Who went to Darlington in the 80s?

Quickenthetempo · Post by **Quickenthetempo** » Fri Dec 22, 2017 12:45 pm

Just seen this picture of Burnley away at Darlington in the 80s. Check the top of the floodlight out.

Was it you?

Silkyskills1 · Post by **Silkyskills1** » Fri Dec 22, 2017 12:53 pm

September 1988. 1-1 draw with Brendan O'Connell scoring for us. I was there but declined scaling the floodlights though I do recall it happening.

Commy · Post by **Commy** » Fri Dec 22, 2017 12:57 pm

I had a flat tyre on the motorway and when I got there they wouldn't let me in. Quite a few outside who had turned up late and the gates were shut. Wouldn't mind but it was only about 10 minutes after kick off and most clubs had a gate open for late comers.

bfcjg · Post by **bfcjg** » Fri Dec 22, 2017 1:16 pm

I was there and a bit worse for wear and can barely recall the day. It helped in those days .

ClaretLoup · Post by **ClaretLoup** » Fri Dec 22, 2017 1:37 pm

I was there and remember the cops gathering at the bottom of the pylon waiting for the guy to come down. Must have been a great view up there. Like our ground it was next to a cricket pitch wasn't it?

Inchy · Post by **Inchy** » Fri Dec 22, 2017 1:54 pm

I wasn't there but you need to charge your phone

S27bfc · Post by **S27bfc** » Fri Dec 22, 2017 1:55 pm

I was there and remember him climbing up cannot remember him coming down though,A long time ago.

CnBtruntru · Post by **CnBtruntru** » Fri Dec 22, 2017 1:57 pm

Dunno

Herts Clarets · Post by **Herts Clarets** » Fri Dec 22, 2017 2:08 pm

I was there. He kept coming down the pylon, the police called in so back up he went to the chant of "Going Up Going Up Going Up". I think he was still up there at the final whistle when I left the ground.

gawthorpe_view · Post by **gawthorpe_view** » Fri Dec 22, 2017 2:09 pm

If you remember the 80's, you weren't there.

(Shameful paraphrasing - sorry)

Billy_Bumface · Post by **Billy_Bumface** » Fri Dec 22, 2017 2:16 pm

Remember it well, apparently the lad had only been released from prison the day before. He got nicked as soon as he came down.

NL Claret · Post by **NL Claret** » Fri Dec 22, 2017 2:36 pm

I was there and yes there is / was a cricket ground behind that end of the ground. Think they were playing hockey on there that day.

Going up going up, going down going down, he's going to jump in a minute.

I saw this photo last year, I was 16 at the time and thought it was a massive away following until you see the photo!

fatboy47 · Post by **fatboy47** » Fri Dec 22, 2017 2:49 pm

I was there...was it just after we beat Preston in that Sherpa Van thing??

I seem to remember a long chant of...

"tell me mam, me mam,
i dont want me tea, me tea
wer goin ter wemberlee ..etc

Que Sera.

PhiladelphiaChris · Post by **PhiladelphiaChris** » Fri Dec 22, 2017 3:08 pm

I was there as well. Not sure but in regards to the following i thought we also had another side of the ground.I seem to remember seeing the guy on the floodlight from the opposite end?

NL Claret · Post by **NL Claret** » Fri Dec 22, 2017 3:18 pm

fatboy47 wrote:I was there...was it just after we beat Preston in that Sherpa Van thing??

I seem to remember a long chant of...

"tell me mam, me mam,
i dont want me tea, me tea
wer goin ter wemberlee ..etc

Que Sera.

No it was an early season game, September time. 1988 I think.

RingoMcCartney · Post by **RingoMcCartney** » Fri Dec 22, 2017 3:22 pm

I seem to remember Steve Taylor missing an absolute sitter at Darlington. Could've been a year or two earlier maybe?

Joe Buck · Post by **Joe Buck** » Fri Dec 22, 2017 4:00 pm

I seem to remember Steve Taylor missing sitters everywhere

Holtyclaret · Post by **Holtyclaret** » Fri Dec 22, 2017 4:00 pm

I was there, great fun!

TVC15 · Post by **TVC15** » Fri Dec 22, 2017 4:43 pm

I was there and remember it well.
We used to have a lot of fun at away games back then - the grounds were awful, the teams were awful, we were awful, the police were awful.....yet we had a good time !

Would of course not swap it for now - but unless you experience the lows how do you know the highs ?!!

ClaretTony · Post by **ClaretTony** » Fri Dec 22, 2017 4:52 pm

I'm on that picture - but I can assure you it's not me up that floodlight pylon, but I was stood very close to the bottom of it.

tim_noone · Post by **tim_noone** » Fri Dec 22, 2017 5:00 pm

I was there...I remember cobbled back streets and Bryan Adams was big in the charts.

ClaretTony · Post by **ClaretTony** » Fri Dec 22, 2017 5:04 pm

tim_noone wrote:I was there...I remember cobbled back streets and Bryan Adams was big in the charts.

If I remember correctly, didn't you have to go down a back street to get to the turnstiles?

tim_noone · Post by **tim_noone** » Fri Dec 22, 2017 5:06 pm

Yes was a bit quirky ...your correct.

Dazzler · Post by **Dazzler** » Fri Dec 22, 2017 5:22 pm

I went the following season when we lost 3-1.

Stuck in traffic on the way out when some 20 or so 'brave' darlo lads came giving it plenty of gob & the 'big I am' from that grassy area.
Here we effing go.
All 8 of us piled out the mini bus and just stood there watching the scrotes scarper faster than Linford Christie

elwaclaret · Post by **elwaclaret** » Fri Dec 22, 2017 5:30 pm

I remember us getting a right tonking there, presume in was late 80's. Not a good day. Remeber it being a very similar Terrace section to that we used to get at the Goldstone Ground

NL Claret · Post by **NL Claret** » Fri Dec 22, 2017 7:14 pm

Dazzler wrote:I went the following season when we lost 3-1.

Stuck in traffic on the way out when some 20 or so 'brave' darlo lads came giving it plenty of gob & the 'big I am' from that grassy area.
Here we effing go.
All 8 of us piled out the mini bus and just stood there watching the scrotes scarper faster than Linford Christie

Darlo used to like a rumble. As well as their pathetic attempt on the Longside / Bee Hole I was at Gigg Lane twice when they kicked off in the south stand. One of the games was Bury V Reading in the FAC, think there game was called off at Burnley late on so went to Bury.

Longsider · Post by **Longsider** » Fri Dec 22, 2017 7:48 pm

There were some cracking away days back then.

Dressinggown · Post by **Dressinggown** » Fri Dec 22, 2017 8:18 pm

I was at that game, having traveled down on the train from Newcastle.

I remember the floodlight climber who was threatening to pee on the Police below.

Some bloke knocked my jaw into Yorkshire on the way back to the station.

Vino blanco · Post by **Vino blanco** » Sat Dec 23, 2017 12:54 am

I was there with my brother and ,I think, Lord Beamish's dad.

Dazzler · Post by **Dazzler** » Sat Dec 23, 2017 1:06 am

Dazzler wrote:I went the following season when we lost 3-1.

Stuck in traffic on the way out when some 20 or so 'brave' darlo lads came giving it plenty of gob & the 'big I am' from that grassy area.
Here we effing go.
All 8 of us piled out the mini bus and just stood there watching the scrotes scarper faster than Linford Christie

NL Claret wrote:Darlo used to like a rumble. As well as their pathetic attempt on the Longside / Bee Hole

I went the following season when we lost 3-1.

Stuck in traffic on the way out when some 20 or so 'brave' darlo lads came giving it plenty of gob & the 'big I am' from that grassy area.
Here we effing go.
All 8 of us piled out the mini bus and just stood there watching the scrotes scarper faster than Linford Christie

Top Claret · Post by **Top Claret** » Sat Dec 23, 2017 9:14 am

Been Darlington numerous times in the 80s Remember the floodlight one not the score just the idiot up the pylon

I drove to the match and parked behind a trannie van, which the occupiers left with the doors wide open, looked in and it was awash with beer cans.

Pritty sure the lad up the pylon had travelled in that van

We used to get some proper idiots who followed the clarets away in those days. The crack was fierce and the football crap

Zom Zom · Post by **Zom Zom** » Sat Dec 23, 2017 9:23 am

I seem to recall a game at Feethams, but it must have been around 1990. They had a player called Les McJannet who scored a cracking goal from way out (as I remember it). I think we were well beaten that day, but I seem to recall Ron Futcher scoring for Burnley.

Quicknick · Post by **Quicknick** » Sat Dec 23, 2017 9:23 am

I went once. We got hammered 5-2. Big following.

lifelongclaret · Post by **lifelongclaret** » Sat Dec 23, 2017 9:25 am

I was there on that game, but what I remember most was driving down the central reservation on the dual carriageway when being chased bye a group of Darlo fans,
We did have many a grand day out in the northeast, Hartlepool was also a interesting place to visit, with many a scary moment,

Claret Till I Die · Post by **Claret Till I Die** » Sat Dec 23, 2017 9:36 am

Was it Darlington where you paid once to get into the terracing and then again if you wanted to get into the stand?

Top Claret · Post by **Top Claret** » Sat Dec 23, 2017 9:38 am

Hartlepool was a cold scary oil. Remember going there in the 80s and the lad I took had accuired complimentary tickets, thankfully we got beat 3-2. When it was 2-2 we got surrounded, when it got to 2-3 they felt sorry for us and we managed to get out unscathed.

Weather was awful cold wind and driving snow off the north sea.

Garnerssoap · Post by **Garnerssoap** » Sat Dec 23, 2017 10:15 am

Dazzler wrote:I went the following season when we lost 3-1.

Stuck in traffic on the way out when some 20 or so 'brave' darlo lads came giving it plenty of gob & the 'big I am' from that grassy area.
Here we effing go.
All 8 of us piled out the mini bus and just stood there watching the scrotes scarper faster than Linford Christie

I reckon I saw that. Small world. My 2 mates and I thought we were in trouble when they started coming towards us shouting but a minibus of big blokes did empty, someone threw something at the Darlington lot and they quite literally legged it.
I always did want to say thank you for that. Cheers Dazzler

ClaretTony · Post by **ClaretTony** » Sat Dec 23, 2017 10:27 am

Zom Zom wrote:I seem to recall a game at Feethams, but it must have been around 1990. They had a player called Les McJannet who scored a cracking goal from way out (as I remember it). I think we were well beaten that day, but I seem to recall Ron Futcher scoring for Burnley.

Was the first away game of the 1990/91 season - can't confirm the Darlington scorer but Futcher did get ours.

Quicknick wrote:I went once. We got hammered 5-2. Big following.

I think the one you are thinking of is the 4-2 defeat in 1987/88, our first ever visit to Feethams. David Reeves scored our two goals.

We only played there there times:

1987/88 - lost 4-2
1988/99 - drew 1-1
1990/91 - lost 3-1

Dazzler · Post by **Dazzler** » Sat Dec 23, 2017 1:41 pm

1998 FA Cup 1st round L 3-2
Weren't we winning 2-0 ?

Dazzler · Post by **Dazzler** » Sat Dec 23, 2017 1:51 pm

Garnerssoap wrote:I reckon I saw that. Small world. My 2 mates and I thought we were in trouble when they started coming towards us shouting but a minibus of big blokes did empty, someone threw something at the Darlington lot and they quite literally legged it.
I always did want to say thank you for that. Cheers Dazzler

I wasn't exactly the biggest of that crew that day..
In fact Probably the least...
The main person to thank is big Billy Atkinson.As soon as he slid the door open they were off.

NL Claret · Post by **NL Claret** » Sat Dec 23, 2017 1:51 pm

Played at Riverside, Middlesbrough.

bfcmartin · Post by **bfcmartin** » Sat Dec 23, 2017 1:52 pm

That was played at Middlesbrough Payton got sent off

Dazzler · Post by **Dazzler** » Sat Dec 23, 2017 1:54 pm

NL Claret wrote:Played at Riverside, Middlesbrough.

Ah right cheers for that.
Got lost in the mists of time.

Dazzler · Post by **Dazzler** » Sat Dec 23, 2017 2:28 pm

Zom Zom wrote:I seem to recall a game at Feethams, but it must have been around 1990. They had a player called Les McJannet who scored a cracking goal from way out (as I remember it). I think we were well beaten that day, but I seem to recall Ron Futcher scoring for Burnley.

That's the one where those Darlo lads were confronted by the 'Beasts of Burnley Wood'.

Dazzler · Post by **Dazzler** » Sat Dec 23, 2017 2:30 pm

By the way...I think I have a name for our 'floodlight hero'
Lowerhouse/Rosegrove lad ??

ClaretAndJew · Post by **ClaretAndJew** » Sat Dec 23, 2017 2:32 pm

My Uncle was on this game and said the lad up the pylon was called Normal “Knuckles” Jones.

Not sure how right he is though.

Dazzler · Post by **Dazzler** » Sat Dec 23, 2017 2:35 pm

Ah,The famous Accy lad.

Not a name that was put forward to me last night.

ClaretAndJew · Post by **ClaretAndJew** » Sat Dec 23, 2017 2:52 pm

My Uncle used to go on most away games in the 70s and 80s. Brian Cunliffe, if you know him.

He’s told me loads of stories of the “booze bus”

Dazzler · Post by **Dazzler** » Sat Dec 23, 2017 2:58 pm

ClaretAndJew wrote:My Uncle used to go on most away games in the 70s and 80s. Brian Cunliffe, if you know him.

Surname rings a bell.
Piccy/Flats lad ?

ClaretAndJew · Post by **ClaretAndJew** » Sat Dec 23, 2017 3:23 pm

From Padiham. Worked at Mullards I believe.