Ireland v England 1995

The Huntacha wrote: Shedite wrote: Junior wrote: Sham157 wrote: Junior wrote: Was it not Dessie Ellis getting extradited that day? 14th Nov 1990 was Dessie's extradition day, havent cheked if the dates coincide Yeah it was alright. www.youtube.com/watch?v=frUEfTtY0BY I feel drunk watching that That crowd

From the Spanish game in 89 through to the end of the euro 92 campaign Lansdowne was something else for home games. Think we actually had a 94 qualifier before Euro 92 (Albania I think) which was the last qualifier before the bucket seats came in and put the capacity down 20k and killed the atmosphere to a large degree. That Albania qualifier was weird as the back pass rule hadn't come in yet but was in for the rest of the campaign. The atmosphere in the Euro 88 campaign wasn't great as we'd had 2 fairly uninspiring nil all draws v Belgium and Scotland and had also gone one down at home to Luxembourg before coming back to win 2-1. Tickets were still easy to come by back then as well, we only got 17k for the game v Brazil halfway through the campaign on a Saturday evening for example.

But post the Euros the crowds had come back and the atmosphere at the likes of the Spain and NI games were savage. But that England game was something else, Lansdowne was a real fortress by then and even after Platt scored we never really thought we'd lose. Was on the usual spot on the South for that one and you can see the mayhem when Cas equalised, bedlam on the terrace and then everyone to a man turns to the west upper and a huge chant of "YOU'LL NEVER BEAT THE IRISH!!" rang out as a shower of coins and lighters rained down, very different times. Euro 92 was the peak of that team, still gutted we blew qualification away to Poland, really think we'd a good shot at winning the tournament had we gone, we were easily the equal of Denmark as shown in the world cup qualifiers for 94, chance missed.

Edited by Drumcondra 69er - 22 Jan 2015 at 6:47pm

George Zip wrote: Alright lads first time posting but a long time lurker on the forum. I was on the North Terrace in 1990 and I remember the Mars bars etc being thrown at Gazza. Also does anyone remember the old lad in the top hat and tails who followed England all over the world? Somebody milled him with an apple or an orange from the north terrace. I wasn't in town after the game but lads I worked with at the time told me it was fairly dodgy. Didn't the English attack pubs in Kilburn in 1991 prior to the return fixture at Wembley in revenge? Was on the south terrace in 1995 and it was a venomous atmosphere, both anthems booed, Paul Ince getting monkey chants. Was brilliant though giving the brits the fingers in the West Upper when Kelly scored! The Guards should have been better prepared though because there was trouble between rival english firms in Abbey street and Marlborough street the night before the game. The London Irish fanzine "On the One Road" had decent articles after both games.

Only seeing this post now. Don't remember any monkey chants at Ince but I guess it's possible disgrace if true.

Re the trouble in Kilburn, I don't know about 91 but I was living in London in 90 and there was trouble after the 1 all draw, gang of English lads came down looking for Irish fans and battering a few lads caught on their own, remember one lad got f**ked through a plate glass window of a laundrette...

We Defo had a chance to win euro 92. We were robbed in qualification but jammy lineaker and England always did enough. Isn't it sad to see how far we have dropped now.
I was at Wembley in 91 and will never forget that miss by Houghton that would have won it. Beating England at Wembley would have been huge for Jack
Great memories all the same

depechemode wrote: We Defo had a chance to win euro 92. We were robbed in qualification but jammy lineaker and England always did enough. Isn't it sad to see how far we have dropped now. I was at Wembley in 91 and will never forget that miss by Houghton that would have won it. Beating England at Wembley would have been huge for Jack Great memories all the same

Still it was some night all the same

From Yoco Santos's post about 'Everywhere We Go':

Absolute scutter from a misguided idiot. Does he think making schoolchildren cry furthers a political point? A few choice excerpts:

"Most of the [England fans] I know feel that they should be treated with respect when they travel, and when this does not happen, they will go on the offensive and start to play up."

So when you aren't treated with respect, you are pretty much the opposite of magnanimous? Classy. It reads like "When anyone looks at us funny, we are happy to use it as an excuse for violence."

Secondly: "It was clear that it was going to go off big-time, and with the attention of the media fully upon us by now, we suddenly realised that here was the chance for us to let the world know how we really felt about Northern Ireland."

Yeah, because a riot and an abandoned football match is really going to change opinions around a centuries long struggle. Nuances are lost on idiots like this.

Thirdly: "By this time, people were starting to rip up the seats and arm themselves because most of us were expecting the riot police to come in at any moment, which would have been the signal for it to really kick off."

Is that why they were throwing the same stuff onto families below? By their own admission "the locals had no intention of getting involved in anything".

Finally: "The thing that really surprised us about this whole incident was the cover-up in the British press over the next few days. At first most of the daily papers carried stories about the BNP involvement in starting the whole thing off as well as giving coverage to C18, but within days that had been taken out of the equation and it was merely ‘football fans’ with the same tired old cliches. No mention of the Far Right, our objective or the political situation which was the catalyst for the whole thing."

Mentioning a cover up, while at the same time, earlier in the article saying this about BNP papers "All I can say to that is that if they do not like our papers, then they shouldn’t buy them - it is, after all, a free country." I wonder is this chap completely irony impaired? He seems to have a problem with newspapers printing what they like if he doesn't agree with them, but no problem where they do.

I cannot believe I have to share oxygen with idiots like this guy.

Ridiculous piece alright. what an oxygen thief

Devrozex wrote: From Yoco Santos's post about 'Everywhere We Go':   "That gave me the biggest buzz I have ever had at a football match."   What an utterly pathetic individual.

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Edited by d13dave - 30 Jan 2015 at 5:01pm