27-02-2023, 12:52 PM
(25-02-2023, 09:09 AM)exgaffer Wrote:(25-02-2023, 08:02 AM)Cunninglinguist Wrote:(24-02-2023, 06:10 PM)BilltheCat Wrote:(24-02-2023, 02:55 PM)Cleaver Greene Wrote: Huddersfield away? 1985, last game of the season. 13000 crowd, I reckon 12000 were us Pompey. Ticker tape, great goals - especially from Kevin O'Callaghan.
All the time listening to that Man City game.....
Deserved to go up that season, what a great squad that was.
That was a game of excitement and anxiety.
I'd forgotten that we played in red that afternoon:
Huddersfield 0 Portsmouth 2 , Saturday 11th May 1985 - YouTube
Got arrested that morning and only just made the game in time. No mobile phones then, just transistor radios. False stories going around that City were losing then we learned the truth.
Got back to London, to learn the awful news about Bradford. We were only a few miles away.
Yes I remember the Huddersfield game very well, one of those great Pompey away days.
We heard that there was a fire at Bradford but didn’t realise how bad it was until much later. It doesn’t bear thinking about how bad it must have been for those poor people unable to escape from that stand.
Yes, a great away day.