Who Remembers the Man Utd invasion in Cardiff ?

It was an unbelievable day,yes there was thousands of them, but they came in for a shock as Thousands upon thousands of Cardiff City fans from the South Wales also turned out.
Cant wait to go to Old Trafford with City, been there 14 times but never with Cardiff.

It was an unbelievable day,yes there was thousands of them, but they came in for a shock as Thousands upon thousands of Cardiff City fans from the South Wales also turned out.
Cant wait to go to Old Trafford with City, been there 14 times but never with Cardiff.

Went to the return at old Trafford when we lost 4 nil only three coach loads of us was a scary day out but not as bad as the
Old den

It was an unbelievable day,yes there was thousands of them, but they came in for a shock as Thousands upon thousands of Cardiff City fans from the South Wales also turned out.
Cant wait to go to Old Trafford with City, been there 14 times but never with Cardiff.


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Went to the return at old Trafford when we lost 4 nil only three coach loads of us was a scary day out but not as bad as the
Old den

It was that bad up there was it Steve?
How come we hardly took any fans up there, yet we were massive at home?

There was fighting in the City from Friday evening, Man U fans would often make a weekend of it and invade places, what was odd was seeing a train pull out after the game for West Wales, and it was full of Man U fans.

Loads would just follow man U around because they knew there would be riots and a chance for a lot of robbing.

It was an unbelievable day,yes there was thousands of them, but they came in for a shock as Thousands upon thousands of Cardiff City fans from the South Wales also turned out.
Cant wait to go to Old Trafford with City, been there 14 times but never with Cardiff.

Went to the return at old Trafford when we lost 4 nil only three coach loads of us was a scary day out but not as bad as the
Old den

It was that bad up there was it Steve?
How come we hardly took any fans up there, yet we were massive at home?

Never understood it annis we had nobody on the scoreboard end which would have been normal. There was about three hundred of us in a corner of the grandstand.
It was scary because we wore no colours but back in those days everybody wore the scarf around their wrist so we looked out of place walking amongst their fans.
The same day wales were playing rugby in Scotland so that was the excuse rolled out by a lot of people. One thing is for certain we will have a bigger turn out this time .

It was an unbelievable day,yes there was thousands of them, but they came in for a shock as Thousands upon thousands of Cardiff City fans from the South Wales also turned out.
Cant wait to go to Old Trafford with City, been there 14 times but never with Cardiff.

Went to the return at old Trafford when we lost 4 nil only three coach loads of us was a scary day out but not as bad as the
Old den

It was that bad up there was it Steve?
How come we hardly took any fans up there, yet we were massive at home?

Never understood it annis we had nobody on the scoreboard end which would have been normal. There was about three hundred of us in a corner of the grandstand.
It was scary because we wore no colours but back in those days everybody wore the scarf around their wrist so we looked out of place walking amongst their fans.
The same day wales were playing rugby in Scotland so that was the excuse rolled out by a lot of people. One thing is for certain we will have a bigger turn out this time .

The way they are playing at the moment we might even be able to give them the 'empty seats' song.

It was an unbelievable day,yes there was thousands of them, but they came in for a shock as Thousands upon thousands of Cardiff City fans from the South Wales also turned out.
Cant wait to go to Old Trafford with City, been there 14 times but never with Cardiff.

Went to the return at old Trafford when we lost 4 nil only three coach loads of us was a scary day out but not as bad as the
Old den

It was that bad up there was it Steve?
How come we hardly took any fans up there, yet we were massive at home?

Never understood it annis we had nobody on the scoreboard end which would have been normal. There was about three hundred of us in a corner of the grandstand.
It was scary because we wore no colours but back in those days everybody wore the scarf around their wrist so we looked out of place walking amongst their fans.
The same day wales were playing rugby in Scotland so that was the excuse rolled out by a lot of people. One thing is for certain we will have a bigger turn out this time .

I wimped out for the away game after the home shanagans.

My mates and I were going to make it our first away game but decided to give it a miss. First time it was I saw a group of away supporters at Cardiff central. The walk to the ground was active to say the least.

There was fighting in the City from Friday evening, Man U fans would often make a weekend of it and invade places, what was odd was seeing a train pull out after the game for West Wales, and it was full of Man U fans.

Loads would just follow man U around because they knew there would be riots and a chance for a lot of robbing.

Old Utd fans still rem that day well and always say they never had their own way in Cardiff like every where else.

It was an unbelievable day,yes there was thousands of them, but they came in for a shock as Thousands upon thousands of Cardiff City fans from the South Wales also turned out.
Cant wait to go to Old Trafford with City, been there 14 times but never with Cardiff.

Went to the return at old Trafford when we lost 4 nil only three coach loads of us was a scary day out but not as bad as the
Old den

It was that bad up there was it Steve?
How come we hardly took any fans up there, yet we were massive at home?

Never understood it annis we had nobody on the scoreboard end which would have been normal. There was about three hundred of us in a corner of the grandstand.
It was scary because we wore no colours but back in those days everybody wore the scarf around their wrist so we looked out of place walking amongst their fans.
The same day wales were playing rugby in Scotland so that was the excuse rolled out by a lot of people. One thing is for certain we will have a bigger turn out this time .

Steve, its a funny one that, why we never went to them.

A workmate of mine Man U season ticket holder 40years showed me a scar on his head said to me that's what you Welsh Fuckers done to me at that game caught the full force of half a house brick at Ninian Park

It was an unbelievable day,yes there was thousands of them, but they came in for a shock as Thousands upon thousands of Cardiff City fans from the South Wales also turned out.
Cant wait to go to Old Trafford with City, been there 14 times but never with Cardiff.

I was there, mate. I was pretty young and it got pretty volatile in and out of the ground

I seem to remember it was like watching The Bay City Rollers coming down the street!

Big Gwyn is right about their so-called supporters coming from everywhere. In Manchester I am told the 'real' club in that city plays in BLUE and that the standing joke is that playing in London is the same as a home game because the supporters don't have to travel far

Am I right in thinking there is still a ManUre Supporters Coach leaves South Wales for every game (home and away)?

I have still got a few newspaper cuttings from that game and one of my friends has a video of the big match showing the game .it was mayham bricks going back and for all throught the game .I remember one hitting a policeman on his jaw to loud cheers . one city fan managed to get over the fence and raced to wards the man utd fans on his own .thousands left befor the end after the main group of utd left early and tried to ambush them on the way back to the station .I went up to the away game by train and on the way back Frankie wearing an dafadil as it was st david day was banging a few of their fans heads togather while walking back on his own .at the station then there was a small group of about eight of us and we had to travel back with a full train of man utd .we found a old roomed carridge and stayed in there while Frankie was playing cards with utd fans further down the train .when we there utd fans were going past looking for Frankie .two of us went down to warn him when we got down there none of them wanted to go in first and we watched his back when we pulled in to new st .Frankie walked straight through them hitting one of them by the door as me and smithy from llanrummy got off the birm reds were lined up across the platform .smithy picked up a luggage trolly handle bar and Frankie charged them followed by smithy swinging a big bar and me they ran everywhere luckly .but smithy and I got to carried away by our escape and got arrested stiil chaseing them at the top of the stairs . and spent the night in birm cells

Those were the days lol. Can remember all the argro at the station, getting to the ground and the inside the ground as well. Those memories are best left behind us in my opinion lol.

Yes Annis ,I remember Good day had by all , The best Day I've had watching the city in 42 years.