English started leaving the ground.

FrankosHereNow wrote:

Your man e-mailed me on Tuesday to say the article will be on the website next week. I'm also doing a TV interview for BBC news with Dan Roan about the 1995 match in Lansdowne Road tomorrow.

When?

davekoolhill wrote:

FrankosHereNow wrote:

Your man e-mailed me on Tuesday to say the article will be on the website next week. I'm also doing a TV interview for BBC news with Dan Roan about the 1995 match in Lansdowne Road tomorrow.

When will this be broadcast?

He said it will be on the 6 o'clock news on either Tuesday or Wednesday night.

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cm79 wrote:

A piece about the night coming up on Newstalk in a few minutes

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