Talking of FA Cup Games................

IJN · Jan 22, 2021

First time I've seen a photo of the massed Argyle ranks at Highbury. Taken by a Gooner apparently.

We may have been hammered but by God that WAS a turnout that day.

StroudGreen · Jan 22, 2021

Great to finally see a picture of the Green Army that day Ian, albeit a very scary experience that could so easily have been another Hillsborough.

IJN · Jan 22, 2021

Yep, a single copper saved us that day, he bolt cropped that lock at the Clock End, if he hadn't fans would have died without a doubt.

The Met lost it completely, they didn't have a clue. some reckoned 13,000 of us turned up that day.

davie nine · Jan 22, 2021

I remember that game well but don’t recall feeling in any danger. We must have been in a different part of the ground.
My main complaint about that game was that Geoff Crudgington, who had been playing well, was dropped and replaced by Steve Cherry.
I wrote to the club and complained but I don’t think I got a reply. I just felt disappointed for Crudgie. As it happened, it wouldn’t have mattered who was in goal.

IJN · Jan 22, 2021

Where were you standing Davie?

davie nine · Jan 22, 2021

I am not certain but I think it was behind one of the goals.

Stuart Bloye · Jan 22, 2021

The one real time I have been really scared at a football match. I took a friend who’s a Port Vale fan with me that day and he never came with me again.

Leo's Grandad · Jan 22, 2021

I was standing right at the back and it looked very full but did not feel dangerous but that may have been the innocence of youth.

IJN · Jan 22, 2021

The real cram was down at the front and to the right hand side looking at the Clock End from the pitch John.

saxman · Jan 22, 2021

I remember berating a policeman about the crush, telling him 'you knew how many of us were coming' and he replied 'no body told us'. Shambles, how many missed the kick off?

Grantham Green · Jan 22, 2021

I remember the Forest away game in '95 we may have lost but we had a good deal of noise going for the whole game.

Herts Green · Jan 22, 2021

Great photos. What a stadium that was.

PL2 3DQ · Jan 23, 2021

That was a scary day and yet normal for that era. Wasn't there a late train full of fans which made the already packed crowd worse?

We scored the best goal.

John Cooper · Jan 23, 2021

PL2 3DQ":sg4oxqmn said:
That was a scary day and yet normal for that era. Wasn't there a late train full of fans which made the already packed crowd worse?

We scored the best goal.

Yup. I was on it! We were held up on outskirts of London waiting for a relief driver. When we arrived, Police escorted us at “speed of slowest person”. I got in quite quickly, match had already started. Fortunately, I’d decided to sit, so no queue to get in. Queues were huge for clock end.

Steve Evans · Jan 23, 2021

IJN":2qugr7tb said:
The real cram was down at the front and to the right hand side looking at the Clock End from the pitch John.

that's exactly where i was.i,along with many others was starting to get crushed and i could also hear the argyle fans frustration still outside desperate to get in because the turnstiles couldn't cope with the numbers,at that point a decisive policeman hollered"open that gate now",but for him people would have died,a terrifying experience.

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