Costock_Fox Posted 4 December 2017 Share Posted 4 December 2017 18 minutes ago, ithuriel said: A bird of prey munching on a pigeon or some such up in the roofing at the Kingpower a few years ago. The bird was a regular for a few matches and I'm not certain if it was used by the club to keep pigeons and the like away from the ground but this one match, every so often a clump of feathers would come spiralling down as it tucked into its meal. Not really thought about it until now, amazing the things you forget. yep I remember that. The club defo employed it, was there for a few weeks. A sparrow hawk just casually ripping a pigeon to bits above the family stand. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vlad the Fox Posted 5 December 2017 Share Posted 5 December 2017 On 3 December 2017 at 23:08, Strokes said: My memory of this is a bit sketchy, so feel free to correct me if I’ve elaborated or missed something, but I remember playing Charlton away at Upton Park 92 or 93 and there were some city fans being escorted out of the charlton end back to the Leicester end. I think one ran into the pitch and started stripping off and one ran on and dribbled a beach ball (that had come from the crowd) the length of the pitch (whilst being chased by a steward) and pinged it in the top corner to rapturous applause from the city fans. I also shook hands with oooh Tommy Wright that day, good times. If it's what I'm thinking it was littles first season I think. We were playing charlton at Upton Park and promotion was still a possibility with over ten thousand City fans attending. I was stood behind the goal but because of the numbers they opened the side stand and walked the City fans round the pitch who began to fill it. Eventually though they just stampeded across the pitch and clambered all over the stand to where they wanted to be. However a few stayed on the pitch with a beach ball and had a kick around in the goal in front of the Carlton fans who cheered every time one of them scored. The stewards just left them to until about ten minutes before kick off when one of them went over and asked them to get into the stands which they duly abliged with, no trouble, good fun and sensible policing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strokes Posted 6 December 2017 Share Posted 6 December 2017 4 hours ago, Vlad the Fox said: If it's what I'm thinking it was littles first season I think. We were playing charlton at Upton Park and promotion was still a possibility with over ten thousand City fans attending. I was stood behind the goal but because of the numbers they opened the side stand and walked the City fans round the pitch who began to fill it. Eventually though they just stampeded across the pitch and clambered all over the stand to where they wanted to be. However a few stayed on the pitch with a beach ball and had a kick around in the goal in front of the Carlton fans who cheered every time one of them scored. The stewards just left them to until about ten minutes before kick off when one of them went over and asked them to get into the stands which they duly abliged with, no trouble, good fun and sensible policing. Yeah it’s definitely the right game. There was definitely someone being chased across the pitch, whether it was just panto style or not I’m unsure. That definitely explains the fans moving round the pitch though, because there were a lot of them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vlad the Fox Posted 6 December 2017 Share Posted 6 December 2017 3 hours ago, Strokes said: Yeah it’s definitely the right game. There was definitely someone being chased across the pitch, whether it was just panto style or not I’m unsure. That definitely explains the fans moving round the pitch though, because there were a lot of them. If I remember correctly they tried to stop the first few cutting across the pitch, but in the end everyone just followed so they left them to it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strokes Posted 6 December 2017 Share Posted 6 December 2017 10 minutes ago, Vlad the Fox said: If I remember correctly they tried to stop the first few cutting across the pitch, but in the end everyone just followed so they left them to it. I’ll bow to your better memory on it, I definitely remember the whole section we were in pissing themselves laughing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vlad the Fox Posted 6 December 2017 Share Posted 6 December 2017 11 minutes ago, Strokes said: I’ll bow to your better memory on it, I definitely remember the whole section we were in pissing themselves laughing. It was funny, every time one of them scored a goal they'd go and do a goal celebration in front of the cheering charlton fans. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nalis Posted 6 December 2017 Share Posted 6 December 2017 Leeds v Wigan a few years back. Love how the doggo is joining in the celebrations. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brizzle Fox Posted 6 December 2017 Share Posted 6 December 2017 4 hours ago, Strokes said: Yeah it’s definitely the right game. There was definitely someone being chased across the pitch, whether it was just panto style or not I’m unsure. That definitely explains the fans moving round the pitch though, because there were a lot of them. This is correct. About 12k City turned up and it was pay on the gate. Started to get dangerously congested behind the goal so we all spilled onto the pitch! Charlton fans were boycotting (Only about 3k turned up for them) hence why the stand down the side was shut, which they had to open up. Think we lost 2 nil, Rob Lee scoring for them. Top day out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lgfualol Posted 6 December 2017 Share Posted 6 December 2017 Last time I was at the KP, the guy next to me was air-guitaring the post horn gallop. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScouseFox Posted 6 December 2017 Share Posted 6 December 2017 when some kid ran on to the pitch and tackled frank queudrue at goodison cos he tried to fight leon osman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Claridge Posted 6 December 2017 Share Posted 6 December 2017 17 hours ago, Vlad the Fox said: If it's what I'm thinking it was littles first season I think. We were playing charlton at Upton Park and promotion was still a possibility with over ten thousand City fans attending. I was stood behind the goal but because of the numbers they opened the side stand and walked the City fans round the pitch who began to fill it. Eventually though they just stampeded across the pitch and clambered all over the stand to where they wanted to be. However a few stayed on the pitch with a beach ball and had a kick around in the goal in front of the Carlton fans who cheered every time one of them scored. The stewards just left them to until about ten minutes before kick off when one of them went over and asked them to get into the stands which they duly abliged with, no trouble, good fun and sensible policing. Arrived at half-time for that match as the traffic was a nightmare .Think we were 3-0 down Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vlad the Fox Posted 6 December 2017 Share Posted 6 December 2017 26 minutes ago, Claridge said: Arrived at half-time for that match as the traffic was a nightmare .Think we were 3-0 down Yes. Finished any chance of promotion that season. Mills missed a penalty. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strokes Posted 6 December 2017 Share Posted 6 December 2017 55 minutes ago, Vlad the Fox said: Yes. Finished any chance of promotion that season. Mills missed a penalty. Automatic promotion we still went on to play Cambridge in the play off semis and Blackburn in the final Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vlad the Fox Posted 6 December 2017 Share Posted 6 December 2017 2 hours ago, Strokes said: Automatic promotion we still went on to play Cambridge in the play off semis and Blackburn in the final Ah yes of course, now I'll bow down to your better memory. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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